Microsoft Foundation Classes continue to play an important role for C++ developers. Discover how to upgrade an existing application with MFC 9's full support for the Windows Vista look-and-feel.
The Windows Vista Event Log offers a much richer experience than today's Event Log functionality. Dive into the code and tools that a C++ developer needs to use the new log.
Discover the possible implementations of a type safe event dispatching mechanism, based on the Multicast pattern, in the context of single-layered and multilayered receptors.
Tom Archer explains how to work around the inherent problems associated with handling .NET events from a mixed mode (MFC/Managed Extensions) application.
If you want to create a C++ class that calls client functions (events), you can do that in two ways.
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.
Recently one way that developers have been looking to address the cookie abuse problem is via a method known as fingerprinting. Peter Shaw shows you how to generate a fingerprint in C# for use in your own projects.
Hannes du Preez demonstrates how easy it is to work with threads in your VB.NET applications.
This article introduces you to Big Data, Apache Hadoop and MapReduce jobs. We will also learn how to create MapReduce jobs using C#.
