Registry System utility
Here,It my another Project, System Utility ver 1.0. let me explain it's functionality Basically this whole program depends on the registry. The registry in Windows holds the key to each and every...
View ArticleCreating a simple DLL
This article shows a step by step technique to create your first DLL with VC++. Steps to create your first DLL Create a Win32 Dynamic Link Library project Go to the workspace explorer. If its not...
View ArticleIntelliSense
IntelliSense is a form of automated autocompletion popularized by the Microsoft Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment. It also serves as documentation and disambiguation for variable names,...
View ArticleWin32 vs. MFC
Software Development Kit (SDK) It is a set of tools designed to help C programmers create Windows applications. Windows SDK consists of the large set of books describing functions, messages,...
View ArticleMessage Map Macros
To support message maps, MFC supplies the following macros: Message-Map Declaration DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP Declares that a message map will be used in a class to map messages to functions (must be used in...
View ArticleMake CStatic into a Hyperlink
Whenever you write an application you tend to get default about dialog and you always tend to think if I can put up my contact details on it or my website URL to the website it will be awesome. At...
View ArticleReveal the lost but saved password.
This article will tell you how you can retrieve the text from any window. I will use the Notepad as the sample but you can even use the password input boxes. This is not about hacking the passwords but...
View ArticleInterprocess communication through Named pipes
Threads and processes are very similar but they differ in the way they share resources. Processes are normally independent and have its own address space. Now the question comes when 2 independent...
View ArticleModeless Dialogs in MFC
There are two types of dialog boxes they are modal and modeless. The most common dialog boxes are modal. A modal dialog box demands a response before the parent program will continue which means a...
View ArticleDisplay a System Tray Icon in VC++
Create a Dialog based application and add a menu. First you need to declare some variables in the the header file of your Dialog. Code: #define MYWM_NOTIFYICON (WM_USER+1) //User defined messages....
View ArticleRight mouse button event handler
MFC does not allow to trap all the events on the CButton control but some commonly used events like BN_CLICKED and BN_DOUBLECLICKED and so to trap a right mouse button events on a CButton MFC you need...
View ArticleWindows XP Style controls in your MFC/WIN32 Applications
This article will show you how you can convert all your applications from Windows 98 looks to the Windows XP looks. Its just too simple and does not require any code changes from the developers point...
View ArticleChange the background and foreground color of an MFC Edit Box
Define a CBrush pointer in your dialog Class Code: CBrush *brush; Initialize the brush pointer in the constructor of your Dialog Code: brush = new CBrush(RGB(49,49,49)); Add the WM_CTLCOLR Message...
View ArticleHandling notifications for dynamically created control.
Introduction This article is about how we can create controls dynamically without using wizard and how to handle notification for dynamically created control. Here I will try to explain it by the...
View ArticleThread Synchronization using events
Introduction Event is one type of kernel object that Windows provides for thread synchronization. Here I shall describe the Win32 event as well as MFC event. MFC's CEvent class encapsulates Win32 event...
View ArticleOutputDebugString with variable number of arguments
Most often a question comes in my mind that why OutputDebugString does not take variable no of arguments like the TRACE or printf function. I dont know the reason why but I have a solution to the...
View ArticleDisplay Bitmap in a Picture Box using MFC from a file
When you insert a picture on a Dialog box the main aim of your dialog box is just not to display the Resource bitmaps that are added at compile time but to display the image from a file. Now to display...
View ArticleGet balloon tips text of other applications.
Introduction How to get the balloon tips text displayed by other applications. Background I once wanted to get the Balloon Tips text and analyze what is the error caused the balloon tip to popuped and...
View ArticleImplementation of pop3 client server using sockets
INTRODUCTION This code will help us to understand the working of a pop3 client server through sockets. BACKGROUND Through this any person can retrive certain details of his mails such as the subject ,...
View ArticleChange Icon of EXE file through code extracting it from other EXE file
I was a FAN of Resource hacker software and always wanted to create a software like them but one day I just thought lets make a mini version of resource hacker and so wrote a program to change the ICON...
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