Last updated 11th May 2006
Most Windows XP utilities are written as snapins, hosted by the Microsoft Management console. You are probably familiar with many of them - the XP Event Viewer, Computer Manager and Service Manager are all MMC snapins. So is SQL Server Enterprise Manager and the IIS configuration application.
Although they are quite easy for people to use, and present a consistent user interface, they have traditionally been tricky to program. The MMC Components and MMC wizard packages for Delphi 2006 make writing snapins a snap!
To install the packages, copy the files into a directory on your library path. The open the MMCExpert100 package and install it.
Once you've installed the packages, a new MMC Expert wizard will be added to the 'Projects' tab in the New Items dialog in Delphi. You can use this wizard to create your MMC snapin projects, and once you've created a snapin project you can use the data object at design-time and runtime to set up and manipulate the snapin.
If you want to use my MMC Snapin Framework you need to download my Low Level Utilities and OTA Wizard packages