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• The ancient art of circles and lollipops, part 2

  Some time ago I started learning COM server programming by creating a COM server from scratch, using only the raw Win32 API functions. I started out with a very basic server, and then added new functionality with each new 'release'. Since there aren't... Posted Apr 08 2007, 05:24 AM by vanDooren with | with no comments Filed under: C++, Windows Platform

• Vista woes

  Here I am, getting to know my new PC. It is a racehorse: 4GB of DDR2 Core2Duo 2 6600 Nvidia GF-7950 VT WD 320GB SATAII, 16 MB Cache, 300MB/s, RAID-1 I installed Vista64 because I want to use that as a development platform and test target. Of course I... Posted Mar 07 2007, 02:53 PM by vanDooren with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: General, Windows Platform

• The ancient art of circles and lollipops

  Since I will have to do COM in my new job, I wanted to make sure I knew COM inside out. I have used COM before, but only client side. I never wrote a COM server. So I decided to finally work my way through ‘Essential COM’ to learn the nitty gritty details... Posted Mar 02 2007, 03:27 PM by vanDooren with | with no comments Filed under: C++, Windows Platform

• Source code for the user mode part of my USB tutorial driver

  Sometime ago I wrote 2 length articles on writing device drivers, using the new Kernel Mode Driver Framework that is the bees-knees when it comes to kernel mode programming. Of course, I had to have a demo application to interact with the device drivers... Posted Jan 03 2007, 03:52 PM by vanDooren with | with no comments Filed under: C++, Driver programming, Windows Platform

• Preventing a DLL from being unloaded by the app that uses it

  Update: See 'The right way, conclusion' for an update from Mike Grier . Last week I was debugging a Windows hook function, and I discovered a side effect of installing a hook: If a function is installed as a hook function, the system will prevent... Posted Oct 09 2006, 08:59 AM by vanDooren with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Platform

• What every programmer should know about DLL loading

  Every programmer who ventures beyond his / her first hello world application has to deal with DLLs sooner or later. Maybe you even have to create your own DLLs, or load and unload DLLs on demand. In that case - if you have not already done so - you have... Posted Oct 08 2006, 04:46 AM by vanDooren with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Platform