InformIT .NET Newsletter - Oct 5, 2004

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Title: InformIT .NET Newsletter - Oct 5, 2004

InformIT NET Newsletter Oct 5, 2004 Win an iPod mini! Solve the Find the Bug Challenge! and you could win an iPod mini and a copy of Adam Barr's brand-new book, Find the Bug: A Book of Incorrect Programs. It's all part of Bookpool's 10th Anniversary Celebration going on now at www.bookpool.com. While there, check out this month's special sales on Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall PTR, and Cisco Press titles. Visit Our Sponsor NET Reference Guide Your Host Jim Mischel In August I posted three Guide entries about calling unmanaged code. One topic I failed to cover there, because I thought it was adequately covered in the .NET Framework documentation, was implementing callback functions. It turns out that the official documentation is a bit too brief on this topic, so I thought I'd flesh it out a bit. As an old Windows programmer, most of the time I'm happy to be working with .NET, where all the ugliness of window classes, window handles, message loops, display contexts, and other such minutiae are hidden away. There are times, though, when I want the low-level capabilities that those things provide. One such is the Windows message loop, with which you can do many things. In his article The Message Loop Is Your Friend, author Rick Ruhl shows how you can use registered messages to pass information between applications—something that's rather difficult to do any other way. Visit The .NET Reference Guide New Content   Articles and Sample Chapters All Articles and Sample Chapters .NET Compact Framework Graphics By David Durant, Paul Yao The Message Loop Is Your Friend By Rick Ruhl Tipping the Scales Toward Secure Code By Rebecca Rohan   Weblogs All NET Weblogs String marshaling By Jim Mischel .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 By Jim Mischel VersionNotFound Exception redux By Jim Mischel  Subscribe to the .NET Reference Guide RSS feed. New Books and Safari Online Books   Book Store All NET Books Find the Bug: A Book of Incorrect Programs By Adam Barr Published by Addison Wesley Professional � Oct 4, 2004 Premium Member Price: $26.24 USD (Save 25%) .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security, The By Keith Brown Published by Addison Wesley Professional � Sep 27, 2004 Premium Member Price: $33.74 USD (Save 25%)   Safari Online Books All .NET Online Books Visual FoxPro to Visual Basic .NET Published by Sams � May 10, 2004			Enterprise Application Integration Using .NET This is the software designer's and developer's guide to building an effective Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solution using the Microsoft .NET Framework. This book delivers a software solution that leverages the .NET Framework's superior tools and processes to fulfill the system integration and process streamlining goals of your organization. Learn more about the book! Grab Our .NET RSS Feed You can get our .NET Reference Guide additions and weblogs in your RSS Aggregator — click here to grab the code! C++ Without Fear: A Beginner�s Guide That Makes You Feel Smart! If you've always wanted to learn how to program a computer, or to learn the popular C++ programming language, here's the perfect book and CD to get you started. You'll find everything you need patiently explained and clearly illustrated, from general programming concepts and techniques to the particulars of the C++ language. In no time, you'll be writing your own programs! Become a Member and Save up to 25% in Our Book Store! Profile yourself with InformIT and you'll receive an additional discount — up to 25% off many titles in the InformIT Book Store. The best part is that this offer will never expire! Safari Clip of the Week Preview an excerpt from Safari, our online subscription service, with a new clip each week! This week, we present .NET Framework Classes, including serialization, asynchronous programming, and remoting.

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