MFC CPoint, CRect classes::tips and tricks, and porting legacy applications

CString and CRect types will be heavily used in my graphic apps.

1. Enabling Visual Styles

This topic explains how to configure your application to ensure that common controls are displayed in the user's preferred visual style.

2. Porting a legacy MFC application to MFC Feature Pack

Problems I encountered when polishing the GUI of an existing 200K LOC application.

3. MFC Feature Pack: An Introduction
4. Profiling of C++-Applications in Visual Studio for Free


5. Working with Strings
6. Windows Data Types

Header files: BaseTsd.h; WinDef.h;WinNT.h

7. What are TCHAR, WCHAR, LPSTR, LPWSTR, LPCTSTR (etc.)?
8. Why is PCTSTR not defined but LPCTSTR defined?
9. CString Management<--- classic papers

CStrings are a useful data type. They greatly simplify a lot of operations in MFC, making it much more convenient to do string manipulation. However, there are some special techniques to using CStrings, particularly hard for people coming from a pure-C background to learn. This essay discusses some of these techniques.



10. CRect Class

Similar to a Windows RECT structure.

11. CPoint Class

Similar to the Windows POINT structure.

Header: atltypes.h

12. POINT structure

Header windef.h (include Windows.h)

13. RECT structure

Header file: windef.h (include Windows.h)

14. CSize Class

Similar to the Windows SIZE structure, which implements a relative coordinate or position.

15. SIZE structure

The SIZE structure defines the width and height of a rectangle.

Header file: windef.h (include Windows.h)

16. windows.h - main header file for the Win32 API
17. Windows.h on wikipedias

windows.h is a Windows-specific header file for the C and C++ programming languages which contains declarations for all of the functions in the Windows API, all the common macros used by Windows programmers, and all the data types used by the various functions and subsystems. It defines a very large number of Windows specific functions that can be used in C. The Win32 API can be added to a C programming project by including the header file and linking to the appropriate libraries. To use functions in xxxx.dll, the program must be linked to xxxx.lib (or libxxxx.dll.a in MinGW). Some headers are not associated with a .dll but with a static library (e.g. scrnsave.h needs scrnsave.lib).

18. windef.h
19. windows.h - main header file for the Win32 API
20. How to not #include

production build techniques

production build techniques

1. Auto Increment build numbers in Visual Studio 2012
2. RCStamp - add build counts and more to your .rc files
3. FileSelect - Hassle Free Implementation of the File Menu
4. CPath - juggling file names made easy

A wrapper class for path strings based on (and improving) the Shell Lightweight utility API.

5. MDISnap
6. Access Physical Memory, Port and PCI Configuration Space

research on CFrameWnd class

how to add scroll bar on CFrameWnd is easy, but how to make it scroll is not easy. I need to code some functions.

1. thread: Scroll Bar in a CWnd
2. WM_HSCROLL message
3. WM_VSCROLL message
4. How to Create Scroll Bars
5. Scroll Bar
6. Add Scrolling to a CWnd or CDialog using a C++ Helper Class
7. Building a Dynamic UI using a CWnd Free Pool
8. std::bitset::at() disappear in VS2015
9. Control Positioning and Sizing using a C++ Helper Class
10. Flat-style Menu Bar and Popup Menu Control for WinForms
11. A simple framework for adding undo/redo support
12. Message Maps (MFC)
13. MFC add scrollbar to CWnd member
14. Scroll Bars
15. MFC - Scrollbars
16. How to implement a scrollable child dialog
17. Q262954: HOWTO: Create a Resizeable Dialog Box with Scroll Bars

research on COM

research on COM

1. COM in plain C
2. Docking Toolbars in Plain C
3. Embed an HTML control in your own window using plain C
4. LiteZip and LiteUnzip Jeff Glatt
5. Inside COM
6. COM Interface Basics
7. COM from scratch - PART ONE
8. Step by Step COM Tutorial

MFC chart research

MFC chart research. search "MFC chart" on cp.com

1. High-speed Charting Control
2. An MFC Chart Control with Enhanced User Interface
3. A Simple Pie Chart Control
4. Automating Excel 2007 and creating charts using C++ MFC application in Visual Studio 2008
5. Working with Excel in MFC
6. What Is a Window?
7. Creating a Window
8. Module 3. Windows Graphics
9. Module 2. Using COM in Your Windows-Based Program

research on thread

research "thread" on cp.com. reserched to page 12, but skipped from 1 to 4. need to recheck 1-4.

