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A Multidevice ASIO Output Plugin for WinAMP
Explore a C++ replacement of the official ASIO SDK that supports multiple ASIO devices put to the test in a tiny WinAMP output DLL.
AL 3D Audio and Environmental Audio Extension
Games and sophisticated applications require the use of a 3D Audio facility to place their gamers or users in a 3D Space. This results in a virtual world in which the user is immersed, resulting in an improved user response. Learn to use a technology by Creative Labs, the EAX or Environmental Audio Extension, that makes the virtual world richer with respect to 3D sound.
Multimedia Audio SDK
No amount of description of a tune can ever replace the experience of hearing it. But, playing a sound file synchronously or asynchronously, mixing sound, or excercising still finer control over it has been a pain in the neck. Audio API makes playing sound a very comfortable and enjoyable experience.
How Speech Recognition Works
Learn about the basic functioning of Speech Recognition.
PortAudio: Portable Audio Processing for All Platforms
The days of locking your audio applications into one platform are over. PortAudio, a free, cross-platform audio I/O library, enables you to record and/or play sound using a simple callback function.
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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.

Finger Printing is the New Tracking Cookie
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.

Introduction to Threading and VB.NET
Hannes du Preez demonstrates how easy it is to work with threads in your VB.NET applications.
How to Create MapReduce Jobs for Hadoop Using C#
This article introduces you to Big Data, Apache Hadoop and MapReduce jobs. We will also learn how to create MapReduce jobs using C#.