I have the handler of an open window which wasn't necessarily open by my process. How can I add a button to that window and make the button call a certain application (.exe) when clicked? The button could be next to the system menu or the minimize button. This should work for both XP and Vista (a different approach for each version is OK...
Hi, I have a script in python which uses a resource which can not be used by more than a certain amount of concurrent scripts running. Classically, this would be solved by a named semaphores but I can not find those in the documentation of the multiprocessing module or threading . Am I missing something or are named semaphores not imp...
Is there a read/write locking mechanism that works across processes (similar to Mutex, but read/write instead exclusive locking)? I would like to allow concurrent read access, but exclusive write access. ...
Is it possible for one C# (desktop) application to start and stop applications on another machine? I don't mean in a malicious sense, or even over the internet. I have two computers in a room and I need an app on one to start (and then stop) and app on the other. One half-formed route in my mind was to use an auxiliary program on the t...
The short version I've got a Word Addin in VB.net and VSTO that exposes a COM compatible object via Word.COMAddins.Object, so that the addin functionality can be called External to Word, without accesses to Word itself being cross-process. The technique worked in VB6, but with VB.net, it still works, but it's much slower than the same c...
Two questions. 1) I understand this must be an expected outcome but maybe someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong; I'm trying to subclass all window classes in a global hook and it works except that I'm not able to close shop as I should and when the program initially registering the hook unregisters the hook and exits, subclassed appl...