1. Threads with MFC
2. A Simple Worker Thread
3. MFC UI Threads
4. An MFC Chart Control with Enhanced User Interface
5. Memory Leak Detection
6. Threads And Timers
7. Simple Multithreaded Application in pure C, Win32 and MFC
8. Thread Synchronization for Beginners
9. Creating a C++ Thread Class
10. Using C and an embedded web-server to provide browser based source editing
11. A class to synchronise thread completions
12. An MFC Chart Control with Enhanced User Interface
13. Start Class As Thread
14. XWinVer - Simple class to get Windows OS version
15. DtWinVer v1.34 - OS Detection Utility
16. Threading is easy (A simple thread, thread pool, object pool, and more)
17. Effective Threads in C++ - Part 1: The Basic Thread Class
18. Provide Your Custom Class Name to your MFC Application
19. Create projects easily with private MFC, ATL and CRT assemblies
20. How to use the same thread function for multiple threads (safely) Derek Lakin
21. CThread - a Worker Thread wrapper class
22. An easy to use worker thread

knowledge to get system information

knowledge to get system information

1. a good code signing certificate
2. Working with Strings
3. Getting System Information

test this program and got error messages.

Error C2440 'initializing': cannot convert from 'const wchar_t [18]' to 'TCHAR *' SystemInfo2

4. XWinVer - Simple class to get Windows OS version
5. Windows Version Numbers
6. DtWinVer v1.34 - OS Detection Utility
7. IsWindows10OrGreater function
8. OSVERSIONINFOA structure

it has most recent OS parameters needed in Hans's post.

9. Version Helper functions

The following functions can be used to determine the current operating system version or identify whether it is a Windows or Windows Server release. These functions provide simple tests that use the VerifyVersionInfo function and the recommended greater than or equal to comparisons that are proven as a robust means to determine the operating system version.

10. GetVersionExA function
11. Operating System Version
12. Targeting your application for Windows

The following example shows an app manifest file for an app that supports all versions of Windows from Windows Vista to Windows 10:

13. Getting the System Version
14. C++ How to detect Windows 10

this is good post to summarize all kinds of system OS version information.

15. C++ Check if Windows 10
16. Get OSVersion in Windows using C++
17. Getting the Windows OS version information C program example
18. Determine Windows Version and Edition

This article explains how to determine Windows version and edition. The method is very simple: The Windows API provides two functions, GetVersion/GetVersionEx, that fill the structure OSVERSIONINFO/OSVERSIONINFOEX with information such as major and minor version, product type, suite mask, platform, and so forth. This article, however, and the code provided here, does not list all the operating systems ever released by Microsoft, only the most usual ones.

19. Getversionex deprecated
20. DtWinVer v2.45 A comprehensive OS detection Class
21. PJ Naughter's place
22. c++ - GetVersionEx弃用-如何从较新的API获取产品类型(VER_NT_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER)


23. regsvr42: Generate SxS Manifest Files from Native DLLs for Registration-Free COM

This tool will spy on COM registration process and create side by side (SxS) manifest file(s)

need to download source code and play around with it.

24. System Information Utility

This project is an attempt to create a utility or tool application that will display all the system information like CPU, OS, Multimedia, etc. The idea behind this application is no different than the one implemented in most of Microsoft’s System Info utility in Office products. But my application takes couple of steps more and displays more info than the available utilities. In this version (V1) of application, following information is displayed.

the above two posts give me enough techniques to develop my tool to get system information.

25. Troubleshooting Registration Free COM


26. Mike Blaszczak's Sample Programs
27. How To Add ToolTips To Controls On A Windows Form
28. Register DLL / COM exe without admin rights
29. Register DLL without admin rights
30. Register ActiveX/COM Components without Administrator Privileges
31. The Enigma Protector
32. Operating System Version

The Version API Helper functions are used to determine the version of the operating system that is currently running. For more information, see Getting the System Version.

33. Getting the System Version
34. Verifying the System Version
35. Detecting a Product Suite
36. Getting Hardware Information
37. Using System Information
38. Getting System Information
39. TEXT macro
40. TEXT() macro
41. A tool for registering OCXs and COM DLLs
42. Registering any COM component through coding
43. A COM Registration Spy
44. RegSvrEx - An Enchanced COM Server Registration Utility
45. regsvr42: Generate SxS Manifest Files from Native DLLs for Registration-Free COM

This tool will spy on COM registration process and create side by side (SxS) manifest file(s)

need to download source code and play around with it.

46. Using COM Without Registration

A small class for using COM DLL modules without registering them

other way to avoid registering COM DLL, is to define them on the manifest: see detailled explantion: regsvr42: Generate SxS Manifest Files from Native DLLs for Registration-Free COM[^]

47. ReneNyffenegger / about-Windows-Registry
48. Registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\n
49. A Closer Look at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE for Windows NT
50. Troubleshooting Registration Free COM