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Articles by DavidCrow (Articles: 26, Tip/Tricks: 3)

Articles: 26, Tip/Tricks: 3

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Average article rating: 4.23

Button Controls

CRegionButton - A multidirectional button
Posted: 17 May 2004   Updated: 17 May 2004   Views: 78,787   Rating: 4.25/5    Votes: 19   Popularity: 5.43
Licence: Not specified      Bookmarked: 58   Downloaded: 1,008
A class for making a button appear as though it has many regions.

Dialogs and Windows

Bounded rectangles
Posted: 18 Jan 2008   Updated: 18 Jan 2008   Views: 10,443   Rating: 2.80/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 1.69
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 9   Downloaded: 56
A very brief discussion on how to restrict a window's position to a bounding rectangle.

Printing

Ask for, and receive, change notifications from a printer
Posted: 20 Apr 2010   Updated: 20 Apr 2010   Views: 8,172   Rating: 4.60/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.39
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 27   Downloaded: 404
This article is a brief discussion on how to use FindFirstPrinterChangeNotification

Progress Controls

How long is this process going to take?
Posted: 18 Jul 2006   Updated: 18 Jul 2006   Views: 29,282   Rating: 4.39/5    Votes: 12   Popularity: 4.73
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 41   Downloaded: 398
A class for creating a progress control with text and estimated completion time.

Applications & Tools

A magic trick
Posted: 8 Oct 2003   Updated: 12 Nov 2003   Views: 91,586   Rating: 3.75/5    Votes: 20   Popularity: 4.88
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A magic trick that will astound you!
Clean out the Cookies folder
Posted: 22 Oct 2004   Updated: 18 Nov 2004   Views: 78,929   Rating: 4.14/5    Votes: 8   Popularity: 3.74
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A command-line utility for cleaning out the Cookies folder.
Quick Regedit Navigation
Posted: 29 Dec 2005   Updated: 29 Dec 2005   Views: 49,729   Rating: 4.58/5    Votes: 13   Popularity: 5.10
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A tool to quickly navigate to a particular key/value using Regedit.

Audio and Video

mixerSetControlDetails
Posted: 11 Aug 2003   Updated: 19 Sep 2005   Views: 132,358   Rating: 4.82/5    Votes: 20   Popularity: 6.27
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How to set the master volume of the speakers

GDI

Rendering text on top of a bitmap
Posted: 29 Feb 2004   Updated: 1 Aug 2008   Views: 44,267   Rating: 2.97/5    Votes: 20   Popularity: 3.86
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 22   Downloaded: 616
Rendering text on top of a bitmap.

C / C++ Language

UpdateResource
Posted: 7 Sep 2003   Updated: 7 Sep 2003   Views: 105,129   Rating: 4.88/5    Votes: 19   Popularity: 6.23
Licence: Not specified      Bookmarked: 50   Downloaded: 0
How to manipulate raw resources (RT_RCDATA) using UpdateResource().
Registry Information
Posted: 15 Oct 2003   Updated: 28 Oct 2003   Views: 64,935   Rating: 3.17/5    Votes: 15   Popularity: 3.72
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A small discussion on finding and removing problematic registry entries
Updating version information at run-time
Posted: 3 Mar 2004   Updated: 14 Jul 2005   Views: 124,184   Rating: 4.50/5    Votes: 12   Popularity: 4.86
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Updating version information at run-time rather than at design-time.
Recordsets and invoices
Posted: 23 Sep 2005   Updated: 23 Sep 2005   Views: 25,570   Rating: 3.96/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 3.78
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 20   Downloaded: 418
How to use CRecordset with the Northwind database to create an invoice.

XML

Brrrr! It's cold in here
Posted: 23 Oct 2009   Updated: 23 Oct 2009   Views: 8,597   Rating: 4.63/5    Votes: 8   Popularity: 4.16
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 21   Downloaded: 0
A brief description of how to parse XML from a few weather-related sites.

