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Environment:VC 6.0 If you want to write your own DllMain in a MFC Dll then you have to do some real cool stuff because MFC internally calls its DllMain. If you try to write your own DllMain, you get a linker error saying “DllMain already defined”. To resolve this issue you have to copy “DllModul.cpp” […]

Environment: Visual Studio .NET Beta 2, Windows 2000 SP2 .NET framework allows a lot of ways to implement multithreading program. I want to show how we can run worker thread which makes synchronous calls to user interface (for example, thread reads a long recordset and fills some control in the form). To run thread I […]

–> Environment: VC++ 6 This class resulted out of the lack in changing background color of checkboxes with ordinary MFC methods. It provides the possibility to change the color at any time from within your project. To use it please do the following: Insert the files CColorCheck.cpp and CColorCheck.h in your project Include CColorCheck.h in […]

Environment: Program can be compiled with VC++6.0 under Win98 or Win2k and run on both platforms (not Unicode of course). One problem of using NetShareAdd & NetShareDel (and other LAN Manager functions) in Windows applications lies in "Differences in Win32 API Implementations Among Windows Operating Systems" as Noel Nyman explain in MSDN Visual Studio 6.0 […]

Environment: ANSI/ISO C++ Microsoft introduced a new feature called “delegates” in the .NET framework. It is actually a class that holds a list of function pointers. As long as they own the same function signature, the delegate object can hold static, global, or member function pointers. Now I’m going to do the same in a […]

Environment: Microsoft Visual C++ Web Custom Control Here is an easy to use web control which can be created using CreateWindow() or as a CONTROL in a dialog template script. InitWebCtrl(); hwndWebCtrl = CreateWindow( “WebCtrl32”, “https://www.codeguru.com/”, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, 0, 0, 200, 100, hwndParent, (HMENU) IDC_WEBCTRL, hInstance, NULL ); — or — CONTROL “”, IDC_WEBCTRL, […]

Popup menus are a useful metaphor. Popup menus are sometimes referred to as speed menus, right-click menus, or context menus. Popup menus are generally invoked by right-clicking the mouse button. Based on the hover location of the mouse, most applications will display a specific menu. The users-focus, or context, determines which menu is shown hence […]

Environment: VC6 sp5 tested on W95 and W98 This article describes two classes for storing and retrieving string, numeric and BOOL variables to/from files in ASCII text format – much like INI files. The first class – CTxtVar, is used to dynamically add and remove variables in the text file. The second class – CCfg, […]

Click here for larger image Environment: Visual C++ I always wanted to open multiple sites in one explorer window, but was unable to do so until I explored the splitter window’s concept. I also created a window with multiple windows having multiple CHtmlView as the base class, and voila it worked. The application works in […]

Environment:VC 6 I am 14 and I have just started experimenting with MFC. I created an application called Edit. It uses richedit 2.0. Its features are: Font, Font Size, Paragraph alignment, Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikeout, Date & Time, A taskbar, bullets & numbering, font color & hilite color, subscript & superscript, indentation, case changeing, and […]

Environment: W2K, VS.NET This application shows how the drag and drop features in C# could be used to create a simple board game or whatever. I didn’t put any type of game in the application in order to keep the source code simple. The application just lets you move the dots around the board. It […]

Click here for larger image Environment: .NET Framework, Visual Studio .NET From CodeGuru.com: This article reads like an advertisement; however, because I believe many of you will find this tool interesting and because source code is provided, I have chosen to post it. Delta Forth .NET – World’s first Forth compiler for the .NET platform […]