By Patrick Smacchia
ISBN 0-9766132-2-0
Jan 2006 (896 pages)

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To access advanced functionalities such as the creation of desktop shortcuts or task bar icons, you can use the Windows installation service named MSI, which we will discuss further a little later.

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...ion of HTTP requests. But more importantly, the same year, the Redmond giant released ASP (Active Server Page). A new thing brought by ASP was that the code was inserted inside the HTML, while with CGI, it was the HTML which was inserted in the code. Several improvements were brought to this technol...

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... URI. This data can be stored on a local file system, on an intranet or on the internet. The WebClient class is very practical since its implementation automatically decides which data transfer protocol to use based on the provided URI (file, http, https, ftp or ftps). The following example download...

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...symmetrical algorithms can also be used to digitally sign data. Digitally signing data means that someone consuming the data can absolutely be certain about the fact that the entity who produced the data has the private key. We talk about data authentication if the consumer can be certain that the e...

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...ere is an example which uses operators. We create a Distanceand a Surfaceclass. Internally, values are stored using doubles and one unit represents one meter (or one square meter). We overload the +and *operators for two distances and the ++operator to add one meter to a distance and the / operator:...