Embedding WebBrowser in Desktop Application

An embedded browser for the UI layer will enable Web browser functionality like JavaScript/Html rendering, Browsing capabilities (Back, Forward, Navigate) in Desktop Application without leaving the application. This desktop application will still be able to access Local FileSystem, Network resources, Windows registry entries ….

Browser Layout Engines

Trident (Internet Explorer)

Gecko (Mozilla Firefox)

WebKit (Safari, Chrome)

ref:

Internet Explorer development –

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa902517.aspx

Web Browser Control –

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752040(VS.85).aspx

http://www.informit.com/library/content.aspx?b=Visual_C_PlusPlus&seqNum=115

Web Browser Control & C++ -

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752042(VS.85).aspx

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/DesktopWidget.aspx

Web Browser Customization –

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa770041(VS.85).aspx

Mozilla ActiveX Control (which is similar to IE WebBrowser Control) -

http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/control.htm

Embedding Web Browser in Desktop App -

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/835201/what-embedded-browser-for-c-project

Javascript Madness: Layout Engines –

http://unixpapa.com/js/gecko.html

Using an embedded browser as part of a desktop application -

http://www.simple-dynamics.com/case-study/case-study-embedded-browser.php

Accessing WebKit Browser Control in your Desktop Application -

http://shelastyle.net/blog/webkit-vs-ie-browser-control-in-c/

Embedding Flash Player in your C++/Java App -

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/214411/embedding-flash-player-in-a-c-or-java-application

Embed Flash in your Desktop Application -

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/FlashGui.aspx

Windows Development(Analysis, Debug ...) Tools

1 Sysinternals Suite

The entire set of Sysinternals Utilities rolled up into a single download. This suite is useful while analyzing (or) debugging Windows Programs.

2 Debugging Tools for Windows - http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/DevTools/Debugging/default.mspx

You can use Debugging Tools for Windows to debug drivers, applications, and services on systems that are running Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, or Windows 7. You can also use Debugging Tools for Windows to debug the operating system itself. Versions of the Debugging Tools for Windows package are available for 32-bit x86, native Intel Itanium, and native x64 platform

3 Process Monitor

Monitor file system, Registry, process, thread and DLL activity in real-time.

4 Process Explorer

Find out what files, registry keys and other objects processes have open, which DLLs they have loaded, and more. This uniquely powerful utility will even show you who owns each process.

a. Handle - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896655.aspx

Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out.Handle is a utility that displays information about open handles for any process in the system. You can use it to see the programs that have a file open, or to see the object types and names of all the handles of a program.

b. Registry Scanner - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/regscanner.html

RegScanner is a small utility that allows you to scan the Registry, find the desired Registry values that match to the specified search criteria, and display them in one list. After finding the Registry values, you can easily jump to the right value in RegEdit, simply by double-clicking the desired Registry item. You can also export the found Registry values into a .reg file that can be used in RegEdit.

c. IE Cookies Viewer - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iecookies.html

d. Flash Cookies Viewer - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/flash_cookies_view.html

e. Shell Extensions Viewer -http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

f. URL Protocol Viewer - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/url_protocol_view.html

g. Application Crash View (points to the faulty module) - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/app_crash_view.html

h. WhatInStartup : Enable/Disable/Delete the programs that run at Windows Startup -

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/what_run_in_startup.html

i. BlueScreen Viewer - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html

j. List of tools from Nir Sofer -

http://www.nirsoft.net/

http://www.snapfiles.com/publishers/nir-sofer/index.html

5 Total UnInstall - http://www.martau.com/uninstaller-download.php

Total Uninstall helps you monitor any changes that are made to your system during installation of a new software product allowing you to perform a complete uninstall without having to rely on the supplied uninstall program (which may leave files or changes behind).It gives the snapshot of what files & registry entries changed because of the installation of the Software.

6. Resource Hacking Tools -

a. Resource Hacker –

Resource Hacker is a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit/64bit Windows executables and resource files (*.res). It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler and works on Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP operating systems.

http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/

b. Resource Editor –

Resource Editor is a free, powerful, fully featured resource editor and PE module explorer for Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows XP

http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/d10resourceeditor.htm

c. Manifest View (kenn Kerr)

View the Manifest of a Exe/Dll file

http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/kennykerr/ManifestView.zip

http://weblogs.asp.net/kennykerr/archive/2007/07/10/manifest-view-1-0.aspx

7 AnVir TaskManager - http://www.anvir.com/

AnVir Task Manager offers users a one-stop shop for managing your system's running processes and applications

8 CFF Explorer - http://www.ntcore.com/exsuite.php

A freeware suite of tools including a PE editor called CFF Explorer and a process viewer

9 Wireshark - http://www.wireshark.org/download.html

Network Protocol Analyzer, formerly called Etherea

10 ListDLLs

List all the DLLs that are currently loaded, including where they are loaded and their version numbers. Version 2.0 prints the full path names of loaded modules.

11 DebugView

Another first from Sysinternals: This program intercepts calls made to DbgPrint by device drivers and OutputDebugString made by Win32 programs. It allows for viewing and recording of debug session output on your local machine or across the Internet without an active debugger.

12 Sigcheck

Dump file version information and verify that images on your system are digitally signed.

13 PortMon

Monitor serial and parallel port activity with this advanced monitoring tool. It knows about all standard serial and parallel IOCTLs and even shows you a portion of the data being sent and received. Version 3.x has powerful new UI enhancements and advanced filtering capabilities.

14 TCPView

Active socket command-line viewer.

