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Having trouble using the asynchronous call mechanisms built into .NET? Let Kenn Scribner clarify it for you and make your programming tasks (at least as related to asynchronous processing) a little easier.
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Published 06/17/2003
Make a task that happens in a GUI spawn-off and runs in a seperate thread so that the GUI doesn't effectively "die" when a long-running task is executing.
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Published 04/18/2011
The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.
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Input and Output with VB.NET 2010
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