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Use STA COM Objects Asynchronously
Rating: none Wong Shao Voon - 05/12/2008 Learn how to use STA COM objects asynchronously without blocking your main thread.
Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack: MFC Enhancements
Rating: Nick Wienholt - 04/07/2008 Hot on the heels of the significant MFC updates that were delivered with the release of Visual Studio 2008, the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack significantly boosts the ability of MFC to deliver modern-looking user interfaces that will be familiar to Windows and Office users. Look at these new controls and see how MFC developers can significantly improve their application's look and feel.
Windows Mobile Development with MFC
Rating: none Nick Wienholt - 12/10/2007 Drill deeper into Mobile Development in C++ and go through the development and debugging of a Windows Mobile 6 application with a focus on MFC.
Microsoft Word Automation Class
Rating: Val Golovlev - 12/06/2007 Discover a class to start Microsoft Word and access Word functions from a C++ application by using OLE and IDispatch interfaces. Two classes are provided: the Word automation class CWordAutomation and the wrapper class CEzWordAutomation.
JavaScript DOM Ranges
Rating: none Nicholas Zakas - 06/11/2007 Nicholas Zakas explores the powerful DOM Range tool and how a range can be used to select a section of a web document regardless of node boundaries.
Visual FoxPro: Its Day Has Finally Come Bradley L. Jones - 03/14/2007 If you thought the end of Visual FoxPro had already happened, then you are wrong. Its end is now.
Task Dialogs in Vista
Rating: kirants - 02/08/2007 If you have been using Vista, you would have noticed that MessageBoxes are passé. These have been replaced by the new Task Dialogs. Task dialogs are intended to make the experience more interactive and goal-oriented. Take a tour of the Task Dialog API.
Windows Template Library: Still Alive and Kicking
Rating: Nick Wienholt - 10/04/2006 Find out what's become of the Windows Template Library (WTL) since Microsoft released it as an open-source project in 2004. Examine the recent WTL releases and see where WTL fits in the C++ programmer's toolkit.
Easy Multithreading in ATL Windows Applications
Rating: Konstantin --- - 08/25/2006 Add one header file to your *.vcproj, insert a few lines of code into your class header, and you'll never again worry about the asynchronous routines in your ATL GUI application.
[Updated] [Debugging] - Symbols
Rating: Darka - 07/18/2006 Learn how to set up and use the Microsoft Symbol Server to help you debug applications under Windows.
Transparent Flash Control in Plain C++
Rating: Igor Makarov - 07/11/2006 Learn about OLE container implementation to host a Transparent Flash Player Control using plain C++. No ATL, MFC, or other libraries are used.
A Kick-Start to SAX with C++, Part 3
Rating: none Marius Bancila - 03/16/2006 Learn how to implement some basic error handling and perform cleanup operations.
A Kick-Start to SAX with C++, Part 2
Rating: none Marius Bancila - 03/15/2006 Learn how to work around the restriction of using a single handler type at a time.
A Pure C++ Implementation of a COM Smart Pointer
Rating: none Skeeter Xu - 03/01/2006 CComPtr wraps any interface pointer and will call AddRef() and Release() properly. You don't need to worry about controlling the lifetime of your interface pointer.
Secure C++: Checked Iterators for Safer STL Coding
Rating: none Nick Wienholt - 02/03/2006 The security issues with Standard C++ aren't as severe as those of C and the CRT, but a few exploits are possible if you misuse STL and iterators.
Remote Desktop View Lite
Rating: Andy Bantly - 10/31/2005 Learn about a native C++, MFC, ATL/COM system to remote view a desktop.
QPerformanceTimer
Rating: Sjaak Priester - 08/16/2005 "Profile" a block of C++ code with just one include file and two variable definitions.
Owner-Draw Menus with .NET and Managed C++
Rating: Tom Archer - MSFT - 05/02/2005 Learn how to use .NET and Managed C++ to program owner-draw menu items with the fonts and point sizes you want.
