For long-term Visual C++ developers, the CryptoAPI will be a familiar part of your programming toolkit. If you're developing Windows Vista applications, though, you should be applying the new Windows Cryptography API: Next Generation.
Protect software with product keys based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography.
Protect Software with Product Keys based on the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
The need to encrypt sensitive information is more important than ever. Luckily, the C++ class library Crypto++ enables you to encrypt your application data regularly and painlessly.
Learn about a C++/C implementation of CBC DES/DES3.
A frequent challenge is to encrypt and decrypt a string or password. This article contains a C and C++ project that will do this job.
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...
There are many ways to serialize data; you can serialize info into and from the registry; you can store and load info from a database, or from a file. Hannes du Preez shows you how to save info to an XML file and load it from that XML file.
Learn how simple it is to build and consume WCF services using the async and await keywords in .NET Framework 4.5.
