Mention application programming interfaces (APIs) and Windows Vista together, and many programmers assume you're referring to the much-ballyhooed managed interfaces that comprise the new .NET ...

Let me first say, I'm not a Windows programmer, and my knowledge of the Visual Studio toolchain is fairly minimal. So if this is something simple I apologize.<BR><BR>I'm writing a program where I'm ...

Let's say I have some existing, unmanaged C++ APIs that also include C code (using extern "C"). If I wanted to write a basic C# WPF GUI front-end utilizing these pieces, is that a good idea, or just ...

ON JUNE 6, Microsoft posted security bulletin MS02-026, titled “Unchecked Buffer in ASP .Net Worker Process.” Tongues immediately began to wag. Wasn’t .Net supposed to prevent this sort of thing? It’s ...

The C# programming language doesn’t allow you to work with pointers by default. You need to use the unsafe keyword to define an unsafe context and write code that uses pointers. Unsafe code helps you ...