Drawing Bitmap Resources in ATL 7.0 Controls
This article is part of a backup. It was originally posted on Wednesday, May 23. 2007. Introduction The code samples in the following paragraphs assume that there exists a custom ATL 7.0 COM control...
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This article is part of a backup. It was originally posted on Wednesday, February 21. 2007. The following article describes how to use Visual Studio C++ 2005 Express Edition with the new Microsoft...
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When derriving ActiveX controls from CComCompositeControl the virtual functions OnDraw() and OnDrawAdvanced() are not being called. A look at atlctl.h reveals that OnDraw is called from OnDrawAdvanced,...
View ArticleDebugging ActiveX Controls in Internet Explorer 8
Debugging ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer 8 has become a little bit more complicated compared to previous versions of the browser. In IE 5, 6 and 7 it was sufficient to host the ActiveX control...
View ArticleImplementing the abs() Function in Plain C or C++
This article describes how to calculate the absolute value of an integer without using any built-in functions in C or C++. The problem is based on an interview question that I used to ask candidates...
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