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Where do I write user data in Win7?

18-Jun-10 9:42

As Aescleal stated, that doesn't work for negative numbers. However you may test for the sign and act accordingly (subtracting .5, instead of adding it).
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Koolski18-Jun-10 7:34

Koolski

18-Jun-10 7:34

Where do I update my program to create user data? The program data needs to be global to all users on the machine and must not be in a hidden or protected folder because occasionally users do have to access the data to get a file or place a file.

Currently it's written to sub-directories off of "c:\Program Files\ProgramNameAndVersionHere"

Do I need to just do this the Win 3.1 way and write to "c:\ProgramNameHere"? Confused | :confused:

Thanks in advance.

Code-o-mat18-Jun-10 8:29

Code-o-mat

18-Jun-10 8:29

Check out this[^] method, i hope it can help you.

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> Computers don't kill programs, users kill programs <
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Koolski18-Jun-10 9:31

Koolski

18-Jun-10 9:31

Thanks for responding. Please see my response to Maximilien.

Maximilien18-Jun-10 8:35

Maximilien

18-Jun-10 8:35

In general, it's a bad idea to let ordinary users modify something in the installation path ("c:\program files", ...)

What about using the path "CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA" or "CSIDL_COMMON_DOCUMENTS" both can be fetch with the <code>SHGetFolderPath API.

There's also the "C:\Users\Public" folder, but I'm not certain about that one.

Watched code never compiles.

Koolski18-Jun-10 9:30

Koolski

18-Jun-10 9:30

Thanks for both responses.

"CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA" corresponds to "c:\ProgramData" which is a hidden folder in Win7.

The documentation says "CSIDL_COMMON_DOCUMENTS" corresponds to "... A typical path is 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents' ...". What does that mean in Win7? There is no "c:\Documents and Settings" folder.

The "C:\Users\Public" seems the most promising, but how do I get the folder from code since I didn't see any CSIDL or FOLDERID that seemed to correspond?

Code-o-mat18-Jun-10 9:46

Code-o-mat

18-Jun-10 9:46

I really have not much win7 experience yet (still running XP here), but isn't there also an "All Users" inside c:\users, althorough that might be also hidden.
You could try "trial and error" (if google doesn't help), just query for the special folder locations one by one, maybe c:\users\public turns up for one of those CSIDs...

Re: Where do I write user data in Win7? [edited]

krmed18-Jun-10 10:35

krmed

18-Jun-10 10:35

In Windows 7, Documents and Settings no longer exists...instead there is a folder named Users that has the indivudal user info. Either way, using the GetFolderPath method will return the proper name - Vista or Windows 7.

Hope that helps.

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Ravi Bhavnani18-Jun-10 13:52

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18-Jun-10 13:52

Application.CommonAppDataPath[^] will work regardless of the OS on which your app is running.

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Upgrade to VS2010 Compiler error (atlbase.h)

Maximilien18-Jun-10 4:55

Maximilien

18-Jun-10 4:55

Trying to rebuild our application with VS2010 (latest beta) ...

We get weird errors from atlbase.h.

...<br />
2>  myfile.cpp<br />
2>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\atlmfc\include\atlbase.h(4957): error C3861: 'GetMessage': identifier not found<br />
2>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\atlmfc\include\atlbase.h(4957): fatal error C1903: unable to recover from previous error(s); stopping compilation<br />
...<br />

It does not happend on all files, but only a few, so that it's not something that should be in the settings (?) or the precompiled header (?)

Any idea what could be the cause of that weird error ? missing some "#include" on my side ?

and contrary to popular belief, this is not urgent... just exploratory.
Thanks.

Watched code never compiles.

Re: Upgrade to VS2010 Compiler error (atlbase.h)

Aescleal18-Jun-10 6:46

Aescleal

18-Jun-10 6:46

Hi,

Could it be something related to using the beta release? The finished item's been out a while so it might be worth looking at a full release version first.

Cheers,

Ash

How to develop a visual studio plugin to hook debugging?

kcynic18-Jun-10 4:51

kcynic

18-Jun-10 4:51

I want to load a dll library of mine before i trigger vs' debug menu?
In another word, i want to inject my dll to the new debugged process(and my dll should be loaded before any other dll except kernel32.dll). What should i do?

Re: How to develop a visual studio plugin to hook debugging?

VSVC18-Jun-10 16:00

VSVC

18-Jun-10 16:00

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Assertion when Deleting the View in Splitter Window.

janaswamy uday18-Jun-10 3:10

janaswamy uday

18-Jun-10 3:10

Dear All,

I am creating a SplitterWnd which consist of Three Views. One View is a Tree Control & other are Two Form Views. When Click the Tree Items i am deleting these tow Form Views.

From Tree View it is getting no Problem.

My Problme is When i select a Menu Item which is having same Items populated in TreeCtl Items. When i focus the Cursor to any one of the Form View and slect the Menu Item it is giving Assertion.

CSplitterwnd.DeleteView(1,0) //---> Second View is Getting Assertion from Menu selected.

Please help me out.

