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(1) If you don’t have OLE in your project already then add this #include and do the following during initialization OleInitialize(NULL); (2) The following places a bitmap copy of a view on the clipboard. It can be easily modified to work with any CWnd that draws to a CDC. void CMyView::OnEditCopy() { COLORREF BACKGROUND_COLOR […]

Overview The clipboard is used to transfer data between windows or applications. It is used either during Drag/Drop operation or during a Cut/Copy/Paste operation. Whether you are using Drag/Drop or Cut/Copy/Paste, the code used to place data on the clipboard is very similar. This article will show you the basics for accessing the clipboard. Placing […]

I had a need to copy multiple views derived from CRichEditView to the clipboard. The sample code below contains an RTF StreamOut function with its associated callback function and a code snippet for copying multiple views into a single CF_RTF clipboard image. The basic premise was to programmatically cycle through all the pertinent CRichEditViews in […]

I recently came across something that I found to be a major improvement in my ability to program in MS Developer Studio version 5. It concerns memory leaks. When running the Debugger, if you have the Dump function on, you get a list of objects that did not get deallocated. These are defined as ‘Memory […]

The Terminator is a small program where you can specify a list of modules (either by path – or by name) that you want to terminate – no matter what… Sometimes during development of large program systems – especially now in these COM/DCOM days – you need a simple way of shutting down all your […]

The purpose of MsgTrace is to display tracing output. MsgTrace displays tracing output of any application that uses Win32’s OutputDebugString() function. (e.g TRACE() macros, all MFC output, …) MsgTrace can start monitoring the debug output of any running application. An applications can initiate its monitoring or the monitoring can be started using the MsgTrace. MsgTrace […]

This program is showing all debug information when your program is running, not in the Debug output window of your compiler, but in an other window. The reason for DbgOut doesn’t use OutputDebugString is to show always debug string in an other window (like in the old day Win 3.1). You can save, modify or […]

1. If IIS gets hosed, you can use VC++ to attach to the “inetinfo” to terminate it. 2. To stop the webserver you can use the following dos commandline net stop “FTP Publishing Service” net stop “Gopher Publishing Service” net stop “World Wide Web Publishing Service” This saves you from starting the control panel and […]

Something a lot of programmers don’t know is that you can debug the release version of a program as easy as the debug version. I didn’t know this until I’ve read John Robbins ‘Bugslayer’ column in the ‘Microsoft System Journal’, April 1998 (Vol 13, No 4): In MSVC you can set all of your project’s […]

Hi , I wanted to pass on one of the methods that has helped in the past, in debugging client server applications, in which you may have several version of your dll. Making use of small utilities like WPS/Killer/Nuke in determing the DLL that is lodaed at run time. This helps you to sometimes sort […]

Overview While developing an application, I encountered the need to get a list of all running processes (programs). Ok, so all advanced Win32 programmers know that for such a task one uses the performance data in WinNT or the ToolHelp functions in Win95. BUT, In my case my application had to run both under NT […]

Creating a thread is simple: You just call ::AfxBeginThread(…), supply a thread handler and voila, thread is started. No matter if you start a thread in a suspended or not suspended state, you know when the thread is started. However, thread destruction is a different story. In all but trivial applications, you have at least […]