Code Complete

Tried and tested code to solve your problems.

This category is split into several sub-categories, as follows:

MFC - MFC is useful for getting lots of graphical stuff into an app quickly. It's a pity you have to spend so much time fighting the framework to make the code nicer...

Win32 - Some things don't need the extra baggage that MFC brings with it. Sometimes it's good to be lean and mean...

CORBA - Some comparisons between the COM way and the CORBA way.

COM - There's so much to learn about COM. You can use it for years and only scratch the surface.

OLE DB  - The current method of data access that Microsoft recommends is relatively easy to use as a data consumer, especially from VB. Writing a data provider is another matter entirely.

Windows Scripting - The Windows Scripting Host makes it easy to generate scripts that are as powerful as a compiled program.

Java - Ignore the hype about Java, it's a convenient language for some cross platform development tasks and it plays nicely with CORBA.

The code that time forgot - The code in this section was written by Len before he started to write code for a living and it's presented here more for amusement than anything else...