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Web Service Method to Back Up a Database from a Mobile Device
Published 03/29/2007
Learn about a web service method to back up a database from a mobile device using the SQL Backup command and asynchronous method calls.
How to Build a Simple Event Log Montior/Watcher (Using TCP in .NET)
Published 03/05/2007
Learn how to build a simple event log "watcher" application to monitor event log changes on a remote machine(s).
.NET Remoting and Event Handling in VB .NET
Published 12/29/2004
Using .NET Remoting, learn how to configure a remote server, define remotable objects, and define custom event arguments and delegates. Do all of this while creating a simple chat application!
Creating Your Own Windows Service
Published 09/22/2003
Create a Windows service'—such as virus checkers, disk-monitoring applications, or security programs'—using Visual Basic.
Creating a Windows Service in VB.NET
Published 11/20/2002
The core function of a Windows Service is to run an application in the background. Learn how to create a Windows Service using VB .NET.
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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.
