In the first of a two-part series, Jeff Prosise covers the all-important issues of COM security in terms of activation security and access security.
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COM Security Primer, Part II
In the second of a two-part series Jeff Prosise focuses on remote server process identity and authentication.
Understanding COM Apartments, Part I
In the first part of a two-part series on COM apartments, Jeff Prosise describes what apartments are, why they exist, and how to avoid the problems that they introduce.
Undocumented MS Stock Property Pages In VC5
Undocumented MS Stock Property Pages In VC5
Listing All Registered ActiveX Controls
Shows how to use COM to list all registered ActiveX controls in a system.
Step by Step COM Tutorial
A step-by-step guide to creating COM components using Visual C++ - without the help of ATL or MFC
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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
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...

How to use Visual Studio 2012 to Download Images from Websites
Learn how to use a for loop to loop through all of the images found on a web page and save them via the DownloadFile method of the WebClient object.

SOLID Principles in C# - An Overview
SOLID principles form the base for writing good and clean object oriented code in C#. Learn about the S.O.L.I.D principles and explore C# coding samples for each.