Visual C++ :: Accessing User Directory In Win 7 Pro?
Jul 12, 2013
I have been using the code below to extract the current user directory in order to read and write to certain files, presumeably independent of whether or not the user has administrative privileges. This has been necessitated in Win 7 because applications installed in the customary C:/Program Files(x86)/ are not allowed full access to files in the installed app root directory. This was working just fine until just this week when suddenly, for the first time, I found that the user directory retrieved was different when the app was run without administrative privileges in 'Start without debugging' configuration, both in Debug and Release configuration. Note that I have tested the identical app on Win2K and Vista and in neither case is it a problem on those OS machines. More mysterious is the fact that this ONLY happens on Win7 (VS2010 Ultimate) when run in the IDE. Run from the windows explorer double click, the app runs just fine in release and debug mode and monitoring the debug version using DbgView indicates that the expected 'Roaming' User directory is retrieved.
For example:
- without debugging (both Debug and Release configuration) the code below produces:
Either this has been the situation from the outset and I just never noticed it (hard to imagine as I've been on this project for 6 months with 50+ builds), a recent Windows update has changed things, a bug, or I'm just plain stupid (not hard to imagine at all).
From a practical standpoint, if this is the way things are to be, my installer will need to install necessary files in both user directories and the app will need to access both depending upon user privileges.
Code:
/// This routine retrieves the process's environment block
/// using GetEnvironmentStrings, parses that block pointed to
/// by the generic international text pointer LPTCH, and returns
/// the requested string lpszVarStr as a string.
/// Note that the block lpvEnv environment variable substrings
/// are separated by NULL byte, and the block is terminated by a NULL byte.
/// The header files <windows.h>, <tchar.h>, <stdio.h>, <string>, and
/// <iostream> need to be included.
I want to obtain the user's home directory. I know it can be done with getenv("HOME"), but if I'll inspect the value of the enviroment variable HOME, it might work when I run it now, but it won't work on Windows, since windows uses HOMEPATH to save the user's home directory.
Is there a different, more cross-platform way to do it?
I have a logined user and my running program as system process (not user process).
I want to get user name and surname from AD.
1. GetUserName() dont useful becouse it gets name for current process owner(for SYSTEM in my case).
2. There are userLogin, userName, userSurname and userDisplayedName in user properties of AD. Its possible to get userDisplayedName by NetUserGetInfo(), but I want to know is it possible to get userName and userSurname?
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However, if one uses this code over and over, one quickly becomes tired of threading one's way all the way from root directory C:. There is undoubtedly some way to designate a starting directory. The most obvious candidate to set such a target is the:
Code: bi.pidlRoot = NULL;
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How can I set the code to open at a designated address in the directory tree?
There was an "impovement" since Windows 7 in algorithm for selecting the initial directory, which is described here OPENFILENAME structure. Briefly:
Windows 7:
If lpstrInitialDir has the same value as was passed the first time the application used an Open or Save As dialog box, the path most recently selected by the user is used as the initial directory. Otherwise, if lpstrFile contains a path, that path is the initial directory.
Otherwise, if lpstrInitialDir is not NULL, it specifies the initial directory. If lpstrInitialDir is NULL and the current directory contains any files of the specified filter types, the initial directory is the current directory. Otherwise, the initial directory is the personal files directory of the current user. Otherwise, the initial directory is the Desktop folder.
The problem that this behavior is not what users of my program expect. Another constraint is that I need to use old CFileDialog dialog, not Common File Dialogs. I've tried to use advises described on StackOverflow and on MSDN. This solution by EllisMiller works perfectly:
Specifying a full path (including filename) in lpstrFile. The filename of course shows up in the filename box which is annoying. I ended up using a filename of "." and adding a bit of code to clear the filename combobox once the dialog is open.
BUT I can't figure how to clear the filename combobox. I've tried to add hook procedure, enumerate windows and clear text, but this didn't work for me. So, my question is: how can I clear text in the filename combobox of CFileDialog?
I wrote a Windows application that comes with two modules: service and user-mode exes. The service implements its own scheduler and may log-off a user at a predefined time. For that I was using the following call that is triggered from my user-mode module exe in a logged-on user session that has to be logged off:
Code : BOOL result = ExitWindowsEx(EWX_LOGOFF, reason);
This works fine, except of the situation when a user's account is locked. In that case that API doesn't seem to do anything at all even through I get 1 returned from it.
So I was curious, is there any other way to log off a user when their account is locked? (One condition I have in this case is that if that user had any unsaved documents then the log-off should not be forced.)
I want to have a multi user chat over TCP/IP. I already have the code for both the server and the client and so far I am able to send messages from the client to the server. Now I want to make it a multi user chat. I am executing the codes using Visual studio's Command prompt(not Windows Command Prompt). I have read somewhere that we have to use select() function.
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Code: #include <iostream> #include <string> int main() { using namespace std; char buffer[256]; char tempBuff[256] = {'
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The automatic part: /*This is not correct.
printf(".%.2d ", number); */
But that does no good for me. Question: Do I have to create a some sort of while loop again, to allow the user to input a decimal followed by integer?
Code: #include <iostream> #include <cstdlib> using namespace std; int main() { int j , i = 0, k = 0; int number;
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This is my real world problem, in the context of the application user. (these term do not refer to OPP concepts)
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Imagine a Windows frame, containing several 2 dimensional squares. I want to be able to drag and drop marbles into the squares,and have the square retain and display the marbles in the square, in the order that they were dropped in.
How do I create the shapes, and how will the square sense when a marble is over it?
How would I create irregular shapes (a combination of lines and curves) that would be responsive to the marbles?
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Im working on my project for college and i want to know how to add sth similar to a chronometer for user to see how much time have passed while entering some characters using cin.getline function.
I have been trying to finish this code (function) for a while now, but am stuck on the last part. In this code, I prompt the user to select a number of integers and any number of digits and then find the smallest and largest value within these digits. On the next part, I am supposed to determine which of the given digits the smallest and largest are located such that the output should be:
Digit _ can be found in integer number(s): _, _
Here is what I have tried:
Code: int digitSizeLoca() { int userNumInteger; int* iPtr; int* iPtr2; int* iPtr3; int value;
[Code] ....
Seems to do the job, but it always outputs 1, 2...
I'm writing a Windows service using WinAPIs and C++. One of the options is that I need to send the system into sleep after all users are logged out. The log-out command is started from the UI (which can notify my service), the problem is knowing how long it takes for all user accounts to be completely logged out before putting the system to sleep.
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#include <iostream> int main() { using namespace std; int num; int total = 0; int x;
[Code] ....
The full text of the error message is: error c2678:binary'>>':no operator found which takes a left-hand operand of type 'std::istream' . and one more thing i was wondering, is there a difference between c++ and visual c++?
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Code:
int main() { string ans; ofstream Xfile("original.txt"); cout <<"Enter your name and address please"<<endl; cout<<"Press Ctrl+Z+Enter when you are done"<<endl; string name_and_street;
