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This article was contributed by Jordi Duatis. Environment: VC6 MSFlexGrid is a useful control to present data in a Grid, but what happens when this content has to be printed? Here I present a class, PrintGrid, that paginates and prints the grid content. It uses a second Grid control and must be additionally inserted in […]

Environment: VC++ 7.0 Sometimes you have to print HTML files from your Visual C++ program. If Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is installed, this can be done easily by just calling ShellExecute(hwnd, “print”, “my_file.html”, 0, 0, SW_SHOW). Unfortunately, this way you don’t have any control over the header/footer lines that the Web browser prints. Knowledge base article […]

Environment: GDI+ and VC6 I was recently working on a small project to convert an image to the WAP’s WBMP format. WAP is the Wireless Application Protocol, for people who didn’t know and WBMP stands for Wireless Bitmap. I was having a hard time reading various formats (GIFs, JPGs, and BMPs) until I came across […]

Environment: SDI MFC projects SDI projects created using MFC come with a default white background color. This sample code implements any color the programmer desires after the creation of an SDI framework using the MFC wizard for project creation. Ctrl+W pops up the MFC classwizard property sheet. Select the Message Maps tab. From the drop-down […]

Environment: ISAPI Introduction In this article, I will give you an easy way to upload files and work with forms using ISAPI. Uploading files with ISAPI can be useful even for ASP developers. ASP uploading is more complex and slower than ISAPI. For files over 100 Kb, ISAPI is significantly faster. I will provide you […]

by Jeffrey Richter of Wintellect When I first started learning how thread synchronization was exposed in the .NET Framework’s class library, I was immediately concerned about the System.Threading.Monitor class’s TryEnter method. There are several overloaded versions of the TryEnter method, some of which accept a timeout argument. This timeout argument allows the caller to specify […]

Environment: VC6, SP4, 2K, SP2 This article explains a better way of calling a function in an EXE file from a dependent DLL of the same EXE. In other words, calling a DLL’s function from an EXE is the normal way; this is the reverse of the same. On CodeGuru I have found a couple […]

Click here for a larger image. Environment: This code might be specific to some environments, but the concept of the sorting remains the same. Fundamental Concept Approximately ten kinds of sorting methods are available, namely Heap, Quick, Merge, Insertion, Shell, Selection, Bubble, Linear, Address Selection, and Radix sort. Recently, when I was trying to go […]

Environment: VC6 SP5, Visual C++ .Net, Windows 2000 Introduction This article attempts to illustrate the functions of the COM Single Thread Apartment (STA), Multithread Apartment (MTA) and ATL Auto-thread Module with a testing client/server application. The application includes a console client application, one regular ATL COM Local Server, and one ATL Auto-Threaded server. This article […]

Environment: VC6 SP3, Windows 98 Introduction This article demonstrates the methods of capturing different portions of the screen. You have the facility to then save the captured image to a file. The idea for developing the article came to me when I had downloaded a utility for capturing screen shots for use in my articles […]

Environment: VB5, VB6, running on WIN9x/ME/XP Overview We all know about file type associations. It’s a neat way to “Associate” a particular file extension with your application, so that every time someone double-clicks on a file having that extension, presto! The file automatically opens up in your own application! This article explains exactly how you […]

Environment: C on Linux Red Hat 7.3-2.4.18-3 Description The Linux Soft Switch allows a computer to work as a switch on layer 2. It is designed to switch packets based on MAC addresses and forward them to the proper outgoing network interface(s). Note: With this version (1.0), Soft Switch can support up to four hosts […]