Silviu-Marius Ardelean offers some insight into _chkstk and stack corruption.
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Add Crash Reporting to Your Applications
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How to generate a crash report for your application that can be debugged by using WinDbg or VS.NET. (The article and source code were updated.)
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
Published 04/18/2011
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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Published 06/23/2011
The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...
How to use Visual Studio 2012 to Download Images from Websites
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Learn how to use a for loop to loop through all of the images found on a web page and save them via the DownloadFile method of the WebClient object.
SOLID Principles in C# - An Overview
Published 05/01/2013
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