desktop-application

Infragistics Ultralistview MouseHover Retrieve User Information

Hi, I am using Infragistics Ultralistview to display data in List which contains 3 columns and 4-5 rows(that could be upto 'n' rows depending upon data added). When i hover over the row for 2 seconds, i want that other information about that row should be displayed in a panel like control. How to do that? Let me know if anything else i...

How to use SSO integrated Web Services from Desktop Application

How would you integrate web services with an SSO provider? I know you can use the SSO-provider's security ticket to validate that the user is authenticated, but what about when you have a desktop application which uses web services? How do you authenticate the user of a desktop app by integrating with an SSO provider? I don't think SSO ...

Integrating web browser engine into an application, preferably in Java

Hello, I would like to integrate web browser into my application, with full set of standard features (including flash). Is there any good browser engine that could be useful? Basically I want it to be just part of an application where browser can be opened in tabs, so basically all I will need on GUI part is window that will show page,...

How to store Java desktop application(multiplatform) global settings?

What do I need exactly is to store information like applications first execution date and few settings somewhere on the user machine. The program will be distributed on Windows and Mac OS. This information needs to be shared between the users on same machine... somewhat global settings. On windows I'd probably store this information in r...

Which language to use for creating this desktop application?

I am willing to create a simple desktop application for myself which will be able to download wallpapers from various sites and which can set and rotate the desktop wallpaper. [ desktop manager kind of thing ]. Please suggest which programming language to choose for this application. I know java but don' mind learning any other langua...

High performance database queries

Hi I have a .NET desktop application, which is used by 5000 users who are distributed across Canada. One of the functionality is to communicate with some modems using some parameters that we get from the database. The unique thing about this functionality is: 1 - it should be extremely fast because it is communicating with modem tools...

Running PHP scripts without having to install software?

Is there anything I can use to have PHP execute in a self contained environment without having to install server software? haven't learned other languages :-( I wanted to write a simple php/XML webapp that can be used on a desktop machine with no admin rights. It's for daily data entry stuff myself and others have to do when certain ta...

.NET DataGridview scroll setting in another thread

i have a gridview whose scroll bars r selected "Both"......now this grid view in updated by a new datasouce in other thread.....but problem in when it is updated its vertical scroll bar diss appears and even not settled when i set it in other thread ...Here is the code Public Sub LoadList() dgvRFQs.DataSource = MyDal.GetAllQuotation...

I need advice for a desktop app

I'm creating some uml diagrams to clear my mind about a desktop app I'm about to create. I've never done desktop app development, I'm a bit confused on how to proceed. I need to capture the Stamp keypress and then after that access the clipboard (both write and read). I would like to provide the user with a package that he can install ...

Wiki for personal use, recommendations?

I want to set up a local wiki for my personal notes. My requirements are: very good math support (I think mathjax like on mathoverflow should be fine) good search function (in particular regular expressions) easy to setup active user community active development it should run under linux good emacs support (i.e. it should be comfortabl...

AWTPermission Exception while implementing Automatic update desktop application using java web start

Hi All, I am working in a Desktop application that provides Online Backup of data. In my application i am trying to implement automatic software update feature. For this i am using java web start. I have done the following process for using java web start. 1> created jar with all resources. 2> created jnlp file as : <?xml versi...

Is it possible to create a desktop application using Silverlight?

Hi! I have been using WPF for a while, and I keep on realizing again and again that Microsoft invests its efforst in Silverlight, not in WPF (RIA Services, default theme, controls and more). I thought it might be a good idea to migrate to Silverlight (i.e. creating standalone desktop apps with Silverlight 4.0), the question is whether ...

How to sync PC desktop mail client to an Exchange Activesync server?

I've got a situation where I want to connect to an email server whose only exposed service for mail/calendar is Activesync (it's an Exchange server). The only web interface exposed is "OWA light" which is horrific. I'd like to figure out a way to synchronize the mail from this Exchange so that it appears in a desktop mail client (or a w...

NetBeans 6.9.1 Java Application won't compile/run

I just downloaded the latest version of Netbeans - 6.9.1. I've been using 6.8 for some time for my PHP and HTML development on websites and whatnot. My business partner needs a cross-platform desktop application developed and so I figured that Java would be the way to go. Here's my problem - I downloaded the 6.9.1 version of NetBeans wi...

What is the best cross-platform language for desktop applications? (Java, Adobe Air, Flex, Silverlight??, Anything Else)

My business partner needs a desktop application programmed, and it needs to be cross-platform as he wants Mac owners (OS X) to be able to run it as well. This, of course, is a bit of a problem for me as I program in PHP for my web projects and exclusively in C# (formerly used Visual Basic) for my desktop apps. I've been using (and love) ...

Can I use browser authentication to make RESTful calls to GAE?

We're writing a Desktop application that relies on Google Appengine to authenticate the user and retrieve and store data associated to it. The way we'd like to authenticate the user is that on launching the application the browser is launched at the login url for our application. Then the user logins there, and then the application makes...