Igor Delovski Board

[delovski]

Good online tutorials:

* Catch22 - Win32 Tips, Tricks and Tutorials; No MFC, No VB - pure Win32 C/C++

* Joseph M. Newcomer - MVP Tips, Techniques, and Goodies

* Reliable Software - Generic stuff, Shell API, OLE/COM, Bitmaps, Direct Draw, ...

[delovski]

DaWei Designs: Pointer tutorial

"This material concerns the concept and use of pointers. The subject seems
to be difficult for neophyte programmers. Perhaps a grounding in assembly
language, where one deals routinely with immediate, direct, and indirect
references, was a help to many of us old salts. I hope to demystify the subject
enough to prevent beginning users from falling into the most common traps."

[delovski]

Shell Explorer's Cookbook — Introduction

"I am not going to be revealing any 'secrets' in the full sense of the
word. All the information is 'out there', obtained by regular procedures,
none of them involving the supernatural or underground hacks. ... You may
expect interesting quirky things, advanced features not properly explained
and new shell features introduced with windows 2000. "

[delovski]

Adrian Worley - Logging a directory or folder: A three part tutorial covering
reading the contents of a Windows directory or folder.

Part 1 develops a crude logging program
Part 2 refines it covering several common error conditions
Part 3 explores some of the other features of the API routines used

And then some more on FindFirst/NextFile by Lucian Wischik at
comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32: "I've long wondered what
the neatest idiom is for FindFile. I've ended up with this:"

[delovski]

Bitmap Basics - A GDI tutorial, by Chris Becke at The Code Project.

Windows GDI Tutorial 1 - Drawing a bitmap
Windows GDI Tutorial 2 - Transparency
Windows GDI Tutorial 3 - Using Palettes and accessing bitmap resources
Windows GDI Tutorial 4 - DIBs

[Ike]

The Code Project: Introduction to COM - What It Is and How to Use It,
by Michael Dunn.

"A tutorial for programmers new to COM that explains how to reuse existing
COM components, for example, components in the Windows shell."

Same place: COM IDs & Registry keys in a nutshell,
by Joao C. Morais

"The main COM IDs are:

LIBID: the Type Library ID, based on GUID.
APPID: the Application ID, based on GUID.
CLSID: the COM Class ID, based on GUID.
IID: the Interface ID, based on GUID.
PROGID: the Program ID, based on a text string.

[delovski]

Win32 Tutorials at the CoderSource.net

Articles and source code: Win32 Threads, NT Services, Registry, Sockets, MAPI, etc.

* * *

More articles & Code: Stephane Rodriguez - ARST Design

Amazing collection of programming resources: "A simple yet debuggable
COM skeleton code, SendTo mail recipient, Useful ### ##0,00 formatter,
GIF/JPEG picture loader - Loading pictures without any libraries, stristr - x86
assembly code for case insensitive search, DevZip - Developer's zip backup
tool, etc."

* * *

Programmers Heaven: Windows Zone - Windows Code

COM/DCOM, Controls & Components, Dialog Boxes, DLLs, Helpfiles, Internet,
Printing, Serial Com. & TAPI, System / Low-level, Windows & Forms, etc.

* * *

Massmind.org - Win32 API reference

Functions, Messages, Structures & Macros; File IO, Memory Map File IO,
Memory Management, Serial IO

[delovski]

Function X: Win32 programming

"This site's goal is to provide a few lessons on Win32 programming. Keep
in mind that everything you can do with Win32 using a C++ compiler, you
can also do using Borland Delphi."

[delovski]

Great collection of articles and tutorials at the Flipcode:

Introduction To Windows Programming, Introduction To
Basic Multithreaded Programming, Working With Menus
And Dialog Boxes, Win32 Window Skinning, etc.

[delovski]

Stanford CS Education Library

"A silly but memorable 3 minute animated video demonstrating the basic
structure, techniques, and pitfalls of using pointers. There are separate
versions of the video for C, Java, C++, Pascal, and Ada. There is also a
more traditional companion text that goes with the video, and a
brief history of how the video was made."

[delovski]

Mark Nelson: Mark's Magazine Articles, a bibliography of magazine articles with links.

"Rendering Transparent GIFs - Revisited", "Intel's JPEG Library", "Win32
Version Control", "A Fresh Cup of Zip", "Examining the zlib Compression Library", etc.

Plus, he edits the Data Compression page that appears on the Dr. Dobb's Journal Web site

[delovski]

OpenGL tutorials at Neon Helium GameDev

Lessons start with instructions about installing OpenGL on Mac, Solaris and Windows.

