Articles by Mahesh Chand

This article describes how to set your wallpaper as background of a dialog box

This article describes how to create a child window using windows API.This project is a Win32 Application provided by App Wizard. This project creates child windows such as button, list, and edit box using Win API.

This article explains how to display thr progress bar using secondary thread.This is one simple dialog based application.

A worker thread is commonly used to handle backgrounds tasks that the you shouldn't have to wait to continue using your application.

This article explains how MFC framework under the hood to provide Print and Print Preview support to your SDI or MDI application.

This article describes about how to get CPU Speed.CPU information is stored in your Windows registry database.

This article describes about mcFirst, your first VC++ Application.It is a SDI application which draws circles on right mouse click.

This article describes about the information of the system and its utility. The attached application with this article is a System Utility, which uses C++ to display system information.

This article explains how to change color of dialog and its control.

A simple tutorial for beginners with introduction to WinInet and sample code.This tutorial guides you through basics of WinInet including how to use WinInet with HTTP, FTP, and Gopher protocols with real world examples.

This article describes how to download URL using http API.

In this small article, I will show you how you can set command line arguments and other project properties in Visual Studio so you don’t have to pass these arguments each time you run the application. This article also shows you how you can read command line arguments in your code.

The best way to get the sub menu on runtime, Enable/Disable menu items in your menu is using CMenu MFC class's EnableMenuItem function.

This article shows how to use merge algorithm to merge two vector container.

This article shows how to use deque container to add and delete items.

A tutorial teaches you how to use STL in your program with various sample examples.

This article show how to use the map container.

This Article shows how to use list container to add and sort items.

This article explains how to use STL'S reverse algorithm to reverse an array

This article explains how to create a status bar for a child window.Creating status bar for your MDI application's child window is quite similar to Toolbar.

This article describes about memory leeks in program.

Learn how to download a web page with the WinINet InternetOpenUrl API, including the role of InternetOpen when establishing the connection.

A dialog base MFC application which let you browse and view AVI files.

This article explains how to maximise/minimize view window.

This article gives brief description about Document-view architecture.