Limit your dialog-based programs to a single instance by modifying the dialog template.
TIP: Dialog-Based, Single-Instance Applications
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Resources Explorer
Published 03/22/2005
Learn about a search files with resources to explore it. The selected resource can be extracted. This tool is a sample of using Splitter, List, Tree, and resource display.
XP Theme Support for Rich Edit and Custom Controls
Published 12/03/2004
Learn how to add genuine Windows XP theme support to Rich Edit controls and extend the code for your own custom controls!
Making Any Application Transparent in Windows 2000/XP
Published 12/09/2003
Explore how to turn any running application transparent in the same way as the layering features of Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
A Line Picker
Published 10/23/2003
Examine how to select the style, width, and color attributes for a CPen object from a dialog.
Processing System Messages
Published 07/22/2003
When running in a loop within a dialog box, the command buttons do not work. While other authors have shown how to use separate threads to run a modal dialog box, this article shows how to process the Message Loop within the same dialog by adding a simple function and making calls to it.
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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.
.NET Framework: Collections and Generics
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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...
Launching Files with Associated Programs in Windows 8.x and VB
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Using AutoMapper in Your ASP.Net MVC Applications
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