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Articles by Hans Dietrich (Articles: 93, Tip/Tricks: 2)

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Button Controls

XGlyphButton - a simple image button control
Posted: 9 Mar 2004   Updated: 9 Mar 2004   Views: 108,116   Rating: 4.73/5    Votes: 21   Popularity: 6.25
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XGlyphButton is a simple CButton-based control that allows you to display an image without the need for owner-draw control.
XButtonXP - an XP-aware pushbutton that can also toggle and display an icon
Posted: 22 Mar 2005   Updated: 19 Jan 2008   Views: 206,141   Rating: 4.89/5    Votes: 46   Popularity: 8.12
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XButtonXP is an XP theme-aware pushbutton that can optionally be used as a toggle button. It can also display an icon with or without text.
EnableGroupboxControls - a non-MFC function to enable or disable all the controls within a groupbox
Posted: 9 Apr 2008   Updated: 9 Apr 2008   Views: 41,665   Rating: 4.53/5    Votes: 19   Popularity: 5.78
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 45   Downloaded: 388
EnableGroupboxControls is a function that enables or disables all the controls within a groupbox based solely upon the window rect of the controls. A simple approach to implementing a groupbox checkbox is also explained.
CreateCheckboxImageList - a non-MFC function to create an imagelist of themed checkboxes
Posted: 15 Apr 2008   Updated: 15 Apr 2008   Views: 114,309   Rating: 4.98/5    Votes: 16   Popularity: 5.99
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 83   Downloaded: 820
CreateCheckboxImageList is a function that creates an imagelist of themed or non-themed checkboxes, suitable for use in tree controls, list controls, and list boxes.
XEmphasisButton - bold and underlined text in a non-ownerdraw button
Posted: 16 Aug 2006   Updated: 23 May 2007   Views: 99,037   Rating: 4.91/5    Votes: 44   Popularity: 8.07
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XEmphasisButton allows you to display buttons with bold and underlined text without requiring ownerdraw. This means that the button is perfectly compatible with XP themes, and also works on previous Windows versions.

Combo & List Boxes

XTipComboBox - Display tooltips for combobox
Posted: 29 Jun 2003   Updated: 1 Jul 2003   Views: 207,184   Rating: 4.97/5    Votes: 24   Popularity: 6.86
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XTipComboBox implements a combobox with tooltips for the data items (both in the list box and in the edit box)
XListBox - Owner-draw CListBox with selectable text and background colors
Posted: 20 Mar 2002   Updated: 27 Feb 2008   Views: 204,314   Rating: 4.92/5    Votes: 31   Popularity: 7.34
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 80   Downloaded: 3,473
XListBox is an owner-draw listbox that provides printf-style formatting and selection of text and background colors

