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Environment: Visual C++ 6, ATL, MS XML You may be already familiar with serializing C++ objects using MFC’s CArchive class. Serialization is the process of storing the object properties and contained objects persistently, so that the object can be reconstructed to its previous state by loading the persistently stored data. If you use CArchive to […]

Environment: VC6 SP4, NT4 SP6 Acknowledgements This article is based in part on Bob Place’s ADO is AOK (a simple ADO tutorial). Wrapper Usage This is consist of 2 classes. CDyndb : This Class manages connections and recordsets. Recordsets are organized as linked list (CList) and you can access them using their ids. CDynRec : […]

Environment: Visual C++ 6.0 Here’s a function that gives you access to the source html of a URL. As written the function stores the results to a .txt file, but you could easily modified the function to fit your needs. From there you can parse the data, create a page on the fly, and use […]

Environment: Visual C++, Visual Component Framework (free) Editor’s Note The VCF Toolkit is also featured on CodeGuru. Both that article and this one provide links to downloading the complete source code for this toolkit. Introduction The last article I wrote introduced some of the basic concepts of the Visual Component Framework. Much of it dealt […]

Environment: VC 6, Windows NT/2K Editor’s Note The creator of this toolkit (Jim Crafton) has also sent in a fantastic Scribble tutorial to show how easy it is to get up to speed and create applications quickly using the VCF. Introduction The Visual Component Framework was inspired by the ease of use of environments like […]

I use the following macro to add a class to my project. There are other implementations of this sort of macro. However, I believe that my version does a little bit more than most and even it adds some basic functions to the newly created class. As an example, this macro will not only create […]

. Click here for larger image Overview I always wanted to use cout, cin, cerr, printf, etc. in windows application if  I started it from command line. There was an article ( https://www.codeguru.com/console/dualmode.html, contributed Richard Eperjesi) about how the MSDEV can work in console mode (MSDEV /?) and in windows mode (MSDEV). That’s a very […]

Environment: Visual Studio C++ 6.0 under NT/Win 95/Win 98, gcc 2.95 under Red Hat Linux 7 Abstract Background A First Example, Reading and Writing Records in a Table A Second Example, Parameterized Queries Tables R Us, The IndexedDBView When you don’t know what you need, dynamic queries Using STL Algorithms, the Table Difference Function Conclusion […]

Overview This is a Clock control  which is able to roll the digit away as the time elapses, just like what the oil meter does in the old car. This is a control derived from the CStatic, it’s inspired by the code of Mr. Mark Findlay for his "Scrolling credits dialog". However, a lot was […]

. Overview First, thanks to Joseph M. Newcomer for the initial leg work (see his article on CodeProject for more details). Second, Updating the documentation is becoming a major chore. The first time I posted this control (which I made a boob of & sent in an incorrect version of the control with several errors) […]

Environment: VC6 with Platform SDK , W2K ( only ) This program was developed because of the demand to have custom packet monitoring utility for purposes of application system . But it shows too how easy, it is to write sniffer in a modern operation system like Windows 2000. When I first time read this […]

Environment: VC6 SP4, IE 5.0, Platform SDK. Sometimes,when you use web browser control, it’s not suitable to work with temporary files as a source for browser navigation. For example, if you want secure information or you need dynamically change content from c++ program. CMoreHtml class derived from standard MFC-class CHtmlView and fully keeps class functionality. […]