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Are Ports on Your Computers Listening?
See how you can determine which ports on a computer have an application listening.
.NET Tip: Are Your Computers Up and Running? Are You Sure?
add this functionality to your applications to determine if machines on the network are there!
Build a Windows Event Log Watcher Service Process to Export Event Log Entries as an RSS Feed
Build a Windows Event Log Watcher Service Process to Export Event Log Entries as an RSS feed using System.Diagnostics.EventLog, EntryWritten, and EnableRaisingEvents.
Garbage Collector
Any program uses resources. These resources can be files, database resources, network connections, memory buffers, objects, and so forth. Learn how to allocate memory for these resources.
Determining Whether a DLL or EXE Is a Managed Component
Learn how to check whether or not a component is a .NET managed component. Also, learn to get other information, such as dependent assemblies, from the metadata using Microsoft APIs and related COM interfaces.
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