This article shows how to make one ATL COM component with crypt/decrypt functions and how to use it in ASP programs. It shows also how to register a component in MTS.
A DevStudio add-in described provides two interesting IDE integration features: adding a new tab to VC WorkspaceView window and running an arbitrary process under IDE with output sent to "Build" tab of VC Output window.
Example of handling real-life challenges when hosting WebBrowser control: separate creation of hosting window and the control, keyboard shortcuts, control's dimensions, etc.
An ATL Object Wizard that helps create a COM Object implementation of a DeskBand. Web Accessories for Internet Explorer and the Desktop. History, Favorites, Search, Radio, and Address Bands ... You have seen them since Internet Explorer 4.0. Now create your own!
An alternative approach in which dialogs are entirely specified as C++ code that requires neither IDE support to be written nor IDE generated resources to be executed. Powered by the C++ type system.
How to implement an Explorer Desktop Band that uses the Microsoft’s Performance Data Helper interface to display current performance data about activity such as memory, disk, and processor usage.
This is an ATL Object Wizard that eases window development using CWindowImpl. It removes the redundant copy-n-paste of code between class implementations
This article describes the process of storing the audio data of a movie file (.mpeg, .mpg, .avi and .dat) on the hard disk in a WAV file using DirectShow filters.
This article details a class that allows the manipulation of network adapters and uses that class to build a graphical ipconfig utility for anyone using Windows2000 or Windows XP. In order to accomplish this, the IP helper API is used.
What if objects could move from machine to machine? Not just automated downloads, or remotely controlling objects as in remoting, but a system in which the object actually moves about. Mobile software agents do exactly that. In this article I will provide an introduction to this fascinating concept.
Introduces the XCD format that describes cars as collections grouped by Make and Year, and provides an API ported into a COM library to access the collections.
With this your Java projects can take advantage of ActiveX controls and Office documents such as spreadsheets, charts, calendars, word processors, specialized graphics, and many more.
TemplateTimer: A convenient and simple MSVC / C++ timer wrapper for Windows using templates, where a class function can be easily specified for the timed event callback.
This article describes an asynchronous pluggable protocol implementation to support the data: protocol, as described in RFC 2397, in Internet Explorer.
The article describes how to use the Microsoft's UPnP Control Point API for finding and controlling UPnP devices, and includes a description of simple library to facilitate the application of Control Point API in your own programs, together with an example of MFC and WinForms applications.
Most of the C++ programmers do not benefit from "Garbage Collection" technique (GC). Here is a new memory management technique named "GC Allocator" (Note it is not "GC").
The purpose of this tutorial is to give you an idea on how to create a COM Server using ATL, and then being able to call the server from both a Visual C++ and Visual Basic program.
An add-in to automatically increment the FileVersion and ProductVersion fields in your application's resource file. Works in VC6 and VS2005, and probably all versions in between.
This article shows how to create one ATL COM component using the WinInet functions, how to use it in ASP programs and how to test it from the Visual Basic client. It also shows how to use multithreading support in this component.
This is a 3-tier application. A COM component returns SQL data in XML format, then using XSLT to transform to HTML at client side. By using XML, all the data can be sort, split into pages locally, that will give users a quick response!
This article is about the art of how to track bugs in programs and handle them beautifuly. Make yourself understand perfectly the reasons for exceptions and bugs.
This is an article just to describe how to use WMI with Visual C++ 6. I had to do this for one of my projects and I finally came up with this solution. I hope this will be beneficial to others as well.
The objective of this tutorial is to demonstrate how to build a COM Server and an MFC Client using Visual C++ 6.0. We are going to develop a COM server that takes in a string as input parameter and returns the string prefixed with a "Hello".
This article compares and contrasts the relative performances of various languages like native C++, Visual Basic 6, C#, VB.NET, Managed C++, MC++ and native code mix, ngen'd assemblies etc. using a prime number generation function as a generic benchmark
Assertions are a very effective debugging tool for C/C++ code. But, a very subtle problem exists with assertions that can cause you to waste a lot of debugging time chasing the wrong problem.
This article shows how we can change the IP address with corresponding subnet mask, gateway with corresponding metric, and DNS of local computer through programming.
This article discuss some Mix-In classes for WTL. These Mix-In classes provide some features that WTL/ATL framework does not support, such as owner-draw menu, skin dialog's button and static text control.
As we already know of inheritance, it is a good way of reusing your code. However, Visual C++ provides another way of reusing your code. We can do this through templates. With templates you can make the 'type' parameter. Let me explain.
When i had searched on the net I found out that there is too less information for outlook addin creation in vc.I was only getting vb application on then Internet so here I have created application with all web site link which I found helpful to you. Now You can create plugin in vc easily.
Three ActiveX controls that allow the runtime-browsing of the object model hierarchy of a COM-Object, its implemented interfaces and the browsing and interactive changing of its properties and methods (a somewhat extended combination of VB's property- and debug-windows).
This article I provides an implementation of the ISoapTypeMapper interface in C++ for serializing custom objects into XML and sending them over the wire using SOAP.
This article describes a helper class that assists with placing an icon in the shell (aka "system tray"), and changing the tip text. You can get this functionality by simply deriving your ATL object from the helper class.
Getting an ActiveX control to be printable from within an Office application can be difficult. This article shows you why, and how to make things work.
This article presents a practical technique to achieve interface based object implementation by ATL only. This technique implements basic COM concepts about interface while doesn't rely on COM runtime.
This article discusses some MixIn classs for WTL. These MixIn classes provides some features that WTL/ATL framework does not support, such as owner-draw menu, skinned dialog buttons and static text controls.
This is a Visual Studio add-in component built in ATL COM. This will help you to customize some features of the Visual C++ debugger. The addin will configure your own data types into debugger's tool-tip display using Autoexp.dat file.
We modify starter files provided by the ATL project wizard, to improve user-friendliness and provide security for our server. I also show you how to do a Replace/Replace All across the whole project.
In this step, we add a simple COM object to our server using the ATL Simple Object wizard. Plus, properly initialize and cleanup your COM objects with FinalConstruct() and FinalRelease().
A tutorial on how to use the ATL7 thread class CWorkerThread and its associated helper classes CRTThreadTraits, IWorkerThreadClient etc. It also presents a generic logging component which can be used in CPU intensive applications.
I work with about 1500 projects, and usually I need to change the project a lot of times a day. Also, I’m a command line enthusiast, and I don’t like the default command window of the DevStudio. I built this small plug-in to improve these two things.
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