Managed C++: Determining User Security Roles
Rating: Tom Archer - MSFT - 01/24/2005 For those who don't have the desire or time to become experts on Windows security, follow this demonstration of using various .NET classes to test for a user's inclusion in one or more security groups.
Using Two Common 'Compression' Techniques
Rating: Andy Bantly - 01/04/2005 Here are two Microsoft (tm) Visual C++ projects. One project is an ATLCOM project with two objects: a Huffman compression object and a run length encoding object. One project is an MFC dialog that utilizes the library to perform file-based compression and decompression.
Extensible OLE Property Pages in .NET
Rating: Robert Simpson - 11/03/2004 Implementing and utilizing extensible property sheets in your .NET classes has never been easier.
Creating Resourceless Dialogs
Rating: Trilobyte - 08/20/2004 Learn how to create resourceless dialogs using the Trilobyte-Solutions.nl Resourceless Dialog Toolkit.
Wrapping MFC Objects For Use With .NET Remoting
Rating: Tom Archer - MSFT - 06/25/2004 One drawback to using remoting in a mixed—MFC/.NET—environment is that MFC objects cannot be remoted. Explore this technique for overcoming this limitation.
C++ Tip: Serializing .NET Objects with Managed C++
Rating: Tom Archer - MSFT - 05/07/2004 In this installment of the .NET Tips & Techniques column, learn how
to serialize entire objects—as well as selected members—to and from disk
using Managed C++ Extensions.
.NET Remoting with Events in Visual C++
Rating: Kate Gregory - 04/13/2004 Learn how to add a button to a server application (a WinForm app with a big Listen button) and have the handler for the click event raise a custom event.
An Overview of Microsoft's Whitehorse
Rating: Mickey Williams - 03/23/2004 Having enterprise development problems? Discover Whitehorse, a set of modeling tools included in the next release of Visual Studio .NET (code-named Whidbey).
Auditing Oracle Data
Rating: none Michael Klaene - 03/04/2004 Learn how to create an audit trail for application data on an Oracle database (Oracle 8 and up). It includes two scripts that can be used to quickly get started.
Using a Hot Key in an ActiveX Control
Rating: none Onega - 02/26/2004 Learn about a way to enable a hot key in an ActiveX control without a message hook.
Tabbed ActiveX Control
Rating: Muhammad Ahmed - 01/28/2004 For beginners: Learn how to make a tabbed user interface using a simple MFC ActiveX control in VC++ .NET.
Tab Controls And Splitters—Mixing Them Together
Rating: none Igor Katrayev - 01/08/2004 Create a WTL class using VC++ .NET 2003 that will simplify building SDI applications by allowing you to combine tab controls with splitters.
Automating Microsoft Office Applications
Rating: V Girish - 08/19/2003 This tutorial helps you learn the basics of automation. With this code, you can control PowerPoint from your application. You can open PowerPoint programmatically, open any presentation, go to any slide that you want, run the slideshow, and more. The same concept can be applied to any one of the Microsoft Office applications.
Implementing XMLHTTPRequest onReadyStateChange in C++
Rating: none Dave Levinson - 08/04/2003 How to implement the IXMLHTTPRequest onreadstatechange property in C++. (Supports the asynchronous version of the send() operation of the XMLHTTPRequest object.) Developed in Visual C++ .NET, but usable elsewhere.
Creating a blobclass for ATL
Rating: Frans Nagel - 07/18/2003 A class to make safearrays easy. The parray member of CComVariant is used to store binary data.
Adding Scripting Support to an Application
Rating: Yuri Polyakov - 06/23/2003 Sometimes there isn't a need to implement full scripting support. Learn how to add this support the easy way using the Microsoft Script Control. (The article, project, and source code were updated.)
COM+ Automation Using COMAdminCatalog in .NET C#
Rating: Asad Aziz - 06/20/2003 The COM+ catalog holds all COM+ configuration data. The only way you can access the catalog is through the Component Services administrative tool or through the COMAdmin library. Learn to administer this service easily.