// Oprogramowanie Roman Ryltsov
Universal Plug and Play framework offers capabilities to discover and control various network devices. Microsoft Windows operating systems (Windows Millenium Edition, Windows XP, Windows Vista) offer UPnP APIs: Control Point API and Device Host API. These are useful to communicate to network appliances. The UPnP Scanner utility scans for available devices and show device details…
It is somewhat unexpected but it’s MS Visual Studio .NET 2005 Service Pack 1 already and exactly the same bug in atlrx.h is still here, though the place has been reworked with MS Visual Studio .NET 2005. So, atlrx.h near line 745, “case RE_NOTRANGE:” branch: size_t u = static_cast(static_cast(* ((RECHAR *) sz))); ATLASSERT((u >> 3)…
There has been a lot of and increasing comment spam on the blog engine and it finally reached a critical amount to put a stop instead of just trashing tens and then hundreds of comments. Before I already restricted comments to registered users only and it did not help much, then I disabled XML-RPC since…
As it is well known, COM/DCOM per-class launch and access permissions are stored in registry under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID key. However the permissions are stored in binary form (as a named REG_BINARY value) and thus not easy to read. DCOMCNFG (or MMC snap-in) is used to modify the values interactively but once one needs to update the…
This is a remake of a merely old thing coming since Visual C++ 6.0. The add-in updates .RC resource script to increment file version (A.B.C.D+1 from A.B.C.D) for a binary to be compiled just before compilation. This is useful to have each build compiled with a different version number. The add-in works with C++ projects…
There has been an unexpected problem localizing application resources when STRING resources failed to load while there were no problems with other resource types. The source of the problem appears to be within ATL core. As long as CP_THREAD_ACP is involved in ATL’s conversion the loaded string is screwed. The problem is illustrated by the…
A while ago I found the website irresponsible while administrative dashboard remained worked fine. It appeared to be a problem with hosting or ISP from the start but later when the problem did not appear to be going to go, I decided to check if my theme files are writable by the web server… and…