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Environment: MFC, Win32 One thing that always bugged me about ImageLists is that when you load a 256 color bitmap into them, they use the half-tone pallette, which likely could screw up your bitmap’s colors. Yet, Windows Explorer is magically able to display icons in it’s right pane list control (coming from an ImageList) in […]

Click here for larger image Environment: Windows NT 4.0 (and upwards) VC6 This is a complete console utility to start a command as a specified user on Windows NT. This uses the LogonUser Windows API to programmatically logon to NT as a specified user with a given password. If this succeeds CreateProcessAsUser is used to […]

Original Bitmap Subregion of the original bitmap Environment: VC6 This article shows you how to create a portion of a 24-bit/pixel bitmap at runtime. In order to do this, you must add a 24-bit/pixel bitmap to your resources in VC++, decide what portion of the bitmap you wish (specified by the x-y coordinates of the […]

Environment: C# .NET SDK Beta 2 The components creation and usage in C# is much more simple than earlier technologies like C++, ATL COM. As we know a Components represent all kinds of elements that pertain to the piecing together of software applications. Among other things, they may be simple files, or libraries loaded dynamically. […]

Environment: C#, .NET SUMMARY This article explains how to write a simple web server application using C#. Though it can be developed in any .NET supported language, I chose C# for this example. The code is compiled using Beta 2. Microsoft (R) Visual C# Compiler Version 7.00.9254 [CLR version v1.0.2914]. It can be used with […]

Environment: VC6, win2000 It is not uncommon to need a dialog box that can change its appearance based on selections made within the dialog box. (Hence the need for tab and property sheets.) Often, tab controls or property sheets can be used to accomplish such dynamic behavior. Sometimes, however, there are so many possible selections […]

Environment:VC6 How do you create a color bitmap from scratch? You need to be able to make the bitmap without .bmp file or resource. Using CreateBitmap or CreateBitmapIndirect creates monochrome bitmaps, unless you have HDC that can handle color bitmaps. However, creating HDC by CreateCompatibleDC(NULL) gives you simple HDC that contains 1×1 monochrome bitmap. Following […]

Environment: eMbedded Visual C++ 3.0, Windows 2000, Windows CE Emulator (Handheld PC Pro) To Run this application we must have installed eMbedded Visual C++ 3.0 The Generation of the COM Server and the COM Client in embedded Visual C++ 3.0 is somewhat different than the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0. It leads an error in the […]

Environment: Windows 2000/SP2, VC++ 6.0/SP3 Introduction The world of database programming includes names like Oracle, Informix, etc. If you are an MFC programmer, maybe you are familiar with terms like ODBC, DAO, Access, etc. But what if you need a smart system to handle your data quickly ? The Berkeley DB is a library you […]

Environment: VC6 SP4, Win2000 This little control, derived from a CButton control, displays the network traffic on a given interface. It uses the Performace API functions to enumerate the current traffic. Usage: 1. Copy files To use this control in your project, simply copy the two classes MFNetTraffic MFNetTrafficButton into your project directory (also copy […]

Environment:VC++ 6.0, NT 4.0, Win95/98, W2K Introduction The WTL possibilities to build sizeable graphical user interface exists but was not fitting my needs so I decided to port the excellent framework from Paul DiLascia ‘Windows UI: Our WinMgr Sample Makes Custom Window Sizing Simple’ published in the July 2001 issue of MSDN Magazine. To understand […]

Environment:VC++ 6.0 SP5, NT 4.0, Win95/98, W2K Introduction I like the idea of programming by components. After reading on the topic of COM Categories I started to think about a possible way to make kind of plugins for my applications. The first idea came at home when I was thinking about my job. We do […]