Dialogs and Windows

XCharMap - A dialog to display a character map
Posted: 3 Jun 2003   Updated: 3 Jun 2003   Views: 81,601   Rating: 4.72/5    Votes: 18   Popularity: 5.93
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XCharMap demonstrates the use of CXCharMap, a class that displays a character map similar to the Windows Character Map utility.
XHTMLTipOfTheDay - HTML Tip of the Day Dialog
Posted: 14 Jun 2004   Updated: 14 Jun 2004   Views: 42,119   Rating: 4.17/5    Votes: 16   Popularity: 5.02
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 41   Downloaded: 959
XHTMLTipOfTheDay is a Tip of the Day dialog that displays HTML and has forward and back buttons.
XBrowseForFolder - Wrapper for SHBrowseForFolder
Posted: 24 Sep 2003   Updated: 7 Mar 2008   Views: 147,118   Rating: 4.88/5    Votes: 61   Popularity: 8.70
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XBrowseForFolder wraps the SHBrowseForFolder API, provides a way to specify an initial directory, and cleans up the SHBrowseForFolder dialog.
XFontDialog - Customizing CFontDialog Part I: Adding Font Filters
Posted: 21 Jun 2003   Updated: 7 Oct 2008   Views: 91,989   Rating: 4.80/5    Votes: 33   Popularity: 7.30
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 40   Downloaded: 1,634
XFontDialog demonstrates how to customize CFontDialog by removing unwanted controls
XMonoFontDialog - Customizing CFontDialog Part II: Selecting Monospaced Fonts
Posted: 22 Oct 2008   Updated: 22 Oct 2008   Views: 15,043   Rating: 4.86/5    Votes: 16   Popularity: 5.85
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 16   Downloaded: 225
XMonoFontDialog is a CFontDialog clone that is customized for selecting monospaced fonts. A custom label has been added to the dialog that informs the user when a monospaced font is selected in the combobox, and bold typeface is used to highlight monospaced fonts in the combobox list.
XMessageBox - A reverse-engineered MessageBox()
Posted: 12 Jul 2001   Updated: 29 Nov 2008   Views: 402,365   Rating: 4.95/5    Votes: 177   Popularity: 11.12
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A reverse-engineered non-MFC MessageBox() that includes custom checkboxes.
XFolderDialog - a folder selection dialog based on CFileDialog
Posted: 16 Mar 2005   Updated: 2 Jun 2010   Views: 208,459   Rating: 4.89/5    Votes: 51   Popularity: 8.34
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XFolderDialog provides a folder selection dialog like that used in MS Word, and includes persistent list view type.
XDialogImport - How to share dialogs between projects
Posted: 18 Jun 2003   Updated: 18 Jun 2003   Views: 61,062   Rating: 4.88/5    Votes: 28   Popularity: 7.06
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XDialogImport describes a simple and effective method for sharing frequently-used dialogs between projects, using some documented and some poorly documented techniques.
XKeyboard - on-screen keyboard
Posted: 4 Apr 2005   Updated: 4 Apr 2005   Views: 105,425   Rating: 4.87/5    Votes: 23   Popularity: 6.63
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XKeyboard eliminates the threat of keyloggers by allowing the user to enter a password by clicking on buttons displayed on an on-screen keyboard.
XFileDialog - Customizing CFileDialog
Posted: 23 Jun 2003   Updated: 23 Jun 2003   Views: 145,001   Rating: 4.86/5    Votes: 21   Popularity: 6.42
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XFileDialog demonstrates how to customize CFileDialog by adding a MRU combobox for folders.

Edit Controls

XEditPrompt - CEdit-derived control with web-like prompt
Posted: 5 Jul 2007   Updated: 20 Jul 2007   Views: 39,948   Rating: 4.87/5    Votes: 23   Popularity: 6.64
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 52   Downloaded: 638
XEditPrompt implements an edit control with built-in prompt and text color, just like you see on web pages.

