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Title / Updated	Author	Score
Walking the callstack Updated: 14 Nov 2005   This article describes the (documented) way to walk a callstack for any thread (own, other and remote). It has an abstraction layer, so the calling app does not need to know the internals. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS2005, VS6, Dev, Intermediate	Jochen Kalmbach [MVP VC++]	4.86
Real-Time Console Output Redirection Updated: 31 Oct 2006   Console process output flushing is no longer a problem with this little stub. VC6, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, Dev, Intermediate	_Olivier_	4.72
RMI for C++ Updated: 30 Jan 2006   User-friendly remote method invocation in C++. VC7.1, WinXP, VS.NET2003, Dev, Intermediate	Jarl Lindrud	4.66
Windows Thread Pooling and Execution Chaining Updated: 26 Apr 2004   An article that describes a template based thread pool implementation with execution chaining VC6, VC7, VC7.1, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, Dev, Intermediate	PlugwareSolutionsLtd	4.63
Redirecting an arbitrary Console's Input/Output Updated: 27 Nov 2003   Redirecting an arbitrary console's input/output in a simple, graceful way VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	nickadams	4.61
Multithreaded Job Queue Updated: 21 May 2003   An article to implement a Multithreaded Asynchronous Job Queue which also pools threads. VC6, VC7, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Pradeep Kumar Sahu	4.53
Creating New Threads From VB Applications Updated: 22 Apr 2004   A component to execute a COM method in a separate thread. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, VB 6, Dev, Intermediate	Xiangyang Liu 刘向阳	4.52
Producer/Consumer Implementation Using Thread,Semaphore and Event Updated: 6 Jul 2004   Using thread, semaphore and event classes to implement a specific version of Producer/Consumer model VC6, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	liyang yu	4.52
Fast critical sections with timeout Updated: 27 May 2007   A faster and lighter ciritcal section implementation. C++, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Advanced	valdok	4.48
Extending Task Manager with DLL Injection Updated: 19 May 2005   How to extend the features of Windows Task Manager using DLL injection. VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS2005, Dev, Intermediate	rocky_pulley	4.47
Universal Console Redirector Updated: 24 Nov 2003   Launch a console process from your GUI app and receive its output, even from Win9x VC6, VC7, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, WTL, Dev, Intermediate	umeca74	4.45
A .NET-like ReaderWriterLock Class In Native C++ Updated: 19 Oct 2007   A very efficient reader-writer lock class in C++ that is similar to the .NET ReaderWriterLock one VC7.1, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Advanced	Quynh Nguyen	4.44
How To Create a Self-Restartable Application Updated: 21 Aug 2006   This article describes the way to add restarting support to your Win32 applications. C++, Windows, Visual Studio, WTL, Dev, Intermediate	Alexander D. Alexeev	4.43
Simplify the Use of Thread Local Storage Updated: 14 Apr 2002   A template class to simplify and provide type safe access to Thread Local Storage data. VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, Dev, Intermediate	Maxime Labelle	4.38
EzProcess Updated: 20 Oct 2007   A processes and threads manager application. NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, C++, Visual Studio, Dev, ASM, Intermediate	akyprian	4.35
Asynchronously execute PowerShell scripts from C# Updated: 14 Apr 2007   How to host and asynchronously run PowerShell scripts from C#. .NET 2.0, WinXP, Vista, VS2005, C# 2.0, .NET 3.0, Dev, Intermediate	Jean-Paul Mikkers	4.33
A ThreadPool implementation Updated: 22 May 2005   This article describes a ThreadPool implementation. VC6, VC7.1, VS.NET2003, VS6, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Ratner Yuri	4.31
Tricky Programming on Multi-Core Processors Updated: 29 Feb 2008   An article on experiments with multithreading on a multi-core processor .NET 3.5, C#, .NET, Dev, Advanced	Zaur Nasibov	4.27
Halt! Who Goes There? Updated: 18 Sep 2003   Demonstrates the various wait functions used for thread synchronization in a multi-threaded application. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Santosh M. P.	4.26
There can be only one... Updated: 1 Apr 2002   Limiting an application to a single instance. VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, C++/CLI, .NET, Visual Studio, MFC, WTL, Dev, Intermediate	Niek Albers	4.24
