August 20, 1999

A reader posted a message on one of the C++ newsgroups recently. He had to port a huge project from Borland C++ 5.0 to Visual C++ 6.0. The project uses

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This code allows you to close all the MDI child forms in an MDI form at once. First, create a menu item in the MDI form, then paste in this

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