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Environment:Win 95, Win 98 SE, NT4 SP3, Win 2000 Yet another class to get all the VS_VERSION_INFO resource information you need, from any module! Many people have requested this code in response to reading some of my posts – well, here it is. You can optionally specify language id and code page, to query language […]

Environment: VC6 x86 NT4 W2K I wrote a Visual C++ add-in that opens a file that is stored anywhere in your Visual C++ x86 “Include” path. I use it to open files such as winerror.h or header files mentioned in MSDN. The source files were built using Visual C++ 6.0 and the Add-In wizard. To […]

Drive.dll is a dll that creates a drive to system directoryor drive similar to existing drives such as C:\. It contains seven classes: class CContextMenu : public IContextMenu, IShellExtInit class CDropTarget : public IDropTarget class CEnumIDList : public IEnumIDList class CPidlMgr class CQDriveClassFactory : public IClassFactory class CShellFolder : public IShellFolder, public IPersistFolder class CShellView […]

Environment: Windows NT4 SP4, Visual C++ 6 I needed a listbox showing Icons and text strings in our Application. When I didn’t find any, I decided to create one. This List Box supports changing Icon for an item and removing the ImageList for the List Box at runtime. How To Use It To use this […]

Click here for larger image Environment: VC6 SP4, NT4 SP6, W98 SE, W2000 SP1 I was missing hex and binary controls in the MFC. First I created a CEdit derived class; however, this solution didn’t satisfied me. I think it’s much more comfortable for a developer to use only one DDX_Custom(..) function in the dialogs […]

Environment: VC6 SP4, NT4 SP3, Win 98, Win ME Have you ever offered an edit control in your application in which the user had to enter an IP address or Hostname? After the user entered the hostname or IP you have to check what was entered. (IP or hostname???) Then you have to convert the […]

Of all of the technologies to be found in .NET, the most controversial, seems to be garbage collection. A key part of the .NET framework, the managed heap and the garbage collection mechanism are foreign ideas to many of us. This installment of my .NET column discusses the managed heap, and how you can take […]

Click here for larger image Environment: VC6 SP5 Windows2000 SP2 DirectX8.0a SDK Introduction (or, #include ) Computer graphics has always been one of the most interesting things in computer programming. In the beginning no one can even imagine a game like the real world. But time was going by, computers’ power was growing and now […]

Environment: VC5, VC6 Introduction This short article is a “how to” article describing the process of creating 256 color icons and cursors of any color using nothing but DevStudio. Back in the Windows 3.x days icons were limited to 16 colors and cursors were limited to monochrome. Starting in Windows95 you could use icons and […]

Performs DIB video capture to memory with or without preview mode. . Environment: VC6, NT, W2K, Win98, Win95. One of the main reasons why I wrote this class was to simplify the process of capturing images from a Video For Windows camera device. The Platform SDK Video for Windows (VFW) API did not seem to […]

Environment: VC6 For networking applications, the need to know what NICs are in a system is critical so that sockets can be bound to the proper device. Windows programming allows many ways to retrieve information about each NIC, but there is one way that seems to be the preferred method for Microsoft. The IPCONFIG program, […]

. Picture 1. Dialog with FrameBounder and LogoPainter Message Handlers attached to it. Content: The Article consists of two parts. The Part 1 contains an example of CFrameBounder which guards the size of window and doesn’t allow to exceed it’s maximal and minimal sizes. In the implementation of CFrameBounder the special approach was used. This […]