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See here.

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Hi all,

in my simple C++ application I want to use a c# com dll how can i do that.
Can anybody suggest me the right approach for doing that??

Thanks in advance...

I found this Microsoft documentation to be uncharacteristically clear and easy to follow:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828736[^]

Thanks Alan Balkany .

Hello,
i want to try to read data from mobile phone, but i never do something like this!
So if you have good reference how to start with this, pleas give me a link/url!
It should be a simple project for beginners, just do establish the connection with them,
and if possible read from addressbook Smile | :)

Thanks in advance!
termal

modified on Friday, November 14, 2008 6:18 AM

termal wrote:
i want to try to read data from mobile phone......It should be a simple project for beginners, just do establish the connection with them,
and if possible read from addressbook

There is no such thing.
I've done this a lot so I know what to expect. There's a lot to be done and questions to be answered before you can "establish a connection" or "read from the address book".
Your question is quite comparable to the question "I have never used a hammer, but can you please tell me in a few sentences how to build a house".

Things to consider:
What media will be used to communicate with the mobile device? Bluetooth, USB, RS232?
What drivers are you using for this and how does the device present itself?
You may use the Bluetooth Serial Port Profile and open the device as a virtual COM-port and then you may "establish a connection", but what are you supposed to write to it and read from it? AT-commands? If so you need to know what AT-commands the mobile device supports. It may have a non-standard command set that may provide functionality for reading and writing to and from the address book, but how are you supposed to know?
And this is the easiest way to do it.

"It's supposed to be hard, otherwise anybody could do it!" - selfquote
"High speed never compensates for wrong direction!" - unknown

Hi,
ups, yes you have right!!

I have a 2 old mobile phones so i can tested with them, siemens me -> try to connect over RS232 and
Motorola A780-> try to connect over usb!

regards
termal

termal wrote:
siemens me -> try to connect over RS232

I suggest you opt for this one because it's the simplest interface to "establish a connection" through.
Read here[^] for guidance on how to do that.
Note that you have to know what COM port your device is connected to.

But what happens when you've established the connection?
Then you're supposed to start communicating with the device. What protocol should you use? Do you know the protocol the device expects on that port?
Usually, as I said in my previous post, it's possible to send AT commands using the device as a modem. But the command set may be extended by vendor specific commands that are supposed to be used when "reading from the address book", if this functionality is supported at all through this interface.
You can have a look at this list of AT commands for Motorola phones here[^], but you'll notice that there are a lot of question marks which means that a lot of unknowns.

My point is that you have to know a lot about your device in order to start communicating with it, such as HW interface (RS232) and protocols supported. Protocols may even be nested, i.e. one protocol is wrapped inside another.
You have to know all this before having a chance of doing something right and get answers from the device that actually makes sense.

"It's supposed to be hard, otherwise anybody could do it!" - selfquote
"High speed never compensates for wrong direction!" - unknown

termal wrote:
i want to try to read data from mobile phone, but i never do something like this! It should be a simple project for beginners...

Are you sure this is something you want to try and tackle? Ambition is one thing, but by being a beginner, you're going to run into so many roadblocks.

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Hi Experts,

I m working on a project which have two application which uses
one common DLL.and I wanted to share one common variable.But its not worked.

So I decided to use Windows Registry.

So can anyone tell me simple steps in C++ for.

1.Creating new Registry key
2.Setting its value as per requirement
3.Read the updated values when need.
4.Close registry ( i dont know when to use it..if my application is ruunig)

Plz help me..
Waitng for ur great solution.
regards,
Vijay

I will recommend not using registry for sharing data. Have you tried this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h90dkhs0(VS.80).aspx[^].

-Saurabh

Thnax Saurabh,
THanx for replying dud..

but I cant open this site.(RESTRICTED ACCESS).

so If u know
plz tel me.
or
suggest any other option,

Regards,
Vijay

You are restricted from using MSDN? How is a developer supposed to get anything done without access to a toolbox? Do you have MSDN on CD/DVD?

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Member 3220373 wrote:
I m working on a project which have two application which uses
one common DLL.and I wanted to share one common variable.But its not worked.

