Writing multithreaded programs for Windows
There are several standard, cross platform ways to create high performance, multithreaded programs. There are no standard ways to spawn threads with the C++ language, which means that sometimes we have...
View ArticleGetting started with GDI+ in Visual Studio
This tutorial will focus on how to create and compile an application that uses GDI+. We will be starting a project from scratch using Microsoft Visual Studio. GDI+ is a powerful, object oriented API...
View ArticleHow to load a JPG with C++
Writing raw C++ code to read a JPG or JPEG image can be a cumbersome task. Fortunately, libraries exist which we can use to perform the dirty work for us. In this tutorial, we will be using the GDI+...
View ArticleHow to download HTML with C++
This tutorial shows you how to download an HTML page, or any other type of web page, using C++ or C. This tutorial is only applicable for Windows programs, since the methods described here utilize a...
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