Includes information about Direct3D - a real time graphics library primary for the window platform.

Learn how to best expose your data to Microsoft .NET applications and how to implement an effective strategy for passing data between the tiers in a distributed application.

This tutorial walks you through SSIS Designer to create a simple ETL package that includes looping, configurations, error flow logic and logging.

Describes strategies to combine the Win32 synchronization primitives into more complex synchronization objects. It presents several solutions for implementing advanced synchronization objects along with a comparison of how they perform.

An Article by Samir Bajaj published in the MSDN Magazine, April 2001.

This articles the issues that need to be considered while designing COM components using Visual Basic. (Ivo Salmre / Microsoft Corporation)

This tutorial describes how programmers can build MDI, a part of WFC, effectively.

Best practices for writing Microsoft ADO.NET code and suggestions for developers on using the objects available in ADO.NET.

Lists important dependencies for Windows Foundation Classes (WFC) including required versions of operating systems, VMs, and common DLLs. (Microsoft)

Describes the use of metadata for easy linking and loading of assemblies, the relationship between metadata and concepts such as IDL and type libraries, and the metadata hierarchy. By Matt Pietrek, MSDN Magazine.