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To understand quickly and to explain in the simplest way, Class Factories are the factory classes that create a COM object. A class factory may be responsible for creating one or more COM objects. In …

It is UNSAFE to do any operation on an STL container that will modify its size while holding a reference to one of its existing element. What could happen is, when you do an operation, say push_back …

Learnt something new, a small one but very useful. Many times I have seen GUI applications accompanied by console windows that show logs or trace information of the application. How do we do that for …

Need to change or set the value of an environment variable programmatically and without the need to restart/log off the machine. I need the change to reflect for all processes, ie, I need to change …

Problem: I have created a multi-threaded application which works without any problems on a NT-4.0 Workstation/Server. When I try to run the same application in Windows XP, I get an error in a call to …