IniUtil v1.06 A Shareware COM DLL for handling INI files

Welcome to IniUtil, A COM DLL to allow easy access to the Win32 API's which deal with INI files.

IniUtil is a dual interface COM dll which is designed to allow access to reading / writing ini files from COM enabled languages / environments including ASP, Windows Script, JScript, VBScript, VBA, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Borland Delphi etc etc. Although MS recommends usage of the registry over ini files and officially says that the API's are only provided for 16 bit compatibility, many products and people find ini files easier to use, less dangerous and more portable from one machine to another than use of the registry. Due to their widespread use and the lack of COM enabled ways to get at them, IniUtil was born.

The enclosed zip file contains the IniUtil dll and help file.

Shareware Notice

IniUtil is shareware and this trial version is a fully functional evaluation copy. This means that you are free to evaluate IniUtil for up to 30 days. After this period if you are still using IniUtil and/or wish to include it in a project of yours, then you are legally obliged to register IniUtil with the author. Registration will entitle you to comprehensive email support from the author.

RegNet - The Registration Network

You have several options you can use to register through RegNet, including secure online registration. The cost to register IniUtil via RegNet is $25.00

• You can register by phone by calling RegNet at the following numbers:

• You can contact RegNet directly through email at info@reg.net
• You can contact RegNet through snail mail at:

Reg.Net
675 Southpointe Ct Ste 250
Colorado Springs CO 80906

• You can also register through RegNet's easy-to-use online WWW based forms by clicking on the appropriate link below.

Click here to use a secure web page to register IniUtil (if your browser supports it).

Click here to use a non-secure web page to register IniUtil.

Snail Mail

You can register directly with the author via normal post. Note that I cannot directly accept credit cards. If you wish to use a credit card, then you must use the Regnet option above. The cost via snail mail is $20.00. Remember to include your email address in your letter so that I can quickly confirm receipt of your registration. To register directly with me, you can send a cheque (made payable to PJ Naughter), cash or international money order to:

The registration fee is very small and its a great incentive for me to keep improving IniUtil. Once I have received the registration you are entitled to unlimited email support for IniUtil.

Updates

V1.0 (25 November 2001)

• First public release.

V1.01 (27 November 2001)

• Removed dependency of dll on MFC. Now does not require any special dlls to be installed to use!.
• Made a few other tidy up changes to code base also.

V1.02 (16 January 2003)

• Fixed problem registering the dll. It was due to a missing registry script resource in the dll !.

V1.03 (20 March 2003)

• Fixed a bug in ReadString and ReadKeys where the default value is set to an empty string and the value(s) is not present in the ini file. Thanks to Serhiy Pavlov for reporting this problem.

30 April 2003

• Updated documentation to refer to online registration links.

V1.04 (30 July 2003)

• Updated all the functions which return COM SAFEARRAY's to instead return SAFEARRAY's of VARIANT's. This avoids problems which JScript has with VB style arrays.
• Updated code which returns COM errors to make use of MAKE_HRESULT.

V1.05 (25 August 2003)

• Code now does not return an error if get_Sections detects no sections in the ini file
• Code now does not return an error if ReadSection detects no key value pairs in a section

V1.06 (18 July 2006)

• Updated copyright details.
• Updated documentation to use the same style as the web site.
• Code now uses SEVERITY_ERROR define for MAKE_HRESULT calls.
• Updated code to clean compile on VC 2005
• All calls to SysAllocString are now checked for failure.
• All C++ heap allocations via "new" are now checked for failure.