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Environment: VC6 SP4, NT4 SP3 I needed a control to choose a character from a specific charset and the options to use bold and/or italic font. Therefore I derived an ownerdrawn control from CButton based on the work of Shekar Narayanan and S. D. Rajan which opens a popup dialog as a drop-down window. The […]

Environment: VC++, Win NT, Win 2000 This piece of code will delete a folder that isn’t empty in Windows NT or Windows 2000. The code also takes care of security aspects of the files inside the folder. Before deleting the file it sets the security(on an NTFS filesystem especially), so that it can be deleted […]

Environment: VC6 SP5, Win98 SE ApxString is a C++ string class that I wrote to make Windows programming more enjoyable without the use of MFC’s CString class. With the a few exceptions, I wrote this code entirely myself, and it has no dependency whatsoever on MFC. The project is a Win32 *.dll, with all source […]

Microsoft has taken excellent strides in making it more convenient for third party developers to customize and extend Visual Studio .Net. Developers and extenders can write Macros to automate repetitive tasks, create Wizards to serialize complex tasks, create Class Library Add-Ins that plug into Visual Studio .Net, or participate in the VSIP (Visual Studio Integration […]

Click here for larger image Environment: VC6 Win2K/NT/98 This sample describes the difference between CONSOLE and GUI applications with 20 lines of code. There are 2 small projects in this sample. The first project shows how to create a console in WinMain(). First of all, we need to allocate a console with AllocConsole(); secondly, we […]

The state pattern is very useful when you need an object to alter its behavior when this object’s state changes. The purpose of this article is to give you an example of the State pattern in action. In that case, the State pattern has been applied to a small game framework. During the last year, […]

Environment: Windows 2000 / Windows ME / IE 5.0+ I have a lot of experience in programming low-level MSHTML and I always see questions on how one can use MSHTML to parse HTML and then access elements via the DOM. Well, here it is. I use IMarkupServices provided by MSHTML. There is no need for […]

[CPictureShow.jpg] After many days of searching (and not finding) a way to load a JPG from a resource and show it on a *dialog based* application, I decided to take steps. I created what I call a very *simple* and useful class. It can easily be implemented by adding it to a project. You don’t […]

Environment: VC6, W9x, W2K Introduction When I need a user to select a file or folder, I would have to create two controls, an edit control for entering the text, and a browse button that would bring up a dialog for actually choosing the file or folder. So I thought why no combine the two […]

Click here for larger image Environment: VC6, NT4.0 SP3, not tested on 95 and VC5 The purpose of the TELNET Protocol is to provide a fairly general, bi-directional, eight-bit byte oriented communications facility. Its primary goal is to allow a standard method of interfacing terminal devices and terminal-oriented processes to each other. It is envisioned […]

Environment: VC6 SP4, NT4 Contents Why do we need the ability of dynamic ActiveX control creation and placement ? Create a simple MFC dialog based application Dynamic ActiveX Control creation Destroying the ActiveX Control Resizing the ActiveX Control Downloads Why do we need the ability of dynamic ActiveX control creation and placement ?

Environment: VC++ This article contains information culled from the README.txt file included with the code archive. Purpose This package provides a set of tools to shorten the length of VC++ STL-related error messages so that the most vital information from a message fits within the visible portion of the status bar line at the bottom […]