Win32 Programming Tutorials

Purely Win32 Windows API tutorials, Articles and Examples using C Programming.

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	Windows Message Handling Introduction Windows communicate with the application by sending messages. There are many Windows messages and each message is represented by a unique integer value.In WINDOWS.H there are standard names for these messages. There are some common Windows messages like:-... By coderzone Last Message By Scripting	7 13,582
	OS version detection for 32 and 64 bit OS. I needed to check the OS and on different OS the different path needed to be followed and so the host operating system version was needed for an application I was developing. Background First I would like to make a table where we know what are the platformId, MajorVersion, MinorVersion of... By shabbir Last Message By msdnguide	5 30,475
	Making client and server using win32 socket. Introduction Socket is an interface between an application process and transport layer. The application process can send or receive messages to/from another application process (local or Network) through a socket. Winsock is the lowest level Windows API for TCP/IP programming. Part of the code... By d_arin100 Last Message By MOHIDEEN THASTHAHIR	3 15,939
	Internal mechanism of "Static linked DLL" works This article is about how static or implicit linking can be done and how the client program gets the information from Dynamic link library (DLL). The two ways we can link a DLL to the client program. One is “Static linking” another is “Dynamic linking”. Here our topic is static linking so we... By d_arin100 Last Message By rasd123	7 7,287
	Advantages of explicit linking of Dynamic Link Library (DLL). Introduction This article will explain how we can explicitly link a DLL and why this approach is better than the implicit linking mechanism of a DLL. Explicit linking is more appropriate for interpreted languages such as Visual Basic, but we can use it from C++. In this linking mechanism we... By d_arin100 Last Message By rasd123	2 6,621
	Interprocess Communication through WM_COPYDATA & Shared Memory Introduction Here I shall describe the methods of how data is exchanged between windows of different processes. Communication between windows means one window process send/post a message/data to the other window process. The Windows operating system provides the mechanism for communications and... By d_arin100 Last Message By rasd123	2 9,086
	Hook windows control messages through subclassing Introduction Subclassing is a very powerful tool in creating your own custom controls and modifying the standard windows interface. This is typically done by replacing the Window Procedure for a window with application-defined window procedure. Subclassing is a technique that allows an... By d_arin100 Last Message By shabbir	2 8,639
	Start a process Introduction There a quite a few ways to start a process C run-time libraries system() _exec() _spawn() Win32 API By coderzone Last Message By rajeev_rsd	2 7,132
	Poll: My Project:Service Manager Hello Guys, Back again with new Article. this time I am going to explain Enumeration of Windows service, it’s Starting & Stopping , Changing Startup Type between Automatic, Manual And Disable, And Most Important One Deleting the Service(Please handle this Option With Care, if this action is... By alok Last Message By naimish	4 10,324
	Multithreading in COM Consider a simple EXE COM server, FooServer. Let's assume FooServer exposes an object Foo that has a method Bar: IFoo = interface procedure Bar; end; Let's also assume that FooServer has no clue what multithreading is and is therefore single-threaded just like any normal application.... By subhasish Last Message By rajdeep.podder	3 14,047
	WhatColor Program - shows the color under the cursor Introduction Here's a little program I wrote that shows the color under the cursor as well as the cursor's position. It's useful for grabbing colors from websites or pictures. The Code It's in Win32 C. I compile it with gcc under Dev-C++. In order to get it to compile on MSVC++ (which I've... By oogabooga Last Message By shabbir	1 5,475
	Basics for Sockets Programming Socket ( Definition ): Socket is End to End Point Communication. Establishing a Connection Between two Applications or processes or threads. Creating interface between two programs ( Server and Client Programs ). Socket is very useful for communication between systems, that's called inter... By Jaihind Last Message By limon	6 10,312
	Simple example of creating tab controls ( 1 2 3) Introduction This code is a simple example to show the creation of various tab controls. The code //HEADER FILES # include <windows.h> By imrantechi Last Message By aisha.ansari84	25 15,875
	Populate a list with the available printers installed on the local machine There are many occasions where we need to show to the user the list of available printers on the system to choose from and this can be done very easily in MFC with the help of following code snippet DWORD dwNeeded = 0, dwItems = 0; LPBYTE lpPrinterInfo = NULL; CStringArray szaPrinterArray;... By shabbir Last Message By parvez.yu	1 7,991
	Add color to console projects When a new process is created, the "subsystem" field in the executable file header determines whether it was linked as a console (also called CUI or "character-based") or graphical user interface (GUI) application. A console application has a character-mode console window, which it inherits from... By Sanskruti Last Message By parvez.yu	1 7,710
	MessageBoxTimeout Before reading this article you may know what is Microsoft foundation classes and Visual C++.I am listing here few of its features. When MFC was introduced, Microsoft extended the C++ syntax with a series of macros for management of Windows messages, exceptions, run time type identification, and... By Sanskruti Last Message By parvez.yu	1 6,347
	Single Instance Application There are 2 ways to make your Application Single Instance. 1. Close the previously running executable 2. Close the new instance with passing necessary info from the older version. First option is not preferred because you may have lots of information already accumulated in the running... By shabbir Last Message By parvez.yu	1 6,590
	Win32 Application to capture email addresses from any appropriate file Recently, I developed a Win32 Application for one of my client to capture email addresses from a file. Though very simple and straight, it was an interesting project. So, I thought, I must share it with you. Program Description This program extracts email addresses from an input file. It... By Sanskruti Last Message By parvez.yu	6 5,415
	Separate resource into a separate DLL ( 1 2) Its always a good practice to have the resource into a seperate DLL. The major benefit of having the resource into seperate dll is, it can be easily skinned. Also it has the benefit of seperating the GUI from the code which is better for maintainance. Here are the simple steps to do the same. ... By shabbir Last Message By parvez.yu	17 12,766
	Simple example of enumerating a child window proc ( 1 2) Introduction This article shows the enumeration of child windows. The code is written in win 32 and can be understood with a prior knowledge of it. Although i have tried well to explain all the points as far as possible. //HEADER FILES # include <windows.h> By imrantechi Last Message By parvez.yu	13 8,980