How to hide/minimize a dialog on startup

How to find which DLL / EXE created a Window

How to open Popup Blocker Settings window of IE programmatically??Well it is with the help of "DisplayPopupWindowManagementDialog" function in the "C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetcpl.cpl".But here rather just showing a misterious function, I would like to explain the methods by which I found out the name o

GetFinalPathNameByHandle is an new API introduced in Windows Vista. We will look at how to resolve an issue related to its usage.

This is a simple light weight utility to find which all dll/exe/ocx in a folder uses a particular dll.DownloadSource File(DependsChecker_Src.zip)Execuatble(DependsChecker_bin.zip)My development environment usually includes large number of binaries. And I was working in some core library module which

Have you ever wrote a statement like..int *pnValue = new int[];One of my friend asked me what will happen if the above statement is executed. Executed ??? I though the code won't even compile. Surprisingly it compile and even returned a pointer. Wow that was some thing unbelievable.OK now the questi

As every one knows, static variables are initialized only ones, even though it is declared in a function. In this post, I will explain how the compiler implements this.OK let start with the storage of the static variables. Where do you think a static variable declared inside a function is stored? If

In programs we usually declare constant string data. Like..const char* g_pchar = "this is a string";You might be knowing that if we run multiple copies of a exe or dll, the code portion is not duplicated per process. So do the constant data. This is because the constant datas are stored in a special

In one of my previous post, I mentioned about breaking the executing on dll Load. This post is actually a continutation of that one.Normally if we start an application from the debugger in the debugging mode, the output window shows some messages as shown below.Loaded 'c:\WINDOWS\system32\calc.exe',

Today on Code project some one posted a question like "Is there any way to find whether a pointer points to stack or heap". Is there actually an API for the same??Well windows dosen't provide an API or a straight forward way to acomplish this. Any how we can find a pointer points to stack or heap by

What will you do if you encounter a crash in an application before it reaches the entry point ok exe. I. e the crach happends before the control reaches the WinMain. In such cases the crash might have happened in the dll loaded by the exe. To be more specific say in the DllMain() of dlls. In most ca

We usually use __asm int 3 in the code to hard code break points. But have you tried setting a __asm int 3 in a template function? Like...templateclass T> int Testfunc( T Obj ){__asm int 3;return Obj++;}void main(){Testfunc( 1 );};The above code will never get compiled in vc6. It will generate the b

Like the problem in displaying the message box in InitInstance of an APP class, there is a problem in displaying the message box in ExitInstance() also. Try the following code..int CMyApp::ExitInstance() {AfxMessageBox( "Some message from CMyApp::ExitInstance" );return CWinApp::ExitInstance();}The m

When a MessageBox in InitInstance didn't show

In one our Projects at company, we used WM_DEVICECHANGE message to detect the arrival and removal of USB devices. The application was supposed to run on a machine in which will be running along with several other utility applications. Some months after the project delivery, client reported that, som

This is not 100% fool proof. How ever in normal cases, this works great. This technique can be used to find out, whether the child application was launched from a GUI application or from a Console application.if( AttachConsole( ATTACH_PARENT_PROCESS )){ AfxMessageBox( _T("Parent process is a con

Describes how to display a modeless child dialog at the center of the parent dialog.

A codeproject poster asked this question. He was already aware of the NetLocalGroupGetMembers function with which, was can the list of users in any groups in the system. How were he wasn't quite sure how to use it and there wasn't any sample code in the internet. So I wrote a sample and posted in co