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Environment: VC6 I don’t know how many times I’ve wanted to put a hex edit control in my application, but wanted to limit the user’s input and length. CEdit only has the ability to limit the input to numbers. That’s all fixed now with my program, CHexEdit class. The following features are supported in this […]

Environment: Visual C++ 6 For the owner draw control, I found the most difficult part is the menu. I have searched through the Web, but I only found some difficult examples. In this article, I will demonstrates the step for drawing our own menu. We’ll make a menu class and a class for holding the […]

Figure 1 Environment: Written in C# and Windows Forms for .NET. Compiled using VS7 (7.0.9466) and tested using Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional with the .NET Framework (1.0.3705). Description This article is an elementary introduction to writing visual components with the Microsoft .NET framework using C#. The application also demonstrates how to use […]

A Simple Way to Alter the Background and Text Color of a Control (VC++) , Vienna (Austria). Environment: VC6 Start by adding a handler for message WM_CTLCOLOR to the window containing the control (usually a CDialog derived class). Then, assuming m_colorBk to be the variable storing the desired background color of your control, add a […]

Environment: VC6 In a typical application, a design is implemented that meets the set of requirements at the time of development. Often, after a program is delivered, the user will want added functionality, or different users will require custom functionality based on their specific needs. In order to accommodate these situations without a complete re-write, […]

Environment: Visual C++ Transferring files to and from the server is easily automated using MFC classes. Here I have provided the full source code to do file transfers from and to the FTP servers. I have provided and arranged the code in such a way that it is possible to transfer a complete directory or […]

A C# Configuration File Reader that doesn’t use the Win32 API functions. . Environment: .Net, C# This is just a small class to handle configuration files. There are several other classes like this one, but they all use the GetPrivateProfileString()/SetPrivateProfileString() family of functions from the Win32 API. If you check the documentation for those API, […]

Environment: Visual C++ The CSplitterWnd class of MFC does not draw panes while resizing. My class allows you to show a window’s contents while you are resizing the splitter pane. It supports only one row and two columns per splitter window now, but you can contribute additional code and develop it. The CSplitterWnd class does […]

Environment: VC6 Introduction When searching for strings in Combo boxes, the search is always case-insensitive. I have a need for a case-sensitive combo box in an application, so I have put together this class to implement that. I could have used CComboBoxEx to give me a case-sensitive ComboBox, but it wouldn’t be a drop-in replacement […]

Introduction The Internet Explorer Bars are child windows within the main Explorer window, and Desk Band is a dockable window on the desktop/taskbar. Both can be used to display information or interact with the user. This article deals with the implementation of these Band objects. Design Creating an IE Bar or Desk Band requires you […]

Environment: VC6 SP4, NT4 SP3, winCE 2.0 Introduction MailMan is a simple C++ class that makes the task of reading and sending e-mails easy. This class uses the Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) to accomplish its functionalities. I have seen code listings regarding sending e-mails or reading e-mails in different bits and pieces on this […]

Click here for larger image Environment: Visual C++ 6.0 with Service Pack 5. Introduction Developing one of my projects I became interested in the idea of synchronizing of scrolling of two list controls – both lists have always had information that coincides in the first column and differs in others. That is why parallel browsing […]