Desktop Programming
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16 May 2000
Updated: 14 Oct 2001
Rating: 3.46/5
Votes: 14
Popularity: 3.97
Licence: Custom
Views: 397,741
Bookmarked: 80
Downloaded: 9,151
An improvement on the CBitmapButton class.
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14 Apr 2002
Updated: 14 Apr 2002
Rating: 4.45/5
Votes: 6
Popularity: 3.47
Licence: Not specified
Views: 142,107
Bookmarked: 53
Downloaded: 1,842
A button control that autorepeats after a set period of time
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16 May 2000
Updated: 16 May 2000
Rating: 4.60/5
Votes: 11
Popularity: 4.39
Licence: Not specified
Views: 171,949
Bookmarked: 30
Downloaded: 1,485
Learn how to programmatically initialize a combo box.
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16 May 2000
Updated: 16 May 2000
Rating: 4.80/5
Votes: 9
Popularity: 4.58
Licence: Not specified
Views: 176,419
Bookmarked: 85
Downloaded: 3,045
Learn how to use printf-like functionality to debug your GUI applications.
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27 Mar 2001
Updated: 27 Jun 2001
Rating: 4.50/5
Votes: 8
Popularity: 4.06
Licence: Not specified
Views: 158,960
Bookmarked: 41
Downloaded: 1,742
Taking the pain out of adding a horizontal scrollbar to a listbox.
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30 Jun 2008
Updated: 10 Jul 2008
Rating: 4.82/5
Votes: 28
Popularity: 6.82
Licence: CPOL
Views: 83,099
Bookmarked: 58
Downloaded: 1,150
How threads can be used in a console app
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5 Apr 2001
Updated: 5 Apr 2001
Rating: 4.44/5
Votes: 6
Popularity: 3.46
Licence: Not specified
Views: 124,039
Bookmarked: 23
Downloaded: 0
You have a lot of dialogs that have a lot of properties in common. You'd like to derive the specialized ones from the general ones. Here's how.
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15 Oct 2001
Updated: 15 Oct 2001
Rating: 4.09/5
Votes: 8
Popularity: 3.69
Licence: Not specified
Views: 222,366
Bookmarked: 44
Downloaded: 1,226
This is my method of creating dialog-based apps, and in addition, illustrates how to handle the Enter key in an edit control.
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16 May 2000
Updated: 16 May 2000
Rating: 4.56/5
Votes: 6
Popularity: 3.54
Licence: Not specified
Views: 114,914
Bookmarked: 47
Downloaded: 0
Learn how to effectively control your dialogs.
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16 May 2000
Updated: 16 May 2000
Rating: 4.97/5
Votes: 63
Popularity: 8.83
Licence: Not specified
Views: 424,239
Bookmarked: 241
Downloaded: 0
Learn effective methods for managing your user-defined messages.
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23 May 2000
Updated: 23 May 2000
Rating: 4.92/5
Votes: 7
Popularity: 4.16
Licence: Not specified
Views: 122,311
Bookmarked: 32
Downloaded: 0
Learn how to display a message box from a console application.
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24 Oct 2000
Updated: 24 Oct 2001
Rating: 4.95/5
Votes: 12
Popularity: 5.34
Licence: Not specified
Views: 97,330
Bookmarked: 38
Downloaded: 0
PreSubclassWindow is a very nice handler to use for certain effects in dialogs.
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24 Oct 2001
Updated: 24 Oct 2001
Rating: 4.70/5
Votes: 7
Popularity: 3.97
Licence: Not specified
Views: 88,141
Bookmarked: 38
Downloaded: 1,242
A class that automatically registers its own Window class.
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14 Apr 2002
Updated: 14 Apr 2002
Rating: 4.00/5
Votes: 3
Popularity: 1.91
Licence: Not specified
Views: 84,333
Bookmarked: 18
Downloaded: 778
But WM_TIMER messages are not routable via the standard MFC "command routing" mechanism. This article shows you how to work around this.
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30 Jun 2008
Updated: 30 Jun 2008
Rating: 3.89/5
Votes: 12
Popularity: 4.20
Licence: CPOL
Views: 58,102
Bookmarked: 14
Downloaded: 0
Handling complex control interactions when edit controls are involved can lead to problems when EN_CHANGE notifications are generated by the application actually changing the control values. To avoid having to handle EN_CHANGE notifications from CEdit and CRichEdit, this article shows how to derive
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3 Nov 2000
Updated: 3 Nov 2000
Rating: 4.20/5
Votes: 5
Popularity: 2.94
Licence: Not specified
Views: 127,098
Bookmarked: 37
Downloaded: 1,562
A very informative, user-oriented validation edit control.
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4 Apr 2001
Updated: 24 Oct 2001
Rating: 4.73/5
Votes: 24
Popularity: 6.44
Licence: Not specified
Views: 287,835
Bookmarked: 59
Downloaded: 0
The secrets of File Handles and their relationship to File *, CFile, CStdioFile, etc.
