Common Tasks QuickStarts
The Common Task QuickStarts are designed to help you quickly find the answers to your most frequent programming questions. These QuickStarts show how to perform a range of typical development tasks, such as reading and parsing XML, performing data access, and accessing services such as Active Directory or the Win32 API
They are installed with the .NET Framework and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. See QuickStarts for information about installing and configuring the QuickStarts on your computer. After you install the QuickStarts, you will have access to an HTML-based documentation system that describes them.
QuickStart Categories
The following table lists the QuickStarts by their functional area.
| Category | QuickStarts |
|---|---|
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 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 |
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 simple transactions in my application Get the outcome of a transaction Use system.transactions with SQL Use transactions across threads Use explicit transactions in my application Enlist on a transaction Use the System.Transactions transaction in System.EnterpriseServices |
XML Data |
Write Binary Data Work with XML data and the XML classes Read XML from a stream Apply validation when reading XML 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 |
XML Serialization |
Create an XSD schema from a class Create a class from an XSD schema Read and Write objects into XML |