[Joe]

Ken Fitlike: Windows programming links

"This thread is intended to act as a quick reference for getting started
with programming with the windows application programming interface(api,
win32api, winapi)."

[XNote]

Add XP Visual Style Support to OWNERDRAW Controls

"However, if you plan to use any OWNERDRAW controls, you won't get
the new look automatically. Windows is just not smart enough to know
how your control should look. You have to make calls directly to the new
UxTheme APIs."


Something related to XML manifests reqired for XP style applications:

Windows XP may reboot when encounter certain manifest files

"If you are developing applications for Windows Vista using Visual Studio
2005, and you are adding Vista UAC manifest to your application, when
your application runs on Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows
Server 2003 RTM (without SP1), Windows may reboot unexpectly."

[delovski]

DevShed: C - Frequently Asked Questions by Steve Summit.

The questions answered here are divided into several categories:

1. Declarations and Initializations
2. Structures, Unions, and Enumerations
3. Expressions
4. Pointers
5. Null Pointers
6. Arrays and Pointers
7. Memory Allocation
8. Characters and Strings
9. Boolean Expressions and Variables
10. C Preprocessor
11. ANSI/ISO Standard C
12. Stdio
13. Library Functions
14. Floating Point
15. Variable-Length Argument Lists
16. Strange Problems
17. Style
18. Tools and Resources
19. System Dependencies
20. Miscellaneous
Bibliography
Acknowledgements

Same place: The Literate Programming FAQ by David B. Thompson

"Literate programming is a phrase coined by Donald Knuth to describe
the approach of developing computer programs from the perspective of a
report or prose. The focus, then, is on description (and documentation) of
the approach in human-readable form. This is in contrast to the normal
approach of focusing on the code."

GP Wiki: SDL - Simple DirectMedia Layer

"libsdl.org says that SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) is a "cross-platform
multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard,
mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer." It
has been used as the basis for many published games, most notably the
many titles produced by the (now defunct) Loki Games."

[delovski]

Windows Computing - Windows Programming technologies (VC++/.Net 3.0/Win32) Blog

"Vipin Aravind, a developer based in Bangalore, India and an MVP. I am
28 years old and hold a Bachelor in Technology Degree from Regional
Engineering College. I hope to share much with the community on
programming technologies on my website."

[XNote]

The Function Pointer Tutorials

"Function Pointers provide some extremely interesting, efficient and
elegant programming techniques. You can use them to replace switch/if-
statements, to realize your own late-binding or to implement
callbacks."

1. Introduction to Function Pointers
2. The Syntax of C and C++ Function Pointers
3. How to Implement Callbacks in C and C++ ?
4. Functors to encapsulate C and C++ Function Pointers
5. Topic Specific Links

[delovski]

DevPulse: Make your own Office 2007 styled buttons!

"As many people may have noticed, Office 2007 Beta has the new, refined,
and shiny look to it. I decided to make a button design inspired by it, and I
liked it so much that I decided to share how."

Plus later...

Shell Blog: Vista Style Menus, Part 1 - Adding icons to standard menus

"Sample Code - Now the question is: how do you convert an hIcon to a
PARGB32 bitmap? The answer depends on which graphics system you are
comfortable using. The easiest solution is to use the Windows Imaging
Component (WIC)"

[Ike]

WebDev Tutorials: Trailfire/Tizag Tutorials

First Website Guide, HTML Tutorial, CSS Tutorial, Javascript Tutorial,
PHP Tutorial, PERL Tutorial, Ajax Tutorial, ASP Tutorial, VBScript Tutorial,
SQL Tutorial, MySQL Tutorial, Flash Tutorial, XML Tutorial, HTML Reference,
CSS Reference, CSS Examples, PHP Examples, etc.

[Ike]

CodeGuru: What does : (colon) do?

":: is used to get a static member from a class or from namespace.
: is used for 4 things, deriving, labels, privileges and for initialization."

... and there's more.

[Ike]

Companion Software: Windows Metafile FAQ

"Within this document, you will find information about:

* The Basics
* Converting Between Formats
* Clip Art
* Importing and Editing
* Browser Support
* Internal Structure
* Vulnerabilities and Exploits"

[delovski]

OneSadCookie.com: Xcode/GLUT Tutorial

Blog | Software | Source | Tutorials | Book

"Xcode is Apple's integrated development environment for Mac OS X 10.3
(Panther) and 10.4 (Tiger). It's essentially an update to Project Builder, but
it has many significant changes.

