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URI Encoding and Decoding

Learn about fast and portable URI encoding and decoding functions that use std::string as the argument and return type, and do the buffer conversion, including '\0'.

HTTP Post Using C

Learn to write a small routine or utility to make a post request to a Web server and retrieve the data. This article demonstrates such a technique, tested on Linux.

Crawling Using WINHTTP 5

The latest WINHTTP library from Microsoft replaces the older WININET libraries. This library is used internally in various Microsoft applications. Learn the various issues and characteristics of using this library's methods while crawling (reading Web data). This is most suitable for C++ coded, HTTP-based client/server applications.

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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...

Doing Data Extraction with Visual Basic.NET

Every developer needs to know how to extract data from a database, as it's essentially what makes your app tick. Read on to learn how to extract information from a database and put it in your VB.NET application.

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