Learn how to add sophisticated area effects to your images such as blurring, embossing, and drop shadows in C# or Visual Basic.

This chapter provides an overview of some of the most important system namespaces and gives more detailed examples that demonstrate regular expressions, XML, cryptography, reflection, threading, parallel programming, and Direct3D.

Moonlight 2.0 is a Silverlight 2.0-compatible framework that supports Zoom, Control Framework, Layout Framework, and other technologies.

WPF data templates let you determine the pieces a repetitive control uses to display its items. Learn some unique and interesting ways to use data templates for displaying the items in ListBoxes, ComboBoxes, and ListViews.

Mixing .NET and Java technologies with web services is often easy, but for many tasks web services are not the solution for Java/.NET interoperability.

WPF's properties and styles let you change a control's appearance. Templates let you modify a control at a much more fundamental level, changing the components that make up the control and the way it acts. This article shows how you can use templates to change the fundamental structure of WPF controls.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 has a very flexible infrastructure that lets you extend the out-of-the-box behavior to meet ever-changing organizational business needs.

When the built-in WCF encoders don't meet your needs, follow this example to create a custom encoder—and just plug it in!

Enhanced COM interop through C# 4.0's dynamic type system, support for named and optional parameters, and for variance makes working with Microsoft Office and other Primary Interop Assemblies much easier.