Multi-threading contains overhead that is not always needed. This article focuses on a simple idle processing technique using the PeekMessage and PumpMessage functions.
Idle Loop Processing
Published 09/23/2002
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Forensic Inspection of Hard Disks
Published 08/20/2002
Understand forensic analysis of hard disks using Visual C++, MFC, and systems programming.
Managing Windows Services from a Remote System
Published 08/16/2002
Build a simple command line utility for managing Windows services from a remote system.
Creating a Windows NT/Windows 2000 Service
Published 08/15/2002
Learn how to create create a Windows NT/ Windows 2000 service by following these simple steps.
A Service API
Published 08/07/2002
Check out this Service API that consists of a set of functions and a couple of callback functions that must be supported. Together, these functions allow an application to run independent of any logged-on user.
Determining What Serial Ports Are Available on a Windows Machine
Published 07/09/2002
Determining what serial ports are available on a Windows machine.
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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
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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
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