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Build Environment: VC 6.0 Runtime Environment: Any Windows computer with IE 4.0 or later Introduction When an application is hosting the browser control, and significant parts of the user interaction are happening in HTML inside the browser control, it can be difficult to write test scripts for that application. For instance, test tools such as […]

by John Robbins of Wintellect You have to love .NET. All those nasty crash problems we used to wrestle with in Win32 are now just stories we can tell around the virtual campfire. No longer will our users have to see that ugly crash dialog telling them oh so subtly that we programmers screwed up. […]

Web Services is one of the greatest technologies developed in the Internet world. They can be used to connect businesses with each other and clients in a standard way using XML (Extensible Markup Language), SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), WSDL (Web Services Description Language), and UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration). XML is used for […]

This example presents the FileInfo class, which allows you to get information about a file. Listing 1 presents the FileInfo class in use. This program takes a single filename and displays the size and key dates regarding it. For the output, the FileSize.cs file was used. Listing 1. FileSize.cs — Using the FileInfo Class 1: […]

Click here for a larger image. Environment: .NET, C# The .NET Framework takes a much different approach to the Environment than Windows. There is a class called Environment, part of the System namespace. The documentation states: Use this class to retrieve the following information: Command line arguments Exit codes Environment variable settings Contents of the […]

Environment: C++, MFC, databases Overview Some time ago, I was put in a very new and strange situation. My company built a new financial site based on an old skeleton site. It was necessary to transfer a lot of data from the old database (Access 97) to the new one (Microsoft SQL 7). What was […]

Environment: .NET, Visual Studio .NET, C# This is part of a collection of C# programs that I wrote when I wanted to learn C# and .NET. I call these type of programs “Exploratory Programming.” They are all short applications that demonstrate some part of .NET and the forms interface that I couldn’t find in any […]

Environment: .NET, C# Page  1   2   3   4   5   6  From: Inside Visual C#, Second Edition By Tom Archer ISBN: 0735616485 Published by Microsoft Press Introduction This chapter divides neatly into two main topics. First, we.ll consider the classes provided by the .NET Framework classes, which meet the lower-level data transfer requirements of the streams-based […]

Environment: Visual C++ 6.0 This add-in zips all sources registered in an open workspace and stores the resulting zip file in a predefined backup directory. This add-in may be useful to complete the following tasks: Check workspace consistency and find any unregistered files. Unzip the resulting zip file in some other folder and build targets […]

Click here for larger image Environment: VC++ 5.0-6.0, NT 4.0, Win2000, WinXP, Win95/98 String manipulation and regular expressions have always been a strength of Perl. The C language is powerful, but doing string manipulation and regular expressions is difficult. Although there are libraries such as PCRE that simulate Perl regular expressions in C, I have […]

From Kate Gregory’s Codeguru column, “Using Visual C++ .NET“. –> One of the really exciting things about working with .NET is the idea of a “.NET language”—a language that emits managed code and conforms to the Common Language Specification. And (at least in theory, anyway) if you write code in two or more of these […]

Environment:VC6 SP5, VC7.NET, WinXP Pro This dialog-based application first tries to find the path to the user’s Cookies folder’ if this is successful, an entry is made in the Registry. The path can later be changed by opening the AboutBox and entering the new path. The cookies can be opened by clicking the cookie; also, […]