windows api

Many new and sought-after Windows APIs and features such as BackgroundTasks, Notifications, LiveTiles, Share and more, are either not available or not easily callable from non-packaged Win32 applications. This is due to the programming model for UWP APIs that integrate with the system and have a...

Network cameras, which are Internet Protocol-based cameras that transmit video data over a local area network (LAN), are becoming increasingly prevalent – especially in surveillance and security scenarios. Windows now allows users to associate network cameras to their PC, enabling photo capture...

I would like to know is it possible to make a cmd program in #C to monitor windows processes? CMD Starts and automatically sends tasklist command every 10 seconds. If new process starts during that 10 seconds it opens TXT or another CMD windows to inform me that process name and location...

Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Link Removed (Build 17125 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 17125 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from Link Removed. For...

Hello, In our application we get the handle of the taskbar using Windows API and hide it using SW_HIDE. Yet when the CD / DVD is inserted / ejected the taskbar is visible. We tried to handle the WM_DEVICECHANGE windows message which is received when any device is inserted to the system and...

For some apps (especially games) it is not uncommon for the app to get into a state where it needs to restart – perhaps after a license update, after installing downloadable content, its caches have become corrupt or unwieldy, or for any other reason where the app needs to refresh state from...

Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Link Removed (Build 16225 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 16225 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from Link Removed. For...

In the previous blog post about High-dots-per-inch (DPI) scaling improvements, we talk about how desktop applications can be blurry or sized incorrectly when run on high-DPI displays. This is especially noticeable when docking and undocking or when using remoting technologies such as Remote...

When pinning a program to the taskbar, when you launch it it runs the actual executable then the application either runs for the first time, or if it's already running but minimized to the tray, it has to handle that 2nd exe instance -> terminate the second one -> un-minimize the currently...

The Windows Runtime (WinRT) is the technology that powers the Universal Windows Platform, letting developers write applications that are common to all Windows devices, from Xbox to PCs to HoloLens to phones. Most of UWP can also be used by developers targeting traditional desktop applications...

Link Removed, a popular toolset that Microsoft also internally uses to implement some of its imaging apps, has been updated to version 3.0. Previous versions of the SDK have already powered applications with a total of over 100 million downloads and now has support for Windows 10 UWP (Universal...

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I have an application that calls Windows API functions to display the Common Dialog boxes (e.g. Print Dialog, File Save As..., etc.). The Common Dialog boxes display correctly on my own network, but I have a client who is running my application on a Windows Server 2008 R2 application server...

I had found that, to not have my programs visible in the TaskBar (ie: DSNTODAY), I must, in the General Tab, select 'run whether user is logged on or not'. Unfortunately, tho logically, this also seems to apply to sound (ie: the Win32API BEEP and MESSAGEBEEP). When I select 'run only when...

I was trying to get the 'CD' (change directory) DOS command to work with input redirection (left arrow), but could not do so, tho, thank goodness, I found PUSHD&POPD so I no longer need CD in my .BAT now. However, I could not get any of these commands to work either: TYPE, MORE, and especially...

Hi. I am working on a small and fast GUI wrapper for game and tool development. It has been a while that i worked with the win32 api. Everything works fine except of the displayed window elements. As you can see in the attached picture, the text looks like Win 3.x ^^. I applied a manifest...

The UnregisterClass function may leak memory when called to unregister a window class that was registered within an activation context. Link Removed

non-IFS LSP does not correctly support IO completion port when the user changes notification modes via SetFileCompletionNotificationModes Link Removed

Setup: Windows 7 Home premium (64bit) I have need of creating many windows 7 shortcuts to a pile of video files. This is the first of what will likely be many occasions . I don't know any of the windows based scripting languages but do program in perl somewhat. So my first hope is someone may...

Hello, I am using Windows 7 Enterprise OS (32 bit). I have an mfc application which uses SetLayeredWindowAttribute() api to display fading effect for a window. The window to be displayed is popup window created with attributes WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW | WS_EX_LAYERED and parent NULL. The problem is...