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COM / DCOM / COM+

Beginners

Introduction to COM - What It Is and How to Use It. A tutorial for programmers new to COM that explains how to reuse existing COM components, for example, components in the Windows shell. Introduction to COM Part II - Behind the Scenes of a COM Server A tutorial for programmers new to COM that explains the internals of COM servers, and how to write your own interfaces in C++

Combo & List Boxes

Date / Time handling

Debug tips

Internet & Network

List Controls

Miscellaneous Controls

Shell Programming

Beginners

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions - Index An index of all the articles in the Idiot's Guide The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions - Part I A step-by-step tutorial on writing shell extensions The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions - Part II A tutorial on writing a shell extension that operates on multiple files at once. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions - Part III A tutorial on writing a shell extension that shows pop-up info for files. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions - Part IV A tutorial on writing a shell extension that provides custom drag and drop functionality. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions - Part IX A tutorial on writing an extension to customize the icons displayed for a file type. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions - Part V A tutorial on writing a shell extension that adds pages to the properties dialog of files. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions - Part VI A tutorial on writing a shell extension that can be used on the Send To menu. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions - Part VII A tutorial on using owner-drawn menus in a context menu shell extensions, and on making a context menu extension that responds to a right-click in a directory background. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions - Part VIII A tutorial on adding columns to Explorer's details view via a column handler shell extension.

General

Adding Custom Pages to Control Panel Applets This article shows how to add your own pages to Control Panel applets by writing a property sheet handler. Basic class for using the Microsoft Task Scheduler CShellFileOp - Wrapper for SHFileOperation An easy-to-use wrapper for the Win32 SHFileOperation function How to Implement Drag and Drop Between Your Program and Explorer A step-by-step description of how to drag and drop files between your application and Explorer windows.

Programming Tips

General

A Utility for Browsing Directly to a Microsoft Knowledge Base Article A utility that lets you browse to a MS Knowledge Base article right from the Run dialog A Utility to Clean Up Compiler Temp Files A shell extension that deletes compiler temp and intermediate files. Some Time-Saving Commands and Key Remappings for the VC IDE Save time and impress co-workers with these great keyboard shortcuts

Windows 2000

About Michael Dunn

Michael lives in sunny Los Angeles, California, and is so spoiled by the weather that he will probably never be able to live anywhere else. He graduated from UCLA with a math degree in 1995, and immediately landed a job as a QA engineer at Symantec, working on the Norton AntiVirus team. He pretty much taught himself Windows and MFC programming, and in 1999 he designed and coded a new interface for Norton AntiVirus 2000.

He also enjoys his hobbies of playing pinball, bike riding, and the occasional PlayStation or Dreamcast game. (Game currently in the DC: Virtua Tennis.) He is also trying not to forget the languages he's studied: French, Mandarin Chinese, and Japanese.