OpenGL is a graphics library. It does both 2D and 3D graphics, and takes
advantage of hardware acceleration. It's cross-platform; that is the same
code will run on Windows and Linux.

OpenGL is cross-platform, but each OS has a different way of making an
OpenGL window and getting events. GLUT is a simple cross-platform
wrapper for this functionality."

[Ike]

MacInstruct: How to Use Encrypted Disk Images to Secure Files

"Fortunately, the ability to encrypt files using disk images is a free feature
built into every Mac running Mac OS 10.2 or later. You can encrypt and save
many of your secret files into one file that is password-protected, and you
can even burn these files onto CDs to securely transport your top-secret
information to another Mac."

[delovski]

CarbonDev

"CarbonDev is the place for Macintosh Carbon Development: Carbon Books,
Carbon Resources, Mailing Lists, Carbon Source Code, Hints And Tips.

This website is a Wiki. That means that you can easily edit any page on this
site. You can ask questions, post source code, start discussions, and fix spelling
errors on any page on this website. "

[delovski]

Rick Strom: Win32 Tutorial as wiki

Basic Window Creation, Port Scanning and Sockets, Skinning, Threads,
Menus, Dialogs, Printing, The System Tray & Balloon Tips, Files, ListViews,
Sounds, Context Menus, ...

[Ike]

Digg: Create a Linux Desktop App In 14 Minutes Using QDevelop and QT4

"This tutorial is designed for absolute beginners, even if you have programmed
in other languages and are new to Linux and C++ then this tutorial will help
get you up and running with Qt and C++."

[Ike]

A beginner’s introduction to the GNU/Linux command line

"An introduction to the command line for novices that teaches some simple
commands such as ls, cd and pwd and explains how to learn more"

A beginner’s introduction to the GNU/Linux command line,
Part II—Managing processes

"A tutorial for novices that discusses processes and process related commands
including ps, top, grep, fuser, more, jobs and kill."

[Ike]

#macdev - Frequently Asked Questions

Ha! Ha!

Same place: Getting Answers

"I hang out in several programmer related chats and forums and I see a
lot of people having trouble getting answers. They get no answers, poor
answers, or absorb a lot of verbal abuse. As a person asking questions,
there are some simple things you can do to help your chances of getting
good answers. This guide will show you ten easy things you can do to
ensure your questions are answered quickly and well."

[delovski]

micahcarrick.com - Gnome Programming Tutorial: Simple Gnome
Application Using libglade and C/GTK+

"This tutorial is intended for those people interested in getting started
developing Gnome applications using GTK+. Specifically, it uses the Glade
Interface Designer to build a the user interface and C/GTK+ to write the
code for a Gnome application.

The application will simply be a window with a typical toolbar and status bar.
This application will be used in later tutorials to demonstrate various other
aspects of Gnome programming. The complete project can be downloaded
here: gnome3-0.1.tar.gz"

[delovski]

uf: Linux sound programming tutorial

"I've been struggling with the poor documentation of ALSA, so I decided to
start writing a much needed Tutorial on Linux sound (MIDI and digital
audio recording/playback)."

[delovski]

Programming in C - UNIX System Calls and Subroutines using C

Lecture notes + integrated exercises, solutions and marking - from very
basic C programing till IPC, sockets etc.

[delovski]

JoS: Setting up your mac for java, tomcat, mysql development

"it took me about a week to figure stuff out. lots of what is out there is old
for the mac, like 2002. (note, i did other work too...) so to help someone
else get it done faster, here is my set-up instructions"

[XNote]

MIT Press: How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Computing
and Programming

"Programmers also form outlines, translate them into first designs, and
iteratively refine them until they truly match the initial idea. Indeed, the
best programmers edit and rewrite their programs many times until they
meet certain aesthetic standards. And just like soccer players, architects,
composers, or writers, programmers must practice the basic skills of their
trade for a long time before they can be truly creative."

[Ike]

Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial - A Beginner's handbook

Shell script defined as:
"Shell Script is series of command written in plain text file. Shell script is just
like batch file is MS-DOS but have more power than the MS-DOS batch file."

[delovski]

Unix forum: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions >> Tips and Tutorials

"Tips and Tutorials was created partially as an overflow from our Answers to
Frequently Asked Questions. We noticed that some of the info in that forum
did not really answer a question that is frequently asked. We want to keep the
FAQ forum small so that it is easily browsed. Also, a few users had expressed
an interest in a forum like this."

[Ike]

JoS: Learning Assembly

"+1000 for www.movsd.com. Steve H is a certified genius in this area. And
the sample files and libraries in the MASM32 project are a rich source of tips
and tricks..."

