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Following my previous article on copying filenames from explorer, I received many requests on how to copy the files into the explorer. I have/had the same request for a long time. After a lot of debugging and breaking my head, I finally solved the problem (hopefully). The clue I got was that, there is a […]

This article is related to searching character strings in text type of fields of CDaoRecordset only. Please note that it is not applicable to other types of field data types of DAO such as dates or numbers. Sometimes while searching for something in CDaoRecordset object we often use Seek() function. But the problem with the […]

Environment: Demo written in Visual C++ 6.0 We are all familiar with the CDatabase classes, and the CDaoDatabase classes. They are relitivly simple to use, they mesh well with our applicaiton and they are easily distributed. Using something like the GenericRecordset class (found here ar code guru) makes it even easier to create powerful database […]

Here is some code for realigning the controls present on a property sheet. The code realigns the controls that are beneath the tab control, which have the WS_VISIBLE style. The controls are repositioned from right to left, in reverse tab order, and being separated by a standard distance. This is handy for realigning the controls […]

 Download Source Code and Example Accessing a sub page within a property page with shortcut keys needs special treatment. I used Zafirs source from his article Using shortcut keys in property pages as a starting point. To make sure that a key stroke reaches any of the sub pages I am checking the key in […]

This is a update from the article ‘Using Shortcut Keys for Property Pages’ from Zafir Anjum. The article only handled Uppercase shortcuts, here is one that handle both upper and lowercase shortcut keys. You need to implement the following procedure to do the work: BOOL CBasePropertySheet::PreTranslateMessage(MSG* pMsg) { if( pMsg->message == WM_SYSKEYDOWN && pMsg->wParam > […]

Environment: This Registry hack works exactly as described in this article for Visual C++ 6.0 and is very similiar for Visual C++ 5.0 I am very picky about my colors in my code editor. When I first got VC++ and saw that it only only allowed me to pick from 16 colors, I couldn’t stand […]

This class reads version information from executable file header. It is useful because any changes made to the VS_VERSION_INFO in the resource editor  automatically update associated controls. CExecImageVersion class have following methods: CString GetSpecialBuild(); CString GetPrivateBuild(); CString GetLegalTrademarks(); CString GetInternalName(); CString GetFileVersion(); CString GetFileDescription(); CString GetComments(); CString GetCopyright(); CString GetCompanyName(); CString GetProductVersion(); CString GetProductName(); Declare […]

. CVersionInfo is a tiny class, which wraps the stuff needed to get the version info from a resource file. It handles both, the fixed version information and the language dependent string version information of the resource file. It contains three CString members which hold the retrieved information: m_strFixedFileVersion: the fixed file version info (language […]

Roberto Rocco already give us a class to get version information from module resources (.exe, .dll, etc.) it works great for the fixed information but you have to know the language-charset of the module for retrieving language dependant information. My class, CFileVersion, allow you to get fixed and the language dependant information. The class use […]

Environment: The demo was written using Visual C++ 6.0 Getting Notification of CD-ROM Insertion or Removal: Some Win32 applications need to know when the user inserts or removes a compact disc from a CD-ROM drive without polling for media changes. Windows NT provide a way to notify these applications through the WM_DEVICECHANGE message. This article […]

Environment: Visual C++ 6.0 SP2, Windows NT 4.0 SP4 I have the thought of redirecting output of WIN32 console programs to a pipe or a file long ago, but I don’t know to do at all at first, finally I searched through Microsoft MSDN and found a way, the code pasted below was copied from […]