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Task Dialogs in Vista
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Simple Shell Extension to Manipulate File Summary Information
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A very basic shell extention to add and reterive the comments of the files.
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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
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How to Determine Which Office Version is Installed with VB.NET and C#
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Building an Azure Queuing Message Pipeline
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