How would one go about finding the parameters of an undocumented Dll function? I have searched all over the internet and have found one way involving decorated functions but I cannot find a way to get those. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! ...
How do you feel about VS making you hunt for a tab that you used just minutes ago when you have a bazillion open tabs? What about constantly dragging tabs around to keep the ones you use close together? Oh, so you think AARGH, too? Then read on. I work on a piece of software with dozens of projects and hundreds of files. It's really ea...
What are the undocumented functions of Flash and Flex? I prefer versions CS3 and Flex 2 above. Is there a way to get the whole list? ...
I want to learn about the nuts-and-bolts of using SSL to secure client/server communication. Is there any documentation, anywhere, regarding how to do this with OpenSSL? The best I've been able to find so far is the source code for stunnel (http://www.stunnel.org/)... To be more precise, I want the client to be able to connect with th...
How can I find out the properties and methods of COM objects returned from some .NET functions, which do not appear to be documented? In the particular example I'm looking at, I'm inserting a picture into Excel using a function like: Set NewPic = ActiveSheet.Pictures.Insert(FileName) (See the SO post on this here.) However, the MSDN...
Has anyone created an iphone app with "undocumented apis" and made it through approval? If so, could you share your processes to the world and any follow-up responses to apple review that may have made your case? all the best. ...
Does anyone know what parameters to pass to dwmapi.dll ordinal #113? (Windows 7) I'm trying to incorporate this method into an application that I'm writing. From what I can tell, this method is responsible for doing the Aero peek thing for windows. If I pass no params to the method it will show the desktop and outlines of all open, non-...
I was curious as to how does one go about finding undocumented APIs in Windows. I know the risks involved in using them but this question is focused towards finding them and not whether to use them or not. ...
I'm attempting to use the undocumented system procedure sp_MSforeachtable. But I need to restrict the affected tables to those that start with "smp" and that are in the "dbo" schema. I was able to find how to find procedures that start with "smp". I simply do: sp_MSforeachtable @command1=' print ''?''', @whereand=' and name like ''smp%...
I was wondering if there are any features in Silverlight 2 or 3 that aren't documented or are hidden very deep in the framework? Stuff that can be very helpful in some cases, but can be a pain to find. Are there any "hidden" gems? I'm thinking about stuff you normaly don't find in tutorials and in demos. For example, finding information...
My question is very similar to this one: iPhone Proximity Sensor. There's clearly some manner of thermometer within the iPhone that's readable by the OS. Has anyone uncovered the super-secret undocumented APIs to read this sensor? ...
Hi All! Is there a way to create a user-mode process from kernel-mode on Windows NT platform (XP-W7)? EDIT: I must install only the driver. This is a specific of the project. ...
I am looking to redirect the standard .Net ConfigurationManager class to another file; entirely. The path is determined at runtime so I can't use configSource or such (this is not a duplicate question - I have looked at the others). I am essentially trying to duplicate what ASP.Net is doing behind the covers. Thus not only my classes sh...
Today I came a cross an article by Eric Lippert where he was trying to clear the myth between the operators precedence and the order of evaluation. At the end there were two code snippets that got me confused, here is the first snippet: int[] arr = {0}; int value = arr[arr[0]++]; Now when I think about the value of the va...
There are a handful of iPhone apps out there doing some behind-the-scenes trickery with undocumented APIs, with effective results. 1) How would I go about getting a listing of undocumented iPhone APIs? 2) Are there third-party off-the-cuff documentation for some of these APIs? ...
I have a source of python program which doesn't have any documentation or comments. I did tried twice to understand it but most of the times I am losing my track, because there are many files. What should be the steps to understand that program fully and quickly. ...
Hi, I'm an iPhone developer, now I'm developing a game and I just found about the iPhone 2.2 being able to reproduce video on a TV Screen trhough MPTVOutWindow class. After googling I've found a lot of blogs with the News, however none of them give any information on the class, what should I do to implement the class in order to displa...
Anyone have a simple way to silence the undocumented UIDevice setOrientation warning? I found this piece of code that silences the undocumented UIPickerView setSoundsEnabled warning. ...
This is meant to be a collection of possible C# compiler errors that are not documented. If you encounter such an error, please post an answer here listing: The error number (CSnnnn) The associated error message If possible, a small snippet of code that will produce the error Example: CS0224: A method with vararg cann...
I found an extension method, GetSiblingItemsAndContainers for TreeViewItems. I cannot, however, find anything about it on msdn. What does this method do? ...