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EBook Description: The operating system manages the resources of a computer, such as its internal memory, the disk drives, keyboard, monitor screen, mouse, printers, and network connections. People who use a computer to browse the web or play games have minimal contact with the operating system. Most of their time is spent with application programs.

The computer as we know it is a group of pieces of hardware put together to get a job done faster. To accomplish its various tasks, the computer is made of different parts, each serving a particular purpose almost independent of, or in conjunction with, other parts. You don't necessarily need to know how these parts operate, at least not at this time, but you should be aware of their co-dependence to take advantage of their various characteristics.

Win32 Programming

This site's goal is to provide a few lessons on Win32 programming. Keep in mind that everything you can do with Win32 using a C++ compiler, you can also do using Borland Delphi. This means that if Pascal is your primary or preferred language, you can write complete Win32 applications using Delphi instead of having to learn C++.

Handling memory fragmentation

Ultimately, memory fragmentation leads to out-of-memory conditions, even when plenty of free memory may still in fact exist in the system. Given enough time, a system that constantly generates memory fragmentation

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Windows Forms FAQ

Welcome to the Windows Forms FAQ. Questions and answers in this FAQ have been collected from newsgroup posts, various mailing lists and the employees of Syncfusion. I have tried to mention the source wherever possible. If you think that you should be credited for an answer, please send me a note and I will be happy to add a credit mention.

Welcome to Version 2.0 of theForger's Win32 API Tutorial

This tutorial attempts to get you started developing with the Win32 API as quickly and clearly as possible.

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MFC/C++ samples

The following samples (MFC/Visual C++ samples) illustrate the most significant features of the Prof-UIS library. In each sample there is implemented dynamic switching between standard GUI themes provided by Prof-UIS, which are Office 2000/XP/2003, and Visual Studio 2005. The ThemeColorizer application includes a set of predefined themes (Luna Blue, Luna Olive, Visual Studio 2005 and more) and also allows you to create the theme that most closely matches your tastes.

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