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When installing an ODBC driver, Windows Installer keeps putting it in SystemFolder

I'm working on an installer that, among other things, installs a web server. As part of the setup, I'm setting up an ODBC driver and data source. I'm trying to put a bunch of utility files, including the third party ODBC driver DLL, into a certain folder, but when I run the installer, it insists on changing that directory to the SystemFo...

Copy external HDD

I want to write an app. (web-based if possible) to copy an external HDD (already partitioned and containing data) to a like HDD with the same partitions-- does anyone think this would be possible with Java (Google App Engine? To convert Java app and run in web environment? Or likewise) Thoughts on if anything thinks this would be possib...

How to write virtual audio device driver for WinXP

Hello How to write simpliest audio virtual device driver in WinXP? I know that one way is to write a WDM driver but I suppose it is not an easyly task. I need to implement some audio filtering for a Flash based application. Unfortunatelly it seems that it is the only way to do it - outside a Flash, by a device driver, then a Flash app c...

Connecting to MS Access 2007 using ODBC_CONNECT - error in driver?

Hello all, I have been successful in querying a Microsoft Access 2003 database (.mdb file) and now I am trying to do the same for a Microsft Access 2007. I have tried the following: if($type[1]=='accdb'){ echo 'accdb'; //2007 Microsoft Access $connection = odbc_connect("Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=$mdbFil...

Compiling Mysqldb for jython 2.5 on Solaris

I have used python2.6 + MySQL on Windows and there are binaries available. I wanted to get the whole thing working on Solaris Hence got the Mysql-Python package from here I had to get the setuptools installed which is done. Exploded the MySQL-python-1.2.3c1 When I this /jython2.5.1/jython setup.py build Error - `File "/opt/somepat...

load the mysql driver in android emulator

how to load the mysql server in android emulator i.e Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver") i got the exception java.land.ClassNotFoundException in com.mysql.jdbc.Drive please reply me. ...

Recommended ways to install USB drivers with a Visual Studio 2005 Setup Project?

I need to install a USB driver with an application, and I'm using a Visual Studio 2005 Setup Project to create the installer. The driver only needs to be installed sufficient enough so that when the USB device is plugged in, Windows will go off doing it's "installing device" routine and do the rest of the job. It would be okay also to h...

How to set Firefox Profile: Selenium RC, .Net Client Driver?

I'm using Selenium RC + .Net Client Driver. I've created a Firefox profile in my c:\selenium\ directory. Here's my code: Dim MySelenium As ISelenium = Nothing MySelenium = New DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*custom C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe -profile c:/selenium/", "http://www.google.com/") When I run this, I ...

Can I write Windows drivers with Delphi 2010?

I've always heard that Delphi can do almost anything C++ can do...except write Windows drivers. Is this correct, and if so, why is that? I recently read a blog post online that may indicate a possible solution for writing drivers with Delphi, but it's 3 years old and I don't know how accurate this information is. So, with the latest v...

ObReferenceObjectByHandle Bugcheck, Memory Access Violation

Hello all, I am working on a project to dynamically disable the keyboard. I have written a driver which attempts to obtain the keyboards physical device object then call IoInvalidateDeviceState with it but I am having a problem getting its physical device object. Whenever I try to call ObReferenceObjectByHandle with the handle to the dev...

Driver for USB AVR JTAG-ISP device

I've got a programming device called USB AVR JTAG-ISP v. 1.2. Where can I find drivers and a good IDE for it? ...

Fastest way to pass a file's contents from Kernel to User mode?

I'll try to be brief, but fully descriptive: This is Windows-specific. Using the Windows Driver Development Kit (DDK). I am writing a Kernel Mode Driver (KMD) for the first time, having no prior experience in Kernel Mode. I am playing around currently with the "scanner" mini-filter sample which comes with the DDK, and expanding upon it...

Where to find NHibernate Jet driver

Hi, I don't know if it's just me, but I just can't seem to find the NHibernate Jet driver anywhere. I have not yet looked into the source, but looking at the main project files or the NH Contrib files, did not give me any results. Enough time wasted, who can show me the way? Thanks! ...

Is anyone familiar with the undocumented ObReferenceObjectByName windows kernel function?

I read a very fascinating article that was about programming drivers using the wdk, and one of the functions it used is called ObReferenceObjectByName. This function has given me lots of headaches. The first bad thing is that it's not documented by microsoft. The second thing, is that the language used in the article was C++, and I wa...

Writing Device Drivers for a Microcontroller(any)

Hi All , I am very enthusiastic in writing device drivers for a microcontroller(like PIC, Atmel etc). Since I am a newbie in this controller-coding-area I just want to know whether writing device drivers for controller is same as we write for linux( or any other OS) ? Also can anyone suggest some online device driver building tutorial ...

cache - flush and invaildate operation

I have some questions on Cache synchronization operations. Invalidate - before cpu tries to read a portion of memory updated by a device, the corresponding memory needs to be invalidated. Flush - Before the device read a portion of memory updated by CPU, CPU must flush(write back is also correct? ) the contents from cache to memory. ...

What (software) usb sniffers are available for windows?

Are there any software drivers for windows 7 (64-bit) that can report the data transferred between some application software and a usb device? I have tried snoopy (http://sourceforge.net/projects/usbsnoop/) but I can't get it working. Possibly I would need to go down the route of installing an earlier version of windows. Any other sug...

Can I use openCL in a application that I distribute to non developper machine?

I recently started to learn how to use openCL to speed up some part of my code. So far the speed gain is impressive. In one case the code ran up to 50X faster than on the CPU. However I wonder if can start using this code in a production environnement. The reason is that the first time that I tried to run the example code, nothing worked...

Single 32-bit MSI with 32/64-bit drivers

Is it possible to include difxapp_x86.wixlib or difxapp_x64.wixlib in same WiX setup to install a driver in both 32-bit and 64-bit machines? Background is that we have a setup which needs to be 32-bit regardless of the target platform (it's a .NET application which uses 32-bit COM components, so we must build .Net assemblies as x86). S...

Can UMDF drivers be packaged/shipped via WiX?

Howdy Internets: I put together a WiX 3.0 package, utilizing the DIFx extensions, with the intentions to install a Windows 7 Sensor (UMDF driver). During installation, DIFXAPP logged "No matching devices found in INF" and simply threw the driver into storage. I read I'm to populate my INF with an appropriate DriverPackageType, but a...