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Environment: VC6, VC7, Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP with IE4 or higher Introduction The standard way to synchronize a PC’s clock though the Internet is by using a special Network Time Protocol (NTP). It was mainly developed at Delaware University in the United States. Tree versions of NTP were defined: the first in 1988, the second in 1989, […]

A collection is the generic name used for a data structure used to store data. In Visual Basic .NET, a class named Collection, is implemented in the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace and was ported to .NET for familiarity. Collection objects are useful for storing heterogeneous-different-kind-data and provide a convenient way to store more than one of something. […]

Environment: Visual Studio .NET / C# How to Retrieve the Viewable (Client) Area of a Window or Control The ClientRectangle Property doesnt always give you a true viewable area of a window. For example, this occurs when the window is an MDI child window or child window of an MDI child window because the MDI […]

Environment: Visual C++ This AIN’T Bill Gates’s Browser! Introduction This article shows how to embed the ActiveX Control created by Adam Lock for the Mozilla Browser in CViews and Dialogs in MFC applications which can easily be extended for ATL applications as well. I have never liked Microsoft’s restrictive license agreement for Internet Explorer’s ActiveX […]

This article was contributed by Alan Bolton. Environment: Visual C++ In the years I’ve worked with Developer Studio, I’ve acquired a lot of preferences for how my workspace is set up. My personalized keyboard shortcuts and toolbar buttons are an important part of my productivity as a developer. During this time, I’ve also lost count […]

Environment: VC++ 6.0, Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000 VC++ provides the vsprintf() function but for some strange reason does not provide the complementary vsscanf() function which is available on most Unix systems. The VC++ library defines a static function called input() which is not exposed to end users. This function is exactly what vsscanf() does. There are two […]

Environment: VC6, SP4 Purpose This article describes a technique of implementing your own STL type custom iterators for those who have developed their own algorithms and/or other abstract data types. Preamble Initially, I possessed what I thought was a pretty good set of doubly linked list routines. These had evolved over time and had been […]

Environment: Visual C++ 6.0, Windows 98/NT/2000 Section 1: Introduction In this article, I’ll show you how to build a SOAP client using Visual C++. This tutorial gives you a hands-on introduction to using the SOAP API. SOAP is emerging as a very popular protocol for exchanging information. It’s relatively simple and designed to work with […]

Introduction This article shows how to use multithreading to construct abortable lengthy operations, in an MFC environment. The design and implementation techniques, especially with respect to thread communication and synchronization, can be used in many other classes of multithreaded applications as well. The multithreading technique is commonly used to avoid blocking a program (for example, […]

Environment: Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Windows XP Programmers new to C# can encounter less than ideal performance and even unexpected results due to boxing and unboxing of value types. This article explains the concept of boxing and unboxing and how its subtle behavior, if not fully understood, can adversely affect application […]

Environment: C# This project gives you a head start on writing XML parsers in C#. The important namespace to achieve our goal would be System.Xml. Though you might find it strange, unlike other languages/class libraries, there are no direct functions such as startElement and endElement at your disposal, or to come to your rescue. You […]

Environment: Visual C/C++ Introduction Have you ever dreamed about a simple MFC-based collection to handle an ANSI XML file? Well, that’s a possibe solution. CXXMLFile : (Class) eXtended XML File This class reads a file with very little information. It assumes the HTML/XML conventions in symbols and tags. But, the tag now […]