November 2004 - Posts

Associating toolbar buttons and menus

Published Wed, Nov 24 2004 7:14 | girishb

In my good ol' MFC days, I remember being able to associate the actions for menus to be executed when a toolbar button was clicked as well. Nowadays, when I am doing my amateur coding in C# winforms, I could not find one example of similar behavior in...

I am turning off comments

Published Thu, Nov 11 2004 23:13 | girishb

I can't fight the Comment spam anymore. Considering there might not be not many people reading my blogs, I dont expect many comments here anyway. I dont need to advertise for some f***ing idiot's piece of junk spamware ridden links in my comment area...

Back to life again

Published Wed, Nov 10 2004 22:40 | girishb

I did not have power for 12 hours, did not have internet for more than 4 days and no cable for about the same time. Its amazing how much reading you can get done when you are not, you know, reading crap in blogs.. :) Anyway, Found this link for patterns...

About COM Interop, having a life et al.

Published Wed, Nov 3 2004 23:40 | girishb

Have you ever derived a .NET class off of a COM interop class and used it production? Well, I have. It turns out that it seems to be the easiest way to tack on my own methods onto an existing COM object interface without re-writing ~200 methods. It all...