Tutorials

Discover how to use separate projects within a solution to reduce confusion when you have imported code mixed with your new code.

Pursue a description of a number of parallel code errors that lead to incorrect behavior of parallel programs created with OpenMP.

Find out what is under the SFL's hood.

Learn about an approach to creating thunks/trampolines to non-static member functions in 32-bit VC++.

Protect Software with Product Keys based on the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).

Learn how to replace the displayed icon of an executable file with an .ICO file of your choice.

Learn how to build an efficient library to provide support for Message Only Windows. The article also shows how to use the Thunk32 library provided in an earlier article, as well as some general pointers on good practices and patterns.

Mpatrol has been around for quite some time. It is a simple library that hooks into memory management. Learn how to use it on the Windows platform.

Discover a free tool (with source code) that demonstrates how to programatically set System Environment Variables.

Learn how to add genuine Windows XP theme support to Rich Edit controls and extend the code for your own custom controls!

Learn about thread synchronization helper classes and their implementation, and sample projects.

Learn about processes, threads, and a couple of thread synchronization techniques.

Learn how heap memory allocation/deallocation via new-delete/malloc-free is made for a debug build of your program.

Learn how the heap blocks are allocated and how are they managed in WIN 2K. The main purpose of the article is to understand how committed and uncommitted memory blocks are distributed.

An intro to concepts such as access tokens and some facets of the Win32 API, to aid the beginner-intermediate level Windows developer.

A class wizard-like helper tool for using WINDOWSX.H message crackers to make your code more convenient, portable, and type-safe when working with message handlers.

There are a number of danger in using a Null Dacl to open up access to objects. Given the recent emphasis by Microsoft on security issues, this is a timely article on how to avoid some of the dangers.