Before starting, you need to know there’s a small issue on using the API in your project, you can get an Unable to find an entry point name ‘TaskDialogIndirect’ in DLL ‘comctl32.dll’ error.
To get the whole story, see my post Unable to find an entry point name ‘TaskDialogIndirect’ in DLL ‘comctl32.dll’
Thanks to Bart Desmet, you [...]
I have been playing video games for now about 20 years, but always been interested in creating one.
Years have passed since and now I am quite comfortable with C# so, I decided to test XNA.
XNA if you don’t know already, is the equivalent of .Net Framework, but for creating games.
As games have a different implementation [...]
For those of you who tried Windows API Code Pack, particularly the TaskDialog managed wrapper, you’ve probably encountered the following error when trying to run your program.
Too bad,
I was happy when I heard they finally released a managed API for those (not yet managed) APIs …
I have been struggling a lot last year to [...]
UPDATE : I have created a generic Singleton.
For the first programming related post, it is going to be a simple post.
The Singleton pattern,
What is this ?
If you are familiar with programming, you probably know what this is, if you are new to programming, i’ll try to explain it to you, especially what it can do [...]
UPDATE : Here is the monitor management application !
MonitorConfigurationAPI
Requirements : Vista and a display monitor with Vista drivers.
Usage : Click ‘Probe’ button then wait a few seconds !
Issues
Color temperature doesn’t produce expected results
During detection, some monitors may change their settings
If you don’t have a Vista-specific driver, you shouldn’t install an old XP driver otherwise it [...]
UPDATE : Here is a sample code for Vista only.
ShutdownBlockReasonCreate
Running the program then initiating a shutdown will display the Windows feature.
As things seems to have changed a little in Windows 7, it doesn’t work with it. I will post an updated version of it, when the documentation is available.
Sometimes you need to handle a shutdown [...]