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Asked: 2026-05-13T17:57:49+00:00

I’m going to create a utility with GUI that will run on Windows operating

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I’m going to create a utility with GUI that will run on Windows operating systems.

It should require minimum (or zero!) amount of additional libraries, files or DLLs to run because it will be executed from an installer. Because of this, i don’t want to use .NET for it will require user to install .NET Framework. I know today, most of Windows installed system come with .NET Framework but in my case i cannot be sure.

The utility will…

  • send some data to a web site and
    parse the returning data,
  • collect some hardware info, like MAC address,
    CPU type and make, hard-disk serial
    number

I suppose native Win32 API could be used for all of those above, but instead of hassling with Win32, i’d prefer using a more developer friendly API, or SDK.

Thanks in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Win32 API is the only way, and of course there are standard API – for sending data over the internet, you could use WinInet.lib/dll, to obtain information about the MAC, you could use the GetAdaptersInfo by using Iphlpapi.lib/dll,(here’s a link on how to use it) for the Hard disk serial number you could use GetVolumeInformation by using kernel32.lib/dll. For the CPU Id, you might look into GetSystemInfomation

    Edit: There’s a C++ code, but you can easily derive a wrapper from this site Unfortunately, with WinAPI is not easy, no such thing as RAD with WinAPI but what you gain out of it is lightweight code instead of relying on SDK’s, frameworks and dragging buggy dll’s around with your application.

    Hope this helps,
    Best regards,
    Tom.

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