code reuse

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Code reuse on WindowsForum.com covers strategies for sharing and reusing code across Windows development projects. Discussions include the DEVMAN ransomware, which reuses code from DragonForce and Conti families, and Microsoft's Driver Module Framework (DMF) for sharing code among Windows drivers. Other topics include calling WinRT components from Win32 apps via the Desktop Bridge, open-sourcing XAML Behaviors for UWP, and Project Westminster for publishing web apps to the Windows Store. Software engineering process methodology and patterns & practices for composite services also appear, emphasizing reusable source code and design patterns for enterprise SOA applications.
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    DEVMAN Ransomware: Hybrid Threats, Innovation, and Defense Strategies in Windows Security

    The sudden emergence of the DEVMAN ransomware has ignited fresh concern among security professionals, signaling new levels of complexity and unpredictability within the Windows cyberthreat landscape. While ransomware families often share roots—Conti, LockBit, and Dharma variants routinely swap...
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    Introducing Driver Module Framework

    The Microsoft Devices team is excited to announce the release of an open source framework for Windows driver developers — Driver Module Framework (DMF). With DMF, not only can you easily develop simple and structured Windows Driver Framework (WDF) drivers but also share code amongst your...
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    Calling WinRT Components from a Win32 process via the Desktop Bridge

    In today’s post, we are covering another step you can take on your journey across the Desktop Bridge: specifically migrating business logic to Windows Runtime Components, aka WinRT Components. Previously, Windows only supported calling OS provided WinRT components from Win32 applications. Any...
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    XAML Behaviors, open source and on UWP

    Your requests to grow the XAML Behaviors platform and bring them forward to support UWP app development have been heard. Today we announce the next step: XAML Behaviors natively supported for UWP and shipping as a NuGet package (for both native and managed projects). Additionally, to build a...
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    Project Westminster in a nutshell

    Hi, I’m Link Removed an Engineer on the Microsoft Edge Web Apps team, I’m so happy to talk to you in depth about Project Westminster. About Universal Windows Platform Bridges Universal Windows Platform Bridges consist of a toolkit of three components: developer tools, Store ingestion...
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    Windows 7 ICSE 2011: Dieter Rombach - Software Engineering Process Methodology

    Prof. Dr. Dieter Rombach studied mathematics and computer science at the universities of Karlsruhe and Kaiserslautern. Since 1992, he has held the chair for Software Engineering at the University of Kaiserslautern, and since 1996, he has been Executive Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for...
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    Windows 7 endpoint.tv - Patterns & Practices Composite Services Guidance Project

    My friends on the patterns & practices team are working on a cool new project that we want to share with you. The Link Removed provides guidance for building enterprise SOA-based composite service applications with design and implementation patterns for service discovery, composition, and...
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