CreateMutexwithatwist Updated: 1 Dec 2004   CreateMutex with a twist…. some non default arguments. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, .NET, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Alex Evans	4.22
CRWCriticalSection : Another solution to the readers/writers problem with time-out Updated: 27 Oct 2003   A class for synchronizing reader and writer threads VC6, VS6, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	BadJerry	4.14
Enforcing Single Instance of a Hidden-Window Application Updated: 17 Nov 2006   Yet another article on single instance, but with a twist. .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, C#, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	drdre2005	4.14
A simple Win32 readers/writers lock with reentrance Updated: 23 Jan 2006   A simple implementation of a readers/writers lock with support for reentrance and lock escalation. .NET 2.0, VS2005, C++, C#, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Flavio.Antonioli	4.09
Threading is easy (A simple thread, thread pool, object pool, and more) Updated: 9 Oct 2007   This simple library provides an implementation of almost all aspects of multithreaded programming. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS2005, VS6, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	soptest	4.09
Performing a hex dump of another process's memory Updated: 6 Sep 2003   An article on examining process memory VC6, WinXP, VS6, Dev, Intermediate	weariless	4.09
Stealing Program's Memory Updated: 2 Dec 2003   An advanced article on allocating and using memory in another process using the Win32 API. VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, Dev, Advanced	Cory Nelson	4.07
Improved Threading & UI integration under .NET 2.0 Updated: 22 Jan 2007   Improving threading and UI integration with .NET 2.0 Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Gary J. Kuehn	4.02
Win32 process suspend/resume tool Updated: 3 Oct 2002   A small handy command line tool for suspending/resuming the running of entire processes on Windows VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, Dev, Advanced	Daniel Turini	4.00
Interprocess communication tutorial Updated: 7 Oct 2001   Using memory mapped files, mutexes and HWND_BROADCAST messages for interprocess communication VC6, Win2K, VS6, Dev, Beginner	Alex Fr	3.96
Entering Ring 0 using minimalistic approach - Unedited Updated: 21 Jun 2008   Kernel adventures of brave developer and other scary tales C++, Advanced	Ladislav Nevery	3.96
Idiot's Guide to Grid Computing - Part I Updated: 4 Jun 2007   How to use grid computing with Alchemi. .NET 2.0, VS2005, C# 2.0, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Styx13	3.95
Handle Management - Complete Solution Updated: 6 May 2002   A utility class to manage the mapping of objects to handles. VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, STL, Dev, Intermediate	Matt Gullett	3.94
Threads with MFC Updated: 1 Feb 2003   Multithreading Programming with a MFC environment. VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Aria Ansari	3.94
Fault Protection: Using Windows Exception Filters Updated: 2 May 2004   An article illustrating practical uses of SetUnhandledExceptionFilter VC6, VC7.1, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, Dev, Intermediate	PlugwareSolutionsLtd	3.94
Single Instance Application, Passing Command Line Arguments Updated: 15 Aug 2006   This article shows how to make sure that only one instance of an application will run, and if a second instance is started, it will call a callback function in the first instance, passing its command line arguments. The solution uses .NET Remoting for the callback. .NET 2.0, VS2005, C#, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	kian01	3.92
A solution to the Readers/Writers Problem using semaphores Updated: 18 Oct 2002   A solution to the Readers/Writers Problem using semaphores VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Joris Koster	3.89
A "synchronized" statement for C++ like in Java Updated: 18 Dec 2005   Design and implementation of a "synchronized" C++ statement that works like the one in Java. C++, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Achilleas Margaritis	3.89
Get CPU Usage with GetSystemTimes Updated: 20 Dec 2004   Get CPU usage with GetSystemTimes. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS6, Dev, Intermediate	ejor	3.85
