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The Problem This article details a bug found with using a CRichEditDoc in conjunction with several views and was inspired by Dark Mage in one of his posts. He was attempting to use a CRichEditView in a splitter window in an “explorer” type of the application. My theory is that this bug affects anyone who […]

Environment: VC6, VC.Net, Win32 Introduction Most C++ books and articles love to use containers or mathematical functions (like compile time recursion) to represent the power of the template. Yeah, it is cool, but it seems only a scientific programmer can benefit from meta programming. In this article, I’ll show how an application developer can enjoy […]

When the capital markets look back at the “bursting Internet bubble”, it will more likely look like a sensible correction that every new major industry has to endure several times. There were a lot of companies that were supported solely by investor capital with no viable product or profit, which probably isn’t a good thing. […]

Environment: VC6, MFC This utility is very useful for counting the number of lines and words in programs or text files. The utility is very simple but it is also very powerful. You can find any group of files and see through the list and check out the number of words and lines in a […]

Environment: .NET, ASP.NET Visual Basic developers have long enjoyed the ease of programming with forms and controls. Writing a VB form-based application is as simple as dragging some controls onto a form and writing some event-handling functions. This is one of the main reasons VB attracted lots of programmers interested in development speed. Microsoft used […]

Environment: Windows NT, Windows 2000 If you ever need to have only one instance of an application active, you might be interested in using this class. This class enables you to stop running a second instance of an application. The main credit goes to Mr. Kochhars. I modified his code to cater to this functionality […]

Mark Strawmyer Presents: .NET Nuts & Bolts The last Nuts and Bolts article focused on using custom attributes and reflection to help eliminate tedious database access programming This month will continue to focus on database related topics and show you how to build a database access layer that is database independent. Why Would You Need […]

Environment: VC6 SP4, NT4 SP3, Win9x/Me/2K/XP, IE 4.0 or above To set the background color of a column, the list view control has to be owner drawn. The textbackground and textcolor of items can be set by using ownerdraw, but the empty space in the listview remains. For this, we have to override OnEraseBkgnd(CDC* pDC). […]

From Kate Gregory’s Codeguru column, “Using Visual C++ .NET“. In my last column, I showed you how to use MSXML4, the COM component that parses, searches, and generates XML, to work with XML in a “classic Visual C++” application. This time around I’m going to tackle the same tasks, but use the .NET Framework to […]

Environment: Microsoft .NET Introduction Ever since Microsoft released the Windows 95 Operating System, customers have made a high demand for more and more reliable products. Taking this into consideration, Microsoft introduced a plethora of new products within a span of six years. The products include a range of operating systems to Office-based applications, programming tools […]

Click here for a larger image. Environment: VC6, Win32 Introduction There are a lot of grid controls available. Why is this one different? Quite simply, this grid is different because it can be implemented without the overhead of MFC, ATL, or COM. It doesn’t even require C++ classes. It is implemented just like a standard […]

Environment: VC++, ATL Purpose The purpose of this article is to create a Windows NT Mail slot repository server service, which is a placeholder for all the mail slot client messages sent by mail slot repository clients. Mail Slot Repository Service A mail slot offers a one-way form of inter-process communication. A mail slot is […]