{"id":7302,"date":"2020-05-31T00:10:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T00:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/?p=7302"},"modified":"2020-05-31T00:10:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T00:10:10","slug":"windows-apitparsedteasily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/31\/windows-apitparsedteasily\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows API\\tparsed\\teasily"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I wrote my first API monitor around year 2004 I had a real struggle finding prototypes of Windows API, because there was not that much documentation available at that time. I remember extracting data from various sources, including a classic WIN32.HLP file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As time progressed I got well versed in progressive versions of MSDN\/SDK\/DDK Help file versions decompilation: HLP files with HelpDeco, CHM files hh, hxs with VSHIK (HxComp.exe IIRC), and finally connecting out to the local server on http:\/\/127.0.0.1:47873 to retrieve XML files. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today you just need to download a repo of source files from <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/MicrosoftDocs\/sdk-api\">Github<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within minutes you can get a file like <a href=\"https:\/\/hexacorn.com\/examples\/2020-05-31_apis.7z\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"716\" height=\"211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sdk1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sdk1.png 716w, https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sdk1-300x88.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I wrote my first API monitor around year 2004 I had a real struggle finding prototypes of Windows API, because there was not that much documentation available at that time. I remember extracting data from various sources, including a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/31\/windows-apitparsedteasily\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53,9,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7305,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7302\/revisions\/7305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}