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Environment: VC6, NT4 SP3, Comctl32.dll 4.72.3110.1 Motivation In https://www.codeguru.com, you can find some implementations of tree controls with columns. All of this implementation have the same approach: they reimplement the drawing code for a tree view control and, of course, they have to manage the column info for each node in the tree. What’s wrong […]

Environment: VC++ 6.0 All Windows I had to build an application that uses an ini file. When looking in CodeGuru I found Adam Clauss’ class CIniFile. The problem was that it wasn’t very intuitive to work with, so I took his idea of the Sections struct and improved it. I’m using the API functions GetPrivateProfileSectionNames, […]

Environment: VC6, Win9x, WinNT, W2K, WinXP Introduction With the success of NDK 1.0, I decided to improve the functionality. NDK represents Network Development Kit. The NDK is a set of classes that implements a client/server architecture. The NDK hides all the complexity of the connection, sending and receiving data over a network. You only have […]

Environment: VC6 WIN 9x/2k For some time I’ve been wanting to imitate the ‘CPU Usage’ Graph in win 2k, so I finally did. CGraph is a very simple class for drawing animated graph. The interface includes a few simply functions: CGraph(int x, int y, int width, int height); Constructor which defines the size of the […]

Environment: VC6 Everybody has heard about the autoexp.dat file as a way to show custom data types in Visual Studio 6 debugger. It is very useful, but sometimes not satisfactory. For example, if during a debug session you want to see a variable value of some custom data type, e.g. FILETIME. FILETIME is 64-bit value […]

Environment: VC6 This CORBA idl to wsdl compiler is based on the OMNIORB (GNU). It is under development, therefore, bugs and bugs ( in CORBA operations and union, etc.). It has basic functionality. Usage: Build and run the executable. Changes/Enhancements are appreciated. Downloads Download source – 227 Kb

Environment: Written in C# and Windows Forms for .NET. Compiled using VS7 (7.0.9466) and tested using Windows 2000 with the .NET Framework (1.0.3705) I’ve found the Static LED Control contributed by Monte Variakojis for Win32 (MFC and C++) to be very useful and have employed it in many small projects. As a learning exercise, I […]

Environment: C#, Visual Studio .Net, Windows 2000 SP2, Windows XP Professional This C# class library provides a Design by Contract framework for use in .Net projects. Design by Contract is a method made famous by Bertrand Meyer in the Eiffel programming language where support is built right into the language constructs. See Chapter 11 of […]

About article. This article is about database creation and structure modification using MS ADOX library in a program. We’ll discuss how to use ADOX for these purposes, some database object details and samples. Additional information you can find on MSDN site, there are some links to its resources in this text. Some database architecture advices […]

Environment: The following project implements a derived box from CEdit featuring a prompt command. The code guarantees to work well depending on the options that developer chooses when drawing the dialog box: they should be preserved as those included in the following project (MULTILINE, AUTOVSCROLL …). I do not put any code here, because it […]

The oldest tricks are the best tricks. Very early on some practical strategies were developed for writing robust code. Some of the most useful I ever read about came from Dave Thielen’s book, “No Bugs!“. Dave Thielen wrote the book describing debugging and testing strategies used to produce MS-DOS 5.0. It is likely that some […]

Click here for larger image Environment: Windows compiler for the GUI, ANSI C for the XML Parser. The idea of this project was simply to write a basic XML parser in ANSI C for portability. The parser is reasonably forgiving as I have only a fairly rudimentary knowledge about XML and wanted to keep the […]