Learn to employ a small utility class that allows you to modify how objects for a given class are dynamically allocated.
Enhance Your Dynamic Memory Allocation with an Undocumented MFC Class
Published 02/14/2006
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QPerformanceTimer
Published 08/16/2005
"Profile" a block of C++ code with just one include file and two variable definitions.
ATL Tear-Off Interfaces
Published 04/12/2001
What exactly is a tear-off? Why you might want to use one, and how the ATL supports both regular and cached tear-off interfaces. Are they worth spending time on? In this article, Andrew teaches you everything you wanted to know about tear-off interfaces, but were afraid to ask.
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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.
