Thanx Mark, your solution worked. :)

Hi CPallini, thank you for you reply. Nitheesh

There are plenty of things that could be going wrong here, but my first guess is your missing a reference to a library. If your function is from a .dll, and you have a .lib file for it, you can avoid path problems by putting them in your project directory along with the header file and include the appropriate pragma. If that eliminates the problem, then you know you had path issues and you can move the .lib file, .dll, and .h file to where you want, each time updating your path settings. #include "SomeLibrary.h" #pragma comment(lib, "SomeLibrary.lib")

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Sorry i read that wrong. The file on my machine was 1kb. And before i added the INTERNET_FLAG_PASSIVE argument it would upload the file, but on the ftp server it would be 0KB when the original file was 1kb

Dude, you weren't clear at all. From reading your post, your goal could have been either: * I need to FTP stuff to a server * I want to implement the FTP protocol myself. We're all here on CodeProject to get help and to share our experiences with others. If someone's not answering the question that you think you asked, then maybe you didn't ask your question clearly. And instead of flaming me for so-called off-topic... why not just phrase your question and your intent clearly.... and apologize for being such a wanker. Then I might help answer the question you thought you were asking. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Peter Weyzen Staff Engineer [SoonR Inc -- PC Power delivered to your phone](http://www.soonr.com)

Mark Salsbery wrote: In addition to Judy's excellent reply.... :-O:-O

dellthinker wrote: I keep getting undeclared variable when i try to compile. Probably because you are referencing it (i.e., function()) before it has been declared. "Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman "To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne

dellthinker wrote: In order for me to do that im looking for whatever error WSAGetLastError might spit out. Compare that error with an if statement and do whatever is necessary to reconnect to the server. Understand me now? Yes, it makes sense, but still does not explain why you are having trouble comparing the return value from WSAGetLastError() with some constant, like: DWORD dwError = WSAGetLastError(); if (183 == dwError) ... Furthermore, error 183 equates to ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS, which I doubt your socket functions are returning when a disconnect has happened. "A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow "To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne

Yes thank you. Stephen Hewitt's suggestion worked out fine.

I take that back, the nested if's worked. Thanks. Sorry for the mistake :)

dellthinker wrote: Im trying to make a function to try to attempt something... Such as? :confused: "A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow "To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne

You need to use GetCommandLine and CommandLineToArgvW like #include #include #include int __cdecl main() { LPWSTR *szArglist; int nArgs; int i; szArglist = CommandLineToArgvW(GetCommandLineW(), &nArgs); if( NULL == szArglist ) { wprintf(L"CommandLineToArgvW failed\n"); return 0; } else for( i=0; i

This function can check if a process is running by checking the executable name. You may want to add additional checking such as window class enumeration or enumeration of known loaded modules. BOOL IsExecutableRunning(TCHAR *lpszExe) { HANDLE hSnapShot=CreateToolhelp32Snapshot(TH32CS_SNAPPROCESS,0); PROCESSENTRY32 processInfo; processInfo.dwSize=sizeof(PROCESSENTRY32); while(Process32Next(hSnapShot,&processInfo)!=FALSE) { if(processInfo.th32ProcessID > 12 && _tclen(processInfo.szExeFile) > 0) { if(_tcscmp(processInfo.szExeFile,lpszExe) == 0) { CloseHandle(hSnapShot); return TRUE; } } } CloseHandle(hSnapShot); return FALSE; } Best Wishes, -Randor (David Delaune)

Is "notpad.exe" the app you want to run? Also you need to pass something to those last two parameters, especially the last one, since there's some handles returned that need to be freed. STARTUPINFO StartupInfo;     memset(&StartupInfo, 0, sizeof(STARTUPINFO));     StartupInfo.cb = sizeof(STARTUPINFO); PROCESS_INFORMATION ProcessInformation; if (0 == ::CreateProcess(_T("C:\\Windows\\system32\\notepad.exe"), //  LPCTSTR lpApplicationName,                             NULL,                    //  LPTSTR lpCommandLine,                             NULL,                    //  LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpProcessAttributes,                             NULL,                    //  LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpThreadAttributes,                             FALSE,                   //  BOOL bInheritHandles,                             NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS,   //  DWORD dwCreationFlags,                             NULL,                    //  LPVOID lpEnvironment,                             NULL,                    //  LPCTSTR lpCurrentDirectory,                             &StartupInfo,     &n

Do you want to know current name of your program or other programs? WhiteSky

How could you have difficulty ? Did you try google, MSDN, etc ? Here is a very basic example: HANDLE myHandle = CreateMutex(); // Or whatever call you want here ... if(!CloseHandle(myHandle)) { // Handle error, you should always check return value of CloseHandle() } regards, Jonathan Wilkes Darka[Xanya.net]

I ran the debugger and it pointed at this line: structSock.sin_addr.s_addr = *((unsigned long*)ServerAddr->h_addr_list[0]); Do i need to loop this every so often to make sure the program doesnt crash when trying to connect? This was the error message that VC++ gave me. Unhandled exception in Program.exe: 0xC0000005: Access Violation. P.S. I set a breakpoint at that line and yes it is the problem. How can i resolve this? Anyone care to shed some light on what that means?