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Environment: ******–> I have added some additional (hopefully useful 🙂 features to Darren Richards original Code Template add-in. The three main features are: Sub menus. Simple Parameter substition Source code column alignment. Please refer to Darren’s original article for the basics of how to set up your template file. Sub Menus You can now create […]

The CodeTmpl add-in provides a simple mechanism for inserting commonly used text blocks into your source code. Install Build the CodeTmpl project using the Win32 MinDependency build configuration, and copy the CodeTmpl.txt file into your DevStudioSharedIDE directory. Install the CodeTmpl add-in by selecting Customize from the Tools Menu and browsing for the DLL on the […]

Why? A few month ago I submitted a macro for Visual Studio  that allows a developer to launch an application from within the code. See Application Launcher. The macro was designed for VS 5.0 and it ran very well, at least in my computer :-). I was contacted by a few people complaining they could […]

Scaling sample: Unlike traditional scaling of images, where every n’th pixel is sampled and copied to the result image, this template provides much more accurate image scaling features. It takes a buffer of RGB values (as COLORREFs) and creates another buffer with new dimensions. The input / output buffers are sequential pixels (not compressed) compatible […]

This tutorial stems from some of my earliest experiences trying to get a bunch of objects onto disk and back again.  Having tried various complicated approaches I finally stumbled on the correct way to do it.  The aim is to have a list of objects all derived from some common base class that can be […]

Management of large dictionaries is always a big problem.  That’s why I decided to create an efficient and simple algorithm to manage very long sorted lists.  The HybridList algorithm resembles skip-lists but it differs considerably in basic principles and memory usage.  I hate the idea of allocating memory blocks for an array of pointers and […]

Introduction This article contains updated code for the splitter window control created by myself several months ago. Also I provide here some descriptions where and how to use such control. I must admit that the previous version of the control was rather unreliable and it failed to work correctly in many cases. This version is […]

Address Book demonstrates the use of GfxListCtrl control, CHyperlink class , CSystemTray class into one useful application. It also demonstrates dropdown tool button and well as using the template class CArray. Even thought lot of programs at Codeguru come with samples, beginners find it difficult to learn how to actually use them in real application […]

Environment:VC5/VC6 Generally the sample demonstrates different ways to obtain or create proper DC and use BitBlt – StretchBlt functions. It is another ZoomIn demo application created with doc-view architecture. CView derived class experienced minimum changes from AppWizard generated one. CImageWnd window covers CView derived class window. CImageWnd contains a copy (mirror) of CView derived class […]

I find the solution about restrict the size of the pane. First derive class XSplitterWnd from CSplitterWnd, Then handle the WM_ONSIZE,call the SetColInfo() and SetRowInfo() in OnSize function. And handle the WM_MOUSEMOVE and WM_SETCURSOR to prevent user from changing size. void XSplitterWnd::OnSize(UINT nType, int cx, int cy) { RECT rect; int Height; GetClientRect( &rect ); […]

Introduction : There are occasions when we would like to disable the close button on a dialog or any other window. In this article I am going to show you a simple way to do that. Even though I am going to show you how to disable the close button for a dialog, this technique […]

If a program or some part of a program can execute in the unattended mode, it may be useful to have a message box which would close on timeout, thus letting the program to continue. I would like to present here a function that does exactly this. It has the following declaration: int MsgBoxWithTimeout(HWND hWnd, […]