Need to extract binary data from the registry? Here's a quick primer on reading and interpreting structures stored there.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 04/20/2009
When it comes to our understanding of Unicode issues, the "Born in the USA!" chant (no matter how you feel about The Boss) can almost amount to a proclamation of cultural ignorance.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 03/23/2009
Most of the time it doesn't matter where the user puts your application's windows, but every now and then you really need to know -- or even decide this for yourself.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 03/02/2009
While moving code backward is nice, what really matters is that code can move forward.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 02/02/2009
In these days of increasingly common least-privileged users, where should you store your application data?
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 01/19/2009
Can you name one thing Microsoft designed right the first time?
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 12/08/2008
How do you track down what's really going on inside your compiled EXEs?
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 11/17/2008
Hook the window message stream to snap your main window to the screen edges as the user moves it about.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 04/14/2008
No need to add external dependencies, or even call APIs, to easily grab online data.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 03/27/2008
Virus detectors can detect more than just bugs -- Karl encounters one such system set off by his code, and shares how he worked around it.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 01/29/2008
VB survived Vista nearly intact, with the glaring exception of one statement. Learn what your options with SendKeys are.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 11/13/2007
Microsoft's pledge to support the VB 6.0 runtime via Vista may not be as promising as it seems -- here's what you really need to know.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 09/14/2007