What Makes A Genius? Intelligent Qube
When I play games I don't really play anything new. Heck, the last game I bought as it was released was Final Fantasy X, the original version.The one...
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Plug in to CL
It's well known that Visual Studio's C compiler hasn't progressed much beyond C89, save for things like variadic macros. What might not be quite as...
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Dropping Like Files - Zipping Without Libraries on Windows
If you haven't been living under a rock (or in a non-Windows world) you'll know that since XP, Windows has had zip file extraction and creation. You...
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Things Up Microsoft's Sleeve - Console Graphics
CreateConsoleScreenBuffer, what a fabulous function. You ask it nicely, and it gives you as many 'console window content' buffers as you want. With...
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WindowWatcher is Here
Way back in the mysts o' tyme I told a tale of a little picture-in-picture / interactive zoom tool I was working on. Well, a whole year and 4 months...
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Native Only Apps with VS Express for Win8
Microsoft say "Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8 provides tools for Metro style app development. To create desktop apps, you need to use...
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No Hooks Please, We're British - Thread Creation Notification
If what you're writing already requires a dll, or you can augment an existing one, then you're already set and can use the fact that DllMain gets...
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Leveraging Windows' Built In Disassembler
Wait, there's a disassembler built into Windows? Well, only in the sense that a supermarket that has the ingredients to build a cake. There's no...
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Chroot-ing in Windows - As Easy As A:, B:, C:
Linux people who have to work in Windows are sometimes found lamenting about the basic tools it has which are absent from Microsoft's product. While...
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Bagging Some Property - Getting A Windows User's Picture Tile
It doesn't sound like it should be so hard. I mean, the shell has managed to produce it every time you've logged on since Windows XP. MSDN has a page...
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Detailing the Hookers
We all need ideas. Whether you've just finished something, or are getting a little bit bored with your current project you can't help but let your...
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Detailing the Hookers
Sorry to crush your hopes but this isn't a post about my new job as a prostitute army drill sergeant. Nope, it's just another post of me shilling my...
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DLL - Demystifying Loader Lapses
DLL hell isn't just the name given to managing monstrous dependency chains. It's also the name given to the phenomenon of pulling your hair out...
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U-A-Ceen Nothing Yet
Detecting whether UAC is enabled or not is something I've never needed to do. I can't really see how it can affect anything you architect one way or...
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100% Apple Approved
Yep, I'm now on iTunes and further reducing the Gamedev's journals' 'hit to miss ratio of useful-ity' at the same time. My place on iTunes isn't in...
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Watching the Windows Go By
No, it's not an Andy Williams inspired poem, it's actual pictures of the thing I've been working on. Imagine that.Enter WindowWatcher:It's a single...
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Alternative Valentines Poem 2011
It happens to be that time again, where all the loved up people get all mushy with their sentimental I love you's. Just like Christmas though, there...
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You Don't Get This On MSDN
What do you get when you combine C#, C++/CLI, Access 2003, VirtualBox, a few ISOs and too much free time? You get a 345MB database of the complete...
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WMI'm Going Speed Dating
There's tonnes of example on how to use SWbemDateTime to convert from FILETIME's or CDates in VBScript, yet I couldn't find any for C++. So here's...
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Undefined Behaviour - Star Trek Style!?
We all know that stepping over array bounds is easily managed in C and C++. So much so that the C standard library has a function, gets, which may as...
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