An easier way to update and use INI files values.
CIni, Ini-file IO with a minimum of codelines
Published 02/14/2003
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Work Around the Bug of "Deprecated DOS Wildcards"
Published 01/15/2003
Fix the bug of accidentally matching "long" filenames to "short" filenames when using wild cards. For example, the FindFile API wrongly matches "MyApplicationForm.resx" to "*.res" because its shortened name is "MyAppl~1.res".
How to Read and Write an INI File
Published 01/09/2003
Read and write to and from an INI file. List sections and section data (key-value pairs) as well as displays a key value and creates and modifies a key-value pair.
How to Format a (Floppy) Disk
Published 11/19/2002
Learn how to format a floppy on all Microsoft Windows versions released since Windows 95. (Uses the SHFormatDrive method of the Shell32.dll.)
A Simple Installer
Published 11/13/2002
How to embed arbitrary files as RCDATA within an executable and turn them into filesystem entities during runtime.
GetLongPathName API Function Emulation
Published 11/12/2002
Emulates the functionality of the GetLongPathName API call on Windows 95 and NT (GetLongPathName is only available on Windows 98/ME and Windows 2000/XP).
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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...
Obtaining External Window Handles and Window Captions with Visual Studio 2012
Published 05/15/2013
Learn how to obtain an outside application's window handle, in order to manipulate that window from inside your program, using either VB.NET or C#.
SOLID Principles in C# - An Overview
Published 05/01/2013
SOLID principles form the base for writing good and clean object oriented code in C#. Learn about the S.O.L.I.D principles and explore C# coding samples for each.
