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Working with INI Configuration Files Cross-Platform (Win32/Un*x, MBCS/Unicode)
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The standard template library [JOS99] defines the remove_if algorithm. However, the standards don't define the implementation. Be careful to avoid portability issues if you use this algorithm.
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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.
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