vbAccelerator New and Updated PublicationsThe latest articles and updates published at vbAccelerator.comNew: MSDN Magazine: Customising the Places Bar in File Dialogs- April 22, 2003 This excellent article describes how the places bar on the left-hand side of the File Common Dialogs is populated and then demonstrates how to use the little-known Windows RegOverridePredefKey API function to allow you to customise it on a per-application basis. Code is provided for C but doesn't look difficult to adapt to VB or VB.NET.http://vbaccelerator.com/home/Resources/Links/IBrowse/MSDN_Magazine_-_Customise_File_Dialo... New: Code Breaker Software- April 22, 2003 Code-Breaker Software develops high-quality software programs for the Windows operating system, with a focus on usability and features. Their Spectrascope Spectrum Analyser is an industrial strength spectrum analyzer that is in use all over the world by professional recording studios, off-shore oil rigs, mining and construction companies, defense contractors, design and manufacturing firms, engineers of all types, and do-it-yourself hobbyists, ham radio operators, and hi-fi enthusiasts, just to.http://vbaccelerator.com/home/The_Site/vbAccelerator_Users/Code-Breaker_Software/article.a... New: Luke Murphey's Digital Identity- April 22, 2003 Digital Identity is an application for securely managing passwords and PINs. Uniquely, it allows users to encode an image (bitmap) with the login name and password of the password file itself. If the user loses their master password, the image can be used for recovery. All passwords remain secure provided the image is stored in a safe place. In addition, it allows users to encode arbitrary text into image files.http://vbaccelerator.com/home/The_Site/vbAccelerator_Users/LMurphey/article.asp New: Subclassing Thunk (VB+ASM = Office XP Menus) with Sample HookMenu 1.4- April 13, 2003 An excellent code sample at Planet Source Code from Vlad Vissoultchev that expands upon the techniques provided in Paul Caton's Subclassing and Hooking with Machine code thunks code and uses it to provide a full Office XP-style menu system for all OS versions. Also includes right-to-left support and has undergone a number of updates and bug-fixes to prevent crashes.http://vbaccelerator.com/home/Resources/Links/IBrowse/Office_XP_Menus_Using_ASM_Thunks/art... New: KB 811415 - FIX When You Use SendMessage with TB_GETIMAGELIST to Get an ImageList Handle on Windows XP, You Do Not Get the Correct ImageList- April 13, 2003 The ImageList handle (hImageList) provided by the VB6 Microsoft Common Controls (MSCOMCTL.OCX) ImageList for some reason is not usable with any ComCtl32.DLL API calls under XP. This KB suggests that there is a fix for the problem, although currently it can only be obtained if you raise a support request with Microsoft, and there are limitations to further distribution of the updated version of the control.http://vbaccelerator.com/home/Resources/Links/IBrowse/KB_811415_-_VB6_MSCOMCTL_OCX_ImageLi... New: Code DOM Technology - More Code Generation- April 12, 2003 The final article at 15seconds.com in Brian Korzeniowski series goes on to demonstrate more ins and outs of Microsoft's Code DOM Technology. In this final article the details of the previous two are pulled together into a Web Service which generates C code for custom atrributes. Whether this is a buzz-technology step too far I'll leave you to decide! But the information about the Code DOM itself and the practical details are still very useful.http://vbaccelerator.com/home/Resources/Links/IBrowse/Code_DOM_Technology_-_More_Code_Gene... New: Code DOM Technology - Code Generation and Attributes- April 11, 2003 The second of Brian Korzeniowski's articles on the Code DOM demonstrates creating custom attributes and applying them to a code-generation application. It also demonstrates interrogating source code at runtime using reflection.http://vbaccelerator.com/home/Resources/Links/IBrowse/Code_DOM_Technology_-_Code_Generatio... New: MSDN Magazine: Preview and Print from Your Windows Forms App with the .NET Printing Namespace- April 11, 2003 A comprehensive article covering the .NET Printing and Previewing and demonstrating quite nicely that the whole thing is easier, and more nicely integrated that anything VB ever had to offer. The section on background threaded printing is a little weak, however, the same issue of the magazine has a nice AsyncUtils class to download which will help you achieve the task properly.http://vbaccelerator.com/home/Resources/Links/IBrowse/MSDN_Magazine_-_Printing_in__NET/art... Updated: Complete Site Index in XML- April 10, 2003 This article provides the vbAccelerator Site Index in XML format. The index can be used for locating articles and downloads, including the download contents and can be used for site linking purposes.http://vbaccelerator.com/home/The_Site/Indexes/Complete_Site_Index_in_XML/article.asp New: Code DOM Technology - Introduction- April 10, 2003 This article at 15seconds.com is the first in a series by Brian Korzeniowski that describes Microsoft's Code DOM Technology and how to leverage it from .NET to build applications which generate code. It describes the Code DOM Namespaces and provides some really useful details on the advanges and limitations of the technology, then provides a practical example which generates code.http://vbaccelerator.com/home/Resources/Links/IBrowse/Code_DOM_Technology_-_Introduction/a... |