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Folder browser dialog – also enumerates network drives… …demo application shows how easy it is to display dialog and retrieve user-selected folder. Overview This is a very standard technique used to retrieve folder information from Windows using the Shell extension functions SHBrowseForFolderA, SHGetPathFromIDList and SHGetDesktopFolder. The Code All you need to do is to call […]

Environment: Should run under any OS The problem: The other day I was caught with a dilemma. You see I had a group of several threads that required access to parameters that are currently stored in a file. My first instinct was to just make a class to load the data so that each thread […]

Environment: VC6 MSSQL65 ODBC MFC What I did with this class is to automatize (not MS’s automation) several processes to do a search in a MS Sql Server database, and show the results, retaining the data on an internal structure. With this class you make your dialog with fields to be filled by the user […]

Introduction: This purpose of this article is to show you how to display thumbnail images in a list control. The demo project is very straightforward: It goes through a directory user specified to search for all the bitmap files, and store their names in a dynamic vector, “m_VectorImageNames”. On clicking the “Load” button, It draws […]

The ProcessViewer is a very simple console application process viewer that displays the information about the processes that are currently executing in the memory. Here’s an example of what the running applications displays. While the overall scope of the application may be narrow, the code does illustrate how to use of Tool Help Library provided […]

The application lets you terminate any kind of running processes by 1) modifying Task Manager, 2) through a popup menu that comes up by right clicking on a tray icon. Click here for larger image By selecting a process from the menu, the process will be terminated. By selecting “Task Manager…” from the menu, a […]

Introduction What’s the big deal with skins anyway?  In addition to looking very cool, they provide many programming advantages in the development of all kinds of business applications.  Early examples of skins simply painted the frame of a window to make it more visually interesting, then someone added the concept of a non-rectangular shape to […]

Click here for larger image This article describes a technique for creating dialogs with any form you want for them. In order to define the form of the dialog you only have to create a bitmap with your usual graphics programm (say Photoshop or Microsoft Paint,…). In this bitmap you have to paint the form […]

Environment: VC++6.0, Windows 98, Windows NT I needed the same UI functionality found in Microsoft Scandisk application. However, after looking around on the Internet for some time I was not able to find one. Therefore, I decided to create my own (called CCheckerCtrl). With this control (pictured above), you can fill a series of blocks […]

Whenever we want to create shortcuts for our programs on the desktop, what we do normally is, we create .lnk files for our programs using IShellLink. When we create it in such a way, what we get is an icon on the desktop with an arrow on its bottom left corner, and if you right […]

I was writing an application which had a requirement saying that the Windows taskbar needs to be hidden. While looking out for source code, I came across SystemParametersInfo() API in MSDN, which retrieves the size of the work area on the primary display monitor. The work area is the portion of the screen not obscured […]

Environment: VC++ 6.0, Windows 2000 with MS-Office installed. In this article, I will describe the implementation of a C++ class that automates Microsoft Word application. The class uses low-level COM and is quite handy in its usage. The idea came into my mind when I answered two queries on this topic on a discussion forum […]