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Explore the details of how a Shell Explorer Context Menu works and learn the role played by the registry database.
How to Write a COM+ Component
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Discover how to write a component that can be used in a COM+ enviroment.
Improving Application Quality with Windows Error Reporting
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Leveraging Windows Error Reporting (WER) to use Microsoft's existing infrastructure for providing end users with patches and workarounds, a critical aspect of the application life-cycle management.
Displaying the Input Language indicator in a WTL dialog
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How to display the Input Language indicator (as seen on the Language Bar) in a dialog (such as seen in the Windows Logon or Change Password dialogs).
A Multidevice ASIO Output Plugin for WinAMP
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Explore a C++ replacement of the official ASIO SDK that supports multiple ASIO devices put to the test in a tiny WinAMP output DLL.
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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...
How to Determine Which Office Version is Installed with VB.NET and C#
Published 01/04/2013
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.
Building an Azure Queuing Message Pipeline
Published 01/15/2013
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.
