The crash happens as a result of requesting a non-existent API via GetProcAddress, the API is GetThreadPreferredUILanguages. GetProcAddress returns 0xFFBADD11 (a known issue with windows XP where GetProcAddress returns NON-NULL) which means LDRP_BAD_DLL. To fix this issue override CWinApp::LoadAppLangResourceDLL and prevent loading of the lang dll or set the WINVER macro to target XP builds […]
Continue reading…
Posts tagged with 'GetProcAddress'
WinAPI Wrapper for GetOpenFileName
Shell32.dll provides an undocumented API that wraps around a call to GetOpenFileName called GetFileNameFromBrowse we’ll have to get the call pointer using GetProcAddress, quite easy to use! 😉 Well I can see the documentation in MSDN but can’t find the prototype in any of the header file in my SDK folder, so till then GetProcAddress is […]
Continue reading…
Share this:
Showing “Select Computer” dialog, with all network computers listed out!
Ever seen that “Select Computer” dialog coming up and did you wonder how to have all those computer names without writing much code. There is an undocumented exported api in “ntlanman.dll” called ServerBrowseDialogA0 which is used exactly for this purpose. [sourcecode language=’cpp’]int main() { // Some funky stuff    HMODULE hMod = LoadLibrary( “Kernel32.dll” );    […]
Continue reading…
