Namely, I mean, Visual Basic 6 Applications. The problem is, of course, that the Microsoft Included controls simply don't do their job anymore.

Why not?

The reason the ActiveX Controls, as included with Visual Basic 6, simply don't cut it should be obvious- they are nearly ten years old. They don't support nearly any of the new features that users have come to expect, such as icons with alpha, or even basic XP styles. This is omitting a glaring flaw- the Visual Basic...

I realized while I was working on some of my Shell code some interesting Naming conventions with several elements of the Windows API. The first item I have worked with for a long time, but perhaps because I aliased it I never saw the subliminal message:

S***EMID

I have blocked out the dirty bit for the children who inevitably read my blog right after finishing their fruit loops.

Now, you or me read that as ess-h Item ID, but some people with more perverse...

Since version 3.1, The NTFS filesystem has supported something known as "Alternate Data streams".

The most basic definition of a file is as a stream of bytes with a name, and is essentially what FAT and FAT32 use to reference files, a name and a pointer to that files first cluster.

Alternate Data streams came about out of necessity, surprisingly enough, when faced with networking Mac and NT PCs, Microsoft was faced with the issue of file sharing. Copying a...