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Environment: Any C++ compiler with STL support This is compatible with STL base64 encoder. It can encode/decode data from/to i(o)streams, streambufs, memory buffers, etc. Encoder uses iterator concept. Iterator must overload the *, ==, !=, and prefics ++ operators. See encoder using: 1) Declare encoder #include int _State = 0; base64 encoder; // base64 […]

Download Source Code and Example Environment: VC6 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP Overview I personally find the Win32 Resource API to be overly complex for performing simple operations such as enumerating and copying resources. Some operations like deleting resources is even missing from the standard Win32 API set. The classes presented in this article provides a simple interface for […]

Environment: Developed using VC6, tested on Win2k Pro and XP Pro. This MFC CListBox class extension is result of searching for a listbox that does exactly what I have implemented here, except for the vertical alignment. After browsing through CodeGuru site, I found some code but none that fully matched my project needs. Still, all […]

Editor’s note, this article was written October 23rd This article is like an addition of “This Old House Classics” with Bob Vila. While we are eagerly anticipating the gold release of Visual Studio .Net – Bill Gates said Windows XP will be launched (in the next couple of days) on Regis and Kelly and hopefully […]

Environment: .NET Beta 2 This article tells you how to make a bitmap of a picturebox with transparent background If you search for a transparent method in the picturebox clas, you will see that the method do not exist. So there must be another way to make the background of a bitmap transparent. Have a […]

Environment: VC6 SP5, NT4 SP3, Windows 98, Windows 2000 There is an interesting article concerning template-based technique on www.cuj.com [1]. A simple struct is introduced there that helps to implement dummy arguments converting values to distinquishable types: template struct Int2Type { enum { value = v }; }; The main article idea is generally […]

Environment: [eg C/C++ W32, W95/98/2000,NT etc.] Have you ever needed a messagebox style dialog to wait before allowing processing to continue and then disappear automatically? This DLL has a simple dialog box with a progress bar that does just that. You can enter the number of seconds, the default button, the caption and the prompt. […]

Environment: VC6 SP4, NT4 SP6,W98 SE, W2000 SP1 With this class, only a few lines are needed to communicate with other processes. I use it from storing HWNDs,status flags up to memory resistent fifo queues. At least one process should keep the memory open. The CSharedMemory as a Member of CMyClass class CMyClass { public: […]

Environment: VC6 SP5, Windows 2000 (used to work VC6 SP3, NT 4.0/Win95/Win98) OVERVIEW This ATL COM component provides very simple Internet email functionality (SMTP). FEATURES implements the basics of SMTP, as defined in RFC821 and RFC822, sends plain text email: no attachements, no MIME encoding, supports multiple recipients (separate email addresses with commas ‘,’), supports […]

Environment: VC6 SP4, NT4 SP3 This is an very easy example how to print a (long) CString buffer ( CStringList ) on several pages and how to get the Print Preview to work properly. I don’t know if this is the right way to do this but I have looked everywhere but haven’t found a […]

Environment: VC6, Win98, Win2K, WinNT   Introduction Hi, according to the documentation of the MSDN for MFC, we can create either worker thread or UI thread. As the name implies, the worker thread is normally spawned off to work on some sort of background task while the UI thread would be used for user interface. […]

Environment: VC6 SP5 This code creates an MDB database with three tables in it using ADOX. GENERAL ADOX stands for ‘Extended ADO’. It extends ADO in that you can create tables, databases, columns etc. without the use of ‘Create Table’-like SQL statements. STEPS: Use AppWizard to create an MFC-application. Make it dialog based. In AppWizard, […]