Utility

This page contains several utilities that I’ve written over the years 😉

Most of the utilities / tools are intended for software developers and system administrators. To download one of these tools click on their title.

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VerifyFiles.exe

VerifyFiles is a command line utility to verify the integrity of files and folders using MD5 checksums and / or file version information (exe & dll files).

The tool is used in several large client / server installations to verify if the clients are running an up to date version of the software.

The idea behind „VerifyFiles“ is to compute the MD5 checksums and compare them against those stored in an XML file. The XML can be created by VerifyFiles as well. Just see the command line switches.

VerifyFiles will utilize all CPUs found in the machine it’s running on to verify / enumerate files in a given folder (multi threading). This speeds up things enormously. (Factor 10 on an Intel Core i7 4 core CPU with Hyper Threading.)

VerifyFiles can be used in batch files: If the verification fails, VerifyFiles will return an error code of 1. If the validation succeeds, VerifyFiles will return the error code 0.

The XML file can be created manually or by using the VerifyFiles command line switch -create. You can define optional files and folders or delete rules for out-dated files.

(Downoad here.)

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dumpres.exe

Dumpres is a Win32 command line executable that lists (dumps) all resources contained in a module (exe or dll). Additionally it can dump the resources to binary files.
C++ source code included.

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benchmark.exe

Benchmark is a Win32 command line executable that measures the time another process requires to complete. I used it to measure the performance of command line exports in batch files.
C++ source code included.

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… more to come, page is under construction …