Tom Archer illustrates step-by-step instructions for using the .NET DataReader class to read image data from a database, and he presents a generic function that will write this data to disk.
Learn how to retrieve a current user's basic security information, such as the fully qualified user name (with domain or workgroup), whether the user is authenticated, and the authentication type.
Learn how to enumerate event log entries, read specific event entries, manually filter events based on their desired property values, write new event entries, and clear an event log.
Tom Archer illustrates how programmatically modifying Windows Registry keys and values from Managed C++ is much easier and more intuitive than ever before.
Learn how to access the Microsoft Word spell checker using Automation from your own Managed C++ Windows Forms applications.
Implementing and utilizing extensible property sheets in your .NET classes has never been easier.
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.
HTTP isn't the only network protocol that's useful. Learn about, or beef up your skills with, socket-level programming.
Learn about the functions, and see a small example of how the particular functions can be used.
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