[delovski]

gtk+forum - We have a new C, Cairo, Gtk tutorial

"This is a Cairo graphics tutorial. It is done in the C programming language.
This tutorial is for beginners and intermediate developers 100+ pages.
...
A one-of-a-kind introduction to cairo concepts and models.
..."

[Ike]

Learn Cocoa - Featured tutorials from Cocoa Dev Central

"Since 2001 Cocoa Dev Central has been one of the most popular sites
devoted to Mac OS X programming"

Cocoa Literature List, created by HyperJeff.

"This is the entry point for a world of articles, tutorials and books about
Cocoa technologies contributed by the developer community over the
years."



"The book is free and is published under a Creative Commons Attribution
license. You can download it (PDF) or read it online and comment on it in
a dedicated Wiki at CocoaLab."

andyMatuschak - Getting Started with Cocoa: a Friendlier Approach

"It’s a strange irony: Cocoa makes writing feature-filled apps so easy, but
it’s really quite hard to pick up how to use it!

You might start with the Currency Converter or some other basic tutorial,
but it’s very difficult to get the big picture; where do you go from there?
None of the printed books currently available will ground you in the more
recent parts of Cocoa that make it really unique."

[delovski]

Tristan O’Tierney: Objective-C Tutorial

"All the source code for this beginners guide including makefiles is available
by downloading objc.tar.gz. Many of the examples in this tutorial were written
by Steve Kochan in the book Programming in Objective-C. If you want more
detailed information and examples, feel free to check out his book. The examples
on this site were used with his permission, so please don't copy them."

[delovski]

theappleblog.com - iPhone SDK Tutorial: Build a Simple RSS reader for the iPhone

"With this I’m assuming you have a bit of familiarity with the iPhone SDK -
you can download it for free from Apple’s site, and follow along here. We’re
going to build an RSS feed reader for a simple feed (from The Apple Blog,
no less)."

icodeblog.com - iPhone Tutorials

Getting Set Up, UITableView Hello World, Beginner Interface Builder
Hello World, Connecting Code to An Interface Builder View, Transitioning
Between Views, Populating UITableView With An NSArray, Creating a ToDo
List Using SQLite & UITabBar iPhone Tutorial

[delovski]

Matt Long - Cocoa Touch Tutorial: iPhone Application Example

"If you are a visual learner, it may be helpful to you to instead watch a video
presentation of this tutorial. I’ve posted it on the site, but you’ll have to click
the link to see my Cocoa Touch Video Tutorial."

[Ike]

Stanford: CS193P iPhone Application Programming

"The Autumn 2008 quarter will mark the beginning of a new class: CS193P
iPhone Application Programming. We're getting ready for an exciting and
new class focused on the iPhone application development using Cocoa Touch.
The preliminary syllabus has been posted."

[Ike]

Stack Overflow - iPhone OAuth Tutorial?

1. The code
2. A tutorial here
3. Or here
4. The following link
5. For Facebook OAuth

Code goes here - nxtbgthng/OAuth2Client

so - OAuth 2.0 integration in iOS

[Ike]

gametutorials.com - WIN32 Game Tutorials

"With the new rebirth of GameTutorials, we are now excited to announce
that all of our tutorials will now be free. That’s right, normally a $75 product
to learn more than a Computer Science degree, you now can download any
tutorial for free."

[delovski]

designlab - The Ultimate Guide to Getting Started In Sketch

https://www.sketchapp.com/docs/the-interface/canvas/

[Ike]

Open the Run command (Win + R), in it type: regedit and press enter

Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU

In there create a 32-bit DWORD value called AuOptions and under Value Data type 2 and click OK

Open the Settings app (Win + I) and navigate to -> Update and Security -> Windows Updates.

Click Check for updates which applies the new configuration setting

Restart

[Ike]

beej.us - Beej's Guide to C Programming

"This is the first volume of Beej's Guide to C, the tutorial."

[Ike]

build-your-own.org - Build Your Own Redis with C/C++

"Why from scratch? A quote from Richard Feynman: 'What I cannot create, I
do not understand'. Human understandings are filled with holes aka 'things I
don't know I don't know'. Building from scratch is a way to ensure your
understanding is complete."

[Ike]

git - libFuzzer Tutorial

"In this tutorial you will learn how to use libFuzzer -- a coverage-guided in-
process fuzzing engine.

You will also learn basics of AddressSanitizer -- a dynamic memory error
detector for C/C++.

Prerequisites: experience with C/C++ and Unix shell."