Hi I'm starting a new project, a end-user desktop application. I'm a concerned about what will happened if (ok, when) the end-user gets an unhandled exception. Asking the user to help me reproduce the bug is not an acceptable option. As I see it I'm left with one option: to upload an error report to my server. Years ago when I were a...
i have a question about storing data for a desktop application, if i'm to deployed an application without a MS SQL database, how could i facilitate the retrieving/storing of data. I know i can also serializes the data objects into a file (such as XML file), is there any other more efficient or effective way? ...
Hi all Some background: we have a windows application (c#) that locate in the system try. that simple application is a basically shortcuts manger for other application and messaging between the workers. one of the application is an Access 2007 application (connected to sqlserver) - the client works with ACCESS Runtime 2007 (latest vers...
Hi, I am developing a software using C# 2.0 that has an windows application and an Outlook Add-In. For IPC, I am using Remoting with Binary formatter. Both component has a reference to a common project "Core" which contains Remoting related class definitions. My add-in is the server i.e. registers the remote object. Now, the problem is...
I'm upgrading an inventory system for a jewllery store that was originally built with MS Access. The application stores items, customers, vendors, and displays data about items stored. Reporting tool should be considered to generate reports for items in a printable format. The system should be built in C#, but I've not made the decisio...
Hi all, Please check Google transliteration. We need something like Google transliteration commercial solution which can be integrated in our winforms application. our application will not have internet connectivity so using Google transliteration API is not an option for us. ...
I have an application that displays a dialog when the user needs to enter information. The reason for this, is to keep the main form readonly, and only when you need to add/edit data will a dialog appear. The problem I'm wrestling with is what to display for the label names in the dialog. The application is a WPF desktop app and traditi...
Hi everyone! Sorry to be a nuisance, but I have yet ANOTHER question. How would I do something like DeskLock from macrabbit's Deskshade app? I've made the little window and that's as far as I've come. I know how to "lock" the screen in 10.6 with PresentationOptions, but I don't want to risk it because last time it wouldn't let me back in...
i am wondering if there is any way i can create an app that starts as a desktop application, for personal use for now. and since desktop applications can work with my HDD files which i may want to manage but don't feel secure throwing them onto a web server. but what i think i may want to do in the future is port the app to the web since...
Hi, I need to build a fairly simple app but it needs to work on both PC and Mac. It also needs to be redistributable on a disc or usb drive as a standalone desktop app. Initially I thought AIR would be perfect for this (it ticks all the API requirements), but the difficulty is making it distributable, as the app would require the AIR ...
We write a Windows desktop application that is installed on a few thousand computers that we have no access to. When one of these users reports a bug, even if the description is quite thorough, there is other information which may be helpful. We are currently working on an automated feedback agent, which means we will have access to ...
I am involved in a project to build an application from scratch. In past i have used the application objects as provided by some UI frameworks (Qt, MFC etc.). Now I require to design the application class. Mine is a desktop application that shall run on Windows, Linux. I am collecting other specific requirements. But I want to know In...
It's my first time to use Persistence in developing a Java program because I usually connect via JDBC. I read that for large amounts of data, it is best to use persistence. I tried playing with the CRUD example of Netbeans. It's not very helpful thought because it only connects to the DB and allows addition and deletion of records. I nee...
In my C# windows application, I am exporting sql server data to excel on remote drive. But it is too slow. However, if I export data to excel in the local drive, it is fast. How can I increase the time if I want to export data to remote drive? Thanks in advance... ...
How to (i) read the html contents of the web browser control (ii) modify it and (iii) redisplay it on the screen? (simular to firebug, http://getfirebug.com/ where you can load a webpage, change the html tag value and it would display the change on the screen) ...
In my experience I have only had 2 patterns work for large-scale desktop application development when trying to keep the model and UI in sync. 1-An eventbus approach via a shared eventbus command objects are fired (ie:UserDemographicsUpdatedEvent) and have various parts of the UI update if they are bound to the same user object updated ...
Hello, MSDN contains an example for creating a desktop alert window: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb983515.aspx The sample code starts with the following declaration. CMFCDesktopAlertWnd* pPopup = new CMFCDesktopAlertWnd; When I use it in my code, the compiler complains 'CMFCDesktopAlertWnd' : no appropriate default cons...
Does anybody know of a reliable, well-made tool for creating standalone desktop applications complete with GUI, using just PHP, or primarily PHP? I enjoy the R.A.D. and many other aspects of PHP and would like to use it for some non server/client projects. ...
Hello, Besides using Appcelerator's Titanium Desktop, are there other approaches to integrating Javascript and Ruby/Python into cross-platform desktop applications? Just trying to get a sense of the landscape here. From searching the web, it seems Titanium may be leading the charge in terms of this type of integration. I wasn't able ...
My client has a running web application which has been online for more than a year. Recently the client has introduced smart cards for his employees. Because of the difficulty in integrating smart card with its api on a web interface(i will post another detailed question on this later) we are planning to have desktop interface for this. ...