Visual Studio

How to Get Visual C++ Sample Projects (2)

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In a previous article I showed how to get Visual C++ sample projects either by using Visual Studio IDE or by downloading from MSDN – Developer Code Samples site. Recently, I found that we can also download an archive containing a very large number of sample projects from GitHub. Pretty cool! Here is the magic … Read more

Visual Studio 2015: How to Step into MFC Framework Code

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Let’s say we have installed Visual Studio 2015 and  have started an MFC application in DEBUG mode. Now, attempting to step into an MFC Framework function, e.g. CWinApp::InitInstance, the debugger simply steps over. Having a look into Output window, we may discover a message like this: “…’C:\Windows\System32\mfc140ud.dll’. Cannot find or open the PDB file”. That’s … Read more

Using Lambdas in MFC Applications – Sorting Arrays

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Beginning with Visual Studio 2010 which supports lambda expressions introduced by C++11 standard, you can handily sort an MFC array like in the following example: Sorting CStringArray by using a lambda expression // Example #1 // … CStringArray arr; arr.Add(_T(“John”)); arr.Add(_T(“Zorro”)); arr.Add(_T(“Sandy”)); arr.Add(_T(“Jimmy”)); // … bool bAscending = true; // … std::sort( arr.GetData(), // position … Read more

Command Link Button Control

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What are Command Links? Among other new controls supported in Windows Vista and newer Windows versions, we can find  Command Link controls, that contain: an icon; a label text; an additional explanatory text. In fact, it is a common Windows button control (of class “Button“) that has BS_COMMANDLINK or BS_DEFCOMMANDLINK type style set. We’ll further show … Read more