This week's topics include the usage of WM_NULL, whether a Machine ID for copy protection purposes exists, whether there is any range for WM_XXX messages that someone could use without having any troubles with the Windows message handlers, and how can a person validate a auto_ptr?

Catch up on preventing the startup pulse from occurring when working with serial ports, starting a program automatically when the user double-clicks the file, and why free() does not work.

Topics include finding whether or not a process is running, converting binary numbers to decimal or to char, reading a window's text from an another window without using the mouse, and why lower_bound() does not work.

Lots of hot topics are covered in the Discussion Forums on CodeGuru. If you missed the forums this week, you missed some interesting ways to solve a problem.

Lots of hot topics are covered in the Discussion Forums on CodeGuru. If you missed the forums this week, you missed some interesting ways to solve a problem.

This week's topics include setting the focus of multiple items in a list control when a dialog is open, why a DOS application runs satisfactorily in Win98 but improperly in Win2000, why rand() always returns the same number, and resolving MFC Class conflicts.

This week's topics include why you get an error with a simple CTime code, whether you have to keep the DSW and DSP file under the source control, how often you have used 'goto' in the last five years, and whether you have to use a TXT file when implementing a Tooltip control.

This week's topics include handling cross-referencing includes, discovering whether something is a costly operation, what a iter->begin() and iter->end() should return, and what the most important factor in a certain algorithm is.

This week's topics include learning the difference between 'C'-like type conversion and VC++ cast operators, whether it is necessary to delete a created pen, whether it is possible to re-sort a map using an another key, whether the STL contains a matrix class, and whether it isnecessary to delete an object from std::list.

This week's topics include Why one gets compiler error C2065 when compiling a VC++ 6.0 project in VC7, deciding whether one should call destroywindow before deleting an object, where the error log is, how to search for keys using wildcards in a map, and how to use a *void -> *short in printf.

This week's topics include learning the difference between #include and #include 'file.h', how to avoid const_casts, how software protection works with a USB stick, when you should use a map or a vector, and when you should define a common base class.

This week's topics include learning how software is cracked, why a CStatic control on a TabCtrl has a different bgcolor than the TabCtrl, how to instantiate a class by name, whether the & operator is intelligent, and how toset the size when minimizing a window in pure C.

This week's topics include porting VC++ code to Linux, using STL with Linux, making a function that allocates memory for you, creating a 3D vector, and returning a vector from a function.

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