WTL

Great Reads

by Tim Smith

Color picker control for WTL applications including optional support for XP themes

by Ernest Laurentin

Full-fledged ATL Windowless ActiveX Container. Ideal for hosting Windows Media Player, Transparent Flash and Silverlight Animations.

Vista Goodies in C++: Monitoring the Computer's Power Status

by Michael Dunn

How to use power status notifications to make your applications conserve power when necessary.

Windows 7 Goodies in C++: Adding Custom Tasks to Jump Lists

by Michael Dunn

Create custom tasks in your app's jump list on Windows 7

Latest Articles

WPF Binding Window/UserControl to Self

by Clifford Nelson

Shows how to set DataContext of View to itself using XAML and discusses the advantages of INotifyPropertyChanged to DependencyProperty

Capture Program using GDI

by Taehoon Kim 1004

Capture program using GDI

Domain Driven Design: A "hands on" Example (Part 3 of 3)

by Suarte

A hands on example of domain driven design - Part 3

Undocumented List View Features

by Timo Kunze

Use undocumented parts of the Windows Vista list view API to enhance your application.

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WTL

how to get focused property sheet

10 Jan 2011 by #realJSOP

Have you tried google ("wtl propertysheet")? The first link (after a reference to your question here) is this CodeProject article:WTL for MFC Programmers, Part VIII - Property Sheets and Wizards[^]

C++

VC7.1

WTL

Use your own ATL-Objects in Dev-Studio Macros

17 Feb 2002 by <b>T</b>om <b>C</b>ollins

Shows how to develop ATL-Objects to extend VB-Script. Uses ISharedPropertyGroupManager to keep data in memory. Supervises MSDEV-shutdown.

Union

3 Apr 2009 by _8086

union u{ char ch[2]; int i;};int main(){ union u x={0,2}; cout

A WTL Hunspell-checked Edit Control

21 Jun 2009 by _oti

A WTL Hunspell-checked edit control.

Sending Anonymous net send messages in WTL

26 Jun 2003 by abc876

This article explains how you can can send anonymous net send messages to any host

how to choose multiple line in listview

14 Aug 2012 by Abhinav S

The listview has a multiselect property that you can turn on - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.listview.multiselect.aspx[^].

C++

WTL

Log Harvester

17 Sep 2012 by Adam Wojnar

A complete log viewer written in C++/WTL.

Copy the string from const char* To char[500];

27 May 2010 by Aescleal

If you're programming in C, then:strncpy( q, p, 499 );q[499] = '\0';will do the trick and work however long the string is. If you'd like to obfuscate things a bit more then you can combine the two lines into one by exploiting the return value of strncpy:strncpy( q, p, 499 )[ 499 ]...

printf like function question!

16 Oct 2010 by Aescleal

If you're using C++ there's no reason to use printf or the whole god awful family of C relics. Use a stream. Then you get type safety and you won't try reading return addresses off the stack to interpret as strings. Consider rewriting along the lines of:int main(){ int d = 20; ...

Windows.h?

2 Jun 2009 by agetina

I can read the prototypes for windows.h in the include folder (I have installed dev c++) but i want a list of explained functions. I don't know for what to use each of them.Thank you! modified on Wednesday, June 3, 2009 4:29 AM

Screen Capture

15 Nov 2006 by Agha khan

A screen capture application.

How to cause a CPropertySheet to show a particular page .. [SOLVED]

16 Aug 2009 by Ahmed Charfeddine

?Thanks. Easy Profiler : a compile-time profiler for C++www.potatosoftware.commodified on Sunday, August 16, 2009 5:41 PM

Resource file opening problem

9 Jan 2010 by Ajay Vijayvargiya

Since Windows Vista supports "India' English", and has the following definition:0x4009 India (IN) 0x10 SUBLANG_ENGLISH_INDIA Visual Studio takes this as the project's language.While creating new project, one should select 'English (US)' as 'Resource Language' in Project Wizard.

printf like function question!

16 Oct 2010 by Ajay Vijayvargiya

Perform Code Analysis with your code with /analyze switch with your Visual C++ compiler. You need to have Team System or the Ultimate version to do that.

CToolTipDialog class : a simple WTL class to enable tooltips in your dialogs

9 Nov 2003 by Alain Rist

Add this small class to your existing dialog inheritance list and get nice tooltips on controls and dialog.

Add zooming to WTL CScrollImpl

2 Nov 2004 by Alain Rist

CZoomScrollImpl extends WTL CScrollImpl to allow continuous zooming.

