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Sample code on how to use SHGetFolderLocation, shamelessly copied from this link . This code was verified to work in Windows 2000 and VB SP6. Private Declare Function SHGetFolderLocation Lib "shell32.dll" (ByVal hwndOwner As Long, ByVal nFolder As Long, ByVal hToken As Long, ByVal dwReserved As Long, ppidl As Long) As Long Private Declare Function SHBrowseForFolder Lib "shell32.dll" (lpbi As BROWSEINFO) As Long Private Declare Function SHGetPathFromIDList Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "SHGetPathFromIDListA" (ByVal pidl As Long, ByVal pszPath As String) As Long Private Declare Sub CoTaskMemFree Lib "ole32.dll" (ByVal pv As Long) Private Type BROWSEINFO hwndOwner As Long pidlRoot As Long pszDisplayName As String lpszTitle As String ulFlags As Long lpfn As Long lParam As Long iImage As Long End Type Private Sub Command1_Click() ' This code is licensed according to the terms and conditions listed here. ' Open the Browse

Code below shows how to convert CString to CComBSTR. // CComBSTR.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application. // #include "stdafx.h" #include #include #include int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) { CComBSTR szDbgMsg; CString sMsg; sMsg = _T("Hello world new"); sMsg.Format(_T("%s : %d"), sMsg, 12); //szDbgMsg = L"Hello world "; szDbgMsg = sMsg.GetBuffer(); CW2A printstr(szDbgMsg); std::wcout << ((CString)szDbgMsg).GetBuffer() << std::endl; std::wcout << sMsg.GetBuffer() << std::endl; return 0; } ~ts

The script below will list and save all installed applications to a csv file. Save the script as say, save.vbs. Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objTextFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile("c:\software.csv", True) strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _ & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colSoftware = objWMIService.ExecQuery _ ("Select * from Win32_Product") objTextFile.WriteLine "Caption" & vbtab & _ "Description" & vbtab & "Identifying Number" & vbtab & _ "Install Date" & vbtab & "Install Location" & vbtab & _ "Install State" & vbtab & "Name" & vbtab & _ "Package Cache" & vbtab & "SKU Number" & vbtab & "Vendor" & vbtab _

When running a console app written in VS 2005, and you are getting "The system cannot execute the specified program" on a target machine, then it can be one of the following: a) Target machine does not have VC++ 2005 Redistribuable b) Project settings may not be correct, see this link . ~ts.

See this link for instructions on how to use SyntaxHighlighter library within Blogger. ~ts.

Code below can be used to dump PE string resource using python. import os import re import pefile #http://code.google.com/p/pefile/ import sys def DumpStr(fname): try: pe = pefile.PE(fname) except: print sys.exc_info()[0] print "Continue to the next exe/dll" return # The List will contain all the extracted Unicode strings # strings = list() # Fetch the index of the resource directory entry containing the strings # try: rt_string_idx = [ entry.id for entry in pe.DIRECTORY_ENTRY_RESOURCE.entries].index(pefile.RESOURCE_TYPE['RT_STRING']) except (ValueError,AttributeError): return # Get the directory entry # rt_string_directory = pe.DIRECTORY_ENTRY_RESOURCE.entries[rt_string_idx] # For each of the entries (which will each contain a block of 16 strings) # for entry in rt_string_directory.directory.entries: # Get the RVA of the st

In VirtualBox 3.0.2, I have noticed that most of the times the mouse goes invisible on text areas. For example, if you are in Notepad, once you starting writing some text in the text area the mouse pointer goes into the black hole. The work around is really easy. Go to (Windows XP) Control Panel –> Mouse –> Pointers, then select Windows Black (system scheme). ~ts