May 05, 2009
Everything you need to know about timers and periodic scheduling in the server framework
Often when you're writing a server or client application with the framework you will find yourself needing to perform operations periodically or after a timeout. The framework provides a light weight timer queue that can be used to schedule timers...
May 08, 2009
Embedded assembly programming
Well, I've finally done something that I've been meaning to do for a long time. I've written some non-trivial assembly language code. Up until recently I wasn't expecting this to be embedded assembly, but it actually seems like a sensible...
May 12, 2009
Building an inproc ATL COM object as x86 and x64
I'm currently wrapping a server's client side API in an ATL COM object for a client. The COM object will be used to communicate with the server from managed code or VB or other COM compatible systems. It's a fairly...
May 14, 2009
#pragma unmanaged
I've just spent a little too long trying to track down a bug in a mixed mode DLL that I'm building. The DLL exposes a set of entry point functions that are defined as taking a single pointer argument and...
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