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Clients that Find Servers in a Windows Network Domain (TCP/IP, Mailslot)
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Creating a Chat System
Published 06/18/2003
Create a Chat System (Client and Server) to chat either on a LAN or the Internet.
Open Source Messenger for Any Version of Windows
Published 03/03/2003
Build an open source messenger that works with nearly any version of Windows.
Using MAPI to Send E-Mail
Published 12/24/2002
How to send customized e-mail messages and attachments programmatically using MAPI.
Peer to Peer Network Messenger
Published 06/19/2002
This program is a peer to peer messenger program which functions (and looks) like MSN messenger. since this program is peer to peer there is no hidden server code, it's all here!
Adding More Privacy to Users of Existing Messengers
Published 05/22/2002
SQLProxy is a program created for adding more privacy to users of existing messengers. In this first versions, only Yahoo! messenger protocol is supported.
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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...
Input and Output with VB.NET 2010
Published 06/08/2011
The .NET runtime has everything you need to format your output and handle special characters. Both Visual Basic 2010 Express edition and Visual Studio 2010 help you with Intellisense if you can't remember the syntax. This article explores simple console input and output and shows you how to get it done.
WCF, ASP.NET MVC, and the new ASP.NET Web API
Published 04/06/2012
If WCF and ASP.NET MVC had offspring it would be named ASP.NET Web API. Like WCF, Web API is built for Web Service development. Only instead of building on WCF data structures; Web API embraces an MVC style experience. The result makes Web Service development more accessible to ASP.NET developers and gets WCF developers closer to HTTP.