A Pocket PC WTL image viewer

13 Dec 2004 by Alain Rist

Some proposed WTL classes and functions at work: CAppWindow, CFullScreenFrame, CStdDialog, CF_DIB clipboard support, and more...

WTL CString Class Implemented with the Standard C++ Library

28 Sep 2006 by Alain Rist

Plug-in CodeProject's CStdString as WTL::CString and get the WTL CString support with a Standard C++ Library implementation.

Unusual but Useful Dialog-based Classes Designed for Specialization

11 Nov 2007 by Alain Rist

Featuring cell menu, in-place editor, single control and split dialogs, Vista shell and Mobile file controls and selection dialogs

Integrate the OpenOffice.org Power in a WTL (or Other Native Win32) Application

18 Feb 2009 by Alain Rist

OOo::DocWindow and WTL::COOoCtrl classes to work on any Microsoft-Office document, and Open Office SDK integration in Visual Studio/VCExpress 2005/2008

29 Jul 2009 by Alain Rist

Message map macros, split frames, full screen implementation, and automatic mapping of UI elements.

Why CPropertySheetImpl::Domodal() return -1?

2 Apr 2010 by Alain Rist

See the doc for PropertySheet Function[^], and notice:For modal property sheets, the return value is as follows: >=1 Changes were saved by the user. 0 No changes were saved by the user. -1 An error occurred To retrieve extended error information, call GetLastError.cheers,AR

C++

Windows

WTL

GlobalReAlloc

4 Sep 2010 by Alain Rist

Hi,This bug in WTL 8.0 (Memory for dialog template is allocated using GMEM_FIXED flag and re-allocated without GMEM_MOVEABLE flag)[^] is fixed in the current (beta) WTL 8.1 files.If you want to stay on 8.0 you can download the fixed atldlgs.h at...

C++

Windows

WTL

How to set minimum width for WTL::CMenu

28 May 2011 by Alain Rist

Hi,The simplest way to achieve your goal is to add a tab or some spaces at the end of your shortest menu item.Otherwise you can use an Owner-Drawn menu item; the menu owner window should derive from WTL::COwnerDraw. The WTL::CMenuT and WTL::CMenuItemInfo classes in atluser.h can help...

C++

WTL

Relook your Old and New Native Applications with a Ribbon UI under Vista or Windows 7 (WTL)

12 Apr 2010 by Alain Rist

Including a Ribbon UI Implementation Guide with examples and a dual UI enabled legacy application

ListCtrl - A WTL list control with Windows Vista style item selection

18 Apr 2006 by AlanW

A flexible WTL list control that supports Windows Vista style selection and cell editing.

TreeCtrl - A WTL Tree Control with Windows Vista Style Item Selection

9 Apr 2006 by AlanW

A WTL tree control that supports Windows Vista style selection and multiple selection

c++ WTL/ATL How to find a window handle from the current process?

18 Apr 2012 by Albert Holguin

You should be able to call AfxGetMainWnd() from the exported function and get the top-level window from the thread calling the exported function (may return NULL if there's no window associated with the thread).See...

Microsft Visual Studio 2005 Doxygen Add-In

29 Jun 2010 by aleksey_m_t

MSVS Add-in for Doxygen documentation system

Resizing Dialogs in WTL: Port of Paolo Messina's MFC ResizableLib.

20 Oct 2005 by Alexander D. Alexeev

An article on how to make resizable dialogs with WTL.

How To Create a Self-Restartable Application

21 Aug 2006 by Alexander D. Alexeev

This article describes the way to add restarting support to your Win32 applications.

Message Reflection for WTL Controls

25 Jan 2001 by Alexander Fedorov

Impementation of message reflection for WTL wrappers for Windows Controls

Decimal number support for your controls

18 Nov 2007 by Alexander Uckun

The WTL way of adding number support to your controls.

WTL 7.0 CMDICommandBarCtr Bug and Fix

13 May 2002 by Alweit

WTL 7.0 CMDICommandBarCtr small fixes

C++

WTL

Dev

WinZip Like Extract Dialog

21 Sep 2005 by Alweit

An attempt to create a WinZip-like Extract dialog.

USB and CD ROM Enable/Disable

21 Mar 2016 by ameyakoshti

Hello I am doing computer engineering and i needed some guidanceregarding my project.1st of all i want to know whether it is possible to disable usb portsand CD rom "POWER" through VC++.If yes then could you please guide me on it?Thanks

CAtlBitmapButton - ATL/WTL Ownerdraw Superclassed Bitmap Button

11 Jun 2001 by Amit Dey

An owner drawn ATL/WTL bitmap button

Caching in DataGrid while performing Insert, Edit and Update operations

6 Jan 2003 by anandaji

This article shows how we can use caching while performing insert, edit and update functions in the DataGrid.

