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Please don't shoot me if you think this is a horrible suggestion, something that should not be included here on CP, or something that has already been written on CP.
My suggestion for an article is one on suggestions on how to set up your PC to be an excellent DEVBOX. My main thoughts right now are on suggestions of ideas (with explanations hopefully) on things like partitioning your drives, where to put system files on those drives, where to place program files on those drives and possibly even suggestions on the hardware to use. Additional tweaks for performance and even user interface enhancements are more than welcome.
Take my home machine for example (I am thinking of making a clean start on it ...):
AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz
1 Gig RAM
40 GB HardDrive
GForceII 64 Meg RAM
Mainly I am looking for input on what people have found to work for them and what makes plain sense to do when setting up a computer. The reason that I am suggesting this for an article is that I think such a collaboration could definitely help out others here on the CP too.
Wally Atkins
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That is a very good idea. I certainly have a system that's worked for me over the years, and I also have a preferred way of laying out the VC IDE - a way that I've tweaked over the years and I think it's perfect now 
Maybe I'll write up some notes over the weekend...
--Mike--
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click!
My really out-of-date homepage
Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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hi friends,
I have been given a project to be coded in C, which has to convert a normal text file into a microsoft Word file using the MS Word's binary file format. Do anyone of you guys have the coding for doing that!.I found a document having the details about the low level data structure of the MS Word file. but due to time constraint , i am not able to finish my project  . so guys if you have the coding PLEASE HELP ME OUT. MY GRADUATION COMPLETION DEPENDS ON YOUR REPLY. Thankyou.
With luv,
Arvind
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You can control Word as a COM object. Does your target machine have Word ? If so, passing it the text and letting IT save in Word format is probably the easiest option.
Christian
No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer.
- Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael
P Butler 05-12-2002
Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not
as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002
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Start with StgCreateDocfile() to create an OLE structured storage file (Word DOCs use this format) then create the storages & streams that your spec says are needed.
--Mike--
I'm bored... Episode I bored.
1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click!
My really out-of-date homepage
Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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Use OLE automation to solve your problem. You can do it with VB easily.
A. Riazi
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Hi there,
People in learning centres, cyber cafes, etc probably have sound cards but no speakers. I'd like to be able to play samples / more complicated things then just "beep" on a Windows 9x/2K/XP machine - so I can reach these people too.
I believe it has something to do with port 61h - but I'm primarily a C++ programmer and have not delved much into the depths of assembler very much before.
An article showing how to program the system speaker would be way cool imho.
Cheers! 
/**********************************
Paul Evans, Dorset, UK.
Personal Homepage "EnjoySoftware" @
http://www.enjoysoftware.co.uk/
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There is no need for assembly programming to do this. IIRC, there was an MS unsupported SPEAKER.DRV driver for Windows 3.1 that emulated a sound card with the system speaker. But it consumed too much CPU, because everytime you need to make a "click" on the speaker, you need to change a bit on the correct port (I don't recall the number). If you make 4000 clicks/second you have a 4KHz sound. And the quality sucks.
You can still find it here:
http://www.agsci.kvl.dk/~jerejej5/pcspeak.htm[^]
I see dumb people
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Cheers dude, rewarded that msg a 5 - whatever that does.
You see dumb people? All the time?
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Paul Evans, Dorset, UK.
Personal Homepage "EnjoySoftware" @
http://www.enjoysoftware.co.uk/
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Although really I was looking for some code - but yeah I've read up some interesting stuff on this site (http://fly.cc.fer.hr/GDM/articles/sndmus/speaker1.html[^]), that seems to indicate that it does make the cpu work damn hard.
Looking into it a bit more it seems for Windows NT type operating systems you would probably have to write a kernal mode driver to do this sort'a stuff. Eeek!
Still, I may dig around a bit more. I'm sure some clever sod has already done all this in Windows NT.
Cheers,
Paul
/**********************************
Paul Evans, Dorset, UK.
Personal Homepage "EnjoySoftware" @
http://www.enjoysoftware.co.uk/
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Hello all,
I need a tutorial for developing an ActiveX control for controling the license of a software!
Kindly mail reply as soon as possible!
aKela_sHEr
(akelasher@yahoo.com)
-Invincible
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If any body can write a walkthrough article which shows how can data be fetched dynamically using 2 calender controls placed in the same form, between 2 dates from a database using VB.NET and Access or SQL Server.