In fact, you can make it working, see [^].

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i want to display icon/bitmap and some text in front of that icon or bitmap in a list box. how can i do this?
for ex
BITMAP1 "SOMETEXT"
BITMAP2 "SOMETEXT"

thanks in advance.

There's the List-View [^] control for that.
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Hi,
I am new to XML. I need a sample application that would create an XML , add elements to XML,delete elements from XML, Parse the XML using VC++6.0

Thanks

See, for instance [^], or [^].

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Hi, I found this code on the MSDN website for detecting UPnP devices asynchronously but the problem is it only detects devices that are present on the network when the program starts. It doesn't detect devices that have been added later or removed. Please help!!

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa382290(VS.85).aspx[^]

This program display an AVI file and its bitmqps file, but for specially file not for all size,for exemple it's for AVI file wich has a width= 48 and lenght=80
so the size is 48x80x3= 117Ko, so if we change the size it can't work.
please how to change this program for read all size for AVI file?

// Get pointers to the info structure & the bits
pointer = (BYTE *) prifffile ; the pointer here is static I think we must change into dynamic for read all size

//sstring[0] = * (pointer+4095);
pointer = pointer + 4096+11; // here we can change the color of bitmap background

hdc = BeginPaint (hwnd, &ps) ;

//draw a frame

for(i=0;i<48;i++)
for(j=0;j<80;j++)
if((0.299*(*(pointer+2+i*80*3+j*3))+0.587*(*(pointer+1+i*80*3+j*3))+0.114*(*(pointer +i*80*3+j*3)))<100)
SetPixel(hdc,j+50,i+50,RGB(255,0,0));

//draw 5 frames parally

for(m=0;m<5;m++){// this is a movie
for(i=0;i<48;i++)
for(j=0;j<80;j++)
SetPixel(hdc,j+100*m+50,i+150,RGB(*(pointer+2 + j*3 +(48-i)*80*3),
*(pointer+1 + j*3 +(48-i)*80*3),
*(pointer + j*3 +(48-i)*80*3)));

pointer = pointer + 11520*m+8*m;

}

pointer = (BYTE *) prifffile ; //let the pointer to pointer the begining again

pointer = pointer + 4096+11; //let the pointer to point at the bitmap data

//draw several frames to make a animation as movie

for(n=0;n<5;n++){ // repeat 5 times
for(m=0;m<5;m++){// this is a movie
for(i=0;i<48;i++)
for(j=0;j<80;j++)
SetPixel(hdc,j+50,i+250,RGB(*(pointer+2 + j*3 +(48-i)*80*3),
*(pointer+1 + j*3 +(48-i)*80*3),
*(pointer + j*3 +(48-i)*80*3)));
pointer = pointer + 11520*m+8*m;
Sleep(300); // set a time interval to make the movie natural

}
pointer = (BYTE *) prifffile ; //let the pointer to pointer the begining again

pointer = pointer + 4096+11; //let the pointer to point at the bitmap data

} // repeat 10 times

EndPaint (hwnd, &ps) ;

// show a dialogbox to tell you that the testing ends
MessageBox(hwnd,TEXT("displaying ends/ÑÝÊ¾½áÊø"),sstring,0);

return 0 ;

================================================================================================================================================

||Program||
-------
/*----------------------------------------------
SHOWDIB1.C -- Shows a DIB in the client area
(c) Charles Petzold, 1998
----------------------------------------------*/

#include <windows.h>
#include <aviriff.h>
#include <iostream.h>
#include "dibfile.h"
#include "resource.h"

LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc (HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM) ;

