Discover a method for customizing message boxes created with the MessageBox Windows API function.
Fancy Custom MessageBox
Published 12/27/2007
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Task Dialogs in Vista
Published 02/08/2007
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 These have been replaced by the new Task Dialogs.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.
MessageBox with Custom Button Captions
Published 11/23/2005
Windows message boxes do not provide a standard interface for modifying button captions. Learn how to make the caption changes.
CBT Message Box
Published 02/10/2003
A Win32 API MessageBox enhancement that automatically centers a message box to its parent window. (The source code was updated.)
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
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.
.NET Framework: Collections and Generics
Published 06/23/2011
The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...
Input and Output with VB.NET 2010
Published 06/08/2011
The .NET runtime has everything you need to format your output and handle special characters. Both Visual Basic 2010 Express edition and Visual Studio 2010 help you with Intellisense if you can't remember the syntax. This article explores simple console input and output and shows you how to get it done.
Exception Handling with Task Parallel Library Based WCF Services
Published 03/28/2012
Jeffrey Juday demonstrates some techniques to bridge TPL and WCF exception handling models in the .NET Framework.
