Following my prior post: Recover your XP product key from the registry using C#, I have had many requests to provide the same code in unmanaged C++ - so here goes: // KeyDecoder.h #pragma once #ifndef byte typedef unsigned char byte; #endif // byte class KeyDecoder { public: enum Key { XP, Office10, Office11 }; static int DecodeProductKey(KeyDecoder... key, char* pDecodedKey); protected: static byte* GetRegistryDigitalProductId... key); static char* DecodeProductKey(byte* digitalProductId);...

Maybe this is the external tool that MS forgot to build into VS...? I often find that I need to open a File Explorer window in the folder that contains the file highlighted in the VS Solution Explorer. Manual navigation can be frustrating, and time-consuming. The easy solution is to define an external tool in the VS IDE as follows: Click the Tools/External Tools... menu item. In the External Tools Dialog, click the Add button. In the Title text box add: Explorer, In the Command text box add: explorer.exe,...

Article, add-in installer and source-code at Code Project Article, add-in installer and latest source-code at Businessware x.doc is a Visual Studio (VS) 2005 add-in that provides a means to manage and visualize source-code comment documentation interactively in the IDE. A screen-shot is shown below: Features x.doc provides two windows: The Visualizer window which is the window that provides the rendered XML documentation text using a defined set of XSL templates and a CSS. This window is interactively...