Discover a free tool (with source code) that demonstrates how to programatically set System Environment Variables.
Setting a System Environment Variable
Published 11/14/2005
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Win32 Thread Synchronization, Part 2: Helper Classes
Published 05/24/2005
Learn about thread synchronization helper classes and their implementation, and sample projects.
Win32 Thread Synchronization, Part I: Overview
Published 05/20/2005
Learn about processes, threads, and a couple of thread synchronization techniques.
Inside CRT: Debug Heap Management
Published 04/04/2005
Learn how heap memory allocation/deallocation via new-delete/malloc-free is made for a debug build of your program.
HeapWalker
Published 03/30/2005
Learn how the heap blocks are allocated and how are they managed in WIN 2K. The main purpose of the article is to understand how committed and uncommitted memory blocks are distributed.
Rebooting a Windows Box Programmatically
Published 12/15/2004
An intro to concepts such as access tokens and some facets of the Win32 API, to aid the beginner-intermediate level Windows developer.
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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.
