This program presents an original way of the famous Rubik's Cube by an assembly of 27 multi-colored cubies isolated in the space. Even during its deformations, it allows a 3D vision of the cube thanks to the basic MFC graphic functions. This simulation can also rapidly calculate a solution to reordering the Cube.
A comprehensive article on how to make a CTreeCtrl really virtual -- good for handling large data trees.
Discover a templated visitor pattern base class designed to get around problems that some compilers that have with certain aspects of modern template techniques, particularly typelists and meta-programming.
Learn how to develop C++ wrapper functions around .NET classes.
Learn how to create a modal dialog with animations when shown or hidden.
Learn about a template library for properties (used like 'widget.color = "red";') in C++. Supports "binding" several properties together to have their values synchronized automatically. Useful for GUI development and so forth.
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.
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...
Knowing which version of MS Office is installed on the client computer is vital; unfortunately, many programmers see this as an afterthought. Hannes du Preeze shows you four different ways to determine the Office versions installed so that you don't make this mistake.
A developer building messaging solutions with Azure Queuing and Azure Service Bus should follow a Pipeline pattern when processing a significant number of different messages. One approach to building a Pipeline is to layer a message following an Envelope pattern.
