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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 9:20 AM

MSDN Library without the Bling

The MSDN Library is one of those things I install locally right after installing Visual Studio . It’s an invaluable resource to have at your fingertips. There are however occasions when I don’t have it installed or I’m using the web for some extra search...
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 2:35 PM

Installing Visual Studio for C++ Development

Installing Visual Studio for .NET development is pretty easy: Install Visual Studio and the latest service pack. You’re done. Installing Visual Studio for C++ development is fraught with problems (ok that’s perhaps a bit dramatic). In most cases you not...
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Monday, September 22, 2008 8:34 AM

Windows with C++: Exploring High-Performance Algorithms

My latest Windows with C++ columns in the October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine is now online: Windows with C++: Exploring High-Performance Algorithms In the concurrency space, issues such as coordination, asynchronous behavior, responsiveness, and scalability...
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Friday, September 12, 2008 11:49 AM

Visual C++ in Short: Unblock downloaded applications

Raymond Chen published an article earlier this week about ShellExecute hooks and it reminded me of a shell hook of sorts that still exists in Windows Vista despite Raymond’s very good argument that shell hooks are often used for evil and certainly can...
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Friday, August 01, 2008 9:06 AM

Windows Vista Performance Tuning

Microsoft recently published a document entitled Windows Vista Performance and Tuning . It collects much of the “common knowledge” about optimizing the performance of Windows Vista into a single document. This is a great reference if you’re not that familiar...
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 8:41 PM

Visual C++ in Short: Determining whether a path refers to a file system object

If you’ve been programming Windows for a while (prior to Windows 2000) you may well have come across a number of techniques to determine whether a path refers to a file system object such as a file or directory. One approach is to check the result of...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:04 AM

Windows with C++: Asynchronous WinHTTP

My latest Windows with C++ column in the August 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine is now online: Asynchronous WinHTTP . This article had a bit of a rough time in the editing process and it’s not quite as polished as I would like. Nevertheless it’s still a good...
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 8:03 PM

Windows 2008 Remote Desktop Color Depth

One of the features of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) 6.1 is the ability for clients to connect with a color depth of 32 bits per pixel (bpp). This allows alpha blending in a terminal session which in turn allows layered windows to work correctly....
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 6:31 AM

Visual C++ in Short: Converting between Unicode and UTF-8

The Windows SDK provides the WideCharToMultiByte function to convert a Unicode, or UTF-16, string ( WCHAR* ) to a character string ( CHAR* ) using a particular code page. Windows also provides the MultiByteToWideChar function to convert a character string...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008 6:04 AM

Visual C++ in Short: Encoding and decoding with Base64

Base64 is a popular encoding to convert arbitrary data into a format that can be transmitted as an ASCII string. ATL provides a few functions that implement the Base64 specification. To encode with Base64, start by allocating a buffer large enough to...
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