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Have you ever tried to minimize a dialog during the startup of a dialog based application? The problem is in a dialog based application, we will not get the control after the dialog is completely created. Even a call to ShowWindow() from the OnInitDialog() function, will not work. So what will we do

The GetWindowModuleFileName() functions can be used to find which exe or dll have created a window. But the problem with this function is that, it will not work across process.When ever we create a window, we have to pass the an HINSTANCE into it. And later we can use GetWindowLong to get that HINST

Introduce 4 new algorithms on finding combinations

How to use Expression Encoder 2 Silverlight 2 Templates in your project.

Back in the old days, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, developers wanting to exchange data between applications used binary formatted data, hardcoded text field lengths, or delimited text files. Much parsing and error checking was involved. It was tedious. With XML files a lot of that work can be d

The code snip converts MAC Address String Format into Bytes

The article shows how to extend ReportViewer control that comes with Visual Studio 2008. The most important extension is adding export to MS Word.

How to work with delegates in Visual Form Files.

XAML this, XAML that, blah, blah, blah. I get so sick of hearing about how great XAML is, as if this were the most mind altering, earth shaking technology to hit the streets in years. Bah Humbug!We’ve had something like this for years in the VCF! And the predecessor to XAML dates back even further t

While answering a question on the Asp.Net forums, I was pleasantly surprised to find nested Generic Lists are possible. They seem much easier than multidimensional arrays. Here is the key line:     List> MyListOfIntLists;      protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)    {