The remote desktop server is XP professional version 2002 SP3 Our program is written in MS visual C and calls into a dll written inmanaged .NET C++ code. All the code is written is Visual studio 2008. running ntsd I get two different outputs for the last few lines of "Executable search path" non-crash case: .....snipped up to LAST l...
Does anyone know of any good resources / tips for designing the user interface of an application which will be used extensively over remote desktop / VNC? There are some obvious ones like: Don't use gradients, use solid blocks of color instead as it helps avoid screen refreshes. I'm looking for more advice and tips like this for making...
Hello all, I'm experiencing a weird problem with a little app I wrote to detect Windows shutdown. Using Remote Desktop to connect to a Windows 2003 server, sometimes upon login I get the WM_QUERYENDSESSION from the OS with lParam = 0, which my app interprets as a shutdown request (as stated in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa3...
I need to develop a browser based application that record the user screen, much preferably on flv. Also doing that with java would be perfect. That's exactly what they accomplished at screentoaster.com , with just a javaWS app. Would anyone have an idea about how they've done it? Did they use Xuggler? Best Regards, ...
Hi, currently i have two machines A and B... both are running WinXP. I am on machine A and using mstsc to connect to machine B. Now, how can i see from machine B the cdrom, usb, disk drives of machine A? even more if connect any usb to machine A can it be automatically detected by machine B also? ...
First, I'll admit this is cross-posted at SuperUser but I decided to also post here as my objective is programming related and this community might have better solution scenarios than just the one I'm thinking of. I have a Windows 7 computer that is acting as a Media Center so it is always on but not always in use. I would like to be ab...
We are a Microsoft shop with C++ experience looking to get into some iPhone/iPad development. Before we make a large investment in individual development machines, we would like to test our abilities with a modest investment. Can we use one Mac Mini Snow Leopard Server as a development machine for 2-3 concurrent users? We would want th...
Hi. I need a way to determine if user is on server OS or is using terminal connection (remote desktop) to view the site. I need this to turn off all animations and other stuff. The best i can do is to determine os from UserAgent, but there is no difference between Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. I can check color depth on user machin...
Can I start a service on remote machine using NSIS script. I know we can use: sc \\machine start servicename through DOS prompt. But can we do the same in NSIS? Can SimpleSC be used for this? ...
Hi, I would like to learn how to use C# to establish wireless connecton, sending data, receiving data between PC and smart device. I know C# has socket namespace that I can use, and have seen examples on google, but the examples do not demonstrate communication between PC and device, mostly just web communication. So can anyone give m...
I'm trying to hash a password to dump into a .rdp file. I found a site that (more or less) shows how to do that here but it doesn't work in 3.1. In 2.5.4 I get this: >>> import win32crypt >>> import binascii >>> pwdHash = win32crypt.CryptProtectData(u"password",u'psw',None,None,None,0) >>> print str(binascii.hexlify(pwdHash)).upper() 0...
We have an Excel workbook with a number of ActiveX controls, running in Excel 2003 on Windows XP. When connecting using Remote Desktop, the ActiveX controls change font, sometimes font size, and sometimes orientation (in the case of a spinner control). This happens on first connection and also as the workbook is used - some of the cont...
I realize there are a ton of questions floating around the internet about reducing flicker in Windows Forms applications. After copious experimentation, I found that the solution in my particular case was quite straightforward: setting the Control.DoubleBuffered property to true for the controls that were exhibiting flicker. I accomplish...
Hi All, I want to set a restriction on my firewall (windows firewall on windows 2008) to only allow connections from a certain dynamic DNS. Is this possible? The reason I ask is that this would allow us to just change the IP on the dynamic DNS if our IP changes and means we won't get locked out of RDP. This also allows me to RDP in fro...
Is there any way to connect to RDC with help of smarphone? Can it be used for support and developer purposes? Share your experience. ...
I am connecting from a Windows 7 x64 machine to my dev machine running Windows XP SP3 using the built in remote desktop client. For most apps it works fine with no problems, for Visual Studio whenever I am typing the entire text editor keeps redrawing. I stumbled across this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/873849/vs-200...
Bear with me on this one. I have a Windows service which can play .wav files for alerting. As long as the computer has a sound card and speakers, it works fine. There is also a GUI that lets the user choose which sound that the service will play. When the user is connected via Remote Desktop to the GUI and tests the sound, he hears i...
This question tells me how to detect a remote desktop session. Do anybody know if it's possible to find out from where the remote connection was initialized? -Vegar ...
Our environment is a terminal server cluster (Win2003 servers) that everyone connects to do do their work. I have set up a new Win2008 R2 machine with the intention of using it to publish our main application to the TS farm. The idea was to keep this server dedicated to one application to avoid driver/dll conflicts with other software....
I’m trying to install Visual Studio 2008 Team Test Load Agent on a server with Windows 2008 Datacenter edition SP2 via remote desktop. After the installation program have restarted the server and tries to continue the installation, I get a command prompt with the following error: C:\Windows\system32>change user /INSTALL Install mode doe...