Files and Folders

XMLProfile - a non-MFC, non-STL class to read and write XML profile files
Posted: 2 Jul 2008   Updated: 2 Jul 2008   Views: 30,020   Rating: 4.89/5    Votes: 43   Popularity: 8.00
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XMLProfile implements a class to read and write XML profile files that is consistent with the MFC set of profile functions. Conversion functions to allow reading/writing both INI and XML profiles are included. A CWinApp-derived class provides drop-in replacement of the standard MFC profile functio
XResFile - Files Stored in Resources: Part 1 - Text and Binary
Posted: 7 Jul 2007   Updated: 6 Jul 2007   Views: 30,942   Rating: 4.97/5    Votes: 41   Popularity: 8.01
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This series of articles is a step-by-step guide to reading files stored in your program's resources. Along the way I will present some non-MFC classes to assist you in reading text, binary, zip, and even encrypted files that have been compiled into your program as resources.
XResFile - Files Stored in Resources: Part 3 - Encrypted Files
Posted: 9 Jul 2007   Updated: 9 Jul 2007   Views: 26,010   Rating: 4.92/5    Votes: 25   Popularity: 6.88
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This series of articles is a step-by-step guide to reading files stored in your program's resources. Along the way I will present some non-MFC classes to assist you in reading text, binary, zip, and even encrypted files that have been compiled into your program as resources.
XResFile - Files Stored in Resources: Part 2 - Zip Files
Posted: 7 Jul 2007   Updated: 19 Jul 2007   Views: 32,370   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 37   Popularity: 7.84
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This series of articles is a step-by-step guide to reading files stored in your program's resources. Along the way I will present some non-MFC classes to assist you in reading text, binary, zip, and even encrypted files that have been compiled into your program as resources.
XPEInfo - a non-MFC class to get info from PE file
Posted: 11 Dec 2008   Updated: 11 Dec 2008   Views: 17,217   Rating: 4.95/5    Votes: 20   Popularity: 6.43
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The XPEInfo APIs allow you to extract information from a PE file. Included in the download is a Windows demo app, and a console app that tests whether a PE file is valid, whether it is 64-bit, contains debug info, is a .Net executable, or is signed. Sample cmd files are provided.
XReverse - Reverse a text file using memory-mapped files
Posted: 14 May 2003   Updated: 14 May 2003   Views: 72,382   Rating: 4.43/5    Votes: 7   Popularity: 3.74
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 23   Downloaded: 1,056
XReverse reverses a text file line-by-line, so that what was the last line becomes the first line. This is useful when you want to view server logs, for example, with the latest line displayed at the top. Memory-mapped files helps to make XReverse very fast.
XFile - Extending the Win32 File API for Server Applications
Posted: 6 May 2003   Updated: 19 May 2003   Views: 118,347   Rating: 4.89/5    Votes: 41   Popularity: 7.89
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XFile extends the Win32 file functions with a non-MFC class that includes functions to implement file rollover, file shrinking, file compare, buffered writes, mapped file reads, zipping, and automatic file size limits.
XHtmlLog - Convert text log files to HTML
Posted: 30 May 2003   Updated: 30 May 2003   Views: 48,731   Rating: 4.75/5    Votes: 13   Popularity: 5.29
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 33   Downloaded: 872
XHtmlLog converts delimited text log files to HTML for display by a browser. Callback functions allow the output to be customized prior to HTML generation.
XFileProperties - A modeless dialog to display file properties
Posted: 13 Jun 2003   Updated: 13 Jun 2003   Views: 50,032   Rating: 4.73/5    Votes: 13   Popularity: 5.27
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XFileProperties demonstrates the use of CXFileProperties, a class that displays a modeless dialog similar to the Windows file properties dialog.
XFolderSize - A class to determine folder size
Posted: 11 Jun 2007   Updated: 11 Jun 2007   Views: 29,383   Rating: 4.83/5    Votes: 15   Popularity: 5.68
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 34   Downloaded: 554
XFolderSize is a non-MFC class that collects folder size, folder count, and file count based on starting folder.

List Controls

XListCtrl - A custom-draw list control with subitem formatting
Posted: 3 Feb 2002   Updated: 6 Sep 2006   Views: 1,186,064   Rating: 4.93/5    Votes: 283   Popularity: 12.08
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 565   Downloaded: 10,111
A custom-draw list control with support for subitem colors, bold font, progress bars, and checkboxes.

Menus

XPrintHeader - Choose page header format using "More like this" popup menus
Posted: 30 Jul 2003   Updated: 30 Jul 2003   Views: 39,815   Rating: 4.65/5    Votes: 16   Popularity: 5.60
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XPrintHeader implements a dialog that allows the user to choose the formatting for a page header by dynamically created popup menus.

