C# Win32 API

C# WinAPI: How to Handle INI files

How to handle windows INI files via .NET Framework ? The INI file format is a standard for configuration files in windows. Using of registry or XML files to store configuration settings is more popular today. However many windows applications and features use INI files format. Internet Explorer favorites is one example [ ... ]

posted @ Saturday, April 19, 2008 2:28 AM | Your thoughts

WinAPI: How to Get the Amount of Space Available on a Disk Volume (GetDiskFreeSpaceEx)

The following method demonstrates how to get the amount of space available on a disk volume. We use a method imported from kernel32: GetDiskFreeSpaceEx [ ... ]

posted @ Friday, April 18, 2008 9:44 PM | Your thoughts

WinAPI: How to Get Last Error from Windows API Functions Stack (GetLastError)

The algorithm demonstrates how to get last error from Windows API functions stack. The algorithm uses 2 functions imported from kernel32: GetLastError and FormatMessage [ ... ]

posted @ Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:42 AM | Your thoughts