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The Real-Player application inserts it’s own Logo between the TitleBar and MenuBar (see image bove). It was cool (now it’s not that I know how to do it ). Do you want to insert your Logo like Real-Player does? Then, Just follow me. 🙂 Here’s how to create this very cool effect. Create Dialog-based Project […]

Environment: VC++ 5.0, SP3, Win95 One of the questions that I see posted to microsoft.public.vc.mfc frequently is “How do I use my CListCtrl (or CTreeCtrl, CListBox, etc.) -derived control with a CListView (or CTreeView, etc.)?” As Zafir Anjum pointed out in his article “How do I use a derived CListCtrl with a CListView?”, you don’t. […]

Introduction This article explains how to expand the CFileDialog common dialog box. Although there are similar articles elsewhere on the Internet, none of them resolved the problem of adding user controls in CFileDialog in an MFC manner (without hook procedures, which are not encouridged by MFC any more). In this article you’ll find a way […]

. Introduction This class enables you to have a dialog where the user can dynamically switch between modeless and modal behaviour by toggling its “pinned” state. This is similar to the Properties dialog in Developer Studio where you can display the properties of one file or class, pin the dialog and then select another file […]

Environment: VC++ 6.0 (SP3), MDAC 2.1, NT 4.0 (SP4) Interactive SQL (using ADO) is a query tool that allows you to query OLE DB data sources, author SQL scripts and queries, return query results to a grid or text, retrieve provider properties, execute multiple SQL scripts or stored procedures simultaneously, retrieve multiple query result sets […]

Environment:Visual C++ 5 (and above) Interactive SQL is a query tool that allows you to query ODBC data sources, author SQL scripts and queries, return query results to a grid or text, retrieve ODBC driver information, execute multiple SQL scripts or stored procedures simultaneously, retrieve multiple query result sets (depends on the data source), etc. […]

Environment: The code was compiled with VC6 SP2, Win95 SP2 and tested with Win95 SP2,Win98 and NT4 SP3. There are many occasions where it’s nice to have spin button control with autodisabling arrow buttons. The CLBSpinButtonCtrl class adds this feature to the default behavior of standard CSpinButtonCtrl. How to use CLBSpinButtonCtrl Add LBSpinButtonCtrl.h and LBSpinButtonCtrl.cpp […]

EnTeHandle is an enhanced version of the original NTHandleEx from www.sysinternals.com. It started out as a ‘How’d They Do That’ kinda project and exploded, as most projects do, into what it is now. What it does EnTeHandle allows you to see all the open handles a process currently has open. Handles being, files, events, mutexes […]

DocView architecture in MFC is not at all the fastest way to create a simple print preview. This article will explain How to create your own print preview. MFC DocView is designed to make the MSVC programmers get their works done in a minutes including print preview. Sometimes we need not to use DocView framework […]

LibDump is a Win32 utility tool similar to Microsoft’s DumpBin utility except that it can be used to display the contents of library files instead of portable executables and COFF (Common Object File Format) .OBJ files. LibDump is a tool originally appeared in the MSJ April 1998 “Under the Hood” column by Matt Pietrek. (http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0498/hood0498.htm) […]

Environment: VC6 Windows98/NT/2000 Do you want to cool splash window?. The general splash window is not good for your app?? This sample source is for you. My semi-transparent splash window use ‘AlphaBlend’ function. When I found this function, I was so surprised!! Here is ‘AlphaBlend’ function’s feature. BOOL AlphaBlend( HDC hdcDest, int nXOriginDest, int nYOriginDest, […]

Environment:VC5, VC6 PeopleWatcher is a small (about 2,500 lines of code) but reasonably extensive instant messenger program. It provides all the standard features of an instant messenger, including message server and client systems, away messages, and friends lists. Its open source license means you can freely use its code to build new applications. PeopleWatcher is […]