Posted in 2012
How to: Migrating a CLR console Visual C++ project to Windows Forms
- 17 December 2012
Note: Windows Forms programming in new development is discouraged by Microsoft at this point as Microsoft wants to make full use of hardware accelerated drawing instead of using the CPU-intensive GDI. But maintaining old Windows Forms code in Visual C++ 2012 is still supported, GDI isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Visual C++ 2012 removed the Windows Forms project template and I see people scramble to find ways to create a Windows Forms project. There is a walkaround that’s been around for years, that is, to convert a CLR console application to a Windows one, then add forms related code to the project. The basic steps are listed at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317433, conveniently named “How to suppress the console window for a managed extensions to Visual C++ Windows Forms application”. Yes, the need to convert a C++ console application to windows forms is that old, back all the way back in the managed extensions for C++ days. So what I need to do to add Windows Forms support to a C++/CLI console application? Of course the System.Windows.Forms.dll reference is missing in a new console application, so I need to reference it:
Add the correct interface first in Adding an MFC Class from an ActiveX Control wizard.
- 04 December 2012
In good old times aka VC6, if you want to use an ActiveX in MFC, the Components and Controls Gallery would generate all the properties and methods of an ActiveX and pull dependent types and create wrapper classes for them as well. And it was good. It magically knows the main class of the Windows Media Player ActiveX is CWMPPlayer4 and that GetCurrentMedia method returns CWMPMedia.
Howto: reset IE security zone settings programmatically
- 26 November 2012
Internet Explorer 7 introduced the IInternetZoneManagerEx2 interface, which has a FixUnsecureSettings method to reset all security zone settings. Like all other IInternetZoneManager* interfaces, you can query this interface from the internet zone manager object:
What’s new in MFC/ATL 11 Beta
- 22 April 2012
Note this post is on Visual Studio 11 Beta, you can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads Since Sinofsky posted about no desktop apps on Windows on ARM (WOA), it looks like MFC and ATL are going to support metro-style apps, although most ATL classes are not going to be compatible with metro style apps.
Choosing formats when putting data on clipboard
- 21 March 2012
The topic is from a forum discussion at https://web.archive.org/web/20131020094354/http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsdesktop/en-US/94bb2db4-3ca2-4cd8-9f7c-6dd9aab6fd18/need-help-to-complete-gdi-program-to-loadsave-to-clipboard?forum=windowssdk