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  • View the online version of the Microsoft« Windows NT Training Update, which contains information about important new features of Windows NT version 3.51 for owners of the Microsoft Windows NT Training Kit. Or download this 16-page pamphlet (43KB; published January 1996) in Microsoft Word format.

  • Sample application from Animation Techniques in Win32®, by Nigel Thompson. SHOWPAL is a simple single-document interface (SDI) application that opens a device-independent bitmap (DIB) file (.BMP), creates a CDIBPal object from it, and draws the palette colors in the view window. Download SHOWPAL to my computer (Zip file; 94KB; published January 30, 1995).

  • Sample application from Programming the Windows® 95 User Interface, by Nancy Cluts. This application implements an animation control for Microsoft Windows 95 that allows an AVI (audio-video interleaved) clip to be played in a dialog box or in a window. Sample application written first in MFC (MFCANIM), then C (ANIMAT). Download MFCANIM to my computer (Zip file; 647KB); Download ANIMAT to my computer (Zip file; 134KB published September 12, 1995).

  • An electronic version of the memory logging routines as they appear in Appendix B of Writing Solid Code, by Steve Maguire. Block.c (with block.h) implements a simple linked-list version of the memory logging routines the author discusses in Chapter 3, "Fortify Your Subsystems." Download MEMLOG.ZIP to my computer (Zip file; 6KB; published November 16, 1995).

  • The Microsoft® Windows® 95 Resource Kit Utilities file contains a number of valuable utilities, help files, and templates that make it easier to plan for, install, troubleshoot, and support Windows 95. You can separately download the Resource Kit Help file to your computer (2,225KB; self-extracting zip file; published August 16, 1995), a component of the Utilities file. Please note that this Help file only runs under Windows 95. Download the Resource Kit Utilities to my computer (3,819KB, self-extracting zip file; published September 5, 1995).
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