Miscellaneous

XColourPicker - yet another colour picker control
Posted: 10 Jan 2006   Updated: 9 Jan 2006   Views: 36,967   Rating: 4.87/5    Votes: 20   Popularity: 6.34
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XColourPicker is a simple drop-in colour picker.
XColorHexagonCtrl - a non-MFC color picker control that displays a color hexagon
Posted: 15 Mar 2008   Updated: 4 Apr 2008   Views: 37,460   Rating: 4.99/5    Votes: 32   Popularity: 7.51
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XColorHexagonCtrl displays a color hexagon that allows user selection, and provides APIs for color based on RGB and HSL color models.
XColorSpectrumCtrl - a non-MFC color picker control that displays a color spectrum
Posted: 13 Mar 2008   Updated: 4 Apr 2008   Views: 36,944   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 52   Popularity: 8.58
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 52   Downloaded: 383
XColorSpectrumCtrl displays a color spectrum that allows user selection, and provides APIs for color based on RGB and HSL color models.
XColorDialog - an MFC color picker control that displays a color hexagon and a color spectrum
Posted: 5 Apr 2008   Updated: 5 Apr 2008   Views: 27,315   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 12   Popularity: 5.40
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XColorDialog displays a color hexagon and a color spectrum that allows user selection, and provides APIs for color based on RGB and HSL color models.
XColorPickerXP - an MFC color picker control with themed look
Posted: 9 Apr 2008   Updated: 9 Apr 2008   Views: 19,027   Rating: 4.57/5    Votes: 13   Popularity: 5.10
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XColorPickerXP is a simple drop-in color picker based on CComboBox that pops up color selection grid.
XAnalogClock - a skinnable analog clock
Posted: 23 Mar 2006   Updated: 20 Jul 2006   Views: 82,679   Rating: 4.94/5    Votes: 59   Popularity: 8.75
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XAnalogClock displays a nice-looking skinnable analog clock in a small memory footprint.
XScrollBar - Scroll bar like Windows Media Player's
Posted: 9 Sep 2004   Updated: 2 Sep 2008   Views: 122,640   Rating: 4.90/5    Votes: 84   Popularity: 9.44
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XScrollBar is a scroll bar that may be displayed with optional thumb color, thumb gripper, and channel color
ResizeScrollbar - How to change width of built-in scroll bars
Posted: 7 Feb 2002   Updated: 7 Feb 2002   Views: 95,734   Rating: 4.67/5    Votes: 14   Popularity: 5.35
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Changing scroll bar width for Windows controls like listbox
XHyperLink - yet another hyperlink control
Posted: 16 Oct 2003   Updated: 16 Oct 2003   Views: 66,257   Rating: 4.61/5    Votes: 19   Popularity: 5.89
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XHyperLink is a simple drop-in hyperlink control with optional parent notification.
XSudokuWnd - a control that implements the Sudoku puzzle
Posted: 17 Jan 2006   Updated: 19 Mar 2007   Views: 101,495   Rating: 4.95/5    Votes: 74   Popularity: 9.26
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XSudokuWnd is an MFC control that implements a solver for the popular Sudoku puzzle, based on D.E. Knuth's Dancing Links algorithm. Example projects show how to use XSudokuWnd in dialog and SDI applications.
XGroupBox - an MFC groupbox control to display text and icon
Posted: 2 Sep 2008   Updated: 2 Sep 2008   Views: 40,876   Rating: 4.98/5    Votes: 52   Popularity: 8.54
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XGroupBox is an MFC control that displays a flicker-free groupbox with text and/or icon. You can use this to display either a standard groupbox or a header-only groupbox.
XProgressWnd - A Popup Progress Window with optional AVI and time
Posted: 3 Nov 2008   Updated: 3 Nov 2008   Views: 30,075   Rating: 4.89/5    Votes: 47   Popularity: 8.18
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XProgressWnd is a popup progress window that display a progress control and optional AVI animation and estimated time left, without requiring a dialog resource.
XIcon - an MFC control to display text and icon
Posted: 4 May 2008   Updated: 4 May 2008   Views: 23,320   Rating: 4.92/5    Votes: 19   Popularity: 6.29
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XIcon is an MFC control that displays text and/or icon with auto-sizing.
XGradientZoneBar - an MFC color gradient indicator bar
Posted: 24 Apr 2008   Updated: 19 May 2008   Views: 37,308   Rating: 4.95/5    Votes: 58   Popularity: 8.73
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XGradientZoneBar displays an indicator bar that allows you to specify multiple zones that are filled with a color gradient, and includes APIs to set the bar orientation, font, and tick marks.
XSuperTooltip - Office 2007 Super Tooltip class
Posted: 31 Jul 2006   Updated: 31 Jul 2006   Views: 130,535   Rating: 4.98/5    Votes: 115   Popularity: 10.26
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XSuperTooltip implements class for displaying super tooltips, which were introduced in Office 2007. The demo download includes super tooltip code generator, that makes it easy to add super tooltips to your application.
XBalloonMsg - a non-MFC balloon-shaped message box
Posted: 23 Jun 2008   Updated: 11 Jul 2008   Views: 99,527   Rating: 4.99/5    Votes: 68   Popularity: 9.14
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XBalloonMsg displays a message box using balloon-style tooltips. Message and title strings may be embedded or stored in string resource.

