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Install/Uninstall/Control Windows Services Remotely Using VB.Net
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aneezah - 11/12/2008
Discover the basic code to install, uninstall, start, stop, pause, continue, and change logon user for Windows Services remotely.

Create Your Own Thread Pool
11/10/2008
By Chris Bennett - Need a thread pool with a customized level of control? Learn how to create your own thread pool in .NET.

[Updated] New Features in Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0
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mendhak - 11/03/2008
Learn about several features relevant to developers in Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0, such as parallel programming, XSLT debugging, new ASP.NET features, and new VB.NET and C# features that include the Chart control, XSD Designer, Lambda Expressions, and optional parameters.

.NET Tip: It's 2:00 a.m. Do You Know What Your Processes Are Doing?
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Jay Miller - 11/03/2008
Monitor the health of the processes running on your system.

[Updated] Notes from Microsoft PDC 2008
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Bradley Jones - 10/28/2008
A few tidbits from PDC 2008. Azure, Silverlight, WPF, Windows 7, and much more!

Creating a Silverlight 2 Application by Combining Expression Blend and Visual Studio 2008
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M. Rajesh - 10/20/2008
Discover how to use Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Expression Blend to create a cool interface for a Silverlight 2 application with your original knowledge of .NET.

Silverlight 2.0 Releases Today - Prior to PDC
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Bradley Jones - 10/14/2008
Silverlight development on Eclipse, XAML language released for public use, no support for Silverlight 2.0 tools in Visual Studio 2005, and most importantly - the official release of Silverlight 2.0.

C++/CLI: Managed Development with C++
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Nick Wienholt - 10/06/2008
Replacing the cumbersome and confusing Managed Extensions for C++ that shipped with Visual C++ 2002 and 2003, C++/CLI is a standardized set of C++ language extensions that allows developers to write managed code that executes on top of the .NET Framework.

.NET Tip: Using a Nullable Value Type
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Jay Miller - 10/03/2008
Discover how to use nullable types when retrieving data from your database.

Getting Up and Running with the Composite UI Application Block for WPF
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Jani Järvinen - 09/29/2008
Building small applications from scratch is easy enough with almost any available programming technology. However, if you are assigned the task to build large applications and have the requirement to re-use code either now or tomorrow, you need to be a lot more careful. Microsoft has ready-made patterns that help you build complex Windows Presentation Foundation applications with reusability and componentized design in mind.

.NET Tip: Take a Byte out of Strings
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Jay Miller - 09/19/2008
Convert a string to an array of bytes and back again.

Using ASP.NET Master Pages for Consistent Site Design
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Jacob J. Sanford - 09/17/2008
Wrox author Jacob J. Sanford walks through the essentials of creating ASP.NET master pages to consistently format the design of your pages around your different dynamic content placeholders.

Dynamically Building Windows Presentation Foundation DataTemplates
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Jeffrey Juday - 09/15/2008
Discover how to use the XamlReader to dynamically create a Datatemplate. Then, see how you can bind to a Dataset and display the data in a ListView control (via a sample application pointing to the Northwind database).

Creating a Pretty IE Toolbar in C#
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Anton Zlobin - 09/11/2008
Learn about the work principles and ways and use of IEToolbarEngine. This is a toolbar for Internet Explorer, which has a reusable architecture.

Provocative Search Engine Friendly URLs in ASP.NET
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Cristian Darie and Jaimie Sirovich - 09/09/2008
Authors Cristian Darie and Jaimie Sirovich show how to turn ugly dynamic ASP.NET URLs into human and search engine-friendly URLs that may improve your search engine ranking.

ADO.NET Entity Framework Tutorial and Basics
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mendhak - 09/03/2008
Discover an ADO.NET Entity Framework tutorial covering basic data operations for applications, including LINQ To Entities, Method Expressions, stored procedure mapping, and a little discussion about its usage in an enterprise environment.

Adding Attachments to Excel 2007 Email Hyperlinks
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Paul Kimmel - 08/29/2008
Learn to add attachments to hyperlinks that contain email addresses by using a little bit of VBA.

Exploring Net60
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Alex Gusev - 08/27/2008
Have you ever dreamt about porting your managed Windows Mobile application to Symbian OS? Or, maybe you wanted to develop a new one but were uncertain whether you need to learn a new paradigms and languages? Well, with Net60 from Red Five Labs, you may be relieved; you can continue your development in your favorite languages!

Is RFID Still Important?
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Bradley Jones - 08/26/2008
A short interview with Microsoft on RFID technology.

Accessing Business Data in WPF Applications
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Jani Järvinen - 08/19/2008
Many WPF demos focus on slick graphics and designer user interfaces. While this is all good, those regular business database applications will eventually make the transition from WinForms to WPF. Learn how to get started accessing business data in your WPF applications.

Using the TFS Build Process to Deploy Sharepoint Custom Applications
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Eric Landes - 08/18/2008
Learn how to customize your TFS build process to deploy Sharepoint custom applications. Delve into the pros and cons of using TFS to create these builds.

Explore the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework
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Alex Gusev - 08/13/2008
The Microsoft .NET Micro Framework, formerly known as Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT), is a powerful and flexible platform for rapidly creating embedded device firmware with Microsoft Visual Studio. Now is just the right time to explore this new world.

Visual C++ Thread Debugging
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Nick Wienholt - 08/06/2008
Thread debugging can be one of the more difficult debugging exercises for a Visual C++ developer. The Visual Studio 2008 debugger contains a number of improvements that make thread debugging more productive, enabling code issues in multi-threaded applications to be identified and remedied faster.

