Scott shows how to create a custom application-settings class to make it easy to persist settings for a section of your application. You can maintain settings such as username and password, as well as the size of user-controlled forms, last folder opened or recent files.
In ASP.NET the HTTP application object fires application-level events to listening components in either HTTP modules or code manually added to the global.asax application file. Dino Esposito compares these two options.
Rex Jaeschke describes the keyword-like descriptive declarations called attributes provided by the .NET Framework, and shows how to use them in C++/CLI.
Retcam II is a specialized digital imaging system for photographing and documenting patient pathologies. It relies on a comprehensive database to keep track of all digitally recorded images and facilitates transferring them via LAN or Internet.