Hannes du Preez demonstrates four different and very easy ways to determine an internet connection.
Detecting Internet Connections from Your C# or VB.NET Programs
Published 11/21/2012
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How to Check for Application Inactivity in .NET 2010
Published 11/16/2012
Hannes du Preez shows you how to build an inactivity feature into your VB.NET and C# applications to allow them to check for inactivity.
Using Google Maps with Visual Basic 2010
Published 11/12/2012
Hannes DuPreez demonstrates how to use Google maps in your VB desktop application.
Learn About Asynchronous HTTP Modules and HTTP Handlers in Asp.Net 4.5
Published 11/07/2012
One of the good things about Asp.Net 4.5 is that you can introduce asynchronous processing in web applications that you develop with little effort. This article takes you through the asynchronous HTTP Modules and Handlers in Asp.Net 4.5.
.NET Azure Queuing and Serialization
Published 10/29/2012
Understanding Serialization is important if a developer is contemplating Azure .NET Queuing on either Azure Service Bus or Azure Storage Queues. Jeffrey Juday examines some common patterns to effectively apply Data Contract Serialization, leveraging the .NET Data Contract Serialization.
Advanced Azure Queuing with the Sessions and the Service Bus
Published 10/15/2012
Microsoft Azure offers two queuing options: Azure Queues and Azure Service Bus. The first step to understanding Service Bus Sessions, an advanced feature of Service Bus, is understanding the need.
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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
Published 06/23/2011
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
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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
Published 05/01/2013
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.
