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Environment: VC6, 95/98/NT/2000 PROJECT 1: Nimda Virus Scanner & Cleaner Pardon the lack of special features in this program. I shotgun coded it overnight when the nimda virus went wild and the big-shot virus scanners didnt have any (clean enabled) virus definitions. I find it still works better than McAfee, F-prot and Norton AV at […]

Environment: VC6 SP4, Win9x NT4 SP5, Win2k In General How It Works Usage Source Code Full Version Credits ToLower was created when I tried to port a website from a Windows to an LINUX/UNIX platform and experienced some annoying compatibility problems. This is due to the Windows file system’s habit, not to distinguish between lower […]

Environment: VC6 SP4, Windows 2000/NT and 95/98/Me Abstract Some time ago I developed a system that had to meet a common requirement for supporting Windows 9x as well as NT/2000 family. Everything went smoothly until I had to implement a mechanism for retrieving all currently running processes along with mapped to each process DLLs. Windows […]

Environment: VC6, W98, NT4 One of the most frustrating scenarios I have as a user is trying to determine how to enable a disabled menu item. You find the command you want to use, but it is grayed out with no indication on what you need to do to enable it. So now as a […]

. Environment: VC6 SP4, WIN NT 4.0 / 2000, WIN 9x (95, 98, Me) Anyone ever wondered how many lines are in a project you worked on for a month (or maybe for a year!)? Well, we did this for you 🙂 This program (LineCounter) was developed with one purpose only: to count your lines! […]

Environment: VC6 SP5, NT4/2000 This article covers the following topics Win32 Threads Synchronization objects Asynchronous sockets Basic HTTP protocol Using abstract classes STL Introduction When writing a socket server, I had to choose between using a Single Thread technique and using a Multithread technique. I discovered the Multithread technique has several advantages, including the following: […]

Tag Image File Format (TIFF) files are used for a diverse set of applications such as GIS (geographic information systems), CAD drawing programs, graphic arts, and so forth. Fortunately, a portable library is freely available, from www.libtiff.org, for decoding the information stored in TIFF files. The library also provides software tools that can be extremely […]

Environment: VC++ 6.0. SP5, Win2k SP2 Functions and Usage The main functions of CDataFile are shown in the following: 1. Create a file with two modes: Function : BOOL CDataFile::CreateFile(LPCTSTR lpszFileName, UINT nFlags) Usage: nFlags may be CREATE_MODE_REBUILD (Whether the file exists or not, recreate it) or CREATE_MODE_NOREBUILD (If the file has existed ,do not […]

Historically developers wrote applications and created additional kinds of supporting data for those applications. The supporting data came in the form of custom data files, .INI files, database tables, and the registry. This supporting data was essential for the proper function of the application. More recently the modus operandi was to register applications and add […]

Environment: Win32, MSVC 6.0, STL Sometimes it is necessary to create XML files from a program in C++. It is possible to use the very powerful set of IXMLDOMxxx interfaces, but this may add unnecessary requirements and overhead to the program. On the other hand, to create XML files from code is not a trivial […]

Website : www.mayankmalik.cjb.net Environment: VC 5-6 , Windows 95/98/2000/NT/Me Recently I had to develop a Graphics Software and wanted to add support for drawing an Arrow Line / Measuring Line. This was essential for the software and I had no option but to go over my trigonometry fundas. After churning for a couple of hours […]

This article is brought to you by Sams Publishingpublisher of Clayton Walnum’s  Sams Teach Yourself Game Programming with Visual Basic in 21 Days This article is the second part of a two part article. The first part is here. As you’ve already discovered in part one, a good computer game pushes your computer to its […]