In a particular VC++ 2005 MFC dialog, the "Question Mark button" (near Close button) shows up even after I set "Context Help" property to False. In other dialogs the button shows up or disappears properly after setting or resetting that property. Can somebody tell me whats wrong? or What else controls the display of that button? Thanks.

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Nah.. it's perfectly working... it's online..

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I've a MFC dialog with two edit boxes... By default focus in on first text box. I want that during dialog load if first edit box contains some text, then second edit box should have focus... I've tried SetFocus() in InitDialog() but it's not working... focus still remains on first control. How should I do it? Please Help!

I am developing a MFC app (Windows Explorer style). How can I control window's resizing behavior? I want to make treeview and listview invisible and when they are invisible the window size should be automatically reduced. I am trying OnSize() but it's not working...

ya... i'm too thinking that... because i've placed code in overridden DestroyWindow() function but it never gets called if EndDialog() method is used to close the dialog box. :(

i want to execute some code when a dialog is destroyed, but the code in DeatroyWindow() function doesn't executes when i use EndDialog() but executes when i use DestroyWindow(). What is the diff. between these two and which should be best to use?

Yes, definitely... If a control, or menu item is disabled but still shows Tooltips, then it gives a good idea of what that button does and saves precious time as we don't have to look into help files...

yes, actually when i first tried my hands on VS2005, same thing happened to me and took 2 days to find out how to do it in MSDN... :)

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IsTextUnicode() function can be used to check if the text is unicode... The following code might help you: int IsUnicodeFile(char* szFileName) {     FILE *fpUnicode;     char l_szCharBuffer[80];     //Open the file     if((fpUnicode= fopen(szFileName,"r")) == NULL)     return 0; //Unable to open file     if(!feof(fpUnicode))     {         fread(l_szCharBuffer,80,1,fpUnicode);         fclose(fpUnicode);         if(IsTextUnicode(l_szCharBuffer,80,NULL))         {             return 2; //Text is Unicode         }         else         {             return 1; //Text is ASCII         }     }     return 0; // Some error happened } :)

To change the VS2005 Window Layout, use following method: 1. On the Tools menu, choose Import and Export Settings. 2. On Welcome to the Import and Export Settings Wizard page, click Import selected environment settings and then click Next. 3. On the Save Current Settings page, select Yes, save my current settings, and then click Next. 4. In Which collection of settings do you want to import, select a settings collection from the list and then click Next. 5. In Which settings do you want to import, expand the list and select only the categories or category items you want to apply to your current settings. 6. Click Finish. 7. The Reset Complete page lists any errors associated with resetting your settings under Details. :)

SHChangeNotifyRegister() function can be used if you want to receive notifications when something in shell namespace is changed... (e.g. file/folder creation, deletion, rename etc..) take a look at http://www.codeproject.com/atl/shellfoldertree.asp, it may help you... http://vbnet.mvps.org/index.html?code/shell/shchangenotify.htm : this is a Visual Basic sample... it might help you... :)

Hi, I'm trying to emulate Folder Tree View like one in Windows Explorer and I'm using IShellFolder interface and EnumObjects() function to enumerate shell folders. I'm storing pointer to ITEMIDLIST for each tree node so that it can be used later for showing context menus etc. Now, whenever I browse a removable drive (USB drive) through it, i'm unable to unmount it. Is this possible because some of the ITEMIDLIST structures aren't freed up? Does that keeps the drive locked?