Observe the use of a small framework for building alert windows that can be customized in various styles.
Customizable Alert Window
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TIP: Dialog-Based, Single-Instance Applications
Published 03/24/2006
Limit your dialog-based programs to a single instance by modifying the dialog template.
Full-Screen Dialog
Published 07/21/2000
Enables you to have a dialog application occupy the entire screen (including taskbar area)
Setting the initial position of a dialog-based application
Published 04/19/1999
Setting the initial position of a dialog-based application
Limiting a dialog-based application to a single instance
Published 02/02/1999
Limiting a dialog-based application to a single instance
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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.
.NET Framework: Collections and Generics
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...
Input and Output with VB.NET 2010
Published 06/08/2011
The .NET runtime has everything you need to format your output and handle special characters. Both Visual Basic 2010 Express edition and Visual Studio 2010 help you with Intellisense if you can't remember the syntax. This article explores simple console input and output and shows you how to get it done.
WCF, ASP.NET MVC, and the new ASP.NET Web API
Published 04/06/2012
If WCF and ASP.NET MVC had offspring it would be named ASP.NET Web API. Like WCF, Web API is built for Web Service development. Only instead of building on WCF data structures; Web API embraces an MVC style experience. The result makes Web Service development more accessible to ASP.NET developers and gets WCF developers closer to HTTP.
