From the great Win32 API in the sky comes an introduction to Windows Event Hooks.
One of my favourite debuggiong techniques (from the old, unmanaged code days) was subclassing other Windows’ windows.
Now there are some obvious ways to protect your code from unwanted processing attention. This all depends on how you construct your windows. Naturally, in some cases you won’t have this luxury, but where you do you’ll want to be very careful when calling CreateProcess().
Let’s understand the process flow of CreateProcess() by reading this article.
Right, once we’ve read up on these two articles I’ll continue on to a couple of interesting tips and tricks which might be useful to you.
Check back for Part 2.
* Warning, this might be after TechEd.. but come back and check out the blog anyway.