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Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
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The Visual Basic 6.0 DirListBox control has been rendered obsolete by the OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog components in Visual Basic 2005.
Conceptual Differences
The Visual Basic 6.0 DirListBox...
A simplest demostration of creating checkboxes using pure windows API, and tracking its check/unckech events
A simplest demostration of creating textbox using pure windows API, and tracking its events
A simplest demostration of creating button using pure windows API
One of the many enhancements of IBM DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows is the ability to install multiple copies of the DB2 software on the same server. In this article, you'll follow step-by-step...
This is the installation summary of both Windows XP and Fedora Core 4 operating systems on my own machine. It can also be applied with any Windows (2000 & 2003) and any Fedora Core (1, 2 & 3) dual...
Test your Windows applications for common bugs in the User Interface (UI). This article shows 10 ways to find nasty bugs.
Make your Visual Basic apps process text fast as lightning. This article dives deep into the performance of the VB6 String functions. We learn the functions to use and the ones to avoid. We also...
In today's times Lookup forms are ideal for applications that need a compact and tidy way to present the user with a search & selection type screen. A simple example is the Windows 'Open File' dialog...
Using the Windows registry to create professional business applications in Delphi. Reading and writing Key values, creating a registry class interface, and best practices for designing a safe, robust...
Visual Studio 2005 introduced the concept of snap lines to assist in positioning Windows Forms elements. For those who preferred to use the Visual Studio 2003 snap to grid layout style, snap lines...
When it comes to upgrade options for Vista, there are plenty of ads out there, but what is sorely lacking is a place you can go to just get the facts. In my search, it seems there are plenty of...
This tutorial details the basics of Win32 CE API programming
for the Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone. This tutorial uses ANSI
C language and Pelles C Compiler. The basics of setting up
OpenGL ES...
Python is an object-oriented programming language that has gained a lot of popularity in recent years. ADO (or ActiveX Data Objects) is a Microsoft concept that has also gained popularity on Windows...
This document discusses some of the common pitfalls in getting python scripts running under Windows, with an emphasis on enabling python cgi scripts through Windows Apache.
The goal of this article is to build a podcasting tool using Pygtk (Python + Glade + Pygtk). This tool, named BitPodder, is a podcasting tool allowing getting .torrent files from RSS Feeds. By...
The following is an example of using the Jython interactive interpreter from the Windows 2000 command prompt. On this page, we demonstrate several Jython basics.
This guide covers installing Python (and required modules), Postgres, Apache, mod_python, and Django. Also, it includes steps to confirm that Django is working properly post-install. It does not,...
The DataGridView Windows Forms control is a quite new .NET control introduced in MS Visual Studio .NET 2005 that is a good alternative to the VS .NET 1.x DataGrid control. The data table presentation...
