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IntroductionLong time no write, kids. Sometimes life throws you a curve, you get whacked,and you tak

Editor’s Note: This is the first of four excerpts from thesecond edition of O’Reilly’s .NET Framework Essentials, 2nd Ed. by Thuan L. Thaiand Hoang Lam. The complete series of excerpts covers Web services in the context of the .NET framework. Inthis first part, they give a .NET Web services framework overview.Web Services allow access [...]

This excerpt is Chapter 10 from COM and .NET Component Services, published in September 2001 by O’Reilly..NET is the new platform from Microsoft used to build component-based applications, from standalone desktop applications to web-based applications and services. The platform will be available on forthcoming Microsoft operating systems and supported by the next release of Visual [...]

A previous article in this series explained how to read and write text files using the .NET framewor

Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 is an exciting platform for enjoying all of your media from the comfort of your sofa. However, there are many times that you might wish to extend Media Center to perform functionality that it does not have “out of the box.” Microsoft has [...]

Microsoft introduced C# during June of 2000 as a “modern, object-oriented programming language built from the ground up to exploit the power of XML-based Web services on the .NET platform.”

In my last article, I showed you how to set up Skype to make voice calls over the Internet. While Skype allows voice communication, it is not limited to just that. Several third-party developers have started developing extensions using Skype APIs. In this article, I am going to share two of the many extensions that [...]

In part one in this series of book excerpts from Programming .NET Web Services, learn how to write an ASP.NET HelloWorld Web service application.Using the .NET Framework, it’s easy to get a basic service up and running. In just a few minutes and fewer lines of code, you can put together a simple "Hello World" [...]

I get frustrated with Windows sometimes, and few things frustrate me more than the complications of installing and configuring new hardware. In the days before Plug and Play (PnP), installing hardware was complicated, but at least you learned about the guts of how Windows managed resources like IRQs, I/O ports, and drivers. It gave you [...]