As Windows 2000 was being developed in the second half of the 1990s, Microsoft was firmly focused on building in as much functionality as possible, in a play to push Novell Netware aside and establish ...

Application-specific configuration information has historically been stored in INI files, which are plain-text files that contain key/value data within sections. In Windows, the registry has replaced ...

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When you call Windows API functions, they don't throw managed exceptions. Instead, you need to check their return values for any indication of an error, and take the appropriate actions, which might ...

The introduction of Google’s Gemini API marks a significant step forward for those who develop software and create digital content. The API allows you to harness the power of Google’s latest ...

If you’ve used the Java Native Interface (JNI) to make a platform-specific native library accessible to your Java programs, you know how tedious it can be. Jeff Friesen continues his series on ...

The MSDN documentation provides the details of Windows API functions and structures as C++ definitions. To make use of these, you need to be able to translate these definitions into VB.NET or C# ...