Code to close Current application

//Code to close Current application

AfxGetMainWnd()->PostMessage(WM_CLOSE);

Program to create shortcut programatically

int createshotcut(CString csShorcutFile,CString csSourceFile,CString csWorkingDirectory,CString Comments )
{
     CoInitialize( NULL );
     
     IShellLink* psl;
     
     // Get a pointer to the IShellLink interface.
     
     HRESULT hres = CoCreateInstance(CLSID_ShellLink, NULL, CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,
          
          IID_IShellLink, (PVOID *) &psl);
     
     if (SUCCEEDED(hres))
          
     {
          
          IPersistFile* ppf;
          
          // Set the path to the shortcut target and add the
          
          // description.
          
          psl->SetPath((LPCSTR) csSourceFile);
          
          psl->SetWorkingDirectory((LPCSTR)csWorkingDirectory);
          
          psl->SetDescription((LPCSTR) Comments );
          
          hres = psl->QueryInterface(IID_IPersistFile, (PVOID *) &ppf);
          
          if (SUCCEEDED(hres))
               
          {
               
               WORD wsz[MAX_PATH];
               
               MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, (LPCSTR) csShorcutFile, -1, wsz, MAX_PATH);
               
               hres = ppf->Save(wsz, TRUE);
               
               ppf->Release();
               
          }
          
          psl->Release();
          
     }
     
     CoUninitialize();

     return 1;
}


Example:
     createshotcut("c:\\mydairy.lnk","d:\\files\\secret.txt","d:\\","My Notepad Shortcut"); 

Folder Select Dialog in MFC

BROWSEINFO bi; 
ZeroMemory(&bi, sizeof(bi)); 
TCHAR szDisplayName[MAX_PATH]; 
szDisplayName[0] = ' '; 

bi.hwndOwner = NULL; 
bi.pidlRoot = NULL; 
bi.pszDisplayName = szDisplayName; 
bi.lpszTitle = _T("Please select a folder:"); 
bi.ulFlags = BIF_RETURNONLYFSDIRS; 
bi.lParam = NULL; 
bi.iImage = 0; 

LPITEMIDLIST pidl = SHBrowseForFolder(&bi); 
TCHAR szPathName[MAX_PATH]; 
if (NULL != pidl) 
{ 
BOOL bRet = SHGetPathFromIDList(pidl,szPathName); 
if(bRet)
{
   AfxMessageBox(szPathName); 
}

} 

Code to Create a file, If file exist already append a GUID with that file and write the content




#pragma comment (lib, "Rpcrt4.lib")

CString GetUniqueGUID( )
{
HRESULT hr = NULL;
CString sUUID(_T(""));
UUID *pUUID = NULL;
BOOL bAllocated = FALSE;
unsigned char *sTemp = NULL;

if (pUUID == NULL)
{
pUUID = new UUID;
bAllocated = TRUE;
}

if (pUUID != NULL)
{
hr = UuidCreate( pUUID );
if (hr == RPC_S_OK)
{
hr = UuidToString(pUUID, &sTemp);
if (hr == RPC_S_OK)
{
sUUID = sTemp;
sUUID.MakeUpper();
RpcStringFree(&sTemp);
}
}
if (bAllocated)
{
delete pUUID;
pUUID = NULL;
}
}
return sUUID;
}


void CreateFileWithoutReplacingExisting(CString & csFileName , CString & csContent )
{

CFileStatus cf;
if(CFile::GetStatus(csFileName,cf)) // File Exist 
{
    CString csExt ;
    CString csGUID=GetUniqueGUID();
    csGUID = "_"+csGUID;
    int nPos = csFileName.ReverseFind('.');
    if(nPos > -1 )
    {
         csExt = csFileName.Mid(nPos);
         csFileName = csFileName.Left(nPos);
         csFileName = csFileName+csGUID+"."+csExt;
    }
}
    CreateFile(csFileName,csContent);