Shell and IE programming

ExecApp, ExecRegisteredApp, and LookupRegisteredApp - non-MFC functions to execute an application
Posted: 8 Jun 2008   Updated: 8 Jun 2008   Views: 25,167   Rating: 4.83/5    Votes: 25   Popularity: 6.75
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ExecApp is a replacement for WinExec(). ExecRegisteredApp executes the app that is registered for the specified file extension. LookupRegisteredApp retrieves the application file path that is registered for the specified file extension.

Static & Panel Controls

XHTMLStatic - An Extra-Lean Custom Control to Display HTML
Posted: 15 Sep 2002   Updated: 25 Oct 2007   Views: 180,849   Rating: 4.92/5    Votes: 45   Popularity: 8.13
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 148   Downloaded: 2,991
A custom control based on CStatic that interprets and displays common HTML text formatting elements such as bold, italic, color, font, and size, but adds only 16 Kb to your app.
XColorStatic - a colorizing static control
Posted: 16 Oct 2003   Updated: 16 Oct 2003   Views: 100,834   Rating: 4.54/5    Votes: 31   Popularity: 6.78
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 63   Downloaded: 2,372
XColorStatic is a simple CStatic-based control that provides font changes, text and background colors, and icon display.

Toolbars & Docking windows

XDriveBar - Display drive buttons in a fixed toolbar
Posted: 11 Aug 2003   Updated: 11 Aug 2003   Views: 66,362   Rating: 4.70/5    Votes: 17   Popularity: 5.78
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XDriveBar implements a drive bar for the drives in a system. The demo project shows how to keep the drive bar in sync by handling the WM_DEVICECHANGE message.
XTrueColorToolBar - True-color toolbar with support for Office-style color button
Posted: 17 Dec 2007   Updated: 10 Jan 2008   Views: 42,280   Rating: 4.69/5    Votes: 19   Popularity: 6.00
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XTrueColorToolBar is an MFC class based on CToolBar that provides support for true-color bitmaps, with optional support for an Office-style color picker button.

Tree Controls

XHtmlTree - Tree control with support for HTML, XML, Smart Checkboxes, and Drag & Drop
Posted: 9 Aug 2007   Updated: 1 Jan 2008   Views: 190,438   Rating: 4.97/5    Votes: 153   Popularity: 10.85
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 331   Downloaded: 6,039
XHtmlTree is an MFC control based on CTreeCtrl, with support for HTML text, web links, APP: links, XML load/save, Smart Checkboxes, and Drag & Drop.

Applications & Tools

XCmyk - CMYK to RGB Calculator with source code
Posted: 5 Jul 2003   Updated: 5 Jul 2003   Views: 190,310   Rating: 4.65/5    Votes: 20   Popularity: 6.05
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 46   Downloaded: 3,139
XCmyk implements an RGB to CMYK calculator
XTimer - Timer and Stopwatch Utility with Source Code
Posted: 29 May 2003   Updated: 20 Aug 2007   Views: 105,405   Rating: 4.77/5    Votes: 31   Popularity: 7.11
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 69   Downloaded: 3,632
XTimer provides countdown timer and stopwatch features in a compact MFC dialog app.

Trace and Logs

XTrace.cs - C# trace with printf formatting
Posted: 6 Mar 2010   Updated: 6 Mar 2010   Views: 9,798   Rating: 4.92/5    Votes: 11   Popularity: 5.12
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XTrace.cs provides printf-style formatting and other useful trace extensions. Module name, line number, and thread id are automatically included in the trace output. Double-clicking the trace line in the Output Window takes you directly to the source file and line in the editor.

