Moving on with LogProcessExceptions tool which externally monitors (debugs, to be more specific) an application of interest and captures its exceptions writing minidump files for further analysis. This updates adds two features: Ability to filter out the exceptions of interest An email notification on exception, with or without minidump file Filter A new property page [...]
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Log Process Exceptions: Filters and Email Notification
Posted: 8th October 2012 by Roman in ATL, Source, Utilities, WTLTags: debug, exception, log, troubleshooting
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Automated cell phone balance check, mutliple accounts
Posted: 7th October 2012 by Roman in ATL, UtilitiesEveryone has a cell phone nowadays, a lot of people have 2+ numbers, many have dependents with cell phones. In this country with prepaid services being so popular the number of people who pay for cellular phone services for several numbers perhaps exceeds one million. It looks obvious that there is certain demand for a [...]
DirectShow Spy: Who Sent EC_ERRORABORT?
Posted: 22nd August 2012 by Roman in UtilitiesTags: debug, DirectShow, spy
persiflage@stackoverflow asks if there is a chance to use DirectShow Spy see who sent an EC_ERRORABORT notification, which filter exactly. Let us see first why there is no way to find this out, and then we will see what we can do. DirectShow Filter Graph Manager accepts events from filters via its IMediaEventSink interface. The [...]
Reading HRESULT codes
Posted: 18th August 2012 by Roman in ATL, Source, UtilitiesTags: code, COM, DirectShow, error, hresult, media foundation
Although HRESULT codes are so common and structure is simple and well known, and even Visual Studio helps decoding the values nowadays, looking up for code takes some effort: hexadecimal value, searching through SDK headers or online, overlapped regions of codes in FACILITY_ITF etc. MSDN describes the codes in the following sections: Structure of COM [...]
Enumerating Binary Resource Languages
Posted: 1st May 2012 by Roman in ATL, Source, UtilitiesTags: .rc, .res, C++, language, resource, utility, Windows API
The small application is a goos sample and useful tool in the same time. It enumerates PE binary resources and counts languages used. Why? Normally you want single language of resources, however Visual Studio IDE does not show you languages in a convenient way and it is so easy to make a language mess which [...]
Resource Tools: Custom Resource Types
Posted: 30th April 2012 by Roman in Resource Tools, TechnologyTags: .rc, .res, automation, resource, tool, utility
This update for Resource Tools adds an option to access custom resource types, such as FILE, TYPELIB, REGISTRY etc. It lets enumerate the resource, and load/save them. The COM interafce adds new Items property; the code snippet below accesses type library of image2.dll and saves it into external tyle library file image2.tlb: image = new [...]
LogProcessExceptions: Log Service Process Exceptions
Posted: 29th April 2012 by Roman in ATL, Seriously, Utilities, WTLTags: .DMP, ATL, C++, debug, debugger, exception, minidump, service, support, troubleshooting, utility
One of the nasty issues with LogProcessExceptions utility was that it was unable to attach to service processes and track them to catch their exceptions. The actual problem was that the processes were not listed in first place, so there was nothing to attach to. Access and security requirements necessary for a process to debug [...]