Application Control

Discover how to start and control a third party GUI application, particularly the Notepad text editor, from your own C++ applications.

Visual C++ 2010 with many of the new C++ 0x language features including Lambdas. Discover how lambda functions make C++ code easier to read and maintain, and explore the various techniques for writing them ships.

Discover a very simple, integrated method to make a control, such as static, button, sliderctrl, and progress control transparent in a dialog box.

Learn how to estimate projects (the tangible and intangibles) effectively in the real world to ensure success.

Combine BizTalk 2004 with the .NET Framework to overcome some of BizTalk's limitations in handling Web services.

Control the number of windows instances for your app.

Read the first in a series of best practices for improving project success with solid customer involvement.

Give power users more control over areas of your BizTalk Orchestration. With Business Rules, you can wrap your .NET classes and XML document elements in easy-to-understand language.

Have you ever wanted to make changes to your system without having to update or recompile the code? Have you ever needed to pause a function, discontinue its usage, or even condition its access?

Take a closer look at which IT functions are and are not outsourced. Also, take a closer look at how to manage an outsourcing relationship successfully.

Shows the principles of evolutionary computing in a set framework.

Rich clients are the next hot battleground, and the battle is starting to heat up! Macromedia Flex provides a new, slick way to build sharp looking rich web clients with lots of bells and whistles.

There is a partially documented feature in the Microsoft C/C++ runtime libraries that allows you to run code before the main function (main, WinMain or DllMain) is called, and after it returns.

Send keystrokes to the active window or to a selected window.

Another suggestion for forcing only one instance of an application to run at a time.

If you ever need to have only one instance of an application active, you might be interested in using this class. This class enables you to stop running a second instance of an application.

This is a set of small projects (all working together) that can ease creating a log of your program's code path at run-time.

Standard concept with a twist ; in this version if the app is running it is brought to the foreground and passed any command-line arguments