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Marking Location in Code With VS 2008?
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 | 2 Comments

Christian ASTOR wrote: Thanks Christian: That works, but it seems like the list has a max of 3 or 4 bookmarks. If I add more that that, it seems older bookmarks disappear when I add more. Am I...

Window Station
Posted on April 21st, 2008 | 3 Comments

Alex wrote: Because they don't do the same. SetProcessWindowStation explicitly assigns a WindowStation to the process, whereas OpenWindowStation only retrieves a handle to a WindowStation without...

CreateFontIndirect() sometimes creates tiny font
Posted on April 21st, 2008 | 6 Comments

In article <b8cb4c22-f7e4-4744-b705-5ad665f64a1a@8g2000hse.googlegroups.com>, news@rtrussell.co.uk (Richard Russell) writes: Somehow this doesn't surprise me. I've been arriving at that...

Weird Resize problem
Posted on April 21st, 2008 | 0 Comments

Hi to all, I'm experiencing a strange behaviour in my activex control which embeds opengl drawing in an Internet Explorer Window. I have to intercept resizing messages in order to correctly size my...

Weird Resize problem
Posted on April 21st, 2008 | 0 Comments

Hi to all, I'm experiencing a strange behaviour in my activex control which embeds opengl drawing in an Internet Explorer Window. I have to intercept resizing messages in order to correctly size my...

Getting a List of All Breakpoints in VS 2008?
Posted on April 21st, 2008 | 2 Comments

Christian ASTOR wrote: Thanks Christian: I like VS 2008 even more now that I have that chart. Larry

How to Deal With XP's "Block Program" Dialog?
Posted on April 21st, 2008 | 11 Comments

In article <T6adnWekAp3FHJbVnZ2dnUVZ_rignZ2d@comcast.com>, Larry Lindstrom <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: Run Memtest on it overnight. http://www.memtest.org/ , download the floppy or ISO, build a...

Writes to parallel port using assembler, sometimes crashes.
Posted on April 20th, 2008 | 0 Comments

Hi, Using the UserPort program that changes permissions in XP so that I am able to write directly to the parallel port using assembler.. I'm trying to send out square wave pulses for x number of...

[Commercial] Windows System programming:Develope unique aspects ofWindows
Posted on April 20th, 2008 | 0 Comments

Hello All, Windows System Programming is an intensive hands-on course designed by Concepts Systems to provide a detailed examination of each topic. This module enables professionals and students to...

problems with CreateProcess() and anonymous pipes
Posted on April 19th, 2008 | 3 Comments

mity@morous.org wrote: asynchronous read using ReadFileEx(). If you need to support old platforms, use ReadFile() in a separate thread. -- Norm To reply, change domain to an adult feline.

InterlockedExchange implementation
Posted on April 18th, 2008 | 39 Comments

"Chris Thomasson" <cristom@comcast.net> wrote in message news:CMadnXG4BrTYg5TVnZ2dnUVZ_tyknZ2d@comcast.com... There are no bugs in the code above... However, it can be optimized a little bit. I...

Can i get BIOS serial number using WIN API's?
Posted on April 18th, 2008 | 3 Comments

Christian ASTOR wrote: Doesn't work on Windows Server 2003 and above. \Device\PhysicalMemory has been restricted to kernel-mode callers. The one here is 1002003004005006007. Very informative.

Kill a program that is not responding in C++
Posted on April 18th, 2008 | 4 Comments

On 18 avr, 12:48, "Sten Westerback \(MVP SDK 2005-6 :\)" <REMOVE_UPPERCASEext-sten.westerb...@nokia.com> wrote: WM_CLOSE is posted by EndTask()

NetUserGetLocalGroups() returns ERROR_NO_SUCH_DOMAIN
Posted on April 18th, 2008 | 1 Comments

On Apr 17, 11:30*pm, smawsk <sk.sma...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, You can use the following APIs to test whether the current user is a member of the Administrator's group: IsUserAnAdmin()

NetUserGetLocalGroups fails with ERROR_NO_SUCH_DOMAIN
Posted on April 18th, 2008 | 1 Comments

On Apr 17, 11:13*pm, smawsk <sk.sma...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, You can use the following APIs to test whether the current user is a member of the Administrator's group: IsUserAnAdmin()

How to get Motherboard serial number?
Posted on April 18th, 2008 | 6 Comments

Well, you can always read the SMBIOS tables yourself -- you'll need a kernel-mode driver to access the ROM. A NT legacy driver will be sufficient so you don't have to deal with the complexities of...

Open a child process window within a (child) frame
Posted on April 18th, 2008 | 0 Comments

Hallo! I am to write a kind of meta-application, i.e. an application which provides it's own funcionality and is able to "open" a bunch of external applications. I could imagine that the...

win32 api
Posted on April 18th, 2008 | 1 Comments

"Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.com> wrote in message news:WySNj.21343$El4.6873@trnddc05... CreateFile() GetFileSize() or GetFileSizeEx() create a buffer of some random characters WriteFile() as...

unable to get serial no; version and speed of USB device
Posted on April 18th, 2008 | 1 Comments

sAmmy wrote: See USBView sample in the DDK (uses SetupDi* apis)

Problem with Sync and ASync query with Win32_printer
Posted on April 18th, 2008 | 0 Comments

Hi All, I am trying to get the number of printers attached to a particular machine. If i query the win32_printer synchronously i get list of all attached printers but in case of asynchronous query...