Have you ever struggled with hosting your own DLLs as Windows services using svchost.exe? Many developers face challenges due to the undocumented and restrictive nature of svchost.exe. That’s where SvcHostify comes in—a lightweight, open-source tool designed to make ho … Continue reading Introducing SvcHostify: Simplify Hosting Custom DLL Services
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Windows String Representations and Simple Conversions via __bstr_t
The Windows NT kernel (from WinNT to Windows 11) internally uses UTF-16 strings by default, including Windows Drivers, Native Applications and COM clients and servers, etc. All other common encodings like UTF-8, GBK, GB18030, BIG-5 should always be converted to UTF-16 befor … Continue reading Windows String Representations and Simple Conversions via __bstr_t