The zlib compression library enables developers to integrate lossless compression into their application suites with ease. The benefits are saved time, space, and therefore money.
Learn about a classical arithmetic compression implementation (CACM) optimization.
Redundancy is very high in any text material. Simple ordering can lead to compression ratios up to 20:1 in directory listings.
Do Gzip compression and decompression in memory as well as allocate and deallocate memory automatically. (The demo project was updated.)
Learn about fundamental data compression algorithms including RLE and Grayscale matrix compression.
Describes an optimization point found in the most commonly used adaptive Witten-Neal-Cleary implementation
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...
99% of Microsoft samples and web resources are created for C#. If a VB developer wants to learn something new he has to figure it out for himself. Read on to learn how complicated it is just to get the right tools for the job.
Arun Karthick walks you through the ChannelFactory caching feature introduced as part of WCF 4.5, providing insight into the various caching modes available, along with suitable source code samples.
