May 2009
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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 Server Framework you will find yourself needing to perform operations periodically or after a timeout. The Server Framework provides a light-weight timer queue that can … -
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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 … -
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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 … -
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#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 lies to the application …