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Working with other Windows - (Flenov) I often receive e-mail messages that include questions like this: "How can I destroy another person's window or change it somehow?". In principle, this task can be easily implemented using the FindWindow function. However, if you need to change several (or all) windows, you should use another method for search. Let's look at it. First, let's write a program that will look for all windows on the desktop and change their captions. 
A Network Bomb - (WEB Consulting Company) In the Windows NT operating system family (NT/2000/XP/2003), there is an interesting command, NET SEND. It allows you to send another computer a message from the command line. All you have to do is to write the command, the receiver's address, and a message text. After the command is executed, the receiver computer will display a window with the message. 
Initializing Direct3D. Part 2. - (Network Security Developer) In this article we will continue describing Direct3D initialization. The beginning of the article may be found here: Initializing Direct3D. Part 1.
Initializing Direct3D. Part 1. - (Network Security Developer) In this article we will take a look at initializing Direct3D. To make the discussion more interesting an example application will be created and then its capabilities will be considered.
Designing Windows Correctly - (.NET Essential Library Developer) When you write your own program you're going to sell, it is very important to think over its interface. Like with people, first impressions on a program are most lasting. If its windows are disgusting, nobody will pay a dollar for the program. How can you create something attractive so that a user spends more than five minutes on getting acquainted with you program? This isn't that difficult. Correct design is a sort of art.
Avalon or Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) - (Security Software for Administrator) GDI is an old Windows graphic system based on simple functions and implement basic functionality. The GDI system uses hardware capability inefficiently. Most of time user interfaces based on GDI are tedious. There is a new Microsoft graphic system Avalon or Windows Presentation Foundation that ready to break bottleneck. 
Introduction to C and Win32 - (WEB Consulting) Lests take a deeper look at Win32 Application. A more comprehensive description can be found in specialized books on Visual C++, but now I'll give you only the necessary information about Win 32 programming. In this article we consider how to create a Win32 application with the small executable file size.
Rubber band rectangle - (Michael Flenov) Many kind of software has to use a rubber band rectangle. The rubber band is a rectangle that tracks with mouse cursor while user hold the mouse button and move it to select something or to move/resize controls. To draw the rubber band rectangle we used to draw rectangle using raster operations (XOR) drawing in GDI. To draw rubber band you had to draw a rectangle using ROP2_XORPEN. To erase the rectangle you had to draw the same rectangle and all lines would be disappeared.
Get rid of MFC for the smaller file size - (Security Software for Administrator) The most effective method for decreasing the program size in hidden in the answer to the question, "Why are Visual C++ programs so large?" This is because C++ is an object-oriented language. In this language, each program component is an object with its own properties, methods, and events. Each object is self-sufficient and can do much without your instructions.
Introduction to DirectX - (.NET File Explorer Control ) Since the times when Microsoft was not yet a full-fledged operation system but just a shell to MS-DOS, the GDI had been the programming basis for graphics operations. It was initially a successful technology that made it possible to work with any type of video card. The PC platform employed a variety of video chips, each with different capabilities, and GDI offered a universal way to access their video functions. Even though the technology greatly improved, is still used in Windows.