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Environment: Visual C++ 6.0 I recently had to add Find in Files functionality similar to that found in Visual C++ 6.0 to an application of mine. I have posted the work here in the hope that some of you might find it useful. I have packaged the classes in a DLL to ease integration with […]

  Environment: VC++ .NET (7)     Software testing is never as “easy” as developers think it is, and testing network related software brings on a unique set of requirements. On several occasions, in order to test network related software products, I have had the need to simulate a TCP wan (Internet) environment, given only a […]

Environment: VC6, NT4,98,2000,XP   Introduction When one comes to editing color values, a variety of free custom controls is available on internet. Most of the time they are color pickers, list boxes, property sheets with system and HTML colors, etc. They usually work with RGB components, sometimes with the HSL model. We felt that there […]

The .NET Class Library uses exceptions throughout to report errors or unexpected conditions; however, a lot of code isn’t exception aware. This article explains what exceptions are, how to respond to exceptions, and several ways of creating your own exceptions. What’s an Exception? Here’s a one sentence description of an exception: an exception is a […]

Environment: DriverService is designed to be included in C++ projects which support Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). DriverService is specifically designed to run on the following platforms: Windows NT 4, Windows NT 4 Server Windows 2000 Pro, Server, Advanced Server Windows XP Home, Pro Purpose The DriverService code implements the CDriverService class. This class is designed […]

Environment: Windows NT/2K/XP driver development Purpose The MemCheck code is designed to provide Windows NT/2K/XP driver developers with a tool to help in the detection of the following memory handling issues: Buffer overrun Buffer corruption Buffer use after buffer release Double buffer releases MemCheck’s Routines MemCheck has a specific API (set of functions) that should […]

Environment: VC6, Win2000 Professional Based on APIHijack – A Library for Easy DLL Function Hooking, by Wade Brainerd. Wade Brainerd gave us an excellent sample to hook DLL function calls. Yet there’s still some aspects the sample didn’t cover. If the DLL is loaded by calling LoadLibrary or the DLL isn’t used by the hooked […]

In this series of tutorials I am going to discuss some inner working of ATL and techniques which ATL use. Let’s start discussion by the memory layout of the program. Let’s make a simple program which doesn’t have any data member and take a look at the memory structure of it. Program 1. #include […]

Environment: VC6 This article presents an Event Manager class to route messages to CWnd derived classes. The concept of this class is based on the popular Publisher / Subscriber idea. Any class shall be able to publish an event to a CEventManager object (single instance). Any class that is CWnd derived shall be able to […]

A funny thing happened to me as I was writing my first new column for CodeGuru. After a few months off writing “Visual C# .NET” for Microsoft Press, I was about half-way through an article on the .NET Framework’s XSL namespace. Then on March 26, Microsoft released their shared-source version of the .NET Framework, commonly […]

A funny thing happened to me as I was writing my first new column for CodeGuru. After a few months off writing “Visual C# .NET” for Microsoft Press, I was about half-way through an article on the .NET Frameworks XSL namespace. Then on March 26, Microsoft released their shared-source version of the .NET Framework, commonly […]

Environment: VC6 SP3, Win2K (I think) Introduction When creating dialogs (i.e. a composite ActiveX control) using ATL it is sometimes necessary to change the behaviour of the embedded Windows controls. It could be something like changing the behaviour of the [RETURN] key to act as the [TAB] key. It could also be only allowing specific […]