Tag: Visual C++
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Flash Player: Loading from memory
user cucao wants to know how to play a flash file from application resource. The user wants to use a dongle to protect unauthorized viewing of the flash file so can’t just put the swf file in plain sight. Adobe’s Flash Player, being an ActiveX with supports for many OLE containers such as Internet Explorer and Microsoft Word, implements many standard OLE […]
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How to: Migrating a CLR console Visual C++ project to Windows Forms
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 […]
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Add the correct interface first in Adding an MFC Class from an ActiveX Control wizard.
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 […]
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What’s new in MFC/ATL 11 Beta
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. #if !defined(_M_IX86) […]
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Windows Update KB2538242 or KB2538243 offered repeatedly
Recently there is an outburst of posts related to the KB2538242 update being offered repeatedly on MSDN’s Visual C++ forums, TechNet’s various Windows security forums and the Windows Update forum on Microsoft Answers forums. Questions about KB2538243 appear as well, but to a less degree. To save your time going to the forums or calling […]
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Bug in Security Update for Visual C++ Redistributable Package: April 12, 2011 causes program error on Windows 2000
Update:Microsoft’s Visual C++ team has released workarounds on the problem. AVG has released an utility that can revert the KB2467175 update, downloadable at http://twitter.blog.avg.com/2011/04/avg-feedback-update-26411.html Avira is reporting that its AntiVir software throws “The procedure entry point FindActCtxSectionStringW could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll.” error after installing the update released earlier this week. This is caused by […]
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How to solve LNK2001 errors related to Windows SDK CLSIDs
User IMFCoder wants to know how to solve a LNK2001 error related to CLSID_CMpeg4sDecMediaObject. The user has no problem linking a lib file in the project but couldn’t find which lib the CLSID is in. The Windows SDK is strangely cryptic on which lib file the CLSID is exported from. Luckily you can find out […]
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Microsoft MVP again
Image by EJeffson via Flickr The award email is almost identical to last year’s, so I assume Microsoft would go greener and more renewable with the Microsoft MVP award program each year, maybe that’s the reason I got a frosted glass lug instead of a trophy like previous years. The dangling cards on the right […]
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Visual Studio 2010: Class Wizard重返Visual C++… Control Shift X.
在消失4个版本之后，类向导终于重返Visual C++。新的功能：搜索现在可以部分匹配而不是从字符串开始匹配。 测试版还是存在一些问题，向导不是总能找到现存的函数，以致删除函数功能不是总有效。在打开很多文档的时候尝试打开Class Wizard会出现“value does not fall in expected range” 错误。再就是性能问题，打开的文档越多，类向导启动所需的时间就越长。
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Intercept the download dialog in webbrowser control
User rsd102 looks already find the solution to his question when he posted the question to CSDN, except for one missing piece. The sample he found is for overriding the global download manager, and what he need is a process wide override. It looks like rsd102 is loving research. He found more than he can […]
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