Win32/64 SDK & OS

When Can I Logon to Windows?
Posted: 12 Sep 2010   Updated: 18 Sep 2010   Views: 5,697   Rating: 4.33/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 3.03
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 11   Downloaded: 46
A brief explanation on how to interpret the 'logon hours' member of the USER_INFO structures

Algorithms & Recipes

Averaging...the easy way
Posted: 31 Dec 2008   Updated: 31 Dec 2008   Views: 6,523   Rating: 4.78/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.28
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 9   Downloaded: 36
How to find the average of a set of numbers.

Date and Time

Is this computer's clock slow or is it just me?
Posted: 15 Oct 2009   Updated: 16 Oct 2009   Views: 12,373   Rating: 4.89/5    Votes: 6   Popularity: 3.80
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 30   Downloaded: 139
How to request and parse data from various time servers using the NTP, DAYTIME, and TIME protocols.

Internet / Network

More on using IP Helper API’s
Posted: 26 Jan 2004   Updated: 4 Mar 2004   Views: 136,718   Rating: 4.95/5    Votes: 19   Popularity: 6.33
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A brief discussion on how to use a few of the functions in the IP Helper suite
A brief discussion on how to use three of the network management functions
Posted: 14 Mar 2004   Updated: 2 May 2004   Views: 94,077   Rating: 4.41/5    Votes: 16   Popularity: 5.31
Licence: Not specified      Bookmarked: 30   Downloaded: 978
A brief discussion on how to use NetShareEnum, NetConnectionEnum, and NetFileEnum
Which machines in my LAN are running X DBMS
Posted: 14 Jun 2007   Updated: 10 Jun 2009   Views: 12,356   Rating: 3.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 1.43
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 12   Downloaded: 136
Use NetServerEnum to find servers running particular services.

Programming Tips

Transparent desktop icons
Posted: 17 Nov 2003   Updated: 29 Dec 2004   Views: 110,805   Rating: 4.70/5    Votes: 17   Popularity: 5.79
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A brief discussion on what is involved in making the text background of the desktop icons transparent.

Threads, Processes & IPC

Toolhelp32ReadProcessMemory
Posted: 3 Sep 2003   Updated: 3 Sep 2003   Views: 68,823   Rating: 3.55/5    Votes: 7   Popularity: 3.00
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How to use the Toolhelp32ReadProcessMemory() function
GetProcessTimes
Posted: 17 Jun 2003   Updated: 4 May 2004   Views: 131,291   Rating: 4.26/5    Votes: 11   Popularity: 4.44
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How to retrieve the running-time of a process
Navigating the PEB
Posted: 19 May 2005   Updated: 19 May 2005   Views: 68,880   Rating: 4.71/5    Votes: 12   Popularity: 5.08
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Obtaining another process' command-line arguments.

Hardware & System

Reading quota information on an NTFS volume
Posted: 23 Jun 2005   Updated: 23 Jun 2005   Views: 25,243   Rating: 4.17/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 2.91
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A class wrapping most of the functionality of the IDiskQuotaControl interface.
FindFirstChangeNotification & Shell_NotifyIcon together... again
Posted: 10 Oct 2007   Updated: 10 Oct 2007   Views: 28,184   Rating: 4.81/5    Votes: 18   Popularity: 6.04
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 35   Downloaded: 523
A brief description on how to monitor folder changes and get notification via the taskbar's "icon tray"
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Programming Tips

What size is this folder? [Tip/Trick]
Posted: 12 May 2010   Updated: 12 May 2010   Rating: 4.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 1   Downloaded: 0
An alternative to iterating a folder's contents to get the size is to use the scripting object, FileSystemObject.Using ClassWizard (Ctrl+W), the first thing you'll need to do is add the classes contained in the Script Runtime engine (scrrun.dll). This will add scrrun.cpp and scrrun.h to...
Reset File Attributes - Set or Reset Read Only file attribute. [Tip/Trick]
Posted: 19 Oct 2011   Updated: 19 Oct 2011   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 0   Downloaded: 0
"Not wanting to change all 23 files manually I came up with this simple utility."For time reasons? Surely you spent more time putting together, and using, this utility than the three seconds it would have taken to turn off the read-only attribute.

Uncategorised Tips and Tricks

Sending an executable file via Outlook [Tip/Trick]
Posted: 21 Dec 2010   Updated: 21 Dec 2010   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 1   Downloaded: 0

DavidCrow

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Pinnacle Business Systems
United States United States

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