This article showed how to create a shaped window as a splash screen (to mimic a company logo instead of the standard rectangle that applications still use today).
I demonstrate various techniques including displaying a simple message, flashing the title bar, displaying an icon in the system tray and audio cues.
At the time this was probably one of the most advanced articles that I had written. It incorporated the VCL, STL, WinAPI and owner drawn controls
This article demonstrates advanced techniques of multi-threaded applications, callback functions and dealing with thread messages.
In this 4 page article I jump into the VCL and Windows API and show the reader how to manipulate a string control with the Device Context.
A very advanced article that discusses the practical uses of function pointers from VCL events to Windows API callbacks.
This one and a half page article discussed an issue I had with the behaviour of the VCL and the steps I took to diagnose and fix the problem