Though the Clipboard is one of the fundamental parts of the Windows operating system, there is little information about how it works, especially in the low level. In this article, I'm going to tell you something about the Clipboard internals by showing how you can forbid access to it.
Demonstrates the basics of writing a Windows Debugger.
Even the best-written C++ applications can crash or hang-and end-users' perceptions of the application hinge on how gracefully the application works with the operating system to handle such problems. By registering your applications with Windows Application Recovery and Restart, they can recover gracefully after errors occur.
Visual C++ 2010 includes a number of new features for preventing data inconsistencies due to simultaneous updates of memory locations - a key challenge in parallel development.
Visual C++ 10.0's new Parallel Pattern Library supplies methods to execute multiple processing tasks, across available processing resources, eliminating the headache of manually allocating task execution.
Multicore processors bring new challenges. See a solution for gaining the ability to scale to the increasing number and types of processor cores.
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...
The question has been asked whether or not it was possible to have a textbox that can be automatically filled in with the previous URL history, similar to what can be found in any decent web browser. And the answer is...
Although coding is the primary responsibility of a developer, there are many other application lifecycle management activities that need to be performed with the code. V. N. S. Arun takes a look at the list of features offered by Visual Studio 2012 for the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