GDI

Finding a Font file from a Font name
Posted: 10 Jul 2001   Updated: 10 Jul 2001   Views: 107,385   Rating: 4.47/5    Votes: 21   Popularity: 5.91
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How to find the name of a font file, given the display name of a font
XFont - Get font name and file information
Posted: 21 May 2003   Updated: 21 May 2003   Views: 65,573   Rating: 4.60/5    Votes: 13   Popularity: 5.12
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XFont retrieves the name of the font file from the regsitry, and the font name from the font file
XFontCombo - An OpenType-aware font combobox
Posted: 26 May 2003   Updated: 26 May 2003   Views: 52,565   Rating: 4.78/5    Votes: 18   Popularity: 6.00
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XFontCombo demonstrates the use of IsOpenType(), a function that determines if a font is OpenType
XBreadCrumbBar - Draw breadcrumb trail with hyperlinks and HTML
Posted: 7 Aug 2007   Updated: 7 Aug 2007   Views: 25,519   Rating: 4.81/5    Votes: 23   Popularity: 6.55
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XBreadCrumbBar is a windowless non-MFC class that allows you to display a breadcrumb trail as HTML text, with support for web links and APP: links.
XHtmlDraw - Draw text with HTML tags and anchor links
Posted: 15 Jul 2007   Updated: 6 Nov 2007   Views: 87,555   Rating: 4.93/5    Votes: 33   Popularity: 7.48
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XHtmlDraw allows you to display a single line HTML text as easily as using DrawText(), including web links and APP: links, no MFC

C / C++ Language

XGetopt - A Unix-compatible getopt() for MFC and Win32
Posted: 9 Mar 2002   Updated: 20 May 2003   Views: 157,123   Rating: 4.86/5    Votes: 49   Popularity: 8.22
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XGetopt provides drop-in Unix-style command line processing for Win32 and MFC applications
XZip and XUnzip - Add zip and/or unzip to your app with no extra .lib or .dll
Posted: 13 May 2003   Updated: 18 Jul 2007   Views: 374,080   Rating: 4.88/5    Votes: 94   Popularity: 9.62
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XZip and XUnzip provide non-MFC functions to create a zip, add files to it, and extract files from it - all in two .cpp files
XCPClock - CodeProject Clock
Posted: 23 Mar 2006   Updated: 27 Aug 2008   Views: 72,367   Rating: 4.90/5    Votes: 69   Popularity: 9.01
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XCPClock displays CodeProject clock with four skins.

C#

XGetoptCS - A Unix-style getopt() written in C#
Posted: 5 Jun 2007   Updated: 5 Jun 2007   Views: 16,479   Rating: 4.81/5    Votes: 13   Popularity: 5.36
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XGetoptCS provides Unix-style command line processing for C# apps

.NET Framework

XAutobuild - A utility to increment build number
Posted: 6 Jun 2007   Updated: 6 Jun 2007   Views: 21,952   Rating: 4.87/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.23
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XAutobuild auto-increments the build number contained in Autobuild.h. This can be used in resource files to automatically update the version resource each time a project is compiled.
XFxDetect - A utility to detect which versions of .Net are installed
Posted: 10 Jun 2007   Updated: 12 Mar 2011   Views: 33,954   Rating: 4.86/5    Votes: 38   Popularity: 7.68
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XFxDetect inspects registry and file system of local or remote computer to determine which versions of .Net Framework are installed.

Win32/64 SDK & OS

XMSAALib - a non-MFC class to retrieve accessibility (MSAA) info
Posted: 10 Feb 2009   Updated: 10 Feb 2009   Views: 19,409   Rating: 4.87/5    Votes: 12   Popularity: 5.25
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XMSAALib provides APIs that allow you to retrieve MSAA (accessibility) information from a window by using the IAccessible interface. The demo app shows how to build an accessibility object tree from a window.