15 Strings

Search for ANSI and UNICODE strings in binaryimages.

16 Autoruns

See what programs are configured to startup automatically when your system boots and you login. Autoruns also shows you the full list of Registry and file locations where applications can configure auto-start settings.

17 RegShot - http://sourceforge.net/projects/regshot/

Regshot is an open-source(GPL) registry compare utility that allows you to quickly take a snapshot of your registry and then compare it with a second one - done after doing system changes or installing a new software product.

18 AdExplorer

Active Directory Explorer is an advanced Active Directory (AD) viewer and editor.

19 AdInsight

An LDAP (Light-weight Directory Access Protocol) real-time monitoring tool aimed at troubleshooting Active Directory client applications.

20 Miscellaneous

a. OpenSource Windows Tools - http://www.opensourcewindows.org/

b. FileZilla - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/

Free FTP Program

c. 7-Zip – http://www.7-zip.org/

A file archiver with a high compression ratio.

d. GIMP - http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html

Photo editing application that rivals Photoshop in features

OpenSource Project's Source Code Respositories

1. K-Meleon Browser Source Code (C++) - http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmeleon/develop

K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser based on the Gecko layout engine developed by Mozilla which is also used by Firefox. K-Meleon isfree, open source software released under the GNU General Public License and is designed specifically for Microsoft Windows (Win32) operating system

2. Amaya Editor/Browser Source Code (C++) - http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/SourceDist.html

Amaya is a Web editor, i.e. a tool used to create and update documents directly on the Web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment. This follows the original vision of the Web as a space for collaboration and not just a one-way publishing medium.

3. Shareaza (C++) - http://sourceforge.net/projects/shareaza/develop

Shareaza is a multi-network peer-to-peer ( P2P ) file-sharing client supporting Gnutella2, Gnutella, eDonkey2000 ( eMule ), HTTP, FTP and BitTorrent protocols. Using C++, MFC and ATL, for Windows.

4. PAW - Pro Active Webfilte(Java) - http://sourceforge.net/projects/paw-project/develop

AW (pro-active webfilter) is an Open-Source filtering HTTP proxy based on the Brazil Framework provided as a Open-Source Project by SUN. Because the Brazil Framework and PAW are written in Java the software is highly portable.

5. ClamWin AntiVirus(C++) - http://sourceforge.net/projects/clamwin/develop

Free Antivirus for Windows. Includes virus scanner, scheduler, virus database updates, context menu integration to MS Windows Explorer and Addin to MS Outlook. Also features easy setup program. Uses a well respected ClamAV scanning engine.

6. OpenAV(C#) - http://sourceforge.net/projects/openav/develop

OpanAV want to build a valid alternative to the commercial products and is based on existing ClamAV and on ClamWinRT technology

7. OpenFirewall(C#) - http://sourceforge.net/projects/openfirewall/develop

OpenFirewall is based on two lines of defence first WIPFW ( Kernel-mode driver ) and second tdifw ( application-mode TDI-driver ) . Is a Windows firewall easy to use like the commercial products

8. StoneWall -http://sourceforge.net/projects/stonewall/develop

This project is fusion of OpenFirewall and OpenAV, so is a complete security system ( firewall protection from tdifw and wipfw project and anivirus from ClamWinRT and ClamAV project ) with OpenUpdate integration

9. tdi_fw( C ) - http://sourceforge.net/projects/tdifw/develop

Simple TDI-Based Open Source Personal Firewall for Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003

10. Winpooch Watchdog( C ) - http://sourceforge.net/

projects/winpooch/develop

Winpooch is a watchdog for Windows (2000, XP, 2003, but only 32-bits). It detects modifications in your system, so as to detect a trojan or a spyware installation. It also includes a real-time anti-virus

11. Spyware Blocke(C++) - http://sourceforge.net/projects/spyware-blocker/

Open Source spyware remover/detection application for windows.

12. Polipo - A caching Web Proxy - http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/

Polipo is a small and fast caching web proxy. It is typically used as a web proxy for a single computer or a small network. Because it has primitive filtering capabilities, Polipo can be used in place of ad-filtering, privacy-enhancing proxies such as Junkbuster, Privoxy or WWWOFFLE. As Polipo has much more refined HTTP support, it doesn't impose the speed tax usually associated with such proxy.

13. Squid - A caching Web Proxy - http://www.squid-cache.org/

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. It runs on most available operating systems, including Windows and is licensed under the GNU GPL.

14. Privoxy – A non caching Web Proxy - http://www.privoxy.org/

Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. It has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user network

15. Open Source Firewall Projects - http://osswin.sourceforge.net/#firewall

16. Automatic Software Update - http://sourceforge.net/projects/asu-service/

Aim of the project is to make a robust framework for software updating. From driver updates to desktop applications we want you to update it all.Framework will allow asu plugins to be made and devs to run own servers to update docs/media and others

17. Brute Force Grid - http://sourceforge.net/projects/bruteforcegrid/

Brute Force Grid is a Process sharing framework on Peer to Peer overlay network. To demonstrate the application we have used the brute force attack to the hashes by hashing algorithms. License : GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3)

18. HTTP Traffic Generator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/trafficgenie/

This is a HTTP traffic generator for load testing web applications. It is very simple and fast and can simulate client activity on multiple servers at the same time. Supports almost all http methods such as GET, POST, HEAD

19. Linux layer 7 packet classifier - http://sourceforge.net/projects/l7-filter/

l7-filter classifies packets based on patterns in application layer data. This allows correct classification of P2P traffic that uses unpredictable ports as well as standard protocols running on non-standard ports.