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The elusive Control Spy utility is a WIN32 programmers friend. Control Spy is a unique set of examples of how the common controls work when writing software using the WIN32 API. The last version I personally downloaded was the 2.0 version, but it appears that Microsoft no longer supports it and the download links on their MSDN website are dead
Read moreExciting ! Amazing ! Wonderful ! OK, maybe that is a bit much, but it is exciting to see Microsofts move to support x86 emulation on ARM based Windows 10 mobile devices. From what I have read so far, the x86 emulation will only support 32 bit WIN32 (x86) applications, but that is fine by me. So how can a developer
Read moreIn this tutorial I will teach a few lessons about coding using the PowerBasic compiler by using a sample application I wrote which demonstrates a common error when writing desktop applications. This allows me to teach multiple lessons here. Often when we have an app which takes a long time to finish a task (ie. reading a data file, processing
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