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Step-by-Step Guide to Setting up a Windows Azure Free Trial
It's now easier than ever to explore Microsofts Windows Azure platform with a free trial. In this article I'll provide you with a step-by-step guide to setting up a free 3-month Windows Azure trial subscription.
Myths of the Cloud: Free Webinar for IT Pros
Learn about the misconceptions surrounding the cloud from a Microsoft Technical Evangelist. Register for this free webinar from New Horizons.
Office 365 Doesn't Mean You're Fired: A Primer for Admins
Get a tour of the admin tools and tasks in the Office 365 environment. Register for this free webinar presented on Tuesday, August 23rd at 10:00am PT from New Horizons.
Cloud Services Accelerate Application Deployment
As cloud computing continues to mature and user experience grows, demand continues to increase for more sophisticated tools to further speed application deployment and reduce IT staff time. Vendors are addressing this growing need with deployment tools.
Five Critical Success Factors for Effective Application Lifecycle Management
The most important benefit of an ALM solution is coordinating the people, processes, information and tools involved in a project. With no one-size-fits-all solution organizations instead must focus on five critical ALM success factors.
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
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
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...

Obtaining External Window Handles and Window Captions with Visual Studio 2012
Learn how to obtain an outside application's window handle, in order to manipulate that window from inside your program, using either VB.NET or C#.

SOLID Principles in C# - An Overview
SOLID principles form the base for writing good and clean object oriented code in C#. Learn about the S.O.L.I.D principles and explore C# coding samples for each.
