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C/C++: The Hazards of Using a Minimal Amount of Code
This first article in a series devoted to how C/C++ programmers unintentionally play with fire discusses how programmers often attempt to explicitly call a constructor.
MFC Application: Adding Service Mode Support
Learn how to extend the life of legacy user-mode applications without the need to dismantle and rewrite--in just a few easy steps.
How to Make Fewer Errors at the Stage of Code Writing. Part N3.
This third article in the series discusses a couple of new programming methods that can help you make your code simpler and safer.
SSE2 Vectorization of Alphablend Code
Wong Shao Voon shows you how to use SSE2 to Speed up Alphablending.
How to Make Fewer Errors at the Stage of Code Writing. Part N2
This is the second article on avoiding certain errors at the early stage of code writing. In the previous post, we have already advised you to avoid a large number of calculations in one expression. However, we should investigate this question in detail. Let's see what's dangerous about complex expressions and how we can avoid many logical errors.
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
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
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...

A Quick Way to Add AutoComplete to a VB.NET 2012 TextBox
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...

ALM Tools for Developers in Visual Studio 2012
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).