I will really apprciate your help
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Hey fellow Developers,
I'm looking for a really good tutorial on Direct3D, and if possible can it be Version 9, also I'm going to be doing most of my programing unmanaged, so i'm looking for the source to be in C++, and WIN32 not MFC. Thanks alot.
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Cool, I'll be taking a look at these.
Roger Allen
Sonork 100.10016
WHats brown and sticky?
A stick or some smelly stuff!
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www.gamedev.net ! there you can find all about gamedev and directX too. this site rocks! best game developer site ever
Martin Lierschof
Junior Programming Assistant
World-Direct.at eBussines Solutions GmbH
mail²: martin.lierschof@world-direct.at
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A beginner article on MMC would be nice. All the articles are either full of references or point to an example. A step by step article would be great.
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Hi, you should try to look at http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/1200/TView/default.aspx
It is a very nice article on MMC.
Regards,
andrea
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thanks man
i really appreciate it
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In the newsgroups and message boards, you see a lot of "The only way to resolve relative urls is with a url moniker. That's doable in c# but really hard." You never see any c# code on how to do it. Lots of people give the url to the ms docs on how to do it in c++/non-.net.
I don't know com very well, I'm a java programmer. I can handle a little interop but not that much of it. I would do it if I could.
"Outside of a dog, a book is Man’s best friend. And inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read."
-Groucho Marx
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Bog wrote:
The only way to resolve relative urls is with a url moniker. That's doable in c# but really hard.
I am not sure I understand. URL monikers are not to solve URLs, they are meant to download stuff pointed by URIs.
Do you need to download stuff ?
If yes, and if it's an http:// URI, then you've got the WebRequest(URLBuilder) .NET class waiting for you.
It's asynchronous, in exactly the same way than standard WIN32 URL monikers are (IBindStatusCallback, etc.).
May be by solving URLs you were meaning splitting URLs into pieces. This can be done with the URLBuilder .NET class. (saying so, I wanted to make sure not anyone tells you to rely on the WIN32 InternetCrackUrl() function).
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What I mean is, as an example, if I download a webpage (via whatever- httpwebrequest let's say), and I want to then load that html into a webbrowser control, either by saving it to a file or by loading it in as a stream, all of the relative url paths will be wrong. in other words, images will be broken and links won't work.
"Outside of a dog, a book is Man’s best friend. And inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read."
-Groucho Marx
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Bog wrote:
What I mean is, as an example, if I download a webpage (via whatever- httpwebrequest let's say), and I want to then load that html into a webbrowser control, either by saving it to a file or by loading it in as a stream, all of the relative url paths will be wrong. in other words, images will be broken and links won't work.
That's correct, at least for relative resource URIs. Absolute resource URIs are going to work, in the sense that IE is going to launch threads and retrieve the content for it. But URL monikers have nothing to do about it.
To solve this, do one of these :
- invoke explicit URIs for all resources (html tags with a src= attribute). This means you have to parse the html page yourself.
- add a <base href=domainhost> tag in the html page you have just downloaded. Doing so, IE remaps relative links to the actual target website, and does all the proper resource retrieval.
Good luck!
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Neither one of those will completely work.
Parsing the entire html file will only fix the element's urls. It won't fix javascript's local references, or local references in things like applets and flash. Besides which, that solution is slow compaired to writing a URL Moniker.
The < base > element is also not a complete solution. Anchor links won't work. Nor will protocol-independent links like "//www.codeproject.com/", which are perfectly legal according to rfc 2068, and work in all major browsers. IBM uses them for example.
If you read the microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp group, you see a lot of posts saying that URL Monikers do have something to do about it, and are the way to go, but difficult to implement.
"Outside of a dog, a book is Man’s best friend. And inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read."
-Groucho Marx
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Bog wrote:
Parsing the entire html file will only fix the element's urls. It won't fix javascript's local references, or local references in things like applets and flash. Besides which, that solution is slow compaired to writing a URL Moniker.
I am not sure a URL moniker is going to be of any help, but ok just go ahead.
Bog wrote:
The < base > element is also not a complete solution. Anchor links won't work. Nor will protocol-independent links like "//www.codeproject.com/", which are perfectly legal according to rfc 2068, and work in all major browsers. IBM uses them for example.
as far as I know, anchor links work.
About the protocol-independent stuff, you're probably right even though I don't think you should care much about that. 99.99% links are standard URIs.
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