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4 Feb 2002
Updated: 4 Feb 2002
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 6
Popularity: 3.89
Licence: Not specified
Views: 160,044
Bookmarked: 23
Downloaded: 1,377
A control for generating colour gradients
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16 May 2000
Updated: 16 May 2000
Rating: 4.41/5
Votes: 12
Popularity: 4.41
Licence: Custom
Views: 230,879
Bookmarked: 49
Downloaded: 2,978
Learn how to implement print support in your applications.
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16 May 2000
Updated: 16 May 2000
Rating: 3.90/5
Votes: 9
Popularity: 3.72
Licence: Not specified
Views: 142,463
Bookmarked: 55
Downloaded: 918
Learn how to implement an auto-incrementing build number for your projects.
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16 May 2000
Updated: 16 May 2000
Rating: 3.00/5
Votes: 1
Popularity: 0.00
Licence: Not specified
Views: 45,791
Bookmarked: 12
Downloaded: 381
A tool to check the consistency of your dialog shortcuts.
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27 Mar 2001
Updated: 27 Mar 2001
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 14
Popularity: 5.73
Licence: Custom
Views: 121,529
Bookmarked: 32
Downloaded: 0
GDI objects selected in a DC can't be deleted - even when you call DeleteObject. This handy class makes these potential leaks a thing of the past.
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16 May 2000
Updated: 16 May 2000
Rating: 4.67/5
Votes: 12
Popularity: 4.86
Licence: Custom
Views: 70,672
Bookmarked: 19
Downloaded: 0
Learn about who owns the GUI definition and pitfalls of GUI programming
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16 May 2000
Updated: 31 Mar 2001
Rating: 4.44/5
Votes: 10
Popularity: 4.23
Licence: Custom
Views: 110,342
Bookmarked: 59
Downloaded: 0
Learn how to effectively draw your dialogs
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5 Apr 2001
Updated: 5 Apr 2001
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 27
Popularity: 6.99
Licence: Not specified
Views: 415,671
Bookmarked: 98
Downloaded: 0
How do you capture the bitmap of a window? This little download shows how, and places the bitmap on the clipboard.
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16 May 2000
Updated: 16 May 2000
Rating: 4.98/5
Votes: 26
Popularity: 6.96
Licence: Not specified
Views: 131,688
Bookmarked: 64
Downloaded: 0
Attaching and detaching MFC objects to and from Windows objects.
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16 May 2000
Updated: 16 May 2000
Rating: 4.94/5
Votes: 19
Popularity: 6.32
Licence: Not specified
Views: 186,135
Bookmarked: 95
Downloaded: 0
Learn how to use callbacks and threads with MFC.
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16 May 2000
Updated: 16 May 2000
Rating: 4.82/5
Votes: 26
Popularity: 6.37
Licence: CPOL
Views: 460,149
Bookmarked: 50
Downloaded: 0
Learn how to refrain from using GetDlgItem.
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16 May 2000
Updated: 16 May 2000
Rating: 4.92/5
Votes: 77
Popularity: 9.20
Licence: Not specified
Views: 511,117
Bookmarked: 203
Downloaded: 0
Learn the right way to limit your application to run only one instance.
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2 Jun 2000
Updated: 2 Jun 2000
Rating: 4.68/5
Votes: 33
Popularity: 7.04
Licence: CPOL
Views: 195,584
Bookmarked: 76
Downloaded: 0
Explains misconceptions about timing in Windows.
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4 Apr 2001
Updated: 4 Apr 2001
Rating: 4.69/5
Votes: 18
Popularity: 5.65
Licence: CPOL
Views: 78,763
Bookmarked: 36
Downloaded: 0
A discussion on the working size of your executable, and why you shouldn't believe those numbers PView or task manager tell you.
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5 Jun 2002
Updated: 5 Jun 2002
Rating: 4.85/5
Votes: 10
Popularity: 4.10
Licence: Not specified
Views: 121,814
Bookmarked: 29
Downloaded: 1,445
A simeple editor to make my polygon class a bit more usable.
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16 May 2000
Updated: 23 Apr 2007
Rating: 3.43/5
Votes: 29
Popularity: 5.02
Licence: Not specified
Views: 257,458
Bookmarked: 41
Downloaded: 0
Learn how to avoid using UpdateData in your modal dialogs.
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17 May 2000
Updated: 17 May 2000
Rating: 4.11/5
Votes: 4
Popularity: 2.48
Licence: CPOL
Views: 63,821
Bookmarked: 59
Downloaded: 0
A collection of code examples and essays that I've often posted to the microsoft.public.vc.mfc newsgroup and other places
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30 Jun 2008
Updated: 30 Jun 2008
Rating: 3.57/5
Votes: 13
Popularity: 3.97
Licence: CPOL
Views: 36,632
Bookmarked: 16
Downloaded: 0
This essay shows an interface that allows the ::FormatMessage API to be easily accessed from MFC.
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27 Mar 2001
Updated: 27 Mar 2001
Rating: 4.55/5
Votes: 9
Popularity: 4.34
Licence: Not specified
Views: 83,477
Bookmarked: 45
Downloaded: 1,412
This represents a handy set of classes I built to ease the pain of dealing with the Registry.
