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Designing Data Tier Components and Passing Data Through Tiers
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.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms978496.aspx
Top/Computers/Programming/Databases/ADO/ADO.NET/Articles

.NET Data Access Architecture Guide
The information in this article covers the new data access objects including the DataSet and DataAdapter classes in ADO.NET.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms978510.aspx
Top/Computers/Programming/Databases/ADO/ADO.NET/Articles

Managing an @@IDENTITY Crisis
Discusses a strategy for returning newly created Identity values after the INSERT is executed. This applies to SQL Server and ADO.NET
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms971502.aspx
Top/Computers/Programming/Databases/ADO/ADO.NET/Articles

Transaction Control
This article describes how to run local and distributed transactions in your Microsoft .NET applications.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms978457.aspx
Top/Computers/Programming/Databases/ADO/ADO.NET/Articles

Reading Data Reader Secrets
MSDN Online Voices Diving Into Data Access column on reading data readers secrets.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms810288.aspx
Top/Computers/Programming/Databases/ADO/ADO.NET/Articles

Pooling in the Microsoft Data Access Components
Discusses the benefits, features, and behavior of pooling within the context of the MDAC architecture, including technology-specific tips for OLE DB, ADO, and ODBC developers. (Leland Ahlbeck and Don Willits / Microsoft)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms810829.aspx
Top/Computers/Programming/Databases/MDAC

Microsoft Debugging Tools
Downloads and related resources for debugging tools for Windows.
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/
Top/Computers/Programming/Development_Tools/Debugging

Hugues Hoppe's Homepage
A collection of research graphics articles.
http://research.microsoft.com/~hoppe/
Top/Computers/Programming/Graphics/Algorithms_and_Data_Structures

OpenGL Performance Tips
Microsoft's documentation for optimising OpenGL performance.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/opengl/apptips_1d9v.asp
Top/Computers/Programming/Graphics/Libraries/OpenGL/Benchmarks

OpenGL for Windows by Microsoft
Software implementation of OpenGL for Windows 95.
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/OPENGL95.EXE
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