The Win32 API is the core set of application programming interfaces (APIs) available in the Microsoft Windows operating systems. This tag is for questions about developing native Windows applications using the Win32 API.

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C Windows Add Default Search path for files (fopen…)

I have written a little interpreter which can run scripts. For convenience, I associated the file type (.apol) with my interpreter located in "C:\Apol\Interpeter.exe" so whenever I double click a ...
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SendInput not working after attaching thread input to a target process

I'm making an application that needs to work with the UI of a program which doesn't seem to implement UI Automation elements (Inspect.Exe only shows the main pane and no children). So I researched ...
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Disable NotifyIconOverflowWindow autohide

I have done flyout window similar to win7 battery meter. It is behaving just like built in one except when it is shown via notify icon who is locatet on NotifyAreaOverflowWindow the window autohides ...
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CreateWindowEx isn't return NULL but GetLastError returns 126 (Error:126)

Before calling CreateWindowEx(..) there isn't any error. And CreateWindowEx isn't return NULL. And interestingly window is show up after calling ShowWindow. In code as you can see there is 2 ...
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System.OverflowException in CallWindowProc for 64 bit configuration when called from C# code

We have the following piece of C# code in our application: private IntPtr _DefaultWndProc = IntPtr.Zero; [DllImport("user32")] private static extern IntPtr SetWindowLongPtr(IntPtr hwnd, int index, ...
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Why a form is needed for a SetWinEventHook callback?

Currently, I'm using the powerful SetWinEventHook() function to catch some user-interface's actions like minimizing and maximizing from other window runned by programs on the computer. So I inspired ...
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Delphi API Hooks behave oddly

I'm trying to implement an API Hooking mechanism. What I have so far, is a DLL injected into other processes via a SetWindowsHookEx call, and some code to implement the hooks themselves. For ...
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How to get window title from it's process path

I have a path of a process, I would like to get it's window title in C++. Let's assume that this process has only one window. So for example my process path is : C:\Program Files\My ...
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Android BluetoothPAN to create TCP/IP network between Android device and Windows7 PC

Question 1) I'm trying to create a TCP/IP connection between Android device and a Windows 7 PC. For this purpose, I'm using Android's hidden BlutoothPan class using Java reflection API. Here is the ...
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How to skin winapi completly

I know that there is a ton of sections about this subject. but I wanted to ask you guys really specific one. I would like to know how programs like SharePod: ...
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What is the safest way to verify loaded DLLs have valid certificates?

I have a binary 'api.dll' which uses another binary 'helper.dll'. I want to validate the authenticity of each DLL using digital signatures, but I'm not sure the correct way to go about it. For ...
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C++ Integer to pointer conversion

So recently I've been dealing with WinAPI's WriteProcessMemory and ReadProcessMemory which both take LPVOID as their second argument which is the actual address in the memory of another process we ...
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C++ Winapi Including DLL in the .exe file

I'm using MYSQL library, and libmysql.lib /.dll. My program cannot be working without the libmysql.dll When I'm trying to run my project without the dll I'm getting that error message. What I'm ...
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Message boxes with Windows 7 look-and-feel

I reared this MSDN article about customizing design of message boxes: User Interface Text and native message boxes looks like this: but my messagebox looks like this: and here is what I want: ...
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Get current sound volume windows 8

The result of the sound level is always 0, wether i have the sound muted or at max volume. What is wrong ? [DllImport("winmm.dll")] private static extern int waveOutGetVolume(IntPtr hwo, out uint ...

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