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. Environment: VC6 SP4, NT4 SP3, Win 2000 Content Introduction of networking programming Multithread The Chat Room Application ( for the impatient, click here!) Introduction of networking programming The most popular networking architecture is the client_ server model. The Client and the Server are software Applications: The server provides the services while the Client forwards […]

Serialization is a key part of the .NET framework. The remoting infrastructure, including Web Services and SOAP depend on serialization, which is the process of reducing an object instance into a transportable format that represents a high-fidelity representation of the object. What makes this process interesting is that you may also take the serialized representation, […]

Have you ever wanted to have a control on one of your applications that behaves like some of those internet banners? You’ll have a banner and then just scrolling text that whips by? Another example of the effect I’m going for was the news ticker on AOL instant messenger. A bunch of hyperlinks whip by […]

Environment: VC++, ATL/WTL Introduction Recently, in one of my projects, I needed to build a simple user interface consisting of a series of bitmap buttons in a dialog. Something simple and probably easy to use. About the same time, I came across David Pizzolato’s very nice article on skinned button at codeproject.com, that got me thinking. […]

Tech Ed ended last Thursday, June 21st. Microsoft heralded its new implementation of Visual Studio.NET, the new C# (Sharp) programming language, and its continued commitment to the Visual Basic language. On Tuesday Bill Gates and Air Bixhorn demonstrated the revised donkey.bas game, originally written by Chairman Bill, in its new incarnation as donkey.net. (Donkey.net will […]

Environment: Visual C++ Most of the time when you are creating a new MFC application, you’ll start with the MFC App Wizard. The App Wizard generates a basic skeleton application which you will flesh out into a full-fledged, useful program. Even the skeleton application you get from the App Wizard contains a lot of very […]

Environment: VC6, Windows 98, NT4 (IE4), Windows 2000. This ReportCtrl control is an Outlook 98/2000 style SuperGrid control. I’ve seen many implementations, most of them based on the standard CListCtrl. All implementations have their specific weaknesses. This implementation tries to overcome some of the weaknesses, although for some purposes it may introduce others. The documentation […]

 Environment: MFC, Windows 95, 98, Me, NT 3.51, 4.0, 5.0 If you spend time investigating what happens when you click and release the left button over the title bar, you will find out that instead of getting “non-client left button up” message, you just get “left button up”. One could actually work with it, if […]

Environment: Visual C++ 6.0, ATL 3.0, runs in Win9X/NT/2K Overview This is yet another set of lightweight, yet full-featured non-MFC SMTP classes to enable C++ programs to send outgoing mail. Features Optional SMTP authentication (username/password) Supports multiple recipients using CC and BCC fields Supports multipart mixed, related and alternative MIME types Supports any number of […]

Environment: VC6, VC5 One of the challenges I was recently set was to produce some code that would allow ‘child’ dialogs to be added to a ‘parent’ dialog at run time so that all the controls operated as if they were part of the original dialog. To this end I came up with some code […]

Environment: Win9x Windows NT contains some useful functions for updating resources in executables. Those are, however, not implemented on Windows 9x, so I had to write my own library for doing it. My library works in exactly the same manner as the BeginUpdateResource(), UpdateResource() and EndUpdateResource() API functions, just prepend an underscore to their names. […]

Environment: VC6 Description: This control can be used for displaying the progress of multiple events simultaneously. Each line in a list control can have its own progress bar. Progress bars operate independently and (can be) simultaneously. This is also a very simple example of how to embed one control inside another by making the embedded […]