Walk through the development of a simple guitar tuner Vista sidebar gadget and in the process learn a little bit about Silverlight, XAML, and Vista gadgets.
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
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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.
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