Is there any way I can find out if a text in a static control is clipped. I have a static control and I want to change the width so the text is not clipped.

Hi All, My system cannot go to standby/hibernate mode. I want to write an application, which run on any OS (98/2000/XP) to findout what device driver cause my system cannot Go to Standby/hibernate...

I have a computer with two NIC cards installed. One card is dedicated to a particular piece of equipment and the other card, the "primary" address, is for communication with the rest of the world. I...

Hi all, I've this windows application, from which i'm spawning another application, using CreateProcess. I want the spawned application to be on top of window stack. I'm using...

Does win32 provide a header file for manipulating the console in a meaningful way, i.e., writing certain chars at certain coordinates, etc.? If so, what is it, and where can I find documentation?

Hi, With Windows XP, I would like to be able to change who is currently logged in, without actually having to log off/log on using the actual user interface. (ie, programmatically). Is this...

I have a VS .NET 2003 solution with many projects. In general, I want the solution build to STOP if any single project fails. Is this possible? My situation in more detail (although I think if you...

Is it OK to create a device context (specifically a printer DC) in one program, and then use it in another program? I have a program which does this and it works fine in Windows 98 environment, but...

Hi All, I've read the documentation on CancelIo and I was just wondering: does CancelIo cancel all pending IO requests for all duplicates of a handle or just the handle on which it is being called?...

Hi, I need to write a Win32 (JNI) C++ component that can detect the current network interface usage under both Win9x and WinNT systems. I have noticed the GetUdpStatistics function, which can tell...

Dear All, I am encountering a problem, i have a function in my application which crashes whole application. And I am calling this function from another function. eg. f()is the function that may...

Hello, I've read countless times that sending messages to a control from a thread that doesn't own it is a really bad practice. I've noticed this myself when I ran into hair pulling deadlocks when...

Hi All, I am having problems getting a progress bar on a dialog window to increment / redraw properly. The dialog box was designed in the resource editor of VC++ 6.0, the common control library is...

Hi, this is probably very OT here but I'd like to know if there exist a free tool for automatic generation of makefiles for nmake. I'm trying out Visual C++ Toolkit and is a complete newbie to VC....

I'm writing a program on a Windows XP Pro system. Everything in my program was working just fine... until I tried it on a Windows 2000 system that is. In the program, when the user presses a...

I while back, I made a dialog box with many items of various types (checkboxes, drop lists, etc) using Visual Studio. But when I was adding items, I didn't go from top to bottom. Instead, I...

When I use “IP Helper API’s functions” In my program, all is ok. until I run it on Windows 98. On Windows Xp everything is ok. On 98 I get an error. MsgBox: File MyApp.exe is linked with missing...

Hello, I want to do manual alpha blending. I used CaptureScreen but apparently the window keeps on taking a screen capture of itself over and over. How do I do a screen capture of all windows...

I'm looking for a way to change the background color of a single line of text containing ASCII text. The platform is Win32 (Win2K & XP). TIA.

Hi, I've never written a service before and need to know the best way to pass a custom parameter to it. Basically I just need my service to launch the URL of a web page that I send it from another...