Jalaj P. Jha

Technical & Miscellaneous Ramblings

Archive for October, 2007

The Blog Revisited - 6

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While learning WinAPI and programming with Device Context I posted a number of posts on WinAPI functions which are listed below.
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By now I had jumped into using WinAPI function to the level I never imagined that I would get into… I always had some queries as how not to make rectangle forms etc that always got answer that can only happen on C++… was it totally true… NO that’s what I realized when dug into MSDN library and the answer was manipulating Device Context, the virtual device that we always write on to in Windows. For starting on it see WinAPI : Starting with Device Context
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October 30th, 2007 at 12:34 pm

The Blog Revisited - 4

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I once received an excel file that had manually created art showing a village… Then I thought to make a software that could do it taking an image input and result was Into BMP Format creating Excel Art
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Beginning of January saw posting of Tweaking Registry for Internet Explorer that turned into most viewed post on this blog. Internet Explorer (4 and above) allowed a lot of customization, a few of which are listed here.
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MSXML component provides you with everything that you need to read,parse or write an XML file However when you write an XML file the file contains no indentation etc to make it readable. While working on code to introduce indents in an XML file I wrote a general component to do it easily which is described in Easy way to writing XML.
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This blog is nearing its one year of existence. Since I had mostly worked with VBA (Visual basic for Applications) earlier, I was exploring the power of Visual Basic. Then a thought came to my mind “Is this learning too going to fade out from my mind with time as happened to my earlier learning?”. Earlier I had worked and developed on various applications and tools for CAD, 3-D renderings, morphing, photo/video editing, programming, all for fun and learning. But as of now I have lost most of the source codes saved in 1.2″ and 1.44″ floppies and Harddisks that crashed.
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