Windows PE - Where and how are strings stored if not in resources?
- by sdadsas
Usually strings (like content/titles of dialog boxes) in .exe files are stored in some sort of resources.
But in some recent exes I disassembled/resource-inspected I couldn't find any resources containing the string but it was somehow hardcoded with db's into the program source code.
How can I extract and modify strings directly located in the program? I assume those are just the equivalent to const char*s in C++?
Why would someone not "outsource" the contents of dialog boxes, menus, etc?