Using the new SoundPlayer class in .NET 2.0 you can easily play WAV files into your application. This tutorial will show you how to create a Windows application that plays WAV audio files in a separate thread or in the UI thread.

We are going into Windows’s unmanaged user32.dll library in order to retrieve the operating system uptime, last activity time, and user idle time.

The application we are building in this tutorial will make use of the Performance Counters made available by Windows. They allow us to retrieve CPU, memory and network usage among other counters.

Learn how to create a download manager with a progress indicator in C# / .NET 2.0 using stream readers, web clients, web requests, buffers and more. You will also be learning the basics of threading in C#.

Programming tutorial that shows you how to backup a SQL database to a BAK file and then restore it from the same file using C#. First we list all running SQL Server 2005 instances, then we connect to one of them and retrieve all the databases from that server, finally we create the backup and restore operations; everything is done using SQL Management Objects (SMO).

Learn how to develop a C# application that retrieves the available newsgroups from an NNTP server and then displays the articles from those specific newsgroups.

This tutorial will teach you how to create a basic file splitter and joiner using C#, byte arrays and file streams. It will allow you to split files into as many output files as you want and then reconstruct the file from the splitted output files.