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Environment:    Platform: NT SP6 or higher and the free community edition of Visual Code-Generator (1.2.2 or higher)    Development platform: VB, VB.Net, C#, and Java Summary This article describes how to take an XML schema and generate a set of wrapper classes from it that allow you to manipulate an XML document via simple strongly typed […]

. Environment: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP Introduction In this article, I have concentrated on the FAT file system. All the variations of FAT are being covered, as shown below: FAT — the 12-bit and 16-bit file systems VFAT — the FAT with long file names FAT32 — the latest breed of the file system that is handled, […]

Environment: Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP Description This article describes the customization of existing applications through the use of custom Dynamic-Link Libraries (DLLs) and the process of, what I have titled, Remote Library Loading. It also presents a small utility I developed to make this process easier; I titled it the Remote Library Loader. For the ideas […]

Environment:Visual C++ 6.0, MFC The default bitmap provided by “splash screen component” included with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 is a 16-color bitmap. Although the Visual C++ resource editor is capable of displaying images with up to 256 colors, any new bitmap created with Visual C++ 6.0 defaults to 16 colors. To display a high-color splash […]

Environment: VC6, SP5, 95/98/NT/Win2K This simple program changes the program’s subsystem attribute. It seems to be working, but don’t trust it completely. If you want to test some files, please back them up first. One day, for some reason I wanted to make a Win32 console program that doesn’t pop up the console windows. I […]

Environment: VC6, SP5, WinXP; should also work on Win9x I decided to make these routines public after looking for a long time to find them. void clrscr(); void gotoxy(x,y); void setrgb(color); The code to accomplish this follows. // console.cpp // #include “console.h” using namespace std; // // Clears the screen // void clrscr() { COORD […]

Blinds (Horz) Melt (Left) Wipe (Vert) Scatter4 SlideVanish Scatter6    Environment: Developed in VC6 Tested: Windows 2000, Windows 98 The Pitch Ever get bored minimizing, maximizing, and restoring windows? Ever wanted to catch the user unaware and make him notice an app that’s just that little bit special? Ever wanted to make a stealth program […]

Environment: C# User Level: Advanced Overview This trace utility traces the path of an IP packet. To understand the process, its important to understand the ICMP protocol we are going to use for this purpose. ICMP Protocol The Internet Protocol (IP) is used for host-to-host datagram service in a system of interconnected networks. Occasionally, a […]

Click here for larger image COptionSheet with a CSMLStatic page COptionSheet displaying a page from a group Environment: VC6 SP5, Win9x, WinNT, Win2000, WinXP Introduction: COptionSheet and COptionPage are prime examples of something simple that takes on a mind of it’s own. I had originally started this as an extension to the CPropertySheet and CPropertyPage […]

This article shows you how to port a registry viewer application from the Pocket PC to Smartphone 2002. . Environment: Windows CE Introduction There are a lot of Windows CE 3.0 applications that can prove useful for the Smartphone 2002 platform. This platform is based on Windows CE 3.0; that is the good sign for […]

Environment: Win32 (Windows NT, 2000, or XP) Description This article provides a simple program that acts as a debugger while running another user-specified application. Here’s what it does: Send a log of debugging events to STDOUT. This includes DLL loading information, thread creation/destruction info, exceptions and fatal errors (page faults), and so forth. Intercept and […]

Environment: VC6, SP4, NT4, Win2K, Win9x Introduction SQLProxy is a program created for adding more privacy to users of existing messengers (first, Yahoo Messenger and later MSN, ICQ…). In the first versions, only Yahoo! messenger protocol is supported. Updates will be found at squrelayerproxy.sourceforge.net. How It Works SQLProxy will run on your computer and a […]