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Creating a Windows Azure Application: A Step-by-Step Guide
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Step-by-Step Guide to Setting up a Windows Azure Free Trial
Published 02/16/2012
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Cloud Services Accelerate Application Deployment
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
Published 04/18/2011
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.
.NET Framework: Collections and Generics
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The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...
Input and Output with VB.NET 2010
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WCF, ASP.NET MVC, and the new ASP.NET Web API
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