I've made a little debug app to insert breakpoints into DLLs to allow tracing of various calls done by any program. E.g. c:\> tracer program ... > logfile.txt The tracer wait for debug-events...

Hello everyone, I'm wondering if it's possible to send a webpage (as the body of a message) that is 100% self contained. By self contained I mean that images (or other external files like sounds,...

Why is there so much work to do little? winmain() for example. I guess this is case sensitive I've never tried to see. int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,... what is an HINSTANCE? Do all these...

How do I get the needed size of the buffer for use with GetModuleFileName? It seems like I could get a problem if I want to get a path bigger than MAX_PATH. Chris --- Reply with no _PRIVACY_ in...

This is probably an easy question for you. I want to use memory-mapped access to a process created by OpenProcess(). Now I use ReadProcessMemory() and WriteProcessMemory(), but this is cumbersome....

I understand that using CS_OWNDC in the style will cause the app to "allocate a unique device context for each window in the class" but I'm not sure why one would want unique DC's for each window....

Hello! I have made an ownerdrawn button that is displaying a little picture I have put as a bitmap resource together with some text. I do the drawing of the button in the parents...

I have these images I downloaded and I don't know what format they're in can't find anything on the web. The extension is simply .L What is a .l file ? Bill

Hello, Is it possible to move instances to a different COM apartment? I have several instances I want to move to the Multithreaded apartment. There, I can perform a number of operations on the...

hi hi i am building an application which would display all the processes running in the background and user would be able terminate specific permitted process so pls help me out that how should i...

Is there a generally accepted way for describing member variables of a class which are not derived from primitives like booleans, ints and characters? Beyond the MSDN Article 'Hungarian Notation', a...

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I think I found a bug from the Visual C++ Net 2003 (Win XP Pro). Just writing "#pragma message(typeid" on the screen causes the ide to allocate all of the available memory including the paging...

greetings, i have two questions first, will define WINVER 0x0400 make the excutable binary uncompatible with windows xp? will define WINVER 0x0500 make the excutable uncompatible with...

I have an app where it's common to open the file selector in a directory that has a few hundred small files that the user operates on, and may traverse through semi-sequentially, operating on a file...

Hi, Is it possible to have a Dll return a function pointer (to a function in this same Dll) to the Exe it is currently linked to, so that the Exe can call it, or do I actually have to export that...

have a W98 machine what shows 2 Com Ports in the HW manager. Windows Device Manager Setup pulldown menu contains entrys for 230,4k Baud and 460,4k and 921,6k. My own application works well up to...

I create a modless dialog with CreateDialogEx(), the only control in it is a picture control - it's a kind of vigniette. Then I call ShowWindow() I have a huge delay between the dialog shows up and...

Well I received my copy of Petzold's book from Amazon. This book is a tome, it's huge. I skipped ahead to see how to create a dll. It seemed like to real work is done by the C preprocessor. There...

Does anyone have an opinion on the debug and analysis tools available for use in Windows environments and using the MS IDE? Optimally, it would also support COM architectures. I have used several,...