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–> Environment: NT4 SP3 Creating a view on a child frame is a basic action when programming in MFC, but what happens when you want your view to be attached to a popup dialog? This article shows a simple way to make this possible. The idea is to create the view in the usual way […]

Information is the cornerstone of our economy. Information is also key to software development. It is helpful to know what your application is doing as you are assembling core components, during testing, and after the application is shipped. This information can be available to you at a modest cost without implementing new tools. VB.NET defines […]

. Environment: VC6 Introduction During my many years of C++ programming I ran into so many cases where there was a collection of persistant properties to be maintained by means of system registry, INI files, database tables etc. etc., and as a fanatic for clear and readable code I always hated to see how my […]

Environment: VC6 SP3, NT4 SP5, Windows 95, Windows 98 Have you ever tried to copy a DLL and had an “Access Denied” or “Shared Violation” error? Did you have to reboot everytime you needed to upgrade a DLL? If yes, this program is for you! Who’sLocking? is a a devpt/system management tool to find which […]

Environment: Generic. Tested on Windows 2000 and Windows Me CExtendedArray This template implements an abstract MFC style class and provides additional functionality of sorting the data internally over NUM_SORTFLDS simultaneously. Also, class provides ability to search for a given value over these fields quickly, (using binary search) implemented over the sorted fields. It […]

Environment: VC6/MFC , Win9X/WinME/NT40/W2k Background Using pipes is not too complicated on WindowsNT platforms, but on Win9X it4s not that easy because named pipes are not supported. The wrapper “cPipe” is a C++ wrapper class encapsulating named pipes, providing a simple interface to create named pipes and to perform read/write operations. In addition an application-defined […]

Environment: VC6, Windows 2000 The following code demonstrates an example on hooks. A friend of mine asked me to write a program that logs keyboard messages from a given application. Here is how it works: After executing the program it installs the hook functions to monitor keyboard messages from IE then writes the chars to […]

Click here for larger image For end user, The list control that has long and multiple columns can be real hassle… Scrolling up and down, scrolling left and right, and resizing truncated column string. For this reason, almost all of the list control based control has ToolTip and/or TitleTip. Even ToolTip or TitleTip list controls, […]

Environment: VC6 Win 2000 For a while, I’ve been using glut (which is great) to create all of my OpenGL projects. This was fine for a while until I had to do some “crazy” things with subwindows. I figured if I just used MFC instead, all my problems would be solved. The only down side […]

Environment: winCE Introduction This code detects memory leaks in embedded VC++ almost the same way crtdbg does in VC++. At the end of program execution it will display in the debug window if there were any memory leaks and how the memory looks so you can identify where your memory leak occurred. It will display […]

Environment: Win32, C++ Hello guys. This article presents some Win32 timer-related stuff. It consists of two classes: CTimerHost — that class is the source of “safe” timers. That means you can kill timer and be sure that you will not receive any timer notification from already dead timer. That timer should be used and destroyed […]

You click on the Push Button A dialog begins to grow to its original size in both directions Grown full in height ,but still growing in width … Done. Environment: Windows In this article I discuss how you can add an extra touch to the way your dialog pop up on the screen . This […]