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maybe this could help:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/shell/namespcextguide1.aspx

check out this sample on codeproject

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/install/msicustomaction.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682614%28VS.85%29.aspx

is about EnumDesktops, which can give you the info about all Desktops of a Windowstation in a Callback function
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just 4 completness:

The API to use is CreateService

If you want your exe to register itself, it should check, if it was started from the service control manager (this is: it's parent process is...

Did you read the article, CILU pointed you to? Why not?

Services do not have a desktop to interact with (unless they run as local system and are configured "interactive").
However you can pass...

Hi folks,

i played around with the MSI automation interface and did some VBS on MSI files and on the stuff that is installed on the current workstation. It's pretty cool, what one can do with it....

You want to know, if changing code will influence the way your app calls a dll? I think:
No matter if you use static linking (with a .lib) or dynamic linking with GetProcAddress(): As long as you do...

I think you are wrong. If you were searching a solution for "accessibility in logon process" (or whatever) why didn't you ask for that?
Without ever having done it myself: I am pretty sure, that...

Seems the issue is not unknown ...
MS Support

... kind of. Hard to understand this article :-(


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HoM

Did you give it a try?

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HoM

Do you get the same in Release and Debug? Did you check a consistent usage of C-Runtime (MT vs. ST; Release vs. Debug)?

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HoM

Create a new file and copy everything you do not want to delete ... I would propose.

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HoM

Did you try a SendMessage instead of a PostMessage? This API should wait untill the message was processed ...
You should read the documentation of SendMessage and SendMessageTimeout...


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I remember this from several documents MS released about their "LOGO" programms. The last document like this I read when "Win2k Logo" was en vogue.

:-) I admit this is long time back. But ......

MS preferes developers to use

ShellExecute / ShellExecuteEx

The advantage is, that you can make use of AppPaths registration and similar services of the Shell.

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HoM

a share marked as "null session share" might even be accessed by a service ...

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HoM

?? Has this anything to do with the GetComputerNameEx Windows API ?

:confused:

Can someone move this to the networking area? Maybe somebody there could help ...

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HoM

Hi All,

I am searching code to find out the fully qualified computername like

compi.subdomain.domain.corp

of a) the local computer and
b) a computer, which computer name (not fully...

For sake of completness: This is sample code how to get the string, that you need for the call to SHObjectProperties :



CComBSTR bstrNtShrUiDll;
// read the path to Systen32 folder and copy it...

Finally: Maybe there is a way to do it right for all languages:

Open the file ntshrui.dll as a resource and read the String resource with the ID 103 and take that as input for the API...

Thanks a lot. One can really get the dialog with this API.

The sad part of it: It is one of the most stupid APIs I have ever seen, because one must spezify the text, that is on the tab of the page...

thanks a lot.
Actually we achieved showing the "properties" by doing a shellexecute on the folder with the verb "properties". But ... we would be much more happy, if the "sharing" page would be...

Hi all,

there is a function called "ShowShareFolderUIW" in ntshrui.dll, that shows a folders property page with the sharing options of that folder. But this function is not there on Win2k, only on...

Hi,
I have 2 comments:

In your code there is no LoadLibrary, so your dll will only be loaded, if you have linked to the .lib file of the dll you want to load. You must load the dll to retreive a...