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Why are we still using the command prompt to register and unregister a DLL? A much easier and more productive way is to use the Windows Explorer. The key is shell extensions. If you’re tired of having to open a command window each time you want to register or unregister a DLL, then this article […]

Environment: Windows NT 4 SP3, Visual C++ 5 (and greater) This sample show how we can register components on a remote machine. For this purpose I build to projects. First it’s a COM used on remote machines to receive a component and register it. It can be also used to test if components can be […]

Environment: VC6 SP2, Windows 98 and NT Introduction Network Development Kit is a set of simple classes for a client-server architecture.  It contains 3 main classes : CServerObj, CClientObj and CMessage.  With just few method overrides, you have a complete robust client-server application.  This architecture is based on CSocket from MFC.  You don’t have to […]

While writing an about box recently, I added a image using a static.  I used the standard gray for the background in the image.  Looked great!  Alright, run over to the client and install the application on his system.  Run the program and while testing the menus, open the about box – puke.  Why?  The […]

at Definitive Solutions, Inc. Environment: VC5, NT4 SP5 Don’t you hate assigning accelerator keys to dialog box controls? If there’s only a few controls, it’s no big deal, but when there’s more than about 10, it gets tedious. After about 15, it gets very, very tedious. I recently had to figure out the accelerators for […]

Environment: VC6, NT4/Win9X ATL object wizard is just not restricted for ATL COM appwizards. It can be used in any application provided the project meets certain requirements. You can use this appwizard to create ordinary(non – COM) Win32 application utilizing the ATL window classes or develop console OLEDB consumer applications. Basically, to use ATL Object […]

Environment: VC5.0, Win95/98/NT An Explorer context menu is the menu that pops up when you right-click on a file or folder form within Explorer or My Computer or any other standard file browse dialog.  You see them for apps like WinZip, virus scanners, image viewers, etc.  But, there is surprisingly little documentation on them, and […]

Environment: Any modern C++ compiler Purpose The CEditDist class performs edit distance calculations on abstract data types.  The edit distance is defined as the minimum cost required to convert one string into another, where the conversion can include changing one character to another, deleting characters and inserting characters, with user-defined costs for each basic operation.  […]

This article was contributed by Seain B. Conover. Environment: VC6 SP2, NT4 SP5 Alright folks, this post is the result of probably a hundred email requests over the past few months, in response to my original inquiry about how to retrieve modem information. Now I’m sure ‘ol BG and the boys would probably take a […]

Environment: Windows NT 3.1-4.0, Windows 95/98 (not supported on CE) Introduction: A Very old method for generating complex line styles is the use of the Win32 API call “LineDDA”. LineDDA can be used to create dashed or dotted lines, as well as more complex graphics such as wavy lines or “Railroad Tracks”. This method was […]

Environment: VC5-6, Win9x-NT4 Problem The RasHangUp function terminates a remote access connection. The connection is specified with a RAS connection handle. The function releases all RASAPI32.DLL resources associated with the handle. (MSDN) Then, in remarks, it is mentioned that application should sleep about 3 seconds, or until RasGetConnectStatus returns ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE. In article Disconnect Dialup Connection […]

This article demonstrates how to snap an OpenGL client and send it to ClipBoard. We suppose your screen configuration is set to true color. We could send the same buffer in a .bmp file in a few lines too…. // Snap OpenGL client and send it to ClipBoard // so that you can insert it […]