I need to process a number of dll's and exe files in a folder and determine what type of file I am dealing with: .NET, COM, Win32 or some other alien life form. I've been trying to determine the easiest way to detect the type of a DLL, what do you think of this: COM dll => I do a LoadLibrary, then GetProcAddress for "DllRegisterServer...
I need to deploy a set of configuration files to a hundred or more Windows hosts. I have the IP addresses, the user name and password, and the location on the remote machines into which the files should be copied - and was wondering if there was anything in the .NET framework that would let me utilise all that info to move these files?...
How can you create a temporary FIFO (named pipe) in Python? This should work: import tempfile temp_file_name = mktemp() os.mkfifo(temp_file_name) open(temp_file_name, os.O_WRONLY) # ... some process, somewhere, will read it ... However, I'm hesitant because of the big warning in Python Docs 11.6 and potential removal because it's ...
Is there a way to get the filenames of the files in an iPhone application's document-folder? How do you do that? ...
What are the .datasource files that are automatically generated by "Create Service Reference" in Visual Studio? The comment in the file is this: This file is automatically generated by Visual Studio .Net. It is used to store generic object data source configuration information. Renaming the file extension or editing the conte...
Hi! i have always wondered how to handle Files in applications. Say we have an Object containing several data about a File like a UUID and the reference to the file on disk. Even if this Object is immutable, there might be side effects like the file will be deleted by a part of the application but the other do not know about it, render...
What would be the best way to be able to toggle hidden folder and files system wide? I would prefer to do it in C#. I know I would use the global keyboard hook but I am not sure how I would toggle folders/files to be hidden and then visible when the shortcut key is pressed. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. ...
I need to search a text in all the files of a directory and subdirectorys any clever idea ? ...
I am using Java to develop an application, it needs to manage the file on the computer. The application have the ability/function to delete the file on the system. But I want to check whether the selected file is using/reading by another application or not first. Because I don't want to delete the file which is reading/using. How can I d...
I am caching data in an application I am currently writing and was wondering which would be better to use a regular text file or a sqlite database to hold the cached data? Thanks. EDIT: I am using Zend_Cache so relationships are handled without the need of database. What I am caching is xml strings if saved as regular files can be as b...
Hi, I've got a XML schema which is split to multiple XSD files. Now we need to merge them into one big XSD file. Anyone knows a good tools I can use to do it? Manually merging would be too cumbersome, and error-prone. Thanks very much. ...
Hi, for a Windows application I need to read in fixed block files which need to be splitted in fields. I would like to this like in excel or openoffice where I have a preview of the file and can graphically define where the line should be splitted. Does anyone know some control for .net which supports this, or any sample code where th...
I have a record that looks similar to: type TNote = record Title : string; Note : string; Index : integer; end; Simple. The reason I chose to set the variables as string (as opposed to an array of chars) is that I have no idea how long those strings are going to be. They can be 1 char long, 200 or 2000. Of course when...
This may not be possible, but I'd like to ask anyway and see if there's a creative solution out there. I'd like to have a "file" form field on my site that uploads a file into a BLOB field in a MYSQL database. I must use PHP to accomplish this task. Normally, I know you would open the temp file found in the $_FILES array, using fope...
Not sure if this belongs on Stack, SuperUser or ServerFault, so feel free to migate as best fits. I am testing a web service that sends out files, because of this I need to find a way to automatically create files. Does anyone know of a free file generation tool? ...
hi all, i am new to iPhone i want to ask that what is the compressed file format which is supported on iPhone. Also how can extract this file programmatically. ...
I am comparing to files by reading it into filestream and comparing byte by byte..now how can i skip whitespaces while comparing?I am using C#.net ...
I think we can all agree, when a developer gets a project out of their source control system... it should successfully build. Question: What extraneous files do you omit and which are you certain to add? ...
I wrote a program in C which has a function that processes files which can be passed to it by a file pointer. void process_my_file(FILE *fptr, ...) { /* do work */ } I would like to read some input from standard input and pass it to my function, without having to write the input to a temporary file. Would it be possible to pass it ...
I want to do following 2 things 1)i want retrive the list of all files in a directory 2)and then i want to remove their extensions eg: if i get a list of fils as A.png ,B.png,C.jpeg,D.txt I want to get A,B,C,D How do i do that in php? ...