DSiWin32 1.51

It’s been some time since I’ve last updated my open source units… For example, DSiWin32, a collection of Win32 API helpers, was last updated in August 2008! Bad me!

Time to do some housecleaning, then. Let’s see what’s new in DSiWin32 1.51.

There are new dynamic forwarders: DSiWow64DisableWow64FsRedirection, DSiWow64RevertWow64FsRedirection, DSiGetTickCount64 and DSiGlobalMemoryStatusEx. They call appropriate API functions if they are available and return error on older Windows systems. [Click on the function name to see the API specification on the MSDN.]

Function DSiGetGlobalMemoryStatus is not much more than a wrapper to the GlobalMemoryStatusEx API and returns information about global memory status (paging, virtual memory etc). Information is returned in a TMemoryStatusEx record, which is also defined in the DSiWin32 unit.

We implemented six new function in the files section. DSiGetNetworkResource converts drive letter (created by mapping network location) back to the network path. DSiDisconnectFromNetworkResource disconnects drive letter from a network resource. [DSiConnectToNetworkResource was included in the previous public version 1.41.] DSiGetSubstDrive maps drive letter (created by using Subst command) to the associated folder and DSiGetSubstPath does similar for a file path that starts with a subst’ed letter. DSiDisableWow64FsRedirection disables file system redirection (mapping from \Windows\System32 to \Windows\SysWOW64 for 32-bit applications on 64-bit systems) for the current thread and DSiRevertWow64FsRedirection reverts this change.

There are also two new install functions. DSiAddApplicationToFirewallExceptionList adds application to the firewall exception list and DSiAddPortToFirewallExceptionList does the same for a TCP/IP port.

DSiGetCurrentThreadHandle and DSiGetCurrentProcessHandle return (true) handles for the current thread and process. [In contrast to GetCurrentThread and GetCurrentProcess APIs which return pseudo handle which cannot be used outside of the current thread/process context.]

DSiGetWindowsVersion was extended to detect Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. DSiGetTrueWindowsVersion was also upgraded to return “Windows Server 2008 or Vista SP1” and “Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2”. It looks like it is not possible to discriminate between those operating systems on the API level :( Record TOSVersionInfoEx was also defined as it was used in the DSiGetWindowsVersion.

'Access' parameter was added to the DSiWriteRegistry methods so that user can request writing to the non-virtualized key when running on 64-bit system (KEY_WOW64_64KEY).

DSiExecuteAndCapture got much deserved workover. Now the caller can be informed of each line outputted by the child process.

Delphi 2009/2010 compatibility was fixed for DSiGetFolderLocation, DSiGetNetworkResource, DSiGetComputerName, DSiGetWindowsFolder, DSiExecuteAndCapture and bugs were fixed in DSiGetTempFileName and DSiGetUserName.

All in all, lots of things were changed and improved. If you’re already using DSiWin32 then this is a good time to upgrade. [And if not, start using it!]