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September 13, 2023
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How to Install Intel One Mono fonts on Windows

Recently Intel introduced the One Mono font, which is intended to reduce eye strain and to be superior for use by people with vision difficulties. […]

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August 15, 2023
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Enabling and disabling Powershell script execution

If you’ve ever tried to run a script from Powershell you’ve probably seen this error message. Enabling script execution To enable script execution in Powershell […]

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April 3, 2020
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Setting up ISAPI (and ASP.Net) on IIS 10

Introduction OK so it’s 2020 and how many people are developing ISAPI extensions? More than you might imagine. Yeah, Ruby on Rails and Rust are […]

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January 31, 2017
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How to output to stdout from an MFC program

If you’ve ever developed an MFC program with a graphical user interface and then later thought that it would be really nice to also provide […]

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December 14, 2016
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Working with Dev C++

We’ve had a few people asking how to configure C++ Memory Validator to work with programs built using Dev C++. Dev C++ is an IDE […]

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November 30, 2016
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The correct way to determine if a file is a directory.

After writing for Microsoft’s Windows platform for 20 years, I thought I knew all I could know about GetFileAttributes() until I found a rather odd […]

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November 29, 2016
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How to make your MFC (or non MFC) program support high DPI monitors. The easy way.

A few years ago Microsoft introduced support for very high resolution monitors. Such monitors might have nearly 4000 pixels horizontally and over 2000 pixels vertically. […]

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November 16, 2010
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Don’t try this at home – custom control time sink

There are times when writing a custom control will waste your time like nothing on earth. I’m going to share with you a particularly painful […]

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August 8, 2010
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How to read embedded data from a resource

In the previous article, I showed you how to embed data into a custom resource in your executable. In this article, I’m going to show […]

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August 7, 2010
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How to embed data into a resource

In this article, I will demonstrate how you can embed data into a Windows PE format executable (EXE or DLL). At the end, I will […]

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