DLLs & Assemblies

Step by Step: Calling C++ DLLs from VC++ and VB - Part 3
Posted: 28 Feb 2004   Updated: 28 Feb 2004   Views: 144,753   Rating: 4.86/5    Votes: 45   Popularity: 8.03
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This series of articles is a step-by-step guide to constructing C++ DLLs that include C++ functions and C++ classes, and then calling the DLL functions and classes from VC++ and VB programs.
Step by Step: Calling C++ DLLs from VC++ and VB - Part 1
Posted: 28 Feb 2004   Updated: 29 Feb 2004   Views: 646,258   Rating: 4.90/5    Votes: 128   Popularity: 10.32
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This series of articles is a step-by-step guide to constructing C++ DLLs that include C++ functions and C++ classes, and then calling the DLL functions and classes from VC++ and VB programs.
Step by Step: Calling C++ DLLs from VC++ and VB - Part 4
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This series of articles is a step-by-step guide to constructing C++ DLLs that include C++ functions and C++ classes, and then calling the DLL functions and classes from VC++ and VB programs.
Step by Step: Calling C++ DLLs from VC++ and VB - Part 2
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This series of articles is a step-by-step guide to constructing C++ DLLs that include C++ functions and C++ classes, and then calling the DLL functions and classes from VC++ and VB programs.

Internet / Network

XIPAddressCtrl - an enhanced IP address control based on CIPAddressCtrl
Posted: 5 Jan 2005   Updated: 5 Jan 2005   Views: 38,880   Rating: 4.43/5    Votes: 17   Popularity: 5.45
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XIPAddressCtrl adds string handling and profile read/write functions to CIPAddressCtrl.
XWSAError - a DLL for Winsock error lookup
Posted: 6 Jan 2005   Updated: 6 Jan 2005   Views: 30,076   Rating: 4.94/5    Votes: 19   Popularity: 6.32
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Add Winsock error lookup to your C++ or VB app with this DLL.
Single Server, Multiple Clients - Win32/MFC classes for client/server communication with Unicode support
Posted: 26 Jan 2005   Updated: 26 Jan 2005   Views: 66,273   Rating: 4.54/5    Votes: 22   Popularity: 6.10
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An implementation of Liyang Yu's classes for client/server communication for both Win32 and MFC, with Unicode and ANSI support.

String handling

XMemString - Extended memory and string search functions
Posted: 11 May 2003   Updated: 11 May 2003   Views: 51,558   Rating: 4.17/5    Votes: 16   Popularity: 5.02
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Extended string and memory search functions: memmem(), memimem(), memichr(), _tcsistr()
XTrim - trim leading and trailing whitespace characters
Posted: 20 May 2003   Updated: 20 May 2003   Views: 61,278   Rating: 4.24/5    Votes: 8   Popularity: 3.82
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XTrim implements _tcsltrim and _tcsrtrim - CRT-like functions to trim whitespace.
XSearch - a class that implements a search engine-style advanced search
Posted: 26 Jul 2005   Updated: 16 May 2007   Views: 47,709   Rating: 4.84/5    Votes: 29   Popularity: 7.08
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XSearch implements a search engine-style advanced search, including ALL, EXACT PHRASE, AT LEAST ONE, and WITHOUT words. XSearch is based on a multiple-substring search algorithm.
XString - non-MFC non-STL string functions
Posted: 25 Jun 2007   Updated: 7 Aug 2007   Views: 28,023   Rating: 4.91/5    Votes: 15   Popularity: 5.78
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XString offers functions for remove, replace, trim, and case-insensitive search that are not included in the CRT.
XFormatNumber - A function to format numbers with commas
Posted: 25 Jun 2002   Updated: 25 Jun 2002   Views: 50,900   Rating: 4.55/5    Votes: 13   Popularity: 5.06
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An easy-to-use function that provides locale-correct comma-formatting of numbers
XTokenString - a function to extract tokens from a string
Posted: 4 Aug 2005   Updated: 4 Aug 2005   Views: 27,287   Rating: 4.70/5    Votes: 21   Popularity: 6.21
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XTokenString extracts tokens from a string, and returns a CStringArray that contains tokens. A token is defined by specified delimiters; double-quotes may optionally group multiple words into a single token, and an option is provided for handling escaped characters.

