My guess is that max has been made a macro. This happens at some point inside windows.h. Define NOMINMAX prior to including to stop windows.h from doing that. EDIT: I’m still confident this is your problem. (Not including <limits> would result in a different error). Place #undef max and #undef min just before the function … Read more
Do something like this: BOOL DirectoryExists(LPCTSTR szPath) { DWORD dwAttrib = GetFileAttributes(szPath); return (dwAttrib != INVALID_FILE_ATTRIBUTES && (dwAttrib & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY)); } The GetFileAttributes() method is included in Kernel32.dll.
Solved If you are working in a miniconda on conda environment. You could just install pywin32 using conda instead of pip. This solved my problem: conda install pywin32
It depends on your needs. Using the CLR will provide you with the most expressive set of libraries (the entire .NET framework), at the cost of restricting your executable to requiring the .NET framework to be installed at runtime, as well as limiting you to the Windows platform (however, all 4 listed technologies are windows … Read more
You can use _com_error: _com_error err(hr); LPCTSTR errMsg = err.ErrorMessage(); If you don’t want to use _com_error for whatever reason, you can still take a look at its source, and see how it’s done. Don’t forget to include the header comdef.h
Easiest way without using Win32 shell functions is to simply launch explorer.exe with the /select parameter. For example, launching the process explorer.exe /select,”C:\Folder\subfolder\file.txt” will open a new explorer window to C:\Folder\subfolder with file.txt selected. If you wish to do it programmatically without launching a new process, you’ll need to use the shell function SHOpenFolderAndSelectItems, which … Read more
Use GetFileAttributes to check that the file system object exists and that it is not a directory. BOOL FileExists(LPCTSTR szPath) { DWORD dwAttrib = GetFileAttributes(szPath); return (dwAttrib != INVALID_FILE_ATTRIBUTES && !(dwAttrib & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY)); } Copied from How do you check if a directory exists on Windows in C?
As everyone else says, LoadLibrary is the hard way to do it, and is hardly ever necessary. The DLL should have come with a .lib file for linking, and one or more header files to #include into your sources. The header files will define the classes and function prototypes that you can use from the … Read more
See ReplaceFile() in Win32 (http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/64525/tr-2006-45.pdf)
GetLastInputInfo. Documented at PInvoke.net.