One of the more problematic areas of long-lived software is the versioning and updating of shared structures. As improvements come to a package, it's inevitable that you'll have to add more fields to a structure. Your structure today may contain two pointers...

An area of new technology in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 that didn't get nearly enough coverage is the ability to write applications and components that take full advantage of COM without actually registering anything on the target system. Apps...