TCHAR szAppName[] = TEXT ("ShowDib1") ;

int WINAPI WinMain (HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
PSTR szCmdLine, int iCmdShow)
{
HACCEL hAccel ;
HWND hwnd ;
MSG msg ;
WNDCLASS wndclass ;

wndclass.style = CS_HREDRAW | CS_VREDRAW ;
wndclass.lpfnWndProc = WndProc ;
wndclass.cbClsExtra = 0 ;
wndclass.cbWndExtra = 0 ;
wndclass.hInstance = hInstance ;
wndclass.hIcon = LoadIcon (NULL, IDI_APPLICATION) ;
wndclass.hCursor = LoadCursor (NULL, IDC_ARROW) ;
wndclass.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH) GetStockObject (WHITE_BRUSH) ;
wndclass.lpszMenuName = szAppName ;
wndclass.lpszClassName = szAppName ;

if (!RegisterClass (&wndclass))
{
MessageBox (NULL, TEXT ("This program requires Windows NT!"),
szAppName, MB_ICONERROR) ;
return 0 ;
}

hwnd = CreateWindow (szAppName, TEXT ("display an avi picture and an avi movie"),
WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW,
CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT,
CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT,
NULL, NULL, hInstance, NULL) ;

ShowWindow (hwnd, iCmdShow) ;
UpdateWindow (hwnd) ;

hAccel = LoadAccelerators (hInstance, szAppName) ;

while (GetMessage (&msg, NULL, 0, 0))
{
if (!TranslateAccelerator (hwnd, hAccel, &msg))
{
TranslateMessage (&msg) ;
DispatchMessage (&msg) ;
}
}
return msg.wParam ;
}

LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc (HWND hwnd, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
////////////////////////////////////
static BITMAPINFO * pbmi ;
static BYTE * pBits ;
////////////////////////////////////
static RIFFLIST * prifffile ;
static AVIMAINHEADER * pavimh;
static AVISTREAMHEADER * pavish ;
static BYTE * pointer ;
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
static int cxClient, cyClient, cxDib, cyDib ;
static TCHAR szFileName [MAX_PATH], szTitleName [MAX_PATH] ;
BOOL bSuccess ;
HDC hdc ;
PAINTSTRUCT ps ;
int i,j,m,n;

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// RIFF is the first 4 letters of a riff file. avi file is a riff file
static TCHAR sstring[] = {'R','I','F','F','\0'};
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

switch (message)
{
case WM_CREATE:
DibFileInitialize (hwnd) ;
return 0 ;

case WM_SIZE:
cxClient = LOWORD (lParam) ;
cyClient = HIWORD (lParam) ;
return 0 ;

case WM_INITMENUPOPUP:
EnableMenuItem ((HMENU) wParam, IDM_FILE_SAVE,
prifffile ? MF_ENABLED : MF_GRAYED) ;
return 0 ;

case WM_COMMAND:
switch (LOWORD (wParam))
{
case IDM_FILE_OPEN:
// Show the File Open dialog box

if (!DibFileOpenDlg (hwnd, szFileName, szTitleName))
return 0 ;

// If there's an existing DIB, free the memory

MessageBox(hwnd,szFileName,TEXT("The name of the file you have opened is"),0);

if (prifffile)
{
free (prifffile) ;
prifffile = NULL ;
}
// Load the entire DIB into memory

SetCursor (LoadCursor (NULL, IDC_WAIT)) ;
ShowCursor (TRUE) ;

prifffile = DibLoadImage(szFileName) ;

ShowCursor (FALSE) ;
SetCursor (LoadCursor (NULL, IDC_ARROW)) ;

// Invalidate the client area for later update

InvalidateRect (hwnd, NULL, TRUE) ;

if (prifffile == NULL)
{
MessageBox (hwnd, TEXT ("Cannot load AVI file"),
szAppName, 0) ;
return 0 ;
}

/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ */

// Get pointers to the info structure & the bits
pointer = (BYTE *) prifffile ;

//sstring[0] = * (pointer+4095);
pointer = pointer + 4096; // here we can change the color of bitmap background

hdc = BeginPaint (hwnd, &ps) ;
//draw a frame
//»Ò»Ö¡
for(i=0;i<48;i++)
for(j=0;j<80;j++)
if((0.299*(*(pointer+2+i*80*3+j*3))+0.587*(*(pointer+1+i*80*3+j*3))+0.114*(*(pointer +i*80*3+j*3)))<100)
SetPixel(hdc,j+50,i+50,RGB(255,0,0));

