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Mark Strawmyer Presents: .NET Nuts & Bolts The focus of this month’s article will be ill be on encrypting data using the cryptography classes available through the Microsoft .NET Framework. Providing an in depth explanation of cryptography and how it works is well beyond this column and I will leave to those more algorithm and […]

Environment: VC6, Win2000 SP2 This dialog-based VC++ application can be used to save the desktop images into BMP or JPG files. This application can also be used to save this window image into BMP or JPG files. By making minor modifications, we can save any window image into a BMP or JPG file just by […]

Environment: .NET, Visual Basic Introduction You want to write an application that constantly monitors some files, creates a log, or whatever, and one that ran constantly in the background while the machine is busy doing something else. The best way to do this was to run a Windows application continuously or at a regular interval […]

Click here for a larger image. Environment: Visual C++ V6.0 This control is derived from CStatic. It is bitmapped-based to make it easy for the user to alter the character set. Three sizes of character sets are provided, as can be seen in the example figure above. Features include: Bitmapped-based for easy altering of character […]

Click here for a larger image. Environment: VC6 SP5; it is suitable for Windows 95/98/NT4/2000/XP This example shows how to call the Shell Format routine (SHFormatDrive from the Shell32.dll library). Normally, when you call this method, the dialog itself is not configured according to your preferred defaults. This demo shows how to call this routine […]

Environment: Windows GDI / Win32 API Reason For This Article There is already an article on CodeGuru about rotating a bitmap at any angle. Unfortunately, it is very slow and produces some artifacts when rotating. The comments have focused on optimizing the floating point operations, but that is not the issue. The real issue is […]

Environment: All ANSI C++ compilers If you want to create a C++ class that calls clients’ functions (events), you can do that in two ways. The first way is to call a global function through a function pointer that is a private member of your class. The client has to set that function pointer if […]

There still appears to be too many tasks that are commending people to obtain some control over the keyboard. Hopefully, unlike the plethora of web sites that try to prevent your leaving, I hope these keyboard commandos are being user friendly. Having an occasional streak of optimism I am writing under the auspices that information […]

Environment: .NET, C#, VS.NET, Win2K Introduction A few months back, I was given the task of porting an MFC application to .NET using C#. It surprised me to find no direct support for wizard dialogs in .NET. There were property pages in the form of the unwieldy TabControl class, but no dual functionality as I […]

Environment: VC6, WinNT/2k/XP (Having been tested in English/Japanese Win2k/XP) Special Note: This Unicode Version is full-fledged, while the ANSI version does not support the section header map Key Technology Used: Memory Map File (MMF), Win32 Memory Management API, Unicode, Data Structure Applicable Article Category in CodeGuru: Miscellaneous Data Technique Summary All is from my previous […]

Environment: VC6 MFC In creating my own multiplayer game played over the Internet, I first had to create a client/server framework so that players could interact with each other. After I finished creating the game, I generalized this framework for others to use. For those not familiar with how a client/server framework works, one server […]

Environment: Visual Studio .NET—C#, Windows 2000/XP Remote process manager is an application that is useful for starting and killing processes on machines over the network (Internet). There is a Remote Process Invoker Server application, which must be run on the machine on which we want to manage the processes, and a client application that provides […]