An MFC Process Class Updated: 25 Oct 2001   This class allows you to create a child process and receive notification of its output. VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Joseph M. Newcomer	3.81
Raising events from other threads - Unedited Updated: 21 Jun 2008   a generic function helps to avoid "CrossThreadCall-Exception", when raising events from side-threads .NET 2.0, VS2005, VB 8.0, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Mr.PoorEnglish	3.72
A TryEnterCriticalSection that works on Windows 9x Updated: 24 Sep 2002   TryEnterCriticalSection is a useful tool to determine if some protected resource is busy, but it's only available on the NT Platform... until now. VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, Dev, Intermediate	Olan Patrick Barnes	3.55
Simple Multithreaded Application in pure C, Win32 and MFC Updated: 30 Nov 2003   This article explains how to create simple multithreaded applications in C Run Time Library, Microsoft Foundation classes and Win32 API functions. VC6, VS6, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	R.selvam	3.50
Real Multi-threading in .NET 2.0 - Unedited Updated: 5 Nov 2006   A real multithreading example managing more than one thread. WinXP, VS2005, C# 2.0, .NET, Architect, Dev, Intermediate	Jose Luis Latorre	3.46
An Automated System with Pipeline Concurrent Kernel - Unedited Updated: 26 Jan 2007   A multithread solution is provided as a concurrent pipeline kernel for an automated bartender machine. The application engine can pipeline 3 of 4 different kinds of cocktail recipes for the system. C++, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Jek Platform	3.46
MFC Thread Synchronization using SYNCHRONIZED macro Updated: 7 Jul 2003   Creation of SYNCHRONIZED macro for easy synchronization. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	rsankaran	3.40
A heap or shared memory based mutex pool manager - Unedited Updated: 24 Sep 2006   An article on mutex pool manager based on heap or shared memory VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2003, Dev, Intermediate	Feng Xu	3.36
Application configuration file for applications Updated: 17 Oct 2004   Application configuration file for applications C++, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Cheeran Santhosh	3.33
A not so simple firewall. Updated: 21 Jun 2004   A not so simple firewall if I can call it so. This application will ask you if you want a certain program to start. VC6, VC7, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, eVC 3.0, C++/CLI, SQL, WinCE, .NET, Visual Studio, Mobile, DBA, Dev, Advanced	euacela	3.31
Ultra Simple C++ Read/Write Lock Class for Windows - Unedited Updated: 16 Nov 2006   Ultra simple read/write lock pattern implementation in C++. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, Win2K, WinXP, VS2005, C++/CLI, .NET, Dev, Advanced	MSCH@MDD	3.22
A Fast Mostly User Mode Inter-Process Mutex Updated: 26 Feb 2003   Win32 Mutexes are slow and cumbersome, this is a fast and nifty alternative! VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Olan Patrick Barnes	3.21
Creating Threads using the CreateThread() API Updated: 24 Mar 2006   Creating threads using the CreateThread() API. VC6, Win2K, VS6, Dev, Intermediate	Chetan Kudalkar	3.20
Shared and Exclusive lock control Updated: 31 Aug 2004   C++ class for shared and exclusive lock control. VC6, NT4, VS6, Dev, Intermediate	Charles Bargar	3.14
Application ThreadPool supporting WaitAll, Ordering & Uniqueness - Unedited Updated: 3 Apr 2007   This Threadpool library offers greater configuration of the way that it dispatches and processes workitems. This extension supports, WaitAll() , Prioritisation , Uniqueness .NET 2.0, VS2005, .NET 3.0, C#, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	jburrow	3.11
Improper Usage of Invoke - Unedited Updated: 26 Jun 2006   Asynchronous programming is great, but improper use can cause your form to become non-responsive Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	William Sullivan	3.06
Single Producer Single Consumer, with no critical sections Updated: 10 Mar 2006   A single producer consumer with no critical sections; twice as fast as a mutexed implementation. C++, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Kevin Jenkins	3.00
Updating the GUI from another thread made easy - Unedited Updated: 19 Feb 2007   Ever tried updating a control from a background thread and received an error? Here's an easy and clean way to do it... .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, VS2005, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, .NET 3.0, C# 3.0, Dev, Beginner	daniel.byrne	3.00