Threads, Processes & IPC

XQueue - a non-MFC C++ class to manage an interprocess queue
Posted: 17 Jan 2005   Updated: 17 Jan 2005   Views: 84,906   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 46   Popularity: 8.31
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XQueue implements a shared-memory first-in first-out (FIFO) queue, based on memory-mapped files, that works on all versions of Windows.
Thread Debugging with the Thread Information Block
Posted: 5 Jun 2002   Updated: 5 Jun 2002   Views: 65,993   Rating: 4.31/5    Votes: 17   Popularity: 5.31
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How to use the Thread Information Block to store descriptive information about the thread

Debug Tips

XCrashReport : Exception Handling and Crash Reporting - Part 1
Posted: 19 Oct 2003   Updated: 19 Oct 2003   Views: 140,975   Rating: 4.97/5    Votes: 58   Popularity: 8.76
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Add basic exception handling and crash reporting to your application
XCrashReport : Exception Handling and Crash Reporting - Part 2
Posted: 19 Oct 2003   Updated: 19 Oct 2003   Views: 57,018   Rating: 4.91/5    Votes: 28   Popularity: 7.10
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Add basic exception handling and crash reporting to your application
XCrashReport : Exception Handling and Crash Reporting - Part 3
Posted: 19 Oct 2003   Updated: 19 Oct 2003   Views: 88,495   Rating: 4.96/5    Votes: 49   Popularity: 8.38
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Add basic exception handling and crash reporting to your application
XCrashReport : Exception Handling and Crash Reporting - Part 4
Posted: 19 Oct 2003   Updated: 19 Oct 2003   Views: 337,527   Rating: 4.95/5    Votes: 72   Popularity: 9.20
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Add basic exception handling and crash reporting to your application

Design and Architecture

XBitArray - a non-MFC C++ class to manipulate bits in a bit array.
Posted: 10 Feb 2004   Updated: 10 Feb 2004   Views: 45,747   Rating: 4.71/5    Votes: 25   Popularity: 6.58
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XBitArray provides functions to set, test, and find bits in an array of bytes.

Hardware & System

Event Logging, Part I: XEventLog - Basic NT Event Logging
Posted: 22 Apr 2003   Updated: 22 Apr 2003   Views: 138,511   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 53   Popularity: 8.62
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XEventLog shows how to integrate minimalist NT event logging into your application
Windows Version Numbers
Posted: 11 Jul 2001   Updated: 11 Jul 2001   Views: 99,368   Rating: 4.87/5    Votes: 28   Popularity: 7.05
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Values returned by GetVersionEx for Windows operating systems
XWinVer - Simple class to get Windows OS version
Posted: 14 Mar 2005   Updated: 13 Jun 2007   Views: 85,385   Rating: 4.86/5    Votes: 31   Popularity: 7.25
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Get Windows OS version and service pack info in numeric and string formats.

Interviews

A Coder Interview With Hans Dietrich
Posted: 5 Oct 2011   Updated: 5 Oct 2011   Views: 7,496   Rating: 4.79/5    Votes: 32   Popularity: 7.20
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Welcome to our continuing series of Code Project interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. In this installment we track down Code Project member Hans Dietrich.

Work Issues

Version Control for the Standalone Programmer - Part 1
Posted: 17 Jul 2006   Updated: 29 Jun 2007   Views: 144,605   Rating: 4.86/5    Votes: 101   Popularity: 9.74
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How to set up TortoiseSVN when working by yourself.
Font Survey: 42 of the Best Monospaced Programming Fonts
Posted: 9 Oct 2008   Updated: 18 Aug 2010   Views: 290,013   Rating: 4.92/5    Votes: 98   Popularity: 9.79
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This article presents commonly used programming fonts with examples of each font in ClearType and non-ClearType.
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Programming Tips

Don't use ALL CAPS in emails [Tip/Trick]
Posted: 21 Mar 2011   Updated: 21 Mar 2011   Rating: 4.57/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 3.20
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This Tip talks about not using ALL CAPS in emails.

Author Resources

Use sidebars to improve article readability [Tip/Trick]
Posted: 20 Sep 2010   Updated: 20 Sep 2010   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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This tip shows how to use the new sidebar css classes to improve readability and add depth to an article.

Hans Dietrich

Software Developer (Senior)
Hans Dietrich Software
United States United States

Member

 I attended St. Michael's College of the University of Toronto, with the intention of becoming a priest. A friend in the University's Computer Science Department got me interested in programming, and I have been hooked ever since.
 
Recently, I have moved to Los Angeles where I am doing consulting and development work.
 
For consulting and custom software development, please see www.hdsoft.org.


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