About code. Mostly on C++
I read a very interesting article written in 2004 by Joel Spolsky, called How Microsoft Lost the API War. It shares my view that latelly, Microsoft has released simply too many programs and technologies and we can no longer cope with them. They have to take a break (and fix problems in the current releases) … Read more
Recently I have updated my article published on CodeGuru about determining Windows version and edition. The update offers support for determining the Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 edition installed on a machine. Since both these new operating systems have the same major and minor version returned by GetVersionEx, i.e. 6 for major and 0 … Read more
You probably noticed that IE7 or Windows Media Player 11 don’t have the menu shown by default; it only shows up when you press the ALT key. This is one particularity of the look and feel of Windows Vista Aero. You can find guidelines about designing menus here: menu guidelines menu design concepts As revealed by … Read more
Visual Studio 2008 (formely code-named ‘Orcas’) has several important updates for VC++ and MFC. Among them the possibility to create syslink controls, command or split buttons and network address controls. In this post I will show how you can work with the syslink control. The control provides a way to embed hypertext links in a window. … Read more
You might be interested in this topic if you experienced the following problem: developed your VC++ application with Visual Studio 2005, it worked ok on your computer and when you put it on another it does not run, or your application run both on your machine and other machines (without VS 2005 installed), but after … Read more
Working correctly with the Windows Registry might prove a little difficult, especially for beginners. One thing one should care about for example is using the correct access rights (not just the default ones) when creating a registry key. To ease the burden of directly using the Win32 registry API, I decided to wrap them inside … Read more
Recently, CodeGuru has published my article about customizing the Places Bar of the common file dialog. In this article I have explained how to twick the registry to display your own list of shortcuts in the places bar. The folders are specified in registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER in Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ComDlg32\PlacesBar in two ways: either by IDs for … Read more