Windows API
Tips and tricks regarding the Windows API
While there are many programmers moving their infrastructures to platforms like .NET and away from VB6 and COM, there are still applications out there that are written in VB6 and possibly a plethora still using COM. And, it is likely that we’ll be seeing and supporting VB6 and COM-based applications for the foreseeable future. As a result, maybe you shouldn’t file away your VB6 and COM troubleshooting skills just yet. Even if you have a good strategy for preserving binary compatibility from version...
Purpose of Article I’m sure that there are a ton of articles out there regarding how to subclass windows. The purpose of this article is to walk through the entire process of why you might want to subclass a window, how to look at the window hierarchy, and then how to actually do the subclassing. At PaperWise (http://www.paperwise.com), we have a new architecture that is .NET and an older architecture that is COM, C++, and VB6. While VB6 is a powerful language, I am sure that you would agree that...