It really depends on the kinds of applications you want to develop. For most purposes these days, C# and .NET are completely suitable. However, there are certain kinds of applications that need as few dependencies as possible (shell extensions come to mind) that are not practical to do as .NET applications. For those you would … Read more
Some USB hubs have the ability to turn power off to its downstream devices. “Is it possible to power up ports on a USB hub from Ubuntu?” https://askubuntu.com/questions/149242/is-it-possible-to-power-up-ports-on-a-usb-hub-from-ubuntu Which points to some c source for hub-ctrl.c See: http://www.gniibe.org/development/ac-power-control-by-USB-hub/index I tested this on Ubuntu with a Dream-Cheeky USB LED unit, and it did seem to turn … Read more
The simple answer to this question is no. Take a look at the description of SOCKET values on MSDN [1]: Windows Sockets handles have no restrictions, other than that the value INVALID_SOCKET is not a valid socket. Socket handles may take any value in the range 0 to INVALID_SOCKET–1. So clearly, the API allows all … Read more
I also have this need on Windows 7. Here is my take to do this using autohotkey script: ; This script will try to drag and move the taskbar to where the *current* mouse ; cursor is ; 0x111: WM_COMMAND, 424: lock/unlock taskbar, http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/Taskbar_Manipulation.aspx RegRead, TaskbarLocked, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced, TaskbarSizeMove If TaskbarLocked = 0 SendMessage 0x111, … Read more
See https://github.com/ysc3839/win32-darkmode This guy has it all laid out in some nice reusable code (MIT license). It seems that Dark Mode is still an area of development in Windows 10, but I believe that Microsoft will eventually properly document and expose it to desktop apps. Until then, we are stuck with undocumented ordinal-only imports, then … Read more
In all likelyhood, the tool uses ReadProcessMemory or some variant, which requires PROCESS_VM_READ access. With respect to your “malicious” comment, remember that you (or the process invoking this API, which likely needs Administrator-level permissions) already has total control over the machine. The security game is already lost at this point.
Because I’m lazy, I didn’t write a test program but tested it using the excellent Far Manager which handles things like long paths (longer than MAX_PATH) or special filenames (con, prn etc) just fine. I made a string of exactly 255 characters (“12345678901234…012345”) and started creating nested directories. Luckily, Far’s “Make Directory” function takes a … Read more
When you call CreateProcess(), System(), etc., make sure you double quote your file name strings (including the command program filename) in case your file name(s) and/or the fully qualified path have spaces otherwise the parts of the file name path will be parsed by the command interpreter as separate arguments. system(“\”d:some path\\program.exe\” \”d:\\other path\\file name.ext\””); … Read more
You should specify also the module name in parameters: LPTSTR cmdArgs = “App [email protected]”; It should be the whole command line (including argv[0]).
There is a simple way to do it in powershell (at least) : $o = new-object -com shell.application $o.Namespace(‘c:\My Folder’).Self.InvokeVerb(“pintohome”) Hope it helps.