I'm interested in writing applications for windows system, but i'm not sure where to begin. i've only ever coded under a unix environment where it is straight forward when dealing with the kernel....

Greetings: I need to use the following code: Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WshShell.Exec("explorer http://www.google.ca") The above code is documented by MSDN to execute whatever...

Hi there. I'm trying to use SetWindowLongPtr to add a style to a window, say WS_HSCROLL to add a horizontal scroll bar. This is a WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW by the way. So I call SetWindowLongPtr(hWnd,...

Hi all, Win2k, VC++ 6 I'm trying to figure out how to retrieve the symbolic names from the ..dll file associated with the CategoryMessageFile registry key. If the original message file had...

I am still learning windows programming, C++, O-O, and even model-view-controller. Some day, though, I hope to write windows programs that people besides myself might like to use. I still don't know...

Hello, I am writing an app that will create a few transparent windows on the edges of the desktop, and I want them to stay there... I want to lock the window size and placement. I created the...

Hi all, I'm writing an application that implements the standard doc/view model, and I now want to hanble documents that are essentially a collection of my original documents. i.e. a single...

Hi All! I have a problem with ::FindFirstChangeNotification(strFilePath, FALSE, FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_LAST_WRITE) API of windows. I am using it with "FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_LAST_WRITE flag" to monitor the...

Now that MS is going to .NET what do you think the future of win32 is? Will there be new C API's for the new features in longhorn? New COM interfaces for the windows shell?

Hi Experts: I'll keep asking questions. When I get too annoying, put me in your killfile. I appreciate all your help, but my loyalties are to my client, so I have to keep pushing. The environment...

I am looking for a remote desktop sharing component to make my own little VNC/pcAnywhere/GoToMyPC-type application. I can do it myself, except the screen updates/sharing is unbearably slow. I need...

Hi, I want to read directly without any buffering a file from a USB Mass Storage device on W98 (with vendor specific installed device driver) & WMe. CreateFile/ FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING |...

I'm developing an application that, as speced, requires users to be able to tab from a control on a property page to the OK button on the property sheet, and from there to tab back to a different...

I've only just started creating DLLs with Microsoft VC++ 6.0 and 7.0 and so am not too experienced yet. I'm trying to create a very simple and basic DLL which will perform some mathematical...

I'm working on an application right now that would really be a lot cleaner if I could use Unicode (mainly because I'm using the IXMLDocument interface which uses BSTR and I don't want to have to...

How do I get the HINSTANCE of a Windows Service ? GTi

Is it possible to change a windows client area? I want the client area to be the same as the window region; It will save me having to covert coordinates.

Hi Again: I'm recovering from an injury at my sister's and she has offered me the use of her WIN98 system for some development work. So I installed MSVC6 and am now trying to get...

Whenever I call TrackPopupMenu(), it works fine, but the NEXT click by the user is completely ignored (within my app). What's up? Should I restore the previous Foreground window? Do i need to post...

Hi, A while ago I had trouble getting the PIDL for non-filesystem objects given their name. For some reason I was under the impression this only applied to the Desktop. How can I retrieve the PIDL...