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Click here for a larger image. Environment: VC6 SP5, NT4 I have searched the entire Web and tried every resource at my disposal to display a company logo on the Menu Bar, but all my efforts went in vain. Finally, I did R&D and came out with a new and simple way to display a […]

Environment: Windows 2000 SP2, VC6 SP3 MFC is NOT needed. A HBITMAP is created from a group of BMP files and the final palette is also returned if needed. Loads a bitmap from a BMP file; the corresponding palette is also returned. Displays a bitmap to the given DC without flicker at the given starting […]

Mark Strawmyer Presents: .NET Nuts & Bolts The focus of this article will be on creating objects that can automatically configure themselves at the time they are used. This will involve combining several different technologies that have been discussed in past articles. The technologies involved will be Custom Attributes and Reflection. It is a common […]

Environment: PocketPC, eVC3.0, emulation, MS Pocket PC SDK 2000/2002, Windows CE, ATL, COM, ActiveX, Automation. Introduction For a PocketPC application that I was writing recently, one of my tasks was to add a custom menu entry to the PocketPC New Button Menu. Because I’ve seen that the topic gets asked enough times on Pocket PC […]

Environment: Visual C++ V6.0 This dialog is derived from CDialog. A bitmap is loaded from a file and a region created based on a transparent colour. The bitmap is then used to paint the dialog. This demo also demonstrates dragging the dialog by clicking anywhere on a visible portion of the dialog, timer events, and […]

Environment: VC++, ATL, MSOffice Introduction Seeing as this is my first-ever post to CodeGuru.com, let me do a quick introduction as to who I am and what I do. I have been working in one form of C and C++ or another for as long as I can remember (among the other myriad of languages […]

Environment: Windows 2000 SP2, VC6 SP3 MFC is NOT needed. File logging and Trace to Window (OR BOTH) are possible. Set it by using the TRACE_INIT macro. Trace Window per process OR one within a machine is possible. Set it by using the TRACE_INIT macro. Maximum trace file size is controlled. Set it with TRACE_INIT. […]

Click here for a larger image. Environment: VC6 SP4, NT4 SP3, winCE 2.0 Introduction This project was undertaken because of the need to explore sockets and their different uses. I started by making a ping program that pinged the network addresses. The ping program was inspired by FAQs at http://tangentsoft.net/wskfaq/ and mostly used their functions!!!! […]

Environment: VC6, Win 98 This article is about a CSocket-based chat server/client, which is something that’s been very well discussed. Here the display is in HTML format so the user can change the look of the messages he sends. It also has features such as alerting on message arrival and putting the program icon in […]

by Jason Clark of Wintellect There are two forms of interop built into the .NET Framework Common Language Runtime. These are Platform Invoke and COM Interop. The purpose of these interop features is to allow your managed .NET code to interface with legacy unmanaged code. Platform Invoke, or P/Invoke, is a low-level means of calling […]

Environment: Visual C++ Version 6 Often, we need a once-only initialised class that is global to the entire system. Examples of such a class would be the loading of a library, or options from the Registry. This is a base class which provides (a) an initialisation, only if the class is used and (b) ensures […]

Environment: .NET, Visual Basic, Web Services Introduction This sample code describes a Web Service through which a client can get the equivalent of a number in words. This can be used in accounting packages, invoices, and so forth. Requirements The following items describe the recommended hardware, software, network infrastructure, skills, prior knowledge, and service packs […]