The Microsoft .NET Framework comes packaged with all the building blocks to implement a keyboard interface in a WinForm application, we'll illustrate and walk through how to extend those building blocks with basic .NET controls, inheritance and custom events to create a consistent keyboard interface.

Learn how to use Microsoft's ADO.NET Entity Framework to connect to, consume and update a Microsoft SQL Server CE (Compact Edition) database.

Learn how to use Microsoft's .NET Entity Framework to connect to, consume and update an Advantage database.

Learn how to define, implement, configure and host a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service and then consume the service in a client.

Learn how to use Windows Azure and Azure Storage to store, retrieve and update information in Table storage, pass work between multiple cloud service roles using Queue storage and use the Azure SDK StorageClient project to speed up Azure Storage development.

Windows Vista adds brand new search capabilities directly from the OS itself. By using OLE DB and SQL, you now can add this functionality to your own applications.