TimeCop - a tool for detecting time-constraint violations - Unedited Updated: 23 Nov 2007   This article demonstrates a tool for detecting situations when certain code regions execution time exceeds specified timeout and provides a run-time reaction mechanism for these situations. CE 2.10, CE 2.11, CE 3.0, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, TabletPC, CE .NET 4.0, CE .NET 4.1, CE .NET 4.2, Embedded, C++, Visual Studio, Architect, Dev, Design, Intermediate	Mike65536	3.00
Asynchronous File IO using anonymous method - Unedited Updated: 15 Aug 2006   An article on how to do async file IO in C# using anonymous method .NET 2.0, VS2005, C# 2.0, Windows, Architect, Dev, Advanced	nitstheone	2.94
Re-Entrant Custom Critical Section - Unedited Updated: 2 Oct 2006   ReEntrant code VC6, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Bharath NS	2.78
A simple thread pool class Updated: 31 Dec 2003   A simple thread pool class VC6, VS6, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	digger_chen	2.67
An easy way to enumerate, start and stop services - Unedited Updated: 30 Jan 2007   An article on controlling services in WinNT or higher C++, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Denis Gourjii	2.57
Improve your server with Thread Pooling Updated: 15 Aug 2004   This articles explains how to implement thread pooling in applications. VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Eran Aharonovich	2.54
VC++ Thread Synchronizatrion using Events - Unedited Updated: 17 Dec 2006   This article demonstrates how to synchronize 2 threads using Events VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS6, Dev, Intermediate	Neeraj Vaidya	2.54
Shared Memory with IPC with threads Updated: 4 Oct 2004   Shared memory as used along with threads to communicate between processes. VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, VS6, MFC, Architect, Dev, Intermediate	Sreekanth Muralidharan	2.50
Better threading - Unedited Updated: 30 Jan 2007   A more object-oriented way to multithread (not bound to MFC) C++, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Denis Gourjii	2.50
Scope Lock - Unedited Updated: 26 Feb 2007   A class that will ease building thread-safe classes VC8.0, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Beginner	Razvan C. Cojocariu	2.43
Advanced Class Probe Updated: 19 Oct 2004   A program to probe a window for its class, and enumerate all the loaded modules C++, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	sanjit_rath	2.40
Of_Services_and_Processes-Part1 - Unedited Updated: 23 Mar 2006   How to programmatically control process and service in Windows NT VC6, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, C, Dev, Advanced	r_thampi	2.33
Reset Windows Administrator Account Password in C# - Unedited Updated: 30 Apr 2007   How to Reset Windows Administrator Account Password in C# (Silently) .NET 2.0, VS2005, C# 2.0, Windows, Dev, Advanced	Qasem Heyrani Nobari	2.31
Sharing data with Memory Mapped Files - Unedited Updated: 16 Apr 2007   How to use Memoy mapped files. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Kumar Sudhir	2.31
Logging For Multi Threaded Applications Updated: 26 Oct 2004   Logging For Multi Threaded Applications C++, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Cheeran Santhosh	2.29
Ping Notify (a ping monitoring utility) - Unedited Updated: 19 Apr 2007   The Ping Notify utility allows the user to define an IP address or URL set the time and start monitoring. The user may choose between beep on ping failing or on success. VC8.0, .NET 2.0, VS2005, C#, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	R%S	2.26
Process communiction via Remoting - Unedited Updated: 14 Oct 2007   By using Remoting realize process communiction .NET 2.0, VS2005, C# 2.0, Windows, Dev, Beginner	SimHook	2.23
Solving Starvation in Dining Philosopher Problem: Using Inverse Semaphore Updated: 2 Jun 2008   Multithreaded GUI solution for starvation in Dining Philosopher problem VC7.1, VC8.0, C++, Windows, Win32, MFC, GDI, Dev, Beginner, Intermediate, VC9.0	Bharath NS	2.16
Cross Platform Threads - Unedited Updated: 15 Oct 2006   Cross platform thread class VC6, VS6, Dev, Intermediate	Amit Gupta XP	2.13
Check-Point in Background Thread after application exit - Unedited Updated: 28 Sep 2007   This article is about a kind of worker background thread that wishes to live little longer than application exit. This gives the Background thread an opportunity to check-point its closure. This helps the background thread to resume its operation from where it was terminated. .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, VS.NET2003, VS2005, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Bharath K A	2.00
