There are two ways of declaring COM interfaces, the hard way
and the easy way.
The easy way is to use an IDL file and let the MIDL compiler
generate your COM interface for you.
If you let MIDL do the work, then you also get
__uuidof support at no extra charge, which is a very nice bonus.
The hard way is to do it all by hand. If you choose th...
Just because they say they're non-partisan doesn't mean that they're non-partisan.
Friday night, I got a phone call from "Victor" at "Washington Counts" who came right out and asked me whom I was going to vote for.
I asked him to repeat the name of the organization he represents, and he said, "Washington Counts, a non-partisan organization, wo...
The indexMenu, idCmdFirst and idCmdLast parameters to
the IContextMenu::QueryContextMenu method
allow you, the host, to control where in the context menu
the IContextMenu will insert its commands.
To illustrate this, let's put two bonus commands on our
context menu, with the boring names "Top" and "Bottom".
We need to reserve some space in our ...
There is a small improvement that can be made to
to the program we wrote last time.
It involves taking advantage of the last parameter to
the IContextMenu::QueryContextMenu method:
CMF_DEFAULTONLY
This flag is set when the user is activating the default action,
typically by double-clicking.
This flag provides a hint for the shortcut menu exte...