If I were 20 years younger I would probably go for QT for multiplatform stuff. It is a platform I know works at least for windows AND mac desktop. It also promises android. Flutter, MAUI and the like, could be useful for somebody starting up from scratch, with the correct age and energy. However I am not convinced how truly "multiplatform" they really are. There are so many design differences between the desktop and a phone that I doubt if a single unmodified code base can target both. What kind of percent will be needed for platform specific fixes? I wonder if anybody could enlighten us

whereas dark vs light is a user choice, the real question is why MS have made it such a PITA for a old school win32 desktop program to show in dark colors. New controls work with hacks and old controls, just forget about it.

to begin with, simple projects can be done with the online Arduino IDE. They also have an offline version[^]. I don't imagine you will be doing anything complex to begin with, well at least I'm not a hardware guru so I take things slowly I got an "Arduino" kit off ebay on the cheap, with a breadboard. It works, although it came without any description of the included sensors, but you can use google to figure things out through the identification numbers on various chips. Or buy one of the official UNO starter packs from the website as for books, I have one, but it is merely an explanation of the sample projects included in Arduino IDE for people that don't know much about programming. So that wasn't much use for me. But I got one "electronics for dummies" book that explains the basics about circuits, if you need that kind of info hth nikos

Softpedia cnet and the like are old software listing sites, which don't really promote your software. You get some exposure but don't expect too much there are sites like bitsdujour that give you a platform for a 1-day 50% sale, which will give you some income and an audience for a time. There are also some 100% giveaway of the day kind of sites, but my experience with them was dismal. But it could work for you

blockchain is interesting but also the biggest problem with bitcoin. Its present size is a few gigabytes, when only a few people use bitcoins for transactions. Imagine where will that size grow if it was used daily by millions of people... infeasible! so I don't think there's any future in bitcoin, and it's just a classic bubble a friend of mine was trying to convince me into buying bitcoins last Christmas, when the price was under $1000. On what reasonable grounds did it double in size in half a year other than speculation?

this isn't an either/or question; you can continue your online business AND get a store listing. There's a lot of support from Microsoft to help you join. You know about desktop converter already. The conversion isn't difficult, the only thorn is changing your registration code I did it some months ago, and although the sales aren't spectacular, they do exist. In the future Microsoft may force everybody to go on the store, if you believe the news I believe that to be successful in the Store, you must offer a free/very cheap version, and make money through in-app purchases. Mine is quite expensive for store terms Along the way you will find that many things are broken, it is very sad, but there could be an advantage for the future jumping on board early

I don't see the point developing in UWP but if getting on the Store is your target you can convert a regular windows program using the desktop converter (project centennial)

I was hoping that the post would be picked by whoever is doing the daily CP newsletter and plug the crack tracker. But the catalog isn't a bad idea either!

crack tracker isn't the answer for all the piracy problems but it helps a lot and has helped me a lot with my xplorer2 I believed that other software people would take advantage of it, that's why I thought to post here (is there a better place in codeproject?) but clearly it has fallen unto deaf ears :)

I wrote a piece of code that should be helpful for many people around here that sell software/shareware for a living. It's called crack tracker and it scans filesharing sites (rapidshare etc) for illegal downloads of your software (usually with cracks and keygens). It presents all confirmed links in a list so that you can file your DMCA complaints and have them removed http://zabkat.com/blog/14Mar09-crack-tracker.htm[^] (free) hth nikos

dude! this site is meant to be a public service for coders, but accessibility sucks. Searching older articles takes ages, not to mention trying to read article discussions and Q&A -- pure irritation! when are you going to buy some proper hardware to run codeproject on, and make things more lively? i'll tell you what, put up a plea on your front page asking for donations (cash for servers), we'll sort you out ;) nikos PS. you can tell from my state of mind that i was recently searching old articles in codeproject... and got nowhere!

although most WTL classes take care of releasing the object they manage (if they manage it), CImageList is a sore exception. I guess it is not an ideal world! Perhaps it is because imagelists have window semantics and as "windows" you need to destroy them manually To answer your question, yes you should destroy all imagelists you create yourself, ideally at the moment you no longer require them. However the "system" imagelist returned by SHGetFileInfo is a shared resource which you needn't (shouldn't in 9x) destroy most of the other WTL classes have a managed and unmanaged "flavor". E.g. you have CBitmap and CBitmapHandle; the first is managed, destroying the bitmap whenever it goes out of scope, the second is meant for temporary assignments.

try **IID_**IInputObjectSite as the template parameter

your subclassed control should handle WM_GETDLGCODE to tell the parent dialog that it "DLGC_WANTALLKEYS"

this was happening to me long time ago when I had an old SDK that didn't define RT_MANIFEST in any header file. So that's your primal suspect; try getting the latest platform SDK