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i'll keep this post update with all the things about Rich Edit. #1 The RichEdit Version The current versions of RichEdit control and the...

If you try to use TB_ADDSTRING with the string from the resource then you might had blown your head trying to figure out what the heck is ha...

Many Win32 API functions use a LPCTSTR parameter as resource name or type. For example, a trivial one: HICON LoadIcon(HINSTANCE hInstance...

Each time when you use a win32 API which uses a HANDLE remember that the handle Must be valid (not closed). It is important to understand th...

... then check if you have called InitCommonControls() at very start of your application if you use any common controls (list view, tree vie...

Ive just looked to an interesting blog article talking about when a process terminates. http://blog.kalmbachnet.de/?postid=65 It seem that t...

as the msdn says SuspendThread is for debugging purposes and should not be used. it may be tempting to use it to pause a worker thread for e...

it is guaranteed you can call any Kernel32.dll function on the DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH. Calling any other function from other library is not ok, ...

it is OK to have functions with variables of class vector or other std lib class, and call these functions between different DLLs executable...

there are many WinAPI functions which create and return a HANDLE object, like CreateThread, CreateFile. in windows header file, a HANDLE is ...

ok, here is my task: i have a dialog (main thread) and i have a worker thread running which updates a progressbar on the GUI. when i press t...

i've discovered some months ago that the shell libary shlwapi.dll has, beside some well known functions like SHBrowseForFolder also some...