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Click here for a larger image. Environment: VC6, MFC, DLL This is a systems-side programming project. The forensic analysis tool helps find unique strings of various kinds to be found on a given hard disk. This project involves finding the hard disks and writing out the string occurrences in the searched hard disks. If the […]

Click here for a larger image. Introduction This article presents a fully functional implementation of an FTP client. FTP Wanderer is a multithreaded FTP client with the look and feel of Windows Explorer, and makes moving files between the Internet and your computer as simple as local file manipulation. This application uses WININET APIs to […]

Environment: VC++ 6 Reading and Writing Files Directly MFC’s and App Wizard’s built-in serialization capabilities are great if what you are doing is within defined parameters such as stream I/O. But what about an old-fashioned, powerful way of handling files like non-Windows programmers: creating, reading, and writing files directly? There is some nifty code on […]

A simple command line utility for managing Windows services from a remote system . Environment: VC++6.0, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 Introduction Most of us use the Services Manager tool to start and stop Windows Services. To install and uninstall, we need to run a Service program as a normal process with specific command-line […]

Environment: Introduction A Windows service is an EXE specially designed to communicate with the Service Control Manager (SCM) of Windows NT/2000. The SCM maintains a database of installed services and driver services, and provides a unified and secure means of controlling them. The SCM is started at system boot and it is a remote procedure […]

Environment: Source code This article is meant to give you a jump start on doing serial communication in Windows (NT family). The article will provide a class called CSerialCommHelper that you can use directly to do serial communication in your application. The class that is provided here with this article does uses overlapped IO. You […]

Environment: VC++.NET on Windows XP Dear Reader, Hello! Many people have sent me messages asking about how to make language DLL’s and so on and so forth. But, if you are looking for a quick and easy solution, why not give this a whirl? This is just one example of how to change the interface’s […]

Environment: Win32 & VC++ or Linux and gcc/egcs According to the “Executive Summary” of RFC 1321, “The MD5 algorithm takes as input a message of arbitrary length and produces as output a 128-bit “fingerprint” or “message digest” of the input. It is conjectured that it is computationally infeasible to produce two messages having the same […]

From Kate Gregory’s Codeguru column, “Using Visual C++ .NET“. XML is at the heart of .NET. You can hardly read a single page of a .NET article, whitepaper, or help entry without coming across those three little letters. But XML was changing everything before .NET came along, and you can work with it from a […]

Environment: VC6, VC7 Introduction Since Microsoft got rid of ClassWizard in VC++ 7, quite a lot of jobs have become much more difficult. This article shows how to hook up the normal click events for toolbars in VC7, and how to disable buttons programmatically, depending on context. First, let us assume we have an SDI […]

Environment: Visual C++ 6, Visual SourceSafe 6, and Access 2000 Introduction I needed to be able to relate SourceSafe file versions with modifications and release builds for VC6 projects. Until now, this has involved the manual use of SourceSafe both directly and through the limited facilities directly available from VC6. I implemented the Automatic Build […]

Environment: any ANSI C++-compilant compiler. Overview A common way of dealing with file I/O in the Windows environment is utilizing MFC’s CFile class. But what if you, a professional win32 programmer, are having trouble in programming file operations under Linux, Solaris, or another UNIX system? What if you just don’t want to mess with those […]