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Learn about the various migration options of desktop/smart client applications to the web available using Visual WebGui.
Leveraging Content Types in SharePoint Document Libraries and Lists
Many organizations are not fully realizing the power of content types when using SharePoint. Here you will learn how to leverage content types and use them properly through examples.
FreeDOM (Programming)
Learn about FreeDOM (Free Document Object Model), a web development technique used to create event-driven web applications. FreeDOM is designed to overcome the limitations of stateless HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) transmissions.
Simple FTP Demo Application Using C#.NET 2.0
Learn about common FTP functionalities using C#.NET 2.0.
Full-Text Searching with IFilters
Indexing Server, SQL Server, Windows SharePoint Services, SharePoint Portal Server, Exchange Server, and Windows Desktop Search provide full-text search capabilities. Each utilizes so-called IFilter components to index the content and then allows clients to search the index. Learn how IFilter components are utilized and how full-text searching works in each of those products.
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.

Working with Background Workers in C#
Enjoy a gentle refresher on background workers and multi threaded code.

Connecting to a SQL Server Database with VB and JavaScript in Windows 8.1
Discover how to connect to an SQL Server database through a VB service and JavaScript.
Working with State Machines in the .NET Framework
Arun Karthick introduces you to the state machine model and shows you how to create a simple working state machine sample using the .NET framework in the C# language.