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Pipe from one process to another
Posted on August 7th, 2006 | 4 Comments

I solved it! If anyone else has problems with this, see the code below. Note that Process and Pipe are classes encapsulating the ugly win32 code. Marcus CString command; Process dumpProcess;

Catching a system error.
Posted on August 7th, 2006 | 2 Comments

John wrote: Here is now comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 so this last part of your sentence should be the opposite. -- Grzegorz...

Exception 03H in module KERNEL32.DLL
Posted on August 7th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hi Friends, My exe gives an error msg like Exception 03H in module KERNEL32.DLL very often. I am working in VC++ 6.0 ver, mfc and gdi plus. PG1609VZ caused an exception 03H in module...

GetOpt_long
Posted on August 5th, 2006 | 1 Comments

I am still (occasionally) using VC6, where it works. I even remember playing with gengetopt, which makes using getopt_long a snap... 31337one@gmail.com wrote:

Plz help me to correct my code to send E-mail as NT service .
Posted on August 5th, 2006 | 0 Comments

I tried to send e-mail as NT service but i could not send it. the Mapilogon function fails to logon in NT service. But It works well as an Standalone application. here is my code for only sending...

Dialup(VPN by phone) connection
Posted on August 4th, 2006 | 1 Comments

In article <eaqir2$ss5$1@nemesis.news.tpi.pl>, arek7509@priv.onet.pl says... RasDial or RasDialDlg. -- Later, Jerry. The universe is a figment of its own imagination.

eject cd?
Posted on August 4th, 2006 | 2 Comments

In article <DJSdnc9PUOdr-0_ZRVnytw@pipex.net>, allanmb@TAKEAWAYdsl.pipex.com says... Here's one way: void openCD() { if(mciSendString("open cdaudio",NULL,0,NULL)==0) { mciSendString("set cdaudio...

How to use MFC Cstring class in Win32 DLL?
Posted on August 3rd, 2006 | 1 Comments

* Panks: MFC headers include <windows.h> for you. MFC defines DllMain for you if you create an MFC DLL.

security API
Posted on August 3rd, 2006 | 1 Comments

CT wrote: It appears that you are requesting the security descriptor for the underlying file system directory, which in fact may allow both reading and writing. You also need to take into account...

SetWindowLong with GWL_USERDATA
Posted on August 3rd, 2006 | 2 Comments

Thx for your hints. Due to my specific case, I have to do so, I mean, centralize the "freeing" operation. Still, your reply inspired me some additional idea. thx. Jakob Bieling wrote:

Using linker map to pinpoint code
Posted on August 2nd, 2006 | 2 Comments

Alex Fedotov wrote: Thanks; that was very helpful. I was unable to find any MS documentation of the format of the linker map, and I didn't even notice that there was another column.

Why does CreateFile cause a whole bunch of reads (Read AndX Request)?
Posted on August 2nd, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hi, I am trying to narrow down a performance bottle neck in my application and I fine that CreateFile (I am using this API to open an existing file) causes a whole bunch of reads as seen by a network...

Setting font of child controls
Posted on August 2nd, 2006 | 2 Comments

AB wrote: BOOL CALLBACK SetFontFunc(HWND aHwnd, LPARAM lParam) { SendMessage(aHwnd, WM_SETFONT, lParam, 0); return TRUE; } And add this line to WM_CREATE:

changing image in command bar
Posted on August 2nd, 2006 | 0 Comments

Am developing an application in eVC++ 4.0 and trying to put one image in the Command bar along with the other menu options. And after that as the application progresses i want to change that image at...

How to map a file to a vitual partition or folder?
Posted on August 2nd, 2006 | 0 Comments

I saw some software can do this, bu I don't know how to implementate this function. Thanks.

Win ME: codepage of WM_CHAR
Posted on August 1st, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hi, how can I detect the currently set input locale (and its charset/codepage)? For instance I have a German Win ME (charset ISO-8859-1 or Windows codepage 1252) which is set to Hungarian input...

Is there a win call to get the CPU Usage (percent)?
Posted on August 1st, 2006 | 4 Comments

DeanB wrote: You might be able to achieve what you want with GetProcessTimes: http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683223.aspx -- Absolutely not the best homepage on the...

Getting Desktop changes
Posted on August 1st, 2006 | 1 Comments

jan.gehring@gmail.com wrote: In pre-Vista systems, this is done with a mirror display driver (the link may get...

install wizard?
Posted on August 1st, 2006 | 3 Comments

awesome! thank you both! ken Grzegorz Wróbel wrote:

Leak When Using CString?
Posted on August 1st, 2006 | 0 Comments

I have read numerous points of documentation on CString and I think I have confused myself. I have three custom classes: CMapRenderingEngine, MapSource, and UUID_and_string. First, a CString named...