Windows Vista ushered in a new era of collaborative working with Windows Meeting Space. Here, you'll learn how to initiate a secure workgroup of up to nine users over a variety of connections.
Discover Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Microsoft introduced this technology, which is a part of .NET 3.0, to make your life easy when it comes to building distributed applications.
The application is designed using .NET remoting framework 1.0. .NET remoting provides a very powerful framework for the distributed application.
The security enhancements that the .NET Framework 2.0 made to the TCP channel enable secure TCP communication either through code or application configuration files. Learn how to apply both techniques to .NET remoting clients and servers.
Learn the ins and outs of .NET remoting and event handling in VB .NET with an examination of the supporting code in a simple chat client and server application, including the use of the command, observer, singleton, and factory patterns.
Learn how to implement a client's configuration file in VB .NET so that the client can talk to your server, and find out why clients that handle server events have to be remotable.
Quirky and yet persistent, C++ is a language that keeps programmers coming back to it. Pick up some new ways to wrangle it into your workflow.
Learn to use XSD, something that's built into Visual Studio, and makes handling XML data child's play.
Learn about SQL Variables and how to use them from Visual Basic.
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