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Environment: Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2K, WinXP I have been looking for some time how to get notified when the user connects to Internet just as MSN or Yahoo Messenger starts the login procedure, as soon as the user connects to Internet. At CodeGuru and other discussion forums, the way people suggested was more of […]

Environment: C/C++ The same task seems to return to me from time to time as I have to deal with legacy C/C++ code. It seems there existed developers who shared the opinion that calling the function exit as soon as there is an error or when the work is done is the best-suited method to […]

Environment: VC 6 What Does It Do? This is an add in for working with XSL and ShoXS. In this age of XML, every second new language is in an XML format, which tends to be very hard to read and requires a lot of keying to conform to the XSL syntax. This code demonstrates […]

This article is about asynchronous Web Services. I have assumed that you know how to implement a basic Web Service and invoke methods in that service. If you need basic information too, then read one of my earlier articles on Web Services (or, better yet pick up a copy of Sams Visual Basic .NET Unleashed.) […]

Welcome to the next installment of the .NET Nuts & Bolts column. In this article we’ll talk about how you can use custom attributes and reflection to simplify the process of configuring objects. Those of you who’ve been reading this column may recognize that this column represents a “changing of the guard” as I take […]

Environment: The following macros help to achieve the switch-case on a string. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// #define STR_SWITCH(str) { TCHAR* __ps = (TCHAR*)((const TCHAR*)str); while(1) { #define STR_SWITCH_END() break; } } #define STR_CASE(str) if(0 == _tcsicmp(__ps,((const TCHAR*)str))) #define STR_CASE_EXACT(str) if( 0 == _tcscmp( __ps, ((const TCHAR*)str) ) ) #define DEFAULT_CASE() ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// How do you use these macros? Go […]

by Brent Rector of Wintellect .NET Remoting has numerous advantages in compared to prior technologies, such as DCOM, but .NET Remoting has a few of its own tricky aspects and quirks. In this article, I will concentrate on the implications of .NET’s pervasive use of metadata and its effects on .NET Remoting clients and servers. […]

This is an attempt to create a control which looks like the credits of the Star Wars movies. I’ve used a few simple GDI functions to establish this effect: Ellipse() for the stars in the background and StretchBlt() for scrolling text. The control is devired from CStatic. Here is how you use this class: Insert […]

Environment: Compiled using VC6.0 Sp3 and tested using Win95/98 WinNT4.0 and Win 2000 Introduction I saw the article “Static LED Control” by Monte Variakojis at https://www.codeguru.com/controls/StaticLed.shtml and I had a look at the questions asked there. This class enables the user to have a blinking effect with control over the blinking rate per second. They […]

Environment: VC6, NT/Windows 2000 Service API… The Service API consists of a set of functions and a couple of callback functions that must be supported. Together, these functions allow an application to run independent of any logged-on user. At its heart, a service application supports at least three functions: The main function. This is just […]

Description This article presents a fully functional implementation of an FTP server. It can handle multiple connections at the same time (multi threaded) and has most of the features you would find in other commercial/shareware FTP servers. The server handles all basic FTP commands and offers easy user account management. This article describes the most […]

Environment: VC++ 6.0, Windows 2000 Overview This class derives from the “CListCtrl” class and allows the user to define a style for an item or subitem. My goal was to be able to do the entire job transparently to allow the same behaviour of all existing methods from its base class CListCtrl. In fact, the […]