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VB Project Analyzer Add-in

This great add-in lets you analyze one or more VB projects, and lists all the dependencies from each other and from other DLLs and type libraries. This is an exceptional

Play a CD Audio track

If you want to play a track of an audio CD from VB you can use MCI functions. The main MCI function is mciSendString, that sends command strings to the

Play an AVI movie in a PictureBox control

With MCI functions you can play an AVI movie into a PictureBox. All you need to do is open the file with a special procedure: Declare Function mciSendString Lib “winmm”

Record a WAV file

You can use MCI functions if you want to record a WAV file. The main MCI function is mciSendString, that sends command strings to the system and execute them. Declare

Play a MIDI file

If you want to play a MIDI file from VB you have to use MCI functions. The main MCI function is mciSendString, that sends command strings to the system and

Retrieve the size of an AVI movie

To retrieve the original size of an AVI file that you’ve already opened with the mciSendString API function you can use this command Dim RetString As StringRetString = Space$(256)CommandString =

Play an AVI movie

If you want to play an AVI movie from VB you can use MCI functions. The main MCI function is mciSendString, that sends command strings to the system and execute

What are Obfuscators?

Java bytecode contains information in your Java source files. This byte code is generated by the java compiler as per an explicitly documented specification. It is not impossible to reverse

What Is Javadoc?

Javadoc is a program shipped with JDK that you can use to run over your source code to produce documentation of your classes in the same type of HTML files

The Robots of Java

Version 1.3 of Java 2 platform, currently in Beta, has a new java.awt.Robot class that lets you generate mouse and key events at system level. You can use this to

The Memory of an Exception Object

The memory for the temporary copy of an exception that is being thrown is allocated in a platform-defined way. Note, however, that it may not be allocated on the free

Accessing the Addresses of Class’s Member Functions

You can take the addresses of a class’s static and non-static member functions. However, the class’s constructor(s) and destructor are an exception to the rule. You cannot take their addresses

Zero Sized Arrays?

In standard C++, declaring arrays with zero elements is illegal: int n[0]; //illegal However, certain compilers do support arrays of zero size as non-standard extension. In contrast, dynamic allocation of

Avoid Returning Containers by Value

While the overhead of returning an ordinary object by value may be acceptable in most cases, returning a container by value is much more expensive in terms of performance. For

Emulating Infinite Precision of Floating Point Numbers

The representation of floating point numbers is just an approximation. Truncation and rounding occur frequently because the hardware cannot offer infinite precision when using a fixed number of bits. For

inline vs. __forceinline

MS Visual C++, as well as several other compilers, now offer non-standard keywords that control the inline expansion of a function, in addition to the standard inline keyword. What are