If you ever needed to programmatically enable your users to search for files, you certainly found useful the possibility of reusing the system Find dialog integrated in the Start menu
Even if we’re living in a 32-bit world, and closer and closer to the 64-bit day, 16-bit programs are still running out there. Knowing whether a given EXE is 32-bit
NOTE that this tip requires Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows 95/NT 4.0 + Active Desktop.If your application must do a lot of work with Office documents, then chances are that
Not all programs may run on all the Windows platforms. Often programs require at least a certain version of Windows. In most cases, this is due to the lack of
The Windows shell provides a simple way to detect whether a given folder is shared or not. You must call the SHGetFileInfo() API function and analyze the way it fills
In most cases, you can use CoCreateInstance and forget about CoGetClassObject.Function CoGetClassObject returns the pointer to the desired component’s classfactory and not the component itself. The desired component is created
Unicode characters use more storage space than characters in a regular SQLServer character set use. A regular SQL Server character set is a single-byte set that supports up to 256