// Oprogramowanie Roman Ryltsov
Various Alax.Info Utilities
Replace in Files is updated to keep up with the time as well as implement a feature that appeared to be convenient. What’s new in this build? Migration to Visual Studio .NET 2005 compiler, which is pretty cool itself since the compiler better optimizes the code, and in addition the binary is self sufficient and…
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…
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…
While fixing Vista compatibility problems, an interesting issue arose with AVI clips. It is widely known that Windows shell animations are small AVI clips linked into shell32.dll binary as a resource of type “AVI”. Other DLLs have their clips too and standard animation common control is capable of picking the clips. It is quite convenient…
I decided yo update NTFS Links to fix an annoying issue several people complained about. If you copy a directory and decide to, yes, copy and not create soft link, you will be still prompted with the same question for every subdirectory inside. Windows gove no option to learn this is actually a subdirectory and…
Another interesting feature of NTFS file system is alternate data streams, which basically means that a file may be attached extra data such as for example “slave files”. The tricky peculiarity is that data streams are almost invisible to Windows shell, though Windows uses stream to attach version information (Summary property page in file properties)…