Guidelines to Fluent Interface design in C# - Part 2

5 Aug 2010 by Andre Vianna

Some techniques to code each part of the sentence with some samples.

Windows

entity-framework

WTL

Guidelines to Fluent Interface design in C# - Part 1

5 Aug 2010 by Andre Vianna

History, the basic concepts of Fluent Interfaces and a small glossary of terms that I will use in this series of posts

Windows

WTL

Memory Allocation Tool

20 Feb 2003 by Andreas Saurwein

Simple tool to test applications under various memory conditions.

Help requested: "Debug assert failed" with process hang

20 Feb 2009 by Andrew McAuley

Hi there,I'm new to C++ and i've got a basic project i've made up, just to play around with templates. It consists of the following classes: - enumerable (used much like IEnumerable in .NEt Framework code) - list [inherits from enumerable]...

WTL Avatar Control

3 Mar 2008 by Andrew Tyapuhin

WTL control for showing full color and grayed pictures with resizing and saving resultant files

Resource file opening problem

22 Dec 2008 by Anem Mahesh

Open your resource script file, and delete this part from it://///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// English (U.S.) (unknown sub-lang: 0x10) resources#if !defined(AFX_RESOURCE_DLL) ||...

How do I overload a function

18 Dec 2009 by Anirudh Kishan

Just imagine how your arguments would be passed.If it is passed as 1.2 and 2.2 to the (int,int) function then it would to truncated to 1 and 2.If it is passed as 1.2 and 2.2 to the (float,float) it will be processed as is.So here is where the ambiguity creeps in.I have found two...

USB and CD ROM Enable/Disable

19 May 2011 by ankitjoshi24

I found a way to disable the CD ROM using regedit. Now I am not sure how you can use it in VC++ but you can atleast havea look at the way of disabling it through regeditTo Disable CD-RomHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\CDRomDouble Click on AutoRun and change the value...

Visual Studio 2012 Theme Support

5 Aug 2012 by Anna-Jayne Metcalfe

Theme support in Visual Studio 2012

How do I overload a function

18 Feb 2010 by annarao

class a{public void dis(){System.out.println("no argument");}public void dis(int i){System.out.println("one argument");}public void dis(int i,int j){System.out.println("two argument");}class maindemo{public static void main(String aggs[]){a=obj=new...

OnMouseMove() function does not occur when mouse moves very quickly

19 Jan 2011 by anonymous1310

Hi, I have a dialog based application in which when i move cursor over one widget a description about that is shown by me but when i move the cursor from that widget quickly outside the window the description just get stuck ,means that the OnMouseMove() function does not get called,I tried...

C++

WTL

application Icon does not appear in task switcher

28 Jan 2011 by anonymous1310

Hi, I have an application whose icon is appearing in tray and in the title bar but when i press alt+tab the icon of the application is not appearing,there is a blank page icon is coming in place of my icon . Please help me.thank you.

C++

WTL

Fetching a file name from a dynamic URL

29 Jun 2011 by anonymous1310

Hi. I have a dynamic URL (e.g. http://www.xyz.com/a?bcdefghijk) that redirects to a specific image file (http://www.xyz.com/images/1.gif ORhttp://www.xyz.com/images/2.gif) under certain circumstances. Doesanyone have any ideas how I can get that final image filename ?Thanks in advance.

VisualC++

WTL

Copy the string from const char* To char[500];

27 May 2010 by Anu Koshy

strcpy(q,p); works fine.but if(strlen(p)>500)then strncpy(q, p, 499);q[500-1] = '\0';q has to be terminated with '\0'

How to show '&' character not underline

31 May 2010 by Anu Koshy

if it is a text control, set "No Prefix" as True.That should solve the problem. :)

question about my project.......

27 Jan 2009 by arad.moradi

i don't know what is the reason of of error.i write it with c++ & i send what is it about.it is the code:#include #include #include using namespace std;class cart{public: cart(char a[2]="paq"){ cout

how can i make my window that don't have the style "WS_CAPTION" have shadow of aero?

9 Jul 2012 by armagedescu

First you need to open the right theme from the current skin:hThm = OpenThemeData(hWnd, L"WINDOW");After that you may draw the needed thing with DrawThemeBackground,DrawThemeBackground( hThm, hDC, WP_CAPTION, CS_ACTIVE, &rc, 0 );

C/C++ ODBC Handle Wrappers

5 Aug 2012 by armagedescu

As suggestions. If you return bool then you have to return false/true instead of FALSE/TRUE, because you are not using BOOL. Second, don't name the class Handle. Instead of CConnectionHandle use CConnection name, or even better CDatabase. Instead ir CStatementHandle use CStatement or CQuery, and...

