Discover a tool that can be used to retreive the color of any pixel on the Desktop.
ColorFinder'�Retrieve the Color of Any Pixel on the Desktop
Published 12/08/2003
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Changing Colors in Bitmaps and Making Icons from Them
Published 03/14/2003
des: Create a class for changing colors in a bitmap. You can also make an icon out of the bitmaps.
Changing a CBitmap's Palette
Published 02/24/2003
Learn how to change a CBitmap's palette to an arbitrary palette stored in a CPalette object.
Obtaining High-Color Splash Screens
Published 05/24/2002
In todays world of high quality graphics you need a way to display high color bitmap as the splash screen of your applications. By default VC++ provides a 16 color bitmap for the splash screen. Learn how to increase this to a higher number of colors.
Creating 256 color icons/cursors of any color using DevStudio
Published 08/30/2001
This short article is a "how to" article describing the process of creating 256 color icons and cursors of any color using nothing but DevStudio.
Super-Fast Two Pass Bi-Linear Scaling
Published 08/20/2001
Fast bitmap scaling.
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
Published 04/18/2011
The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.
.NET Framework: Collections and Generics
Published 06/23/2011
The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...
Input and Output with VB.NET 2010
Published 06/08/2011
The .NET runtime has everything you need to format your output and handle special characters. Both Visual Basic 2010 Express edition and Visual Studio 2010 help you with Intellisense if you can't remember the syntax. This article explores simple console input and output and shows you how to get it done.
IIS WCF File-less Activation with MEF
Published 05/24/2012
Control and low coupling happen when a developer combines MEF, WCF, and File-less activation. Jeffrey Juday shows you how to chain the technologies together.