//draw 5 frames parally
for(m=0;m<5;m++){// this is a movie
for(i=0;i<48;i++) //»Ò»Ö¡
for(j=0;j<80;j++)
SetPixel(hdc,j+100*m+50,i+150,RGB(*(pointer+2 + j*3 +(48-i)*80*3),
*(pointer+1 + j*3 +(48-i)*80*3),
*(pointer + j*3 +(48-i)*80*3)));
pointer = pointer + 11520*m+8*m;

}

pointer = (BYTE *) prifffile ; //let the pointer to pointer the begining again

pointer = pointer + 4096+11; //let the pointer to point at the bitmap data

//draw several frames to make a animation as movie

for(n=0;n<5;n++){ // repeat 10 times
for(m=0;m<5;m++){// this is a movie
for(i=0;i<48;i++)
for(j=0;j<80;j++)
SetPixel(hdc,j+50,i+250,RGB(*(pointer+2 + j*3 +(48-i)*80*3),
*(pointer+1 + j*3 +(48-i)*80*3),
*(pointer + j*3 +(48-i)*80*3)));
pointer = pointer + 11520*m+8*m;
Sleep(300); // set a time interval to make the movie natural

}
pointer = (BYTE *) prifffile ; //let the pointer to pointer the begining again

pointer = pointer + 4096+11; //let the pointer to point at the bitmap data

} // repeat 10 times

EndPaint (hwnd, &ps) ;

// show a dialogbox to tell you that the testing ends
MessageBox(hwnd,TEXT("displaying ends/ÑÝÊ¾½áÊø"),sstring,0);

return 0 ;

case IDM_FILE_SAVE:
// Show the File Save dialog box

if (!DibFileSaveDlg (hwnd, szFileName, szTitleName))
return 0 ;

// Save the DIB to memory

SetCursor (LoadCursor (NULL, IDC_WAIT)) ;
ShowCursor (TRUE) ;

bSuccess = DibSaveImage (szFileName, prifffile) ;

ShowCursor (FALSE) ;
SetCursor (LoadCursor (NULL, IDC_ARROW)) ;

if (!bSuccess)
MessageBox (hwnd, TEXT ("Cannot save AVI file"),
szAppName, 0) ;
return 0 ;
}
break ;

case WM_PAINT:
hdc = BeginPaint (hwnd, &ps) ;
/*if (pbmi)
SetDIBitsToDevice (hdc,
50, // xDst
100, // yDst
cxDib, // cxSrc
cyDib, // cySrc
0, // xSrc
0, // ySrc
0, // first scan line
cyDib, // number of scan lines
pBits,
pbmi,
DIB_RGB_COLORS) ; */
EndPaint (hwnd, &ps) ;
return 0 ;

case WM_DESTROY:

/*if (pointer)
free (pointer);
if (prifffile)
free (prifffile);
if (pavish)
free (pavish);
if (pbmi)
free (pbmi) ;
if (pavimh)
free (pavimh) ;
if(pBits)
free (pBits);
*/
PostQuitMessage (0) ;
return 0 ;
}
return DefWindowProc (hwnd, message, wParam, lParam) ;
}

Hi,

I try to use SetDllDirectory call, but fail to compile.
Platform = WinXP SP2 ; VS2005 SP1

#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0502
#include "windows.h"
<...>
SetDllDirectory(NULL);

results in error C3861: 'SetDllDirectory': identifier not found

When I literally copy the defs from winbase.h like this :

#include "windows.h" // ( for SetDllDirectory call )
WINBASEAPI
BOOL
WINAPI
SetDllDirectoryA(
__in_opt LPCSTR lpPathName
);
#define SetDllDirectory SetDllDirectoryA

it compiles ok, but results in an unresolved external
error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) int __stdcall SetDllDirectoryA(char const *)"

However, I do add kernel32.lib to the linker input.

How should I use this api then ?
Thanks in advance

Linde

Possibly you need an updated Platform SDK.
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No, I don't think so. The libs in the VC directory are more recent than the ones I find in the latest SDK update ( = from 2004 ! )