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24 Oct 2001
Updated: 24 Oct 2001
Rating: 4.25/5
Votes: 5
Popularity: 2.97
Licence: Not specified
Views: 85,727
Bookmarked: 32
Downloaded: 1,443
A class to make handling polygons easier.
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16 May 2000
Updated: 16 May 2000
Rating: 4.75/5
Votes: 15
Popularity: 5.29
Licence: Not specified
Views: 72,743
Bookmarked: 64
Downloaded: 0
Learn effective methods for logging and debugging your Windows apps.
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16 May 2000
Updated: 12 Aug 2000
Rating: 4.93/5
Votes: 106
Popularity: 9.87
Licence: Not specified
Views: 316,901
Bookmarked: 134
Downloaded: 0
Learn about the potential pitfalls of code optimization.
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17 Jul 2001
Updated: 17 Jul 2001
Rating: 3.22/5
Votes: 7
Popularity: 2.72
Licence: Not specified
Views: 147,997
Bookmarked: 25
Downloaded: 0
A simple method of creating a unique name or identifier.
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16 May 2000
Updated: 17 May 2000
Rating: 4.95/5
Votes: 71
Popularity: 9.16
Licence: CPOL
Views: 1,074,096
Bookmarked: 312
Downloaded: 0
Learn how to effectively use CStrings.
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15 Oct 2001
Updated: 25 Oct 2001
Rating: 4.87/5
Votes: 14
Popularity: 5.42
Licence: Custom
Views: 234,481
Bookmarked: 71
Downloaded: 2,606
This class allows you to create a child process and receive notification of its output.
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16 May 2000
Updated: 16 May 2000
Rating: 4.83/5
Votes: 11
Popularity: 4.83
Licence: Not specified
Views: 179,738
Bookmarked: 103
Downloaded: 2,062
Learn how to create new processes and how to efficiently manage them.
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16 May 2000
Updated: 16 May 2000
Rating: 4.25/5
Votes: 18
Popularity: 5.12
Licence: Custom
Views: 409,088
Bookmarked: 132
Downloaded: 0
Learn tricks on how to create and use a User-Interface thread
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16 May 2000
Updated: 5 Apr 2001
Rating: 4.93/5
Votes: 127
Popularity: 10.24
Licence: Not specified
Views: 1,099,132
Bookmarked: 429
Downloaded: 0
Learn how to create and use worker threads in your applications.
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14 Jun 2001
Updated: 14 Jun 2001
Rating: 4.98/5
Votes: 25
Popularity: 6.87
Licence: Custom
Views: 321,175
Bookmarked: 92
Downloaded: 3,069
An introduction to using Semaphores
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16 May 2000
Updated: 16 Jul 2001
Rating: 4.97/5
Votes: 94
Popularity: 9.74
Licence: Not specified
Views: 515,899
Bookmarked: 253
Downloaded: 0
Learn about the issues and differences between Debug and Release builds.
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Programming Languages
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17 Jun 2005
Updated: 17 Jun 2005
Rating: 4.93/5
Votes: 32
Popularity: 7.21
Licence: Not specified
Views: 81,204
Bookmarked: 56
Downloaded: 1,249
A better Zoomin utility.
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11 Jul 2005
Updated: 11 Jul 2005
Rating: 4.91/5
Votes: 22
Popularity: 6.49
Licence: Not specified
Views: 55,792
Bookmarked: 59
Downloaded: 1,588
A viewport explorer utility.
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27 Mar 2001
Updated: 27 Mar 2001
Rating: 4.57/5
Votes: 15
Popularity: 5.09
Licence: Not specified
Views: 261,842
Bookmarked: 70
Downloaded: 0
A checksum is a value which is computed which allows you to check the validity of something. Typically, checksums are used in data transmission contexts to detect if the data has been transmitted successfully.
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7 Nov 2000
Updated: 7 Nov 2000
Rating: 4.84/5
Votes: 10
Popularity: 4.37
Licence: Not specified
Views: 175,093
Bookmarked: 84
Downloaded: 0
Here is the ultimate header file that makes multiple declaration compiler errors a thing of the past.
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31 Mar 2001
Updated: 31 Mar 2001
Rating: 4.89/5
Votes: 81
Popularity: 9.20
Licence: Not specified
Views: 1,641,425
Bookmarked: 335
Downloaded: 13,267
There is a lot of confusion about how to set up and use global hook functions. This essay attempts to clear up some of these issues.
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4 Feb 2002
Updated: 4 Feb 2002
Rating: 3.33/5
Votes: 7
Popularity: 2.82
Licence: Not specified
Views: 172,689
Bookmarked: 30
Downloaded: 692
An example of one of the most effective uses of the the call to FormatMessage
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1 Jul 2008
Updated: 1 Jul 2008
Rating: 4.91/5
Votes: 23
Popularity: 6.59
Licence: CPOL
Views: 49,423
Bookmarked: 42
Downloaded: 453
Fibers are a lightweigtht cooperative threading mechanism, or a coroutine mechanism, depending on how you look at them. Besides providing a very efficient thread-like implementation, fibers allow you to provide "continuations", that is, computations which perform some function, suspend themselves, a
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