3rd-party

Creating an answers file for a 3rd party software (Non OS install)

Ok guys any idea how i may go about creating an answers file for an unattended install for say WinAmp? So far all my research points to is doing an unattended install for windows or some other OS. What I want to do is create an unattended install for a 3rd party software. Are there tools to do this? Or is unattended install for 3rd part...

What are the best 3rd Party C# Libraries for searching HTML?

Basically what I want to do is, in C#, to take a string variable with some HTML and another with a search string in it and send them both to a method that returns whether or not it found anything and if so it returns a string variable that has the HTML with the search string highlighted in it. Are there any good libraries out there that...

Can (Should) I put 3rd party libraries in version control?

Hi all.. I've met quite a few people lately who says that 3rd party libraries doesn't belong in version control. These people haven't been able to explain to me why they shouldn't yet, so I hoped you guys could come to my rescue :) Personally, I think that when I check the trunk of a project out, it should just work - No need to go to ...

Hooks or Subclassing on 3rd party ActiveX

Can we hook or sub-class a 3rd party activeX ocx like acrobat reader control such that it cannot receive WM_LBUTTONDOWN message? If yes then how it is possible ? Thanks in advance Regards, Naeem ...

Manage a private Linux Kernel in Subversion

I am working on an embedded project that will be using Linux and we are trying to figure out the best practice method to source control the Linux version. We want to maintain local configure files and various changes but also allow us to update the kernel if we need to. Does it make sense to make it a "vendor" branch in Subversion? I ...

Passing money from a customer to a 3rd party directly (Paypal Payments Pro)

Hi All, Let us assume that there are three parties. Organization X, which provides a SaaS, organization Y, which is using the X's service, and Consumer Z which is using X's service to make purchase from Y. This is similar to something like EBay for instance in a way. Now I would like to have Y and Z directly transfer money between them ...

Can I use the Windows logo in my software as an icon?

I am implementing a piece of software that inventories the list of installed Windows programs, and it would be great if I could use a small Windows logo as an icon inside of my software. What are the legalities surrounding the use of the Microsoft Windows logo in 3rd party software? ...

Modify 3rd party code in subversion

I use a script for my homepage but I'd like to localize it. Furthermore the CSS uses images from a special folder which does not fit to my folder hierarchy. Because I don't want to adopt these paths and settings I'll have to modify the original sources. Currently my repository looks like this: /3rdParty /CompanyA /Com...

Forcing Windows to re-scan for drivers

As part of our software's installation, we install drivers for a required 3rd party hardware component. Currently it's up to the user to manually scan for their hardware's drivers once our installation is completed. Is there an easy way to get Windows to automatically look for the drivers we installed? If so, how does it work? Do we ...

Get controller method caller (3rd party webservice)

Is it possible to retrieve the URL of a 3rd party webservice calling my controller method? Things like Request.Current.Url refer to my own URL (/someController/someAction/). The 3rd party webservice is sending HTTP POST data to my /someController/someAction and I wish to send back a HTTP POST message to the caller of the method, the 3r...

How implement a single login system for drupal and another CMS

I am trying to implement a login share between a Drupal site and another CMS - kayako in particular. Are you aware of any guide or reference? Thanks. ...

Disable Javascript in user-submitted html

If I were to create a site where users could put arbitrary html into their 'profile' or something similar, how might I prevent JavaScript embedded in that html from running? Could I put an infinite loop for(;;); somewhere? If so, where would I put it? What other security concerns are associated with this approach? ...

Adding OAuth to Xcode project causes Xcode to not find Foundation headers (copious errors ensue)

I am using this OAuth lib: http://github.com/jdg/oauthconsumer When adding it to my project, it causes over 2000 build errors. These errors are all under the App_Preficx.pch file in the Build Results window. If you actually click on the errors, they are actually contained in every Foundation Header. I won't list them all, but here ar...

Including pre-compiled libraries in source tree

Hello, I have a cross-platform C++ project. In this project, we use several third-party, statically-compiled libraries that are quite huge and not easy to build. Currently, our source tree looks like this: | +-3rdparty | +-include (initially empty) | +-lib (initially empty) | +-some-library | +-another-library | +-source Whe...