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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Problems in capture_win_ifnames.c

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:35:58 -0800
On Nov 22, 2012, at 7:10 PM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Nov 22, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Gisle Vanem <gvanem@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Can this text go somewhere else?
> 
> Can this *code* just parse the stuff inside {} in its existing encoding and convert it to a GUID without converting to UTF-16 and calling a fancy Windows routine that can, apparently, look up stuff in a database:
> 
> 	http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms680589(v=vs.85).aspx
> 
> ("The CLSID corresponding to the class string was not found in the registry.") e.g. just parse the ASCII string and convert it to a GUID?

Yes.  Done.