}


int CreateFile(LPCTSTR lpcFileName, LPCTSTR lpcText)
{
    if( !lpcFileName || lpcFileName[0]=='\0' )
    {
         return -1;
    }
    if(!lpcText || lpcText[0]=='\0') return -1;   

    CFile cf;
    CFileException cfe;

    try
    {
         if(!cf.Open(lpcFileName,CFile::modeCreate|CFile::modeWrite|CFile::shareDenyWrite, &cfe))
         {
              return 0;
         }
       
         cf.Write(lpcText, lstrlen(lpcText) );
         cf.Close();
    }
    catch(CFileException *ce)
    {
         ce->Delete();
         cf.Close();        
         return -1;
    }   
    return 1;
}

IGlobalInterfaceTable alternate for marshalling in multithreaded enviroment




     typedef CComQIPtr<IWebBrowser2,&IID_IWebBrowser2> IWebBrowserQIPtr;    
     CComPtr<IDispatch> spBrowserPointer ;    
     IWebBrowserQIPtr pBrowserPtr;
     HRESULT hres = S_OK;
     DWORD dwCookie = 0;
     //Create the GIT
     IGlobalInterfaceTable* pGlobalInterfaceTable = NULL;
     hres = ::CoCreateInstance(CLSID_StdGlobalInterfaceTable,NULL,CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,IID_IGlobalInterfaceTable,(void**)&pGlobalInterfaceTable);
     //Register the interface in the GIT
     hres = pGlobalInterfaceTable ->RegisterInterfaceInGlobal(pBrowserPtr,IID_IWebBrowser2,&dwCookie);
    
     //this can be used in were ever we unmarshall and use.
     //hres =pGlobalInterfaceTable->GetInterfaceFromGlobal(dwCookie,IID_IWebBrowser2,(void**)&pWebBrowserPtr);
    
     //this should be called after using and remove the entry from table 
     //pGlobalInterfaceTable->RevokeInterfaceFromGlobal(dwCookie);
     pGlobalInterfaceTable->Release( );//Don't need the GIT

Download a web page into a file

     HRESULT hr;
     CString csWebsiteName,csFileName;
     csWebsiteName="http://google.com";
     csFileName="c:\\google.htm";
     hr = URLDownloadToFile( NULL ,csWebsiteName  ,csFileName , 0 ,NULL ); 

MFC code to execute a command exe and read the output

CString ReadReturnValueOfCmdFile(CString csExeName, CString csArguments)
{
   CString csExecute;
   csExecute=csExeName + " " + csArguments;
  
   SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secattr;
   ZeroMemory(&secattr,sizeof(secattr));
   secattr.nLength = sizeof(secattr);
   secattr.bInheritHandle = TRUE;

   HANDLE rPipe, wPipe;

   //Create pipes to write and read data

   CreatePipe(&rPipe,&wPipe,&secattr,0);
   //

   STARTUPINFO sInfo;
   ZeroMemory(&sInfo,sizeof(sInfo));
   PROCESS_INFORMATION pInfo;
   ZeroMemory(&pInfo,sizeof(pInfo));
   sInfo.cb=sizeof(sInfo);
   sInfo.dwFlags=STARTF_USESTDHANDLES;
   sInfo.hStdInput=NULL;
   sInfo.hStdOutput=wPipe;
   sInfo.hStdError=wPipe;
   char command[1024]; strcpy(command, 
           csExecute.GetBuffer(csExecute.GetLength()));

   //Create the process here.

   CreateProcess(0, command,0,0,TRUE,
           NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS|CREATE_NO_WINDOW,0,0,&sInfo,&pInfo);
   CloseHandle(wPipe);

   //now read the output pipe here.

   char buf[100];
   DWORD reDword;
   CString m_csOutput,csTemp;
   BOOL res;
   do
   {
                   res=::ReadFile(rPipe,buf,100,&reDword,0);
                   csTemp=buf;
                   m_csOutput+=csTemp.Left(reDword);
   }while(res);
   return m_csOutput;
}