Background Sometimes we still need to maintain some legacy code that was written ages ago. A long time ago, MFC library was the default choice for many programmers wanted to develop a Windows Desktop Application in C++. Today, there are much better alternatives for the Desktop Applications developments that include: …

Today, I am going to demonstrate a simple way to check if the current executing user has a writing permission for a directory in the Windows file system. I came across this issue in a project when I needed to write a utility program that would do the following: Output a list of all directories that the current user is …