Hi all ! Sorry für the Xpost, but I am completely unsure which group is the right one... I have programmed a screensaver using the .net Framework. As soon as the screensaver is invoked by the...

Hi, For an MS Access Database application I've made an advanced login window (for some reasons it was not possible to do that with forms). But a MS access file cannot store dialogs, so I've done...

hey all, What I want is very simple: given an '.exe' file, I want to simply look at the structure of the file, and from there tell if it is either a command line app, or a GUI app. I know that...

Hi all, My console app sends some text to another console app by way of WM_CHAR messages, something like this:- for(i=0; i<args.cTextBufLen; i++) { SendMessage(args.hWnd, WM_CHAR, (WPARAM)...

Hello, please take a look at this small code: DWORD WINAPI threadproc() { (..) int top=ListView_GetTopIndex(hwnd); int...

Greetings All Forgive my ignorance, but the PDH interface documentation is very confusing. When I attempt to get the "System Up Time" using the PDH library and compare what it returns to the value...

I am using C/C++ and straight Win32 (no MFC, ATL, ...). I have a ListView. When I try to select an item programmatically, the selection is not visible. I use the following...

My aim is to get a piece of software which will allow me to do something simple, like change the system time, even though my user type prevents it. Therefore, I've been looking at all the...

Greeting! I am able to read one process memory using ReadProcessMemory(), but when I use WriteProcessMemory() it seems as function has no effect, although function call was successful. To test...

I am writing a port monitor for a USB printer, because my company's language monitor requires functionality that USBMON does not support. We are trying to duplicate the behavior that occurs when a...

Is there an api in windows for getting information from a systems smbios tables? how would you reccomend that a person do this w/o using a driver or anything to look through the physical memory...

Hi, I'm new to com, and i see all of articles that do some nice things with com. My only question, is how do the writers of these articles know to use IShellLink, and CLSID_SHELLLINK???? when they...

By "exception" I mean 1) SEH exception 2) Visual C++ std::exception 3) Other C++ compiler's std::exception, esp. g++. By "safe" I mean Does not leak resources or establish some invalid state.

Hello. Does anyone know how to find via a program date codes (dynamic dates) as a code (), which means the date will automatically (dynamically) change in the future to the then-current date ...

Hi, I call midiInOpen() with flag CALLBACK_FUNCTION. Following that I call midiInStart(). My MidiInProc receives MIM_DATA messages for each MIDI event. The parameter dwParam2 is supposed to contain...

I failed to open a named "Event Object" created by another process (also my program) , and it returned error #5 (Access is denied.). Why is that? I tried to supply SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES with...

Hi all, I have a small project where I've found some open-source stuff that I'd like to use. None of the instructions regarding use of the code/classes mentions Class Wizard, rather describing...