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Entries from February 2006

A Windows Forms component that provides enhanced MessageBox functionality

February 21st, 2006 · 2 Comments

MessageBoxManager is a Windows Forms component I wrote that you can drag & drop into a Windows Forms project’s main form, and it gives you enhanced message box functionality without forcing you to change your existing calls to any of the MessageBox.Show() overloads . You can download it from :- MessageBoxManager – A Windows Forms [...]

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Tags: C++/CLI · CLR/.NET BCL

Selecting a default folder with SHBrowseForFolder

February 17th, 2006 · 5 Comments

Today, there was an article posted on the Code Project website that showed how to use SHBrowseForFolder, and there was a question from a reader in the forum, asking how a default folder can be specified. This is pretty easy to do, and all you need to do is to set the BIF_VALIDATE flag, specify [...]

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Tags: Win32/MFC

Get the Office 2003 style menus/toolbars in your MFC apps using Windows Forms

February 15th, 2006 · 4 Comments

This is my latest Code Project article, and it shows you how to use the Windows Forms 2.0 MenuStrip and ToolStrip controls in your MFC applications to give them an Office 2003 look and feel. These Forms controls are pretty well written, and if you change the XP theme/style, they change accordingly, just like Word [...]

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Tags: C++/CLI · VC++ 2005 · Win32/MFC

One year now!

February 14th, 2006 · 21 Comments

Last Valentine’s day, Smitha and I got married in a nontraditional quiet function in Trivandrum, and the decision to do that has been the best one I’ve ever taken in my life. There was a period in my life when I thought that the greatest life I could achieve would be one where I earn [...]

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Tags: General

VS 2005 Document Explorer never finds anything

February 4th, 2006 · 9 Comments

9 times out of 10, when I select a class name or a keyword and hit F1, the Document Explorer shows me an “Information Not Found” page. But at the same time, the index on the left has selected the topic I am looking for, which means all I need to do is to double [...]

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Tags: VC++ 2005