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Environment: VC6, MFC Introduction This is an original solution for implementing Windows timers. This class can be used in both WIN32 or MFC applications. How It Works The main idea of this solution is to use a unique separate thread to manage all the created timers. Two types of timers can be created: Timers that […]

Click here for a larger image. Environment: VS7, C#, .NET This program shows a very interesting .NET class, FileSystemWatcher. It enables you to monitor the file system for changes. A single file, a directory, even all files can be monitored. Basically, you create the class; then, you set the NotifyFilter, the starting path, the file […]

This article was contributed by Tom Archer. Environment: .NET, C# Demo application to test datagrid resizing method Introduction One peculiar omission from the Windows Forms teams regarding the DataGrid object is a method that enables you to resize the grid’s columns to visually accomodate the width of its widest data value. This method gives you […]

Environment: ATL/MFC, Windows Well, here is a class to easily read/write your data from/to the Registry. It’s quite simple to use and it’s very powerful. Common features are: CRecordset-like structure. Autoload and autosave configuration. Support for STRING, DWORD, and BINARY data. Adding new data is very easy. Warning level 4 complaint. Here are the main […]

Figure 1—Main Dialog Environment: VC6, Win2K/XP Contents Note: CrashRpt library uses the WTL for its GUI components, so WTL must be installed and properly configured in order to build the CrashRpt library. You can download the WTL files from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=128e26ee-2112-4cf7-b28e-7727d9a1f288&DisplayLang=en. If you’re new to the WTL here is a good place to start http://www.clipcode.net/content/wtl_guide/chapter1.htm. Note: […]

Click here for a larger image. Environment: VC.NET, VC6, Win32, MFC, WTL Every GUI developer uses dialogs. Sometimes, dialogs should support resizing to make the user’s life easier. To create a resizable dialog, you just need to handle a WM_SIZE message and resize/move child controls. But, when a dialog contains many controls, resizing it would […]

The CListCtrlEx and CListViewEx classes augment their base classes CListCtrl and CListView by implementing the following features: The background of the sorted column can be displayed in a different color (like the detailed view of Windows XP Explorer). The header of the sorted column can display an arrow that indicates the sort direction (like the […]

Click here for a larger image. Environment: C#, .NET, Visual Studio.NET This program was inspired by httptest and another article I did, DNSWatch. In that article, I was looking for DNS names being looked up by browsers. In this program, I retrieve a Web page, display it, and list the hosts referenced in it. There […]

Environment: VC6, VC7, Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP Overview This article describes the process of creating an application that is startup-hidden and is opened when the user clicks the System Tray icon. The SDI VC++ v6.0 demo project is included. The project demonstrates the use of a hidden window, a System Tray icon, and a startup flipping prevent […]

The first part of this article introduced the macro steps involved in creating a code generator with Microsoft’s .NET CodeDOM. This powerful part of the framework is already used to generate a strongly typed DataSet from an XML Schema (integrated into the IDE and found in the XSD.exe utility), create client side proxies for XML […]

Environment: VC6, SP5 Warning Level 4.0 compliant Documentation is doxygen compatible ResFile is a nice project that allows reading from the resources of an ordinary DLL (or EXE) just as if it were a normal CFile. There are many useful scenarios. I used it to compile default INI files in my application, for example. The […]

Environment: SP4, NT4 SP3, winCE 2.0 The accompanying code contains a class that can be used to add items to the ListBox control. When you add a new item, it adds a horizontal scroll bar to a specified list box (if required) and scrolls down the list box so you can see the last added […]