WTL Wizard for Visual Studio .NET

17 Feb 2002 by Armando Pajuelo

An App-Wizard which creates template WTL apps.

Shrinking SQL Server Transaction Logs with SQL-DMO

21 Apr 2004 by Armen Hakobyan

Using SQL-DMO to shrink SQL Server transaction logs.

Windows Media Player Standby Plug-in

27 May 2005 by Armen Hakobyan

Media Player plug-in turning computer off when media ends

cannot open include file 'atlres.h'

7 Sep 2011 by Arun Parthasarathy

Plesase go to the Tools->Options menu.Options dialog opens.Choose projects and solutions.Choose VC++ directories.In "show directories for : ", choose "Include Files".Here add the directory path where your file exits.and give ok.Now try to build your project.

why use parenthsis ?

21 Jan 2010 by Avi Berger

I'm going to try to synthesis three other answers which each have an important point.There are situations where seemingly useless parenthesis are necessary for correctness in a macro definition. («_Superman_») In the cases that you have highlighted, however, they have no significant impact...

Exact type of HGDIOBJ (pen, brush, font, etc.)

1 Aug 2009 by Bacon Ultimate Cheeseburger

Simply make a call to GetObjectType().

Intercept a WM message into a C++ class

13 Aug 2009 by Baltoro

You definitely need to have a Window Proc to recieve your message, because it is associated specifically with a registered Windows class. The documentation over at MSDN should show you how. See this: Windows Procedures Overview[^]You can also...

how to derive a class from 2 WTL classes

21 May 2011 by barneyman

wouldn't you go the other way?class CTransparentBtn : public CMenuButtonImpl{// ...};

C++

WTL

how to derive a class from 2 WTL classes

21 May 2011 by barneyman

you're still going to have to template your CTransparentBtn if you go the other waytemplate class CTransparentBtn : public CWindowImplthentemplate class ATL_NO_VTABLE...

C++

WTL

how to derive a class from 2 WTL classes

21 May 2011 by bartello

Hi allI have a button class :class CTransparentBtn : virtual public CWindowImpl{// ...};and I've found this class for menu button from codeproject.comnamespace WTLEX{template class ATL_NO_VTABLE CMenuButtonImpl :...

C++

WTL

How to set minimum width for WTL::CMenu

25 May 2011 by bartello

Hi all!I have a button, clicking on which displays the popup WTL::CMenu.The width of menu is automatically changed based on the width of the longest menu item. But if the largest item's (in menu drop-down list) width is smaller than button's width the menu looks ugly.So I'd like...

C++

WTL

Using WTL with Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition

13 Jan 2006 by Baryon Lee

This article explains the procedure for using WTL with Visual Studio 2005 Express edition.

WTL Documented

1 Jun 2000 by Ben Burnett

Beginning Documentation on WTL

WTL Tool Bar Drop-Down Extension

26 Jul 2000 by Ben Burnett

An article on extending the tool bar control using the Window Template Library

Introduction to WTL - Part 1

30 Apr 2001 by Ben Burnett

The 'what' and 'where do I get it' of WTL

WTL wrappers for WinMain's CodeMax syntax highlighting edit control

28 May 2001 by Ben Burnett

An article on the CodeMax editing control.

Calling functions in an executable or accessing its global variables from a DLL

5 Sep 2008 by Ben Burnett

I was wondering if anyone knew of a straight forward way of calling (non-exported) functions in an executable from a DLL. We are building a, for lack of a better name, private plug-in system that will grant the plug-in access to all of a...

Custom Drawn Controls using WTL

30 Nov 2000 by Billy Leverington

How to use WTL to create custom controls

How to double click desktop icon programatically?

25 Aug 2009 by birajendu

Hi, I want to write some code which will double-click a desktop shortcut. Or the alternate way is, how can I run a desktop shurtcut using Createprocess() API. Which EXE is responsible to launch Start->Run window? Thanks in advance.

WTL Rolldown Control

4 Mar 2002 by Bjoern Graf

A WTL Rolldown control as seen in 3DSMax

WTL MDI command bar control

5 Dec 2001 by Bjoern Graf

A WTL CCommandBarCtrl extension to fully support MDI

Another WTL Grid

1 Jun 2003 by Bjornar Henden

A WTL Grid mostly aimed for use against databases.

Resizable Property Sheet/Wizard using CDialogResize

12 Mar 2007 by bkausbk

Make Property Sheet/Wizards resizable without much modification.