Thanks & Regards,
Uday.

boost trim

gmallax17-Jun-10 23:42

gmallax

17-Jun-10 23:42

Hi,

I am having cstring stringToBeConverted;

And,i trimmed the above string as

stringToBeConverted.Trim(stringToBeConverted[0]);

If i use std string instead of cstring how can i trim and succeeds the above functionality..

how to use boost::trim????

thanx

Re: boost trim

Nuri Ismail17-Jun-10 23:51

Nuri Ismail

17-Jun-10 23:51

See this[^] SO thread. It contains both usage of trim from Boost's string algorithms and custom trim implementations. Smile | :)

HTTP_VERB_POST

john563217-Jun-10 22:27

john5632

17-Jun-10 22:27

I am tring to post a request to a http webserver. But server is getting null value.

my code is as:

DWORD dwHttpRequestFlags =
      INTERNET_FLAG_RELOAD |
      INTERNET_FLAG_EXISTING_CONNECT | 
      INTERNET_FLAG_NO_AUTO_REDIRECT |
      INTERNET_FLAG_DONT_CACHE;


	CString strHeaders = _T("Accept: text/*\r\nUser-Agent: Your Appliction\r\n");

   CString strFormData = _T("appID=0001&seckey=Tq+jiIicN/");

   CInternetSession session;
   
   CString strServerName, theStringBuffer, strObject;
   DWORD dwServiceType;
   INTERNET_PORT nPort;
   CString strURL = "http://10.105.157.150/FUS/GetVersion";
	AfxParseURL(strURL, dwServiceType, strServerName, strObject, nPort);

   CHttpConnection* pConnection =  session.GetHttpConnection((LPCTSTR)strServerName, (INTERNET_PORT)nPort, (LPCTSTR)NULL, (LPCTSTR)NULL);
   CHttpFile* pFile =   pConnection->OpenRequest(CHttpConnection::HTTP_VERB_POST, strObject,NULL, 1, NULL, NULL, dwHttpRequestFlags);

   pFile->AddRequestHeaders(strHeaders);
   BOOL result = pFile->SendRequest(strHeaders,(LPVOID)(LPCTSTR)strFormData), strFormData.GetLength());

	CString fullbody;  
	CString strSentence;  
  
	while(pFile->ReadString(strSentence))  
		fullbody = fullbody + strSentence;

GetPrivateProfileSectionNamesA returns 0

hans.sch17-Jun-10 21:42

hans.sch

17-Jun-10 21:42

I recently observed that a call to the GetPrivateProfileSectionNamesA WinAPI function returned 0. Postings on the internet suggest to check file existence, Windows INI file mapping, etc. To make the story short: The call works reliably after a Windows restart, and eventually fails (using the same INI file, and file name) after several program runs, where "fails" means "returns 0."
The documentation does not indicate that GetLastError() returns anything useful in this case, but I called it nonetheless, and it returned 8 (ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY).
That was the first time ever I worked with Vista Home, so I am wondering whether Vista Home has any limitiations with respect to memory or other resources, compared to XP Pro or Vista Pro where this problem never appeared. It may be that some resources used by third-party software are not released after a program crash - and the program crashed rather often during my testing/debugging sessions.

Thanks for any suggestions - Hans

CPallini17-Jun-10 22:25

17-Jun-10 22:25

Could you please post the relevant code?
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hans.sch20-Jun-10 20:34

hans.sch

20-Jun-10 20:34

Tried to boil the code down to the relevant parts.

void ReadAllSections(const CString &sFileName, CStringArray &arrsSections)
{
    static const DWORD k_dwBufferInc = 10;
    DWORD dwBufferSize = 0, dwReturnedLength;
    CString sBuffer; // using a CString as a buffer to simplify memory housekeeping

    // try to read the section names; increase buffer and retry if too small
    do
    {
        dwBufferSize += k_dwBufferInc;
        dwReturnedLength = GetPrivateProfileSectionNames(sBuffer.GetBuffer(dwBufferSize - 1), dwBufferSize, sFileName);
    }
    while (dwReturnedLength == dwBufferSize - 2);

    arrsSections.RemoveAll();

    if (dwReturnedLength == 0)
    {
        // dwLastErr is 0 if the file or directory don't exist, or if it exists and contains no sections.
        // Sometimes, on a Vista Home PC, 8 is returned, although the file exists and contains sections.
        DWORD dwLastErr = GetLastError();
        AfxDebugBreak();
        return;
    }

    // split buffer into section names (I know this part could me more sophisticated)
    LPCTSTR pszCurrent = sBuffer;
    while (*pszCurrent != _T('\0'))
    {
        arrsSections.Add(pszCurrent);
        pszCurrent += _tcslen(pszCurrent) + 1;
    }
}

Let me point out once more that the AfxDebugBreak(); statement is not always executed, although always the same file name (and absolute directory) is used, and the same file is used (and exists) all the time. The MSDN documentation does not mention that a return value of 0 means failure, nor that GetLastError() should be called in that case.

CPallini20-Jun-10 21:43

20-Jun-10 21:43

A call to CString::ReleaseBuffer must must follow each call to CString::GetBuffer.

As side note, way don't you use a more aggressive technique for the buffer (for instance, starting with 256 bytes and doubling at each cycle)?
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hans.sch21-Jun-10 20:24

hans.sch

21-Jun-10 20:24

Hi ^CPallini, thanks for your input... this is demo code, the production code uses more aggressive memory allocation. Doubling seems a bit of overkill to me; I start with like 1024 bytes and add steps of 1024. The point of adding just 10 is to show that the algorithm works and is not the cause of the problem. About ReleaseBuffer() - omitting it, in my understanding, may confuse CString operations but should not make an API call fail should it? Sniff | :^)

CPallini21-Jun-10 20:54