November 2008 Blog Posts

Ok, after pulling out my hair trying to generate thumbnails from device-independent bitmaps stored by a CArchive in an "old" MFC program, I finally got help here at the workplace on this. I must say I could not find this easily with much Googling, ergo I'm gonna post this up here with comments for anyone else out there looking for the same thing. Please suggest any updations to comments and / or code, if you see the need...NOTE: This code has been updated. Look here for it. // our BITMAPINFOHEADER struct, as per...

Greetings... So my current employer wants our existing MFC application to interface with some web services exposed by our new website (sorry, need to stay hush-hush about it at the moment).  Now, while the MFC side of things is turning out to be a bitch, I threw together some classes to make life easier for me.  The source is here. CppHttp.h is a simple class to do GET and POST requests through.  Currently, it does NOT do multi-part requests, but I promise to update this when I get to that.  To consume the responses, I'm using TinyXML.  I...