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This code is able to put standard time controls in each dialog. The problem arise when you have to put a set of control (in this case time controls) with some (more or less complex) related behavior. In order to write the code only one time, I have created a template class CTimeDialogPlus that can […]

One of the biggest advantages to using the MFC document/view architecture is the Print Preview feature. However, this feature is sometimes far less than easy to understand and utilize to its fullest capacity. Therefore, in this article, I’m presenting some improvements to Print Preview that I developed while working on a recent project. The first […]

Based on DelayLoadProfileDLL.CPP, by Matt Pietrek for MSJ February 2000. This code is intended to be included in a DLL inserted through a global Windows Hook (CBT hook for example). It will replace functions from other DLLs (e.g. DDRAW.DLL) with functions from your DLL. Functions are hooked by passing a parameter structure to the HookAPICalls() […]

Environment: CSysService was developed for Microsoft. Windows NT. platforms using Microsoft. VisualC++ 6.0 Microsoft. Windows NT. supports a service application type which conforms to the interface rules of the Service Control Manager (SCM). Services can be installed, configured and controlled by applications using the service functions included in the Microsoft. Win32. application programming interface (API). […]

Environment: CNetService was developed for Microsoft. Windows NT. platforms using Microsoft. VisualC++ 6.0 The Microsoft. Win32. API provides Windows networking (WNet) functions, providing networking capabilities for applications. The WNet functions are network independent, enabling an application to query and control network connections directly without knowledge of the underlying network transports. CNetService is a C++ class […]

Environment: Visual C++ 4.0 (and above) Description This template class simulates the behaviour of a modeless dialog while allowing some of the programmatic control of a modal dialog. When modal dialog are closed control is immediately returned to the caller of the DoModal member function: CMyDialog dlg; if( dlg.DoModal() ) { … } However, the […]

The CBitmapDialog class allows you to create a dialog that has a bitmap background, and to have a specified color in the background be transparent. This allows the dialog to be in other shapes than a box, like the one shown above. Usage Use this class like CDialog, but there are several extra functions that […]

Click here for larger image Environment: VC6 SP4, Win2K, Win98/ME Introduction One of the more tedious parts of UI coding is simply doing the grunt work of passing member data into various dialogs for user interaction, and then pulling it back out and ensuring the data is valid before recommitting it to the core part […]

Recently I did a project on online banking at NIIT, Bangalore. The project was coded mostly using VB with few ATL components thrown in, if only to teach us programming distributed applications. One middle tier component that I programmed was built with ATL and uses ADO to query the backend (SQL Server). Parts of that […]

With this Function you can resize the window to the specified client area size of your CWnd or derived classes like the CWindow::ResizeClient() function. Example You have a dialog based application and the client rect of the dialog depends on the size of a bitmap. Source Code BOOL CYourWndOrDialog::ResizeClient (int nWidth, int nHeight, BOOL bRedraw) […]

Click here for larger image Environment: Windows NT/2000, Windows 9x, Visual C++ SP3 Scripter Library is a code library based on Active Scripting technology (Microsoft). The main purpose of this code is NOT to show how to use Active Scripting technology as there are a lot of samples in the Internet. When I was creating […]

In many applications in which you use CEditView and CRichEditView classes it may be convineinent to let you user know the position of the cursor, much like the IDE in Visual C++. After some quick searching through MSDN and the CG discussion forms, I found out how easy it would be to add this feature. […]