I am always a great fan of interface programming. I mean not exactly the interface keyowrd but some way to expose the functionality of the class or your module relieving the user about the worries of the implementation.

Inherently after writing some code in C#, I wanted everything to be as easy to do like in C#.

The Loader Lock is a synchronization object that hepls to provide mutual exclusion during DLL loading and unloading.

Recently I got tangled into this problem in my code – Calling a vector dtor for a scalar pointer.

For an ATL class, the QueryInterface is implemented in CComObject. The figure below is the inheritance hierarchy for a class generated by the wizard representing an ATL-COM object.

To understand quickly and to explain in the simplest way, Class Factories are the factory classes that create a COM object.

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.

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.

Need to change or set the value of an environment variable programmatically and without the need to restart/log off the machine.

Problem: I have created a multi-threaded application which works without any problems on a NT-4.