How Do I...? Common Tasks QuickStart Tutorial

Active Directory:

• Access Active Directory?
• Modify Active Directory?

Assemblies:

• Create an assembly with a strong name?
• Change the default search path?
• Use version policy?

Component Model:

• Use the CodeDOM to Emit Source Code?

Cryptography:

• Encrypt and decrypt a file?
• Generate and compare a hash value?

Data and ADO.NET:

• Get an overview of ADO.NET?
• Execute a command?
• Get out parameters from a stored procedure?
• Populate a DataSet from a Database?
• Update a database from a DataSet?
• Read and write XML?
• Use database transactions?
• Handle errors?
• Work with hierarchical or relational data?
• Work with typed data?
• Filter data?
• Use connection pooling?
• Generate XML with data from SQL Server?
• Load a native ADO recordset into a DataSet?
• Retrieve data from a database Using OLE DB?
• Retrieve data from a SQLServer database?
• Migrate from ADO to ADO.NET?

Diagnostics:

• Write to an event log?
• Read from an event log?
• Monitor an event log?
• Read from a performance counter?
• Count rate of change?
• Work with tracing?
• Use trace switches and listeners?
• Instrument a small application with tracing?

Globalization and NLS:

• Use encodings?
• Set your current culture and region?

Interoperability:

• Get started using Interoperability?
• Build a .NET COM Server Callable from COM clients?
• Pass simple data from .NET code to VB6 code?
• Pass an array from .NET code to VB6 code?
• Build a .NET client that uses a COM server?
• Call COM methods from .NET?
• Sink unmanaged events from .NET?
• Call a function exported from an unmanaged DLL?

Messaging:

• Send a message to a message queue?
• Receive a message from a message queue?
• Pass a complex type through a message queue?
• Receive asynchronously?
• Use message formatters?
• Control a message queue?

Networking:

• Make a GET request?
• Make a GET request with SSL?
• Make a GET request with NTLM?
• Make a GET request through a proxy?
• Make a GET request asynchronously?
• Handle WebExceptions?
• Make a POST request?
• Create a DateTime client with TCPClient?
• Create a DateTime server with TCPListener?
• Create a Chat client program with UDPClient?

Regular Expressions:

• Use Regular Expressions to match a pattern?
• Get all matches for a pattern?
• Use Regular Expressions to make replacements?
• Find common Regular Expression patterns?

Remoting:

• Get an overview of remoting?
• How remoting works?
• Use the remoting samples?
• Create a remote server?
• Create a client of a remote server?
• Create a remote object as a singleton?
• Pass an object to a server by reference?
• Pass an object to a server by value?
• Compile a client against an interface?
• Make an asynchronous call to a remote object?

Security:

• Check Windows Identity in a client application?
• Request the permissions my code needs?

Serialization:

• Serialize an object graph?
• Use ISerializable?

Services:

• Write a simple Service application?

Setup:

• Create system resources during installation?
• Execute custom code during installation?

Transactions:

• Use the System.Transactions transaction in System.EnterpriseServices?
• Using Transactions with the Explicit API?
• How can I get the outcome of a transaction?
• How can I use Transactions in my code?

XML Data:

• Write Binary Data?
• Work with XML data and the XML classes?
• Read XML from a stream?
• Apply validation when reading XML?
• Use multiple XmlReaders?
• Use an XmlNodeReader?
• Create DataSet mappings from an XSD schema?
• Load a DataSet with XML?
• Infer DataSet mappings from XML?
• Save DataSet mappings to an XSD schema file?
• Save a DataSet as XML?
• Read and write schema?
• Use the Xml Schema Object Model?
• Extension objects?
• Multiple schemas?
• Modify an XML document?
• Debug an XSL Transformation Application?
• Apply an XSL Transformation to XML?
• Validate an XML Document?
• Read and Write XML?
• Validate XML using the XmlSchemaValidator Class?
• Process XML Data Using XPath?

XML Serialization:

• Create an XSD schema from a class?
• Create a class from an XSD schema?
• Read and Write objects into XML?