Sure, you sometimes need old versions - that is service too! But that way you are losing all the previous updates notes (after all this is your decision), and will the older versions contains all bug fix ? Even for you it is a difficult point. Well, it is only a suggestion. Because I get fustrated when I have already given somebody a 5 and I think the article deserve more. Also I generally don't post kudos comments. Not that I don't want to cheer on authors but I prefer useful technical comments.

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Currently we may only vote once for an article. But some articles got updated several times, reflecting an effort by the author to improve the article, fix bugs, add new features. Some of them, like for example Filter Edit by Ben Hanson or MFC Grid control :), have been updated regularly for years. I think we should be able to vote several times for those articles, another solution could be to vote for a supplementary special award when an article has been updated over a long period of time.

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Hi Chris, thank you for looking a this. I am sorry it's not working. I forgot to say I am using IE8 on Vista, latest patches. - When I select "All roles" nothing happens. - This morning I then tried "C++ developper" then "All roles" to reset some value but I got stuck to "C++ developper". - Then I set "C# developper" and it worked. Back to "All roles", stuck to "C# developper" I then got an idea: - I selected "All roles" then clicked on the Tags field before submitting the request And it worked (I tried several times). Well, I think it did. The list content changed, but the combo is still showing "Select a role" (this is not a prob of course, just I am not sure). If this could help you I can make a video capture showing the problem. I will upload it on my website and post a DL link.

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I have a C++ profile but got interested in some other projects in C#. So every day i get to the Latest Updates page to see all last published articles. Since yesterday I have great difficulty to change the "Select Role" combo. As I change it from "Select Role " to "All Roles" it comes to "C++ developper" after the page is refreshed and I just have C++ articles in the list. I eventually manage to set "All Roles" but it is a daily stuggle :) Thank you,

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Hi, I would like to put a TrackBar in a menu (WTL), something like Vista Explorer does to change views. I wonder if this is a new Vista menu property, or if there is a trick. If a trick I suppose the control is created over the Popup menu, but how do I do this ? Any idea ? Anybody knows ? Thanks,

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Hi Luc, There are various situations and memory is not always allocated in the same place. I have got 3 different case: - a DIB allocated in main thread and used in the dll - a DIB loaded in a thread used in the dll - a DIB loaded in a dll used in main thread I would need 3 different FreeMyObject for a unique DIB class while this HeapAlloc / HeapFree possible solution is common, and as simple as new / delete. I see it as a great simplification. Provided it is reliable on all systems. Thanks for your answer.

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Hi, I would like to do the following: Allocate datas in a dll and then free them in the main application. I have read there are potentials problems doing this because dll and process don't share the same memory, it depends on the compiler,... don't do this - ok. So I was looking for a solution and I went accross the Heap functions. It seems that when I allocate memory like this: HeapAlloc(GetProcessHeap(),... the default Heap is used to store the memory. Then the dll and my application will share the same Heap for that data. So they share the same Heap, but I still wonder if it safe is to call HeapAlloc from the dll and HeapFree from the application for the same data ? Any idea ?

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Hi, I'm visiting the home page every morning to look for new articles. My filtered Category is "MFC/C++" and there are quite few of them nowadays. But I noticed that some new C++ articles don't show on the home page (a WTL article last week and today Starting with SQLite in C++[^]). At the same time older C++ articles are still showing. Just wondering if this is normal or if I should set something in my profile to have a wider Category of articles ? I would just like to see all C/C++ articles. Just wanted to tell you about that. Thanks

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With Yahoo Groups you can also ask to have all new posts grouped in a daily mail. This could be a starter solution. I don't read the newsletter because there are just too many articles (and also because I visit CP daily) but I would appreciate to have a daily summary.

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I agree. This should be optionnal. I noticed that since the system has been in use, there are fewer 1 and 2 and much more 3. So instead of being able to note articles with 5 notes, we are actually only using 3. This will just have the side effect to artificially raise the note of recent articles, compared to older ones.

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Hi, I have a small application communicating with a server on local host. Lately it appears another application is using same port as mine and I would like to query this server to be able to identify it. So I would like to know if there is a way to get a server name, or application, with Winsosk ? Thanks, *Sorry to bother* I got the answer another way, so I don't need the answer anymore. Still, I would be interested to do it programmatically. This is the kind of tricks that can be needed again.

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Thanks for the info Mike. Fortunately I was able to change my Coolbar's look thanks to Bjarn Viksoe's photo gallery implementation: http://www.viksoe.dk/code/photothing.htm[^]

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VC6 - WTL 8 I'm currently updating my software UI to Vista and I wonder what the Windows Explorer "toolbar" is (Vista Aero style) ? I would like to show my coolbar's toolbars with the same look as the Windows Explorer one (the one with Organize, view,...). But at the moment my toolbars look like the menu one. When I drag MiniSpy over the "toolbar" (the one with Organize, view,...) it says class name is DirectUIHWND. Does it mean it is an owner drawn component or is it the famous Ribbon bar control ? The menu itself has the ToolBarWindow32 class and a different look, so that toolbar is obviously something different. Any clue of the control name, style, manifest setting,... ? Yarp www.senosoft.com

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...and probably other VC editions. I've not the need/use of Intellisense and it bothers me a lot slowing down my projects load/unload time so I searched and found a way to get rid of it. Simply delete C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\vcpackages\feacp.dll.

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Thanks, after all that was not so tricky ;)

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I'm looking on how I could do to change the tooltip text of my application that appears in Windows taskbar. Something like IE does to reflect the currently displayed web page. Is there an API function to do so, or is is tricky ? Any help would be appreciated, thanks

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Thank you for your advice. I already used Interbase in the past, it is a good database but not light enough for what I intend to do. I would most probably choose it for professional clients running on a network (I've read SQLite is not good for transactionnal network access), but my needs are too basic even for Interbase. Note - I don't say for FireBird since I don't know it. Yarp http://www.senosoft.com/

Thanks for your detailed answer Garth, Since my needs are rather basic I will most probably only use SQL basic commands. So I think I can cope with those SQLite limitations. Also although I will design it for multi-users use it'll mostly be used by single user. For the driver, yes it is a choice in itself but the thiner layer, the better. > your p3DO explorer ... - wish I knew how to do some ... - not enough time Yes it takes a lot of time, fortunately (or not ;) I'm single and I love 2D/3D graphics. This gives me the will to go ahead. Looking for the proper library/component is a hard part of the project (I made severall costly mistakes in the past). Yarp http://www.senosoft.com/

I'm considerind adding database capabilities to my software. First step is selecting the proper database. The database should have 0 maintenance, be light weight. I would also appreciate a single file binary database and not BDF/Paradox like ASCII files. At the moment I think SQLite could make it. Once you made a choice - especially with small companies like mine - it is difficult to switch to another one. So since I'm not a database specialist, I would appreciate advices or suggestions on other candidates, and possibly pros and cons. Thanks, Yarp http://www.senosoft.com/

One convenient way to copy a collection of files to the clipboard is the implement the IContextMenu interface (then ivoking commands like "copy", "delete",...). For this you need to call GetUIObjectOf on the files parent folder (IShellFolder interface). This even works when the files belongs to different folders (subfolders) since you provide files PIDLs that are relative to the parent folder one. But I've got a situation where the files belong to different drives. And I can't build PIDLs relative to C:\something\ for files belonging to D:\someother\. It would also be the same with network folders. 1/ Can I build PIDLs relative to another drive ? or 2/ Can I have an IShellFolder interface common to severall drives so that I can call a successfull GetUIObjectOf for the IContextMenu interface or 3/ Another solution ? Thanks Yarp http://www.senosoft.com/