Image Processing with Goole Earth

15 Jul 2008 by Blade_Bao

Hi there!I'm a graduated students majored in Pattern Recognition and I've beenworking on this GetRenderHwnd for a few days, I was just wonderingthat can i or can i not use this to save color images from GE or storeit in a matrix or something like...

Navigation Sidebar

1 May 2006 by Blake Hurd

A sidebar in the lower left that emulates the sidebar in Outlook 2003. Other features implemented include theming, snapping buttons, unique button system, etc.

Variable scoping and pointers

4 Aug 2010 by bleedingfingers

To add to what others said, try this with and without the printf(...) within the ChangeData(...)void ChangeData(int **p){ int g = 100; *p = &g; printf("changed to %d\n", **p);}void main(){ int *q; ChangeData(&q); printf("changed to %d\n",...

WTL 7.1 Wizard (VS.NET 2003)

13 Jul 2003 by Brian P. Adams

A WTL wizard for Visual Studio .NET 2003

WTL integration of Lightweight HTML layout and rendering engine

10 Oct 2003 by c-smile

WTL integration of Lightweight HTML layout and rendering engine

utf8::ostream

27 Feb 2004 by c-smile

Lightweight utf8 generator

Auto Value

27 Feb 2004 by c-smile

Auto Value is an implementation of variables having undefined state

Using the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)

3 Jun 2008 by caio

Using the BITS system service

DirectSound in a Dialog Based Application

29 Jan 2009 by calducciano

Hi, I have a quick question. (well, hopefully the answer is as quick as my question as I'm sure I'm doing something dumb.)I have a direct sound application that runs just fine as a windows console app which makes sense because there is nothing...

File Sharing (not)

1 Jul 2009 by Caslen

I have a program running on several PCs at the same time (VS6.0, C++, MFC). The customers data files are stored centrally on the network. He's complaining that the same data file can be open on different computers at the same time and changes...

Variable scoping and pointers

22 Sep 2008 by Cedric Moonen

Christian Flutcher wrote:I am confused how this is happening?Because you were lucky (or in your case, not ). In your ChangeData function, your local variable has a certain address which you store in your ptr variable. When the function exits,...

class instantiation

13 Oct 2009 by Cedric Moonen

No, you can't select the type of the class this way. However, by using pointers (or references), you can manipulate all buildings the same way by manipulating pointers to the base class (this is called polymorphism, google for it if you want more information).What you want are virtual constructors,

string concatenation

13 Mar 2009 by Cedric Moonen

Which kind of string ? C style strings ? Then use strcat. std::string ? Then use the + operator. Cédric MoonenSoftware developerCharting control [v1.5]OpenGL game tutorial in C++

richedit ,How can i to make the text be centered vertically in a line,when i expand the line spacing?

26 Nov 2012 by chaau

Set pf2.cbSize = sizeof(PARAFORMAT2) after you ZeroMemory the pf2 and it should all work

C++

WTL

MFC

How can add Picture control Programmatically

23 Feb 2009 by Chandrasekharan P

Try using this piece of code. CStatic * myStatic = new CStatic;myStatic->Create(_T("my static"), WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|SS_CENTER, CRect(10,10,150,50), this,1);

PreParse XML using CString

4 Mar 2004 by Chau Johnthan

An article on XML parsing using CString.

Protect your component from automation clients

14 Apr 2004 by Chau Johnthan

Protect your component from automation clients

Understanding Onion Architecture

8 Sep 2015 by chetanvihite

In this post I am going to talk about Onion Architecture. There are several traditional architectures that exists in web world and each one of the architecture comes with its pros and cons. But most of the traditional architectures raises … Continue reading →

C++

Windows

WTL

size_t

10 Oct 2008 by C^hris L^osinger

from io.h (and crtdefs.h)#ifndef _SIZE_T_DEFINED#ifdef _WIN64typedef unsigned __int64 size_t;#elsetypedef _W64 unsigned int size_t;#endif#define _SIZE_T_DEFINED#endif image processing toolkits | batch image processing

Variable scoping and pointers

22 Sep 2008 by Christian Flutcher

I am progressing with my C++ learning. I am stuck with the following code. void ChangeData(int** ptr){ int ab = 1000; // scope in this method *ptr = &ab;}int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]){ int a = 10; int* aPtr = &a; ChangeData(&aPtr); cout...

Is MFC obsolete?

25 Sep 2008 by Christian Flutcher

I know .NET framework and C# well. Recently I started working with C++/CLI which I felt more interesting than C#. Since .NET framework is becoming popular, do you think MFC got obsolete? Are you guys doing any projects in MFC other than...