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is there any point learning win32 in 2011?

I am 17 years old and have been programming in c# for around a year. I have some basic understanding of c but the whole win32 api is confusing to me at the moment. At this point in my life, do the ...
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Balancing dependency injection with public API design

I've been contemplating how to balance testable design using dependency injection with providing simple fixed public API. My dilemma is: people would want to do something like var server = new ...
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Requiring Explicit Null Reference Handling

One of the problems I have with null references is that they may not be exceptional. In my current position, there are few requirements and you are lucky if conventions are followed. This means being ...
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What should I name these methods?

I have two interfaces, one with and one without generic type parameters. The non-generic interface is used internally so that I can store instances of the generic interface in a collection. All would ...
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Why has the PowerCollections C# library recently declined in popularity?

I just looked at the statistics for the PowerCollections C# library and noticed a sharp decrease in quantity of downloads. What may be the cause? Is there something better I should be using?
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Dealing with API and error messages

We are in the process of constructing an API (using WCF). So far I noticed 2 ways in which methods could go wrong due to problems with the parameters sent. wrong format, for example we have a ...
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How to define template directives (from an API perspective)?

Preface I'm writing a template language (don't bother trying to talk me out of it), and in it, there are two kinds of user-extensible nodes. TemplateTags and TemplateDirectives. A TemplateTag ...
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Books about Windows Os Programming [closed]

I'm trying to develop a desktop application which is similar to CCleaner. But I'm having problems with R&D resources... I can't find good books about Windows Operating System Programming Topic ...
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What toolkit to use for card game? [closed]

I'm new at this and I was wondering if someone could suggest the most appropriate API to use to make a card game that is: cross-platform two-player peer-to-peer capable of laying out cards (png ...
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Is hooking Data access method on wrong object detrimental for a developer

In a simple application I am creating there are Admin and users where admin can create users. Right now I am creating Classes that encapsulate database CRUD calls with methods. For example: ...