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Getting a driver for VMS to connect to SQL Server 2005

I want to connect from a COBOL/VMS system to an SQL Server 2005 instance. Could someone point me to a driver that works well? ...

Which is easier to write drivers for? Windows or LInux?

I am trying to learn a little about driver development and my question is, which OS has an easier API to develop drivers with? Windows or Linux? Remember that I am new to this. Thanks ...

dbExpress driver for Microsoft Access

being a dbExpress newbie I wonder if there is a dbExpress driver for Microsoft Access? ...

Git Merge Driver - File Attributes

When using a custom driver for merging in Git what is the full file path of the Git attributes /arguments you pass to the driver? Ex: driver = filfre %O %A %B What is the full file path of the three files, %O, %A, and %B? -Tanner ...

install/uninstall an .inf driver programmatically using C# .net

Hello all, I am making an application using c#.net. It contains a filesystem minifilter driver also. I want to install and uninstall this driver programmatically using c# .net. Normally i can install this using the .INF file (by right click + press install).but I want to install this programmatically. There is an SDK function InstallHin...

Launch one package from another

Hi, I'm using Apple's PackageMaker to deploy our software but one of the requirements of that software is a third-party driver which was given to us by the developer also as a package. Now while we could simply dump this on the user's desktop and ask them to run this, I was wondering how one can easily launch one package from within an...

learning linux drivers

Hello all I am learning now days programming drivers. I am doing my learning from this book Linux Device Drivers But I am little bit lack of practice. Can you recommend me some simple projects that I can get started with. Or some open source project that newbie can understand what is going on. Additional examples and tutorials w...

Automatic driver installation in VS2008 setup project

Is there any way how to perform automatic driver installation during my C# app is being installed? I am using standard Setup project in VS2008 (MSI file). My application is communicating with a custom USB device, so the user must install the .NET app first and then manually connect the device to his PC and let Windows install the driver....

Differences between SDXC and SDHC standard?

Hi there, My cohorts and I at the Rockbox project have been reading with interest the announcement at the recent CES of the new SDXC standard for Secure Digital storage, but have been left a little mystified as to the technical differences between the SDHC standard and the new SDXC one. As we understand it, there is no technical limita...

What causes Audio output to stutter?

There is a very common software bug that causes about 1 second of audio to be played a few times in succession, creating a kind of stutter. I notice this most often when playing video games. I know this is not architecture specific, I have seen it happen in consoles, in old PC's and it just happened 5 minutes ago when I booted wi...

What are the different areas of Memory & Disk?

I'm neither sure about if this is a right place to ask nor sure about how to put my query. Let me put it this way: Main Memory starting at 0x00000 to 0xFFFFF. Diskspace starting at 0x00000000 to 0xFFFFFFFF. But what we'll be able to access will not be from 0th byte till last byte right? On hardisk I guess at the 0th byte we...

Is there any way to send noraml keyboard commands to xbox via a usb cable from pc throught programming

Is there any way to send normal keyboard commands to xbox via a usb cable from pc throught programming Needed answer asap. Regards, Apurva ...

change driver in connection string to data source vb.net

i have a code which has the connection string as driver. dim s as string = "Driver={SQL Server}; Server=xxx\SQLEXPRESS; Database=dbRegister; Trusted_Connection=yes" i need to change that to - "data source=1.2.3.4;user id=xx;password=xxxxx;initial catalog=xxxxx;Connect Timeout=30" when i just change the text it gives this error - "[Mic...

Using Stardard USB driver

I have an application and a device that communicate through USB, and they use the standard example BulkUSB.sys that is provided with WDK, but currently with every installation of the software, the driver is also installed. I was wondering whether there's a way to use a driver that comes with windows for that purpose, and if so how? Ma...

Rescan device tree for hardware changes during Driver installation

I'm using InstallShield to install my application, a driver and a service. I need to install the plug-N-play driver only if it's hardware ID was found in the device manager. The driver installation is done using DPInst.exe. My problem, is that a user can sometimes manually uninstall the driver (After it was installed or even uninstall th...

Help writing a DVB driver for OS X

I'm looking at options to access DVB data on OS X. Initially I want to support the EyeTV DTT USB device, but in the long-run I'd like to support a number of popular devices. The problem I have is that there is no standard way of controlling such devices. All the applications I know of that use them either hide the driver code within t...

How can I test-drive IOKit userspace driver development?

I'm about to attempt to write a USB driver for my application on OS X using IOKit. I've opted for the userspace route rather than developing a kext since it's so much easier to debug etc, but I'm having trouble working out how I could possibly test-drive my development. If possible, I'd like to find a way to insert a fake USB device i...

Capturing print jobs to be printed into an Image file

I am a novice to Windows printer driver, and would appreciate any pointers on the following. Enumerating as a printer (In the print menu, similar to print to PDF file) Capturing the print job and encode it into a JPG file (say) I am comfortable with JPG encoding, as I am thinking of using open source tools like ImageMagick. But I am ...

Standard Keyboard Driver Source Code - Where can I find this???

Hello, I am looking for the standard source code for a keyboard. Is there any where that I can download this source code so that I can modify it for my own use? Thanks in advance! ...

What's the appropriate reference for writing a MySql driver?

I have to use erlang-mysql-driver in my application, but it has been distressingly unreliable. Since it isn't being maintained, I don't see any option but to fix it myself. The problem is, I've never written nor worked on a database driver, and I don't know where to start. Mainly, I can't find the relevant documentation that specifies ho...