"Elmar Haneke" <nospam@haneke.de> wrote in message news:037D17EE9.108c41d759e@1.NewsSIEVE.com... I imagine you could write it to disk as a file on loading the exe, and then load it dynamicaly. I...

Is it possible to create a virtual COM for a device using Microsoft stack? Is it possible to determine the related number (COM no.)? Thanks!

Hi: We use TrackPopupMenuEx() to displays a shortcut menu, then, how to close (hide) it programmatically ?

range behaviour of my code on an Athlon X2 with windows XP SP2. I want to mesure the accuracy of the Sleep command. When i make a loop with Sleep(40) and mesure the time ellapsed with...

nospam@haneke.de (Elmar Haneke) wrote: It should be possible though hard work for someone to parse the raw format of DLL files in memory and execute functions from there. However (and I've looked...

Hi, I am trying to signal events between 2 processes. Process 1 creates the event and waits on it. I want process 2 to open the global event and set it to a signalled state allowing process 1 to...

in my code i hook NtSetInformationFile(...) in user land. I do thid to get the old and new names of the files renamed/moved and generate some logs. on trying to get the old name from the handle...

Hi I'm just converting an old application so that it will run on a network (windows 2000server/windows 2003 server). The app saves some configuration data (relating to settings the user makes) to an...

Hi, I read in a MS Win32.hlp on WIN32_FIND_DATA: "The size of the file is equal to (nFileSizeHigh * MAXDWORD) + nFileSizeLow." Is this really ok, as MAXDWORD is defined as 0xFFFFFFFF? Up to now I...

Hi, some of my older apps written for Win98 crash immediately on XP, unless the compatibility is set to Win98. These apps use instance subclassing (e.g. of a standard edit control), but I am not...

I'm getting this error code from a windows api call. The function shouldn't be returning this. How do you find out what this error is? thanks, Carl

sometimes, in win98 (and xp too?), when you close a window, the window just underneath it will shown but was disabled ( greyed), you can't get it's handle with GetForegroundWindow(), then, how to get...

Hi, I've written a windows program that at runtime loads a dll. The dll is a conversion of a standalone console program into a dll. To that end I have successfully redirected stdin and stdout from...

I was wondering if windows sends out a notification message if it connects to a wireless network, or if there was another method to determine when this happens. At the moment, I periodically check...

Hello! I've been working on a serial port class which uses overlapped I/O and launches a read and write thread. The code is very similar to the MTTTY sample from MSDN. Everything works fine, except...

I try to send the EM_SETTARGETDEVICE message to a windowless rich edit control via ITextServices::TxSendMessage to get WYSIWYG output on the screen (so that word wrap is done exactly the way it is...

How can i do it in Visual Studio 2005? -- Pozdrawiam, Etam.

In comp.lang.c++ , "etam" <kruskal@gazeta.pl> asked (paraphrase): "How do I make a program set itself up so that it runs every time Windows starts?". This was a bit off-topic over there, so I...

Hi, I want to monitor regional settings and time zone change and handle WM_SETTINGCHANGE for this purpose. I change default language in Regional Settings and press Apply. My application...

Hi, This is regarding recent WMF security vulnerability in Windows. According to Microsoft, WMF (Windows Metafile) data can contain executable code. MS say, it's an old feature (present in Win3.0...