With this utility you can simply find memory leaks (CRT and COM) in your program (with almost no time-cost during runtime). Each leak is written to a file with the callstack of the allocation.

This article explains a simple way to extract the boot-image from a CD/DVD (El Torito). It just uses CreateFile and ReadFile... no mystery about APSI-programming.

In the CRT of VC2005, there is a performance decrease; this article describes the changes that are to be made to get a "faster" CRT.

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.

This article gives you a deeper view into the registry redirector on x64 / IA64 systems