Strting Conversion

[pskyboy]

Does anyone know how to convert a char string ie char Something[] to a byte string used for so many of the windows base services and again vise versa from byte back to char string.


Thanks for the help

Peter

[parksie]

byte = char

What functions are you trying to use? Just pass a pointer to the buffer.

[pskyboy]

Sorry what i ment is i have a char array which is an unsigned char array which is needed by the CryptGetProvParam and this function outputs the keystores to this string and i wanted to put these straight into a list box but the list box won't take the BYTE string (unsigned char) and i think it wants just a standard char string so how can i convert them so i can put the key stores in the list box.

Cheers
Peter

[pskyboy]

This is the error i am getting when i try and pass a pointer to the BYTE string into the listbox.additem.


cannot convert parameter 1 from 'unsigned char *' to 'const char *'

Peter

[parksie]

listbox.additem ??? Are you using MFC?

Either way, the content of pbData is definitely unprintable, and is different depending on the value of dwParam. What are you using for that?

[pskyboy]

im using PP_ENUMCONTAINERS as the value of dwParam this should in theory return the names of the key containers into pbData.

[parksie]

Ok. The data returned is a single string, so you can just assign it straight. However, you need to keep calling CryptGetProvParam to retrieve all the provider names.

(Isn't MSDN a wonderful thing? )