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Fixes made in this QFE:Components: NETBIOS Description: A memory leak could occur when inserting and removing a PCMCIA network card. It could potentially lose 32 bytes per suspend and resume or per insert and remove. This version is the first release on...

Microsoft MapPoint comes with 256 standard Pushpin symbols. MapPoint 2002/2004 Pushpins contains each of these 256 Pushpins in Windows bitmap (.bmp) format. Use these .bmp files as they are in your custom applications or modify them to create your own...

OpenGL VI: Rendering on DIBs with PFD_DRAW_TO_BITMAP. The PFD_DRAW_TO_BITMAP pixel format descriptor flag allows OpenGL applications to render on a Microsoft Windows device-independent bitmap (DIB). The resulting DIB can be manipulated to the full extent...

This article explores the Windows NT implementation of OpenGL color index mode. In color index mode, colors are specified as indexes into a palette instead of as levels of red, green, and blue. The EasyCI sample application (provided with this article) is...

A number of you wrote in with enthusiasm about the technologies, while saying that what you really wanted was to convert the XML into DHTML menus like those at the top of this page that are used on the MSDN Online site. In this month's column, we'll do...

Before you can use an OLE Control, you must register it with the system. Registering an OLE Control places information about the control in the system registry. Once the control has been registered, applications and development environments can search the...

You can install these sounds to have fun audio cues play as you work with Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Word. For example, you will hear sounds when you: *Work with toolbars, scroll bars, or dialog boxes *Zoom in...

The Acl COM component provides a scriptable (ActiveX) set of objects that can be used to manage a Microsoft Exchange 5.5 Information Store folder's access control list (ACL) using a CDO 1.2.1 Folder object. Microsoft Exchange 5.5 folder access control...

Fixes made in this QFE: Components: NDISDescription: NDIS PCMCIA code was not checking to see whether a net card supported 16 bit I/O access, and was always mapping an 8 bit window. This resulted in sub optimal performance for these cards. This version is...

Fixes made in this QFE:Components: NK, NKPROFDescription: Incorrect freeing of allocated memory when attempting to load a DLL at a preferred load address may cause the system to crash. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.What is new in...