viksoe.dk

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viksoe.dk contains my Windows C++ source code and code snippets for various programming libraries.

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I have uploaded some of the old applications that I have made, but also many C++ classes, Windows Shell and COM components and helper classes from my library.

Most of this is considered "legacy stuff" now, with code samples for UI frameworks that you have probably never heard of. But I left the site here for anyone to explore how Win32 stuff (Windows application code) was done in the old days.

Almost all the source code use different run-time libraries, such as MFC, ATL and WTL. If you are not familiar with these, you should just glance over the code and try to compare how low-level some of this seems compared to modern UI frameworks.

I merrily joined the team that developed the WTL UI Library, a project driven by Microsoft employee Nenad Stefanovic, to help build some really modern and cool apps on Windows. It was even chosen for the Google Chrome browser UI on Windows at some point.
The WTL library used to be located on the Microsoft Platform SDK, but is now available at SourceForge.

Most of the applications and controls come with ready to compile source code. You don't need to recompile the projects to test them as most of them come with the binary files as a separate download. The binary downloads do not depend on any 3rd-party libraries.

Terms of use

This site contains complete applications, which are accompanied with full source code. You are free to do whatever you wish with it.
You may use and redistribute parts of the code freely for whatever purpose - but you are, however, not allowed to remove the copyright notice, which may exist at the top of the source code files.
Please read the copyright terms first.

Contact

You can contact me on the following e-mail address:

Regards
bjarke