At ENLYZE we need to deal with operating systems from the last century on customer machines everyday. No matter whether it’s something “simple” like Windows 2000 running on an operator touch panel (“HMI”) or something peculiar like QNX 4 controlling a production machine: If they handle …
After the ENLYZE PortSniffer in 2020, I’m glad to announce that another tool I developed at ENLYZE has just been released as open-source.
The ENLYZE S7-Project-Explorer is a Windows application to explore Siemens STEP 7 projects and export a complete PLC variable list as a CSV table. This solves our recurring …
Our method to build software compatible down to Windows 2000 using Visual Studio 2017 served us well for several months. And trust me, I had really hoped that Windows 2000 would be as low as we ever had to go. But the world of industrial manufacturing surprises you every day. So at some point, we inevitably stumbled …
In my previous blog series, I have shown how to write Win32 applications in 2020 using the amenities that modern C++ brings. Writing an application in 2020 doesn’t mean that we have to forget about 2000 though: The unrivaled compatibility of the Win32 API makes it possible to run your modern application even on …
User interfaces in 2020 need to consider many more details than those of previous generations. One of the biggest changes of the last decade is certainly the introduction of HiDPI displays, displays with much higher resolutions together with software using more pixels per GUI element. Win32 with its pixel-based …
We are now going to get into the nitty-gritty details of Win32 and how modern C++ can help us here: Pointers that free themselves, Universal C++ containers, String resources without regrets, Mastering the handle mess, Gracefully failing constructors, The only 
WndProc you’ll ever need, …
The ReactOS Build Environment (RosBE), our curated set of compilers and build tools, has just received a major upgrade.
After more than 7 years of using the same and now ancient GCC 4.7.2, ReactOS is finally going to be built with the help of a modern compiler (GCC 8.4.0). Among other things, the new version better …