What Made that App?

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How can you tell what language an application was developed in? I am specifically referring to Windows-based apps here. For example, what languages were:

Acrobat Reader 4.0
Netscape Communicator
The AllAdvantage Viewbar
Winzip
RealPlayer
etc.

written in, VB or something else?

Thanks.

[XxEvilxX]

all the ones you named where made in c++

[Dinesh_MS]

The Best way is to use a process Spy you can use one of your own using the CreateToolhelp32Snapshot APi or a third party tool like Process Viewer to get a list of the modules the program uses and determine it as VB if it uses VBruntime DLLs or as VC if it uses VC runtime Dlls and programs made with Delphi can easily be identified beacuse of their different UI then others and it also has somewhere within the Executable file the words Copyright Borland.

i hope that solves your problem.

i think this method is best then looking for class names
anyway delphi classnames always start with a T like TForm

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Serge and Dinesh,

Thanks for the information. You've answered my question. I'll run your code snippet, Serge, because I don't have Spy++.

I really appreciate the assistance.

Chris