Desaware

Intercept the low-level message stream for any application or the entire system at once. SpyWorks is an ActiveX component collection intended for developers who need a core set of advanced programming tools for Visual Basic 5.0/6.0. SpyWorks exposes the underlying operation of the Windows system that is hidden by Visual Basic, thus allowing developers to take full advantage of all of the capabilities of Windows including API functions, ActiveX Extensions, the Desaware API Class Library and more.

Add a variety of components to your toolbox, while learning the techniques behind them. ActiveX Gallimaufry is a collection of ActiveX components covering a variety of different functionality, from graphics manipulations, the Win32 API, and transparency, to complex concepts such subclassing, and memory management. Each component comes with sample code and extensive documentation enabling you to learn the programming concepts as you explore using the components.

Integrate file property management into your applications. The Desaware File Property Component allows you to read and write file properties that are part of Microsoft Office and other structured storage files, and files located on Windows 2000 NTFS drives. Use it to add properties to your own documents or for searching through files on a drive for certain attributes. Features the ability to read/write properties for MS Office files, other structured storage files, or any file on an NTFS partition.

All of Desaware's .NET components, with full source code. Desaware’s Universal .NET is a comprehensive suite of components for .NET solution providers which also contains the source code for the nine individual products included: SpyWorks Professional; StateCoder; NT Service Toolkit .NET; StorageTools; Event Log Toolkit; OneTimeDownload-5M; LineGraph-5M; INIFileTool-5M and File Property Component. Resources include: State machines, event logging, windows and keyboard hooks, and forty-one individual controls and libraries.

All of Desaware's COM components, with full source code. Desaware’s Universal COM is a comprehensive suite of software components for Visual Basic solution providers which also contains the source code for the nine individual products included: SpyWorks Professional; NT Service Toolkit COM; StorageTools; VersionStamper; Event Log Toolkit; Custom Control Factory; CCF Cursors and File Property Component. Resources include: detection of incompatible DLLs, VBXs and OCXs, Windows services, event logging, windows and keyboard hooks, 51 individual controls and libraries, and more than 1 million lines of code.

View any normal file as a Structured Storage file. StorageTools uses Visual Basic OLE Objects to represent storages and streams, creating a familiar interface for manipulating those elements. Detect whether files are in Structured Storage format or not, and even read any normal file as if it was a Structured Storage file. Includes a number of features specifically for VB developers such as Sequential, Binary, or Random access for reading/writing data.

Detect and manage possible component version incompatibilities on end-user's systems. VersionStamper determines the component dependencies of any project, detects conflicts based on embedded or remote file lists, and performs automatic notification of software updates. It is a complete application distribution solution. It even includes a dependency wizard to help you determine all of the components used by an application and automatically create scripts for verification and remote update.