Which forum to use?
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I'd say it depends on which language you intend to do this in - if you're going to do it in C#, use the C# forum - if you're going to use Visual Basic (just an example...), use the Visual Basic forum. If you haven't decided which language you want to do this in, but you know it's a .NET language, use the .NET Framework forum. As far as I know, there aren't any forums dedicated to API questions. :)
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I was afraid of that. I've not decided what language yet, and it's API rather then anything else really. I'll see if I can word it as a C# question so that I can ask there! Thanks for the help :) Chris
You might also find http://pinvoke.net/[^] useful if you're just looking for the function itself. :)
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I was afraid of that. I've not decided what language yet, and it's API rather then anything else really. I'll see if I can word it as a C# question so that I can ask there! Thanks for the help :) Chris
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You might also find http://pinvoke.net/[^] useful if you're just looking for the function itself. :)
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Hi all, I'm looking for info about how to do something that I think needs a Win32 API call (but I don't know which one) - can anybody tell me which forum is best for asking in? Thanks, Chris
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Hi all, I'm looking for info about how to do something that I think needs a Win32 API call (but I don't know which one) - can anybody tell me which forum is best for asking in? Thanks, Chris
Win32 questions go to the C/C++/MFC forum.
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Hi all, I'm looking for info about how to do something that I think needs a Win32 API call (but I don't know which one) - can anybody tell me which forum is best for asking in? Thanks, Chris
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What is it you are trying to accomplish?
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Disclaimer: This is not intended as a programming question, and I'm only stating the problem here because I was asked. I'm trying to write an app that finds and saves a list of all files containing a set of keywords on a Windows XP machine as part of a data audit. Windows Explorer can perform this search, but not export the results of the search. So I figure that the search in Windows Explorer is powered by some DLL somewhere that not only searches files that are plain text (as would be easy in .Net) but also Word, Excel files etc. So what I could do with is a DLL that can search a given directory, with parameters for date range, and will search inside files for a given string.
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Chris - 5 for a good question.
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Disclaimer: This is not intended as a programming question, and I'm only stating the problem here because I was asked. I'm trying to write an app that finds and saves a list of all files containing a set of keywords on a Windows XP machine as part of a data audit. Windows Explorer can perform this search, but not export the results of the search. So I figure that the search in Windows Explorer is powered by some DLL somewhere that not only searches files that are plain text (as would be easy in .Net) but also Word, Excel files etc. So what I could do with is a DLL that can search a given directory, with parameters for date range, and will search inside files for a given string.
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You're welcome - and well done on forum etiquette here.
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