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Visual Sourcesafe Backup??
Posted on September 30th, 2003 | 2 Comments

Please we need to backup our visual source safe (all of the stuffs within it). What files do I back up please...

Help with IShellPropSheetExt
Posted on September 30th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Hello I have made a simple IShellPropSheetExt handler and added my code into CMyShellPropSheetExt::AddPage. Also added some member variables into the CMyShellPropSheetExt. Now as the property page...

Win32 poll() Equivalent
Posted on September 29th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Hi, Is there a Win32 equivalent to the UNIX poll() function? I have an integer file descriptor that is handed to me by an API, and I need to block on it until data is written, but I can't read the...

Tutorial: Tivoli Monitoring for Win 2K and XP
Posted on September 29th, 2003 | 0 Comments

If anyone is looking for a pretty heavy monitoring product - this is interesting. jic Tutorial: Tivoli Monitoring for Win 2K and XP IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) is a powerful environment that gives...

HELP !!! How to detect my process is being killed???
Posted on September 29th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to detect (get notification) when my process is being terminated, for example by Task Manager. It is easy to get a Windows Message when they close your window,...

Dial Up connection
Posted on September 29th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Hi ,i'm newbie in C++ ,i wan to make a dial up connection on a windows machine ,and i want to keep my connection for other aplicattions . Can i do something like rundll32.exe + tapi.dll + method +...

Single Stepping Problem in Multithreaded Debugger
Posted on September 29th, 2003 | 0 Comments

I have written a debugger which performs a live disassembly on the debuggee process for Windows 2000. I use two threads for my debugger. The first thread is the main debugger thread that loops...

hotkeys and keyup
Posted on September 29th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Hi I would like to thank everyone for suggestions concerning hotkeys and keyup. What I am using is CE .Net though if there is a solution that also works in regular windows that would be good. I am...

Q: Confused by ExtractIconEx
Posted on September 29th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Hi, I want to use ExtractIconEx and the MSDN confuses me a bit about its use. The last parameter 'Specifies the number of icons to extract from the file' and 'the return value is the number of icons...

Treeview with columns
Posted on September 29th, 2003 | 5 Comments

I'm looking for a treeview control that also has columns to the right of the tree like a listview. I'd prefer a DLL and not an activex control. I've looked at some commercial versions, but they are...

odd frustrating error "_beginthreadex" in MSVC++ 6.0
Posted on September 29th, 2003 | 3 Comments

Hi, I have this error "undefined symbol" _beginthreadex in my program when i have already included the <process.h> include file... I'm using a simple win32 project space. Any ideas? ~Thanks~

Help please
Posted on September 29th, 2003 | 0 Comments

I have faced a strange thing...and I don't understand what is going on. I have a program where I at first used registry to get the system virtual roots. And also a button - like customer support. If...

shared memory
Posted on September 29th, 2003 | 3 Comments

When two processes are using shared memory to communicate, and the CreateFileMapping with PAGE_READWRITE option is used, then are the two processes guaranteed to have serial access to the...

Window 95/98 Start up
Posted on September 28th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Is there some way to start up Windows 95/98 without the keyboard and mouse connected and not getting an error message? W95 starts without the keyboard but if I disconnect the mouse I get a "Windows...

Try the important pack for Microsoft Internet Explorer
Posted on September 28th, 2003 | 2 Comments

Get HTML page from Explorer in C++ --OR--- OCR code?
Posted on September 27th, 2003 | 4 Comments

Ok I'm fighting with a common problem - getting text from a web page - that I have read threads on already (so I know why wm_gettext doesn't work). Is it possible to launch a web page from my...

Q: DestroyIcon and DestroyCursor
Posted on September 27th, 2003 | 3 Comments

Hi, I am using the dbghelp library functions to obtain the name of a called function, for example DestroyIcon or DestroyCursor. It works fine, except that for DestroyIcon it tells me I called...

file access information
Posted on September 27th, 2003 | 3 Comments

shoba wrote: I would strongly suggest reading up on the Win32 API's and IMHO there is no better place to start than with the free Borland Win32 help files in WinHelp...

Run-time libraries
Posted on September 27th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Hello, I have a question about msvcp70.dll and msvcr70.dll. My program (built with VC++ 7.0) uses these 2 dlls. However, they aren't included with Windows (2000, XP, or 2003). Am I supposed to...

JPEG/setjmp always fails
Posted on September 27th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Hi, I'm working on a project where we had a function that loads a jpeg file. I moved that function into a class that handles images without modifications but now setjmp never returns 0 anymore under...