Win32

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.

Discover a method for customizing message boxes created with the MessageBox Windows API function.

This is a Version Number Build Tool for Automatic Version Numbering after each build in the Visual Studio Environment.

Learn to use the "Network Distributed Object Model" to have a simplified way of performing network communication at the object level.

If you have been using Vista, you would have noticed that MessageBoxes are passé. These have been replaced by the new Task Dialogs. Task dialogs are intended to make the experience more interactive and goal-oriented. Take a tour of the Task Dialog API.

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.

Learn to inject your code into an Import Table of a Portable Executable file format. This is called the API redirection technique.

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

The need to encrypt sensitive information is more important than ever. Luckily, the C++ class library Crypto++ enables you to encrypt your application data regularly and painlessly.

Learn the five steps needed to inject your code in a portable executable (EXE, DLL, OCX,...) file without recompiling the source code.

Currently, this is the best way to protect XP systems from malware and accidental changes.

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

Windows message boxes do not provide a standard interface for modifying button captions. Learn how to make the caption changes.

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.