A short example of how to started with Windows programming in non-Visual Studio environments. In this example, we use the MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows) compiler within the Code::Blocks integrated development environment. MinGW can be obtained via the following link: http://www.mingw.org/ First select File > New > Project… and opt to create a new empty …
A short and to-the-point post illustrating how a deadlock situation can be created in C++, together with a possible strategy for avoiding such a condition. I’m am using the boost libraries to implement threads and mutexes, but it should be possible to the standard library implementations std::thread, std::mutex etc as well.
SC.exe is commonly used to retrieve and set control information about installed Windows services. Common tasks are to configure, start and stop a service, as well as retrieve the status of a specific service. These tasks can be achieved by executing sc.exe inside a command prompt as a batch (.bat) files that can call combinations …
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