Delphi on Remko's Blog

RAD Studio Tokyo 10.2(.2) Data Collection

Mon, 18 Dec 2017 12:10:51 +0000

Just a very quick note: I was just installing RAD Studio 10.2.2 when I noticed the installer has an Options button:

So I clicked it to see what options are available and noticed that the "Embarcadero Customer Experience Program" is opted-in by default:

Get Process Id of a running Service

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:20:40 +0000

Sometimes you need to know the Process Id (PID) of a running service. Since Windows 2003 you can use the tasklist.exe tool with the /SVC switch. But how to do this programmatically?

The QueryServiceStatusEx API returns a SERVICE_STATUS_PROCESS structure that contains the PID.

Citrix Launcher Progress Update 1

Thu, 17 May 2012 23:19:12 +0000

After figuring out how to encode and decode the Citrix passwords my next step for the upcoming Citrix Launcher is experiment with config.xml and authenticating to the Citrix Web Interface.

I imported the NFuse.dtd from the Citrix Web Interface into Delphi with the XML Data Binding Wizard. The results in an NFuse Unit so I can easily create the XML data.

To create an authentication packet I use the following code:

GetUserObjectInformation fails with Access Denied

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:11:01 +0000

Today I was reusing some old (pre vista) code the retrieves the Logon SID that I wrote a few years ago. The Logon SID is a special SID that identifies a logon session that has the form S-1-5-5-X-Y.

You can view your Logon SID with Process Explorer, right click a GUI process, select Properties and goto the Security Tab:

Delphi TSaveDialog doesn’t work on Windows PE

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:03:07 +0000

In my SATA Controller Identification tool I was using the TSaveDialog (Delphi 2010) but I got a report that under Windows PE the dialog is never shown.

There’s no exception and I didn’t really bother to check why it fails. Instead I decided to replace it with the GetSaveFileName API which does work under Windows PE.