Hi Everyone, I work at a company with a large SAP investment, and we also have dozens of large .Net systems (mostly internally for engineering systems), and Java platforms (mostly for external web applications). As such, we have large development shops on ABAP, C#, and JEE. We have decent standards for which platform to use in which do...
Would prefer an answer in C#, .Net 3.5 using WPF (Windows Forms also okay) I have an application that is essentially a toolbar window or tray icon. It needs to detect if a user locks his/her workstation and walks away in order to update the person's status in a centralized system. I can detect a session switch or a logout easily enoug...
I'm thinking about switching my path "slightly" by going into desktop development (VC++, MFC, C#, etc) after about 8 years within embedded telecom systems development (C, MAKE, Symbian, 100 compilers etc, etc). My concern however is that my experience within embedded systems maybe doesn't give me much value when going into desktop devel...
In some downtime at work that's coming up, I plan to sharpen and round out my development skills a bit. I've been pretty heavily into web development for the past few years, right out of college, and I've learned a lot. I was going to focus on WinForms WPF for a bit, but I've been reconsidering it. Given the current trend toward 'clou...
Hi, We have a service that launches an application that will interact with the logged on user. The application we launch is always run as a specific user for which we have the credentials. We do what is necessary (get active session ID, logonUser, adjust token) and launch the application with CreateProcessAsUser in the winsta0\Default d...
I've just listened to episode 6 of StackOverflow podcast, and I just wonder, is there a free and good enough implementation of Mac Spaces for Windows? ...
I have written a short console based C# application which automatically arranges my desktop icons. Is it possible to add an entry into the desktop "Arrange Icons By" menu for my custom sorting? ...
I am using the following code to draw on a single monitor: Point cursorLocation; NativeMethods.GetCursorPos(out cursorLocation); Screen screen = Screen.FromPoint(cursorLocation); Point h1 = new Point(screen.Bounds.Left, cursorLocation.Y); Point h2 = new Point(screen.Bounds.Right, cursorLocation.Y); Point v1 = new Point(cursorLocation.X...
Is there any features inside click-once to push multiple shortcuts? (Such as to desktop, Startup Menu, etc) In the past I've always done that as part of the form load event of my deployed application (installation triggers the application to launch--thus I can use form load to complete the setup process). I'm wondering however if that...
Can MySql database be used as a back-end of a desktop application. What are the various possible ways to do it? ...
I'm currently trying to get OpenVG up and running on my desktop. The problem comes here: I am / will be developing an application for a Windows CE device (with .NET compact framework), which has hardware-accelerated OpenGL ES 2.0 and OpenVG 1.0.1 (based on TI OMAP35x, if you're interested). The application will definitely use OpenVG for ...
I have a static method used to launch a browser with a given URL. When the browser is already open, this takes over the active browser window. This is a problem if the browser is in use for something else, such as data entry. Is there a way to open a URL in a new Browser window (or tab)? public static void openURL(String urlText) { ...
It will be a desktop application, coded in visual basic (vb.net) or c#. The idea is to have just one main .exe as front end form. It will load all modules installed and display each in a different tab. This form should have functions to install a new module, update an installed module or delete. As an example, think about a tabbed pane...
Dear all,, Well i fear to post this question here.. But this is only because i am not able to find the answer to this question anywhere.. But if the administrator still thinks that this question is not worth putting here, then he or she can delete it.. But i would be obliged if that doesn't happen and i get the answer to my question.. A...
I'm working on a software for test automation. To get it working it need's to "have a look" on the desktop and all open windows. It needs to know which windows are open and what controls they consist of. So it has to do something similar to what Spy++ is doing (Spy++ from Visual Studio). Does anyone know how Spy ++ get's all the informat...
What is the best way to determine if the desktop is locked for the currently logged in user? I looked in MSDN and couldn't find any API calls to detect this. Did I miss something, or is there no simple call I can use? ...
Is it possible to make a keyboard hook work on all desktops? For example, could I make it record keys on the winlogon desktop and interactive desktop at the same time? If so how? Thanks for the help! EDIT: Figured it out. I modified ctrl2cap driver to log keys. ...
I've begun prototyping a desktop app with Tcl and intend to present the idea to some venture capitalists. Neither desktop apps nor Tcl are in vogue and so I want to be prepared to counter any objections to this technology. Below are the pros as I see them, am looking forward to fleshing out plenty of cons I'm sure, but hopefully some m...
I need to make so that my application can have only one instance running at a time. Also when it's launched with a command line parameter ( like when registered to open certain file types ) it should pass the parameter to an existing instance and quit immediately without displaying graphical interface. You all probably know what I mean. ...
Background I have a business idea, one component of which involves a client that would be downloaded & installed by thousands of users via a web page. Application Requirements Version 1: The application must: monitor internet usage on the user's desktop with the following areas monitored: browser used, hours used sites access...