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Function Calls, Part 4 (What Exactly Is "this"?)
Published 02/14/2008
Learn about a dissasembly view of function calls, and decipher the __thiscall calling convention.
Function Calls, Part 2 (Stack and Calling Conventions)
Published 01/23/2008
Read a dissasembly view of function calls, explaining organization of the stack and the behavior in the context of different calling conventions.
Function Calls, Part 1 (the Basics)
Published 01/11/2008
Begin a journey into the inner workings of how function calls work on x86 platforms,
.NET Remoting with Events in Visual C++
Published 04/13/2004
Learn how to add a button to a server application (a WinForm app with a big Listen button) and have the handler for the click event raise a custom event.
Working with Variable Argument Lists in Functions
Published 04/10/2001
Class to retrieve the arguments passed to the function with the variable number of parameters. Works for both _cdecl and _stdcall functions.
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