Working with Binary Large Objects (BLOBs) Using SQL Server and ADO.NET
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Bipin Joshi - 07/28/2008
Want to store documents or photos in SQL server? Learn how SQL Server and ADO.NET together can provide an elegant solution for storing and retrieving BLOBs.

Using Stored Procedures and Parameters.AddWithValue
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Paul Kimmel - 07/25/2008
Developers working at all levels of experience can take advantage of this technique. Discover how to invoke a stored procedure with parameters using the AddWithValue method of the SqlParameterCollection to define SQL parameters in one step.

Generics: Base Class Constraint
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Michael.Heliso - 07/22/2008
Generics represent the new type introduced in .NET Framework 2.0. By understanding generics, you gain the ability to create classes, interfaces, methods, and delegates that can manipulate any kind of data in type safe mode. Certainly, you have noticed that many times you had to implement some logical functionality in your application but for different data types.

Introducing Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Unit Testing
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Jeffrey Juday - 07/14/2008
Learn how to build Unit tests and generate sample data for your database development projects.

Avoiding Annoying Mistakes in Your ASP.NET Web Applications
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Jani Järvinen - 06/30/2008
Learn to avoid subtle, yet common, web application design mistakes, and how to best solve them in your ASP.NET/C# web applications.

Auditing in SharePoint 2007
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Gustavo Velez - 06/27/2008
Careful registration of information in a Portal can be vitally important to a company, not only internally but also for possible juridical consequences. SharePoint 2007 has the necessary infrastructure to gather and conserve the entries in a secure way.

Working with the XML Data Type of SQL Server
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Bipin Joshi - 06/25/2008
Store XML data directly in SQL Server. Use the power of the XML data type to store and manipulate XML data efficiently and easily.

Moving and Sizing Pictureboxes
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Richard Newcombe - 06/23/2008
Cover a simple problem that often takes the longest time to solve because of the math required.

A Database Driven Reporting Application
Rating: none
Chi-Wei Wang - 06/16/2008
Discover how reporting applications can adapt to changing reports by shifting its report-related information into a database.

Windows PE 2.0 Tutorial
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Anpino - 06/12/2008
Learn how to build a custom Windows image running a windows application like Vista installation.

Improving Visual C++ Debugging with Better Data Display
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Nick Wienholt - 06/10/2008
Code is run in a debugger for two main reasons: examining the branches of code that are being executed, and examining data values to determine why the code is behaving in a certain manner. Inspecting data values can be significantly improved by customizing the debug information. See how that can be done in the Visual C++ debugger.

Leveraging Content Types in SharePoint Document Libraries and Lists
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Daan De Brouckere and Raj Agarwal - 06/04/2008
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.

Controlling SQL Text Indexing Services with SQL Managed Objects and VB.NET
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Paul Kimmel - 05/28/2008
Control the SQL Server service from your VB code using SQL Management Objects (SMO).

Choosing Between MVC and MVP Patterns in ASP.NET
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Oleg Zhukov - 05/22/2008
Probe for ASP.NET developers and choose the right pattern between MVC and MVP, concerning all major differences between them.

Writing CDs with C# and Windows XP's ICDBurn Interface
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Hannes du Preez - 05/21/2008
Learn how to write data to a CD while utilising XP's ICDBurn interface.

Creating a DockablePanel-Controlmanager Using C#, Part 7
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JonnyPoet - 05/15/2008
Going on to design a dockable panel, discover some very interesting techniques, such as hooking the mouse and how to debug an application in such cases. Learn to unpin a docked panel so it slides to the border of the main application.

.NET Tip: Sort an ArrayList Using a Custom Comparer Class
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Jay Miller - 05/09/2008
Provide your own comparison algorithm when sorting by implementing the IComparer interface.

Custom Paging for GridView
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Harsh Gupta - 05/07/2008
Learn how to create user controls to provide a customized paging solution for GridView.

.NET Tip: Writing to the Event Log
Rating: none
Jay Miller - 04/30/2008
Create a class to add Error, Warning, and Information entries in the Windows event log.

.NET Tip: Sort Your Objects by Implementing the IComparable Interface
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Jay Miller - 04/18/2008
Allow your classes to easily be sorted they way you would like by implementing the IComparable interface.

ASP.NET FTP with SSL
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Jereme Guenther - 04/11/2008
This code snippet and document show how to connect to an FTP server with SSL enabled using ASP.NET. The code is written in C#.NET.

Lazy Loading the ASP.NET AJAX TabContainer Control
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Mark Strawmyer - 04/04/2008
Learn how to avoid possible performance problems in your web applications when using the ASP.NET AJAX TabContainer by employing a technique known as lazy loading.

.NET Tip: String Literals Without Escape Characters
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Jay Miller - 03/26/2008
Use @-quoted strings to avoid escape characters in your string literals.

Client Application Services: Getting Started
03/19/2008
By Vikas Goyal - Client Application Services simplifies the access to ASP.NET Application Services and thus helps in managing the user information, authentication, and authorization at a common place for both web and Windows Applications.

Fix Performance Problems Fast: Advanced VSTS Profiler Use
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Nick Wienholt - 03/04/2008
For large and complex applications, dealing with the amount of data collected can be difficult. See how the Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) Developer Edition Profiler can do an excellent job of finding performance problems by simply pointing it at an application and allowing it to collect data.

Using Connection Pooling in ADO.NET
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Bipin Joshi - 02/25/2008
Learn how ADO.NET connection pooling works and how to configure it to suit your performance requirements.

Using SSH Tunneling in Your Application
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SFTP NET Components - 02/22/2008
Use SSH tunneling to secure MySQL connections.

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