The Old New Thing

The best book on ActiveX programming ever written

July 8, 2005 Jul 8, 2005 07/8/05

Raymond Chen

I was introduced to the glory that is the world of Mr. Bunny many years ago. Mr. Bunny's Guide to ActiveX is probably the best book on ActiveX programming ever written. If you haven't figured it out by now, it's a humor book, but it's the sort of madcap insane geek humor that has enough truth in it to make you laugh more. My favorite is ...

How can I recover the dialog resource ID from a dialog window handle?

July 8, 2005 Jul 8, 2005 07/8/05

Raymond Chen

Occasionally, I see someone ask a question like the following. I have the handle to a dialog window. How can I get the original dialog resource ID that the dialog was created from? As we saw in our in-depth discussion of how dialogs are created from dialog templates, the dialog template itself is not saved anywhere. The purpose of a ...