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A Web Developer's Look at Windows 7
The new Windows 7 user interface features can offer Web developers significant productivity gains in terms of organizing, finding, and navigating to commonly used resources. This article introduces you to the improvements which can cut significant time from otherwise mundane daily workflow tasks.
Build Build Resilient Applications with Windows Recovery and Restart Applications
Even the best-written C++ applications can crash or hang-and end-users' perceptions of the application hinge on how gracefully the application works with the operating system to handle such problems. By registering your applications with Windows Application Recovery and Restart, they can recover gracefully after errors occur.
DevicePath Information
Discover how to retrieve device path and device instance id for storage devices attached to the system.
Raw Input Device informations
Discover how to retrieve information on your computer's devices including the mouse, keyboard, and other peripherals attached to the system.
Handling Multiple Processors in Your Code Using RapidMind
Multicore processors bring new challenges. See a solution for gaining the ability to scale to the increasing number and types of processor cores.
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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.

Portable Databases
In today's world of mobile apps, it's not an unreasonable expectation to want a database that's small, lightweight, and travels with the app from device to device. Take a quick look at what's available out there, and a few of the pros and cons of each.

Localization in VB.NET
Learn how to localize your application to three different cultures.
Working with State Machines in the .NET Framework
Arun Karthick introduces you to the state machine model and shows you how to create a simple working state machine sample using the .NET framework in the C# language.