Create thread from global\static void returning function with any type and number of arguments. - Unedited Updated: 9 Nov 2007   This is a macro which takes the name of any void returning global\static procedure, followed by the list of arguments to be passed to that procedure and invokes the procedure with arguments supplied, in a new thread VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, NT4, WinXP, VS2005, VS6, C, Dev, ASM, Design, Intermediate	Lone Developer	2.00
Post a Thread Message and also handle it in the simplest way Updated: 30 Jul 2004   The message posted to a thread can be easily handled by PeekMessage loop in a similar way as it is done in a window's message loop. VC6, VS6, Dev, Intermediate	xsamar	1.79
Advanced critical section Updated: 8 Jul 2002   Advanced critical section which features TryLock and timeouts VC6, VC7, CE 2.11, CE 3.0, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, WinMobile2002, Dev, Intermediate	0xdeadbeef	1.77
Single Instance Application - The simple solution Updated: 21 Nov 2002   The solution for the single instance application issue with command line arguments. VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, Dev, Intermediate	MaximE	1.61
process listing utility - Unedited Updated: 18 Aug 2005   small utility to show some info on a running process NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, C++, C, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	spinny	1.60
Hardwired's Named Critical Section and Named Spin Lock Updated: 23 Feb 2005   Named critical section and named spin lock - you may find it useful for debugging complex applications. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS2005, VS6, C++/CLI, C, .NET, MFC, ATL, WTL, STL, Architect, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Inocentric	1.55
How to know when the TaskManager kills your app. - Unedited Updated: 17 Sep 2007   Uses a forked process to check when the TaskManager kills your app. .NET 1.0, VS2005, C# 1.0, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Nelson Melo	1.38
Threads without threads - Unedited Updated: 28 Jun 2007   How threads work, and how to create threads without using any API VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, WinXP, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS6, Dev, Intermediate	lallous	1.26
Threads, Processes & IPC - Inter-Process Communication			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
XQueue - a non-MFC C++ class to manage an interprocess queue Updated: 17 Jan 2005   XQueue implements a shared-memory first-in first-out (FIFO) queue, based on memory-mapped files, that works on all versions of Windows. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Hans Dietrich	4.81
RCF - Interprocess communication for C++ Updated: 3 May 2008   A server/client IPC framework, using the C++ preprocessor as an IDL compiler. VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2003, C++, C++/CLI, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Jarl Lindrud	4.79
Bridge Between Java And Windows Updated: 13 Jun 2002   Make your windows programs communicate with java programs easily VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, Java, Java, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Xiangyang Liu 刘向阳	4.66
CSharedMailslot: a shared server mailslot Updated: 1 Dec 2004   An interprocess communication approach to share a server mailslot. VC7.1, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	matro	4.66
Simple Managed Wrapper for Windows Pipes Updated: 4 May 2008   This article presents a very simple and easy to use managed wrapper for Windows Pipes. .NET 2.0, VS2005, C# 2.0, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Raghavan Ram Raja	4.66
Inter-Process Communication in .NET Using Named Pipes, Part 2 Updated: 14 Jun 2004   This article explores a way of implementing Named Pipes based Inter-Process Communication between .NET applications .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, C#, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Ivan L	4.62
An Introduction to Processes: Asynchronous Process Notification Updated: 16 May 2000   Learn how to create new processes and how to efficiently manage them. VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Joseph M. Newcomer	4.59
A Simple Wrapper for Sharing Data Structures Between Processes Updated: 17 Sep 2001