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Environment: VC6 SP2, NT4 SP3, CE 2.0/2.01/2.11 Article text goes here Class CCeFileFind performs local file searches on a Windows CE system. CCeFileFind includes member functions that begin a search, locate a file, and return the name, path or size of the file. The following code will enumerate all the files in the current directory, […]

(NTier Solutions AB). Environment: VC6 SP3, NT4 SP5 Introduction In a project I needed inter process communication and the use of named pipes seamed to be the most appropriate solution as well as the recommended when I discussed the problem (and requirements) with an other experienced developer. Hence I started to search MSDN and CodeGuru […]

Environment: VC6, MDAC 2.1 ( ADO 2.1 ), Win9x / NT Introduction I recently needed to allow a user to have the ability to configure a connection string for one of my applications that uses ADO. After searching relentlessly through the docs, there was absolutely no information available on how to do this, except for […]

Environment: VC++ 6.0 sp3, NT 4.0 sp6a, Win98 Overview How do I use it in my project? How does it work? Acknowledgements Overview CFileDropListCtrl – a class derived from CListCtrl that accepts files and/or folders dropped from Explorer. Filters file types based on their extension Resolves shortcuts Checks for duplicate items Allows custom processing of […]

Environment: Windows 98, Visual C++ 6 Introduction AVICap window class provides applications with a message-based interface to access video and waveform-audio acquisition hardware and to control the process of streaming video capture to disk. Unfortunately, it has a few serious limitations: All of setup operations for format, source and videostandard are implemented within driver dialogs. […]

Environment: The code was compiled with VC6 SP2, Win98 and tested with Win95 SP2, Win98 and NT4 SP3. I think that default look of common CTabCtrl is not cool enough (for the year 2000), when control is used with scrolling tabs: The CLBTabCtrl class uses my CLBSpinButtonCtrl class (see “Owner Drawn Spin Control” article) and […]

. Environment: Windows NT4 SP4 (German version), Visual C++ 6 SP2 If you make a dialog with a bitmap as background, you’ll probably handle WM_CTLCOLOR + CTLCOLOR_STATIC to set a transparent background for text items. This works fine except with groupboxes: if the text is transparent the group rectangle goes right through your text, which […]

The CMMALogListBox class is a class for implementing a logbook in an application. The logbook can be used as a control (CMMALogListBox) or as a dialog which includes the control (CMMALogbookDlg). Using the CMMALogbookDlg class is very simple to use instead of the control himself. The logbook file will be automatically created. Here are some […]

Environment: Compiled using VC6.0 Sp3 and tested using Win95/98 WinNT4.0 and Win 2000 This article introduces a simple “cylinder” type of compass control based from CStatic. This will allow the control to be used within a dialog using the MFC Class Wizard Dialog or as a static control within a window. The compass project is […]

Environment: VC6 SP1, NT4 SP5, WIN 95/98 This article presents an extended listbox control. Its look and feel resembles the one that you can find in the Tools->Options dialog of Visual Studio environment. As you can see from the picture, this new listbox allows in-place item editing, and adds also the possibility to show a […]

Environment: Windows NT 4 SPT, Visual C++ 6 As a Windows programmer, one of the big headaches for me has been referencing fully qualified file paths. A file buried deep within the filesystem becomes a bear to deal with, as neither I nor any other programmers I know want to manually type the following (not […]

This article was contributed by Itay Szekely – etay@writeme.com. Environment: Windows NT/9x, Visual C++ 6 This Add-in converts the text format of a file when it is saved in Visual Studio. This can be very useful when working in a mixed Windows-Unix environment. In Unix, end of lines in text files are identified by line […]