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Any good book on best practice and guidelines in developing a SDK in C?

Hi, I'm developing a small SDK in C, is there any good book or article on best practice and guidelines in the subject? I mean functions design, source code organization, portability issues etc. ...

Tablet PC SDK (1.7) Merge Module + VS2008 + Windows Vista?

Hi there, I have a VS2005 deployment & setup project, that makes use of the Tablet PC SDK 1.7 Merge Module, so users of Windows XP can make use of the managed Microsoft.Ink.DLL library. Now that we've moved over to Vista/VS2008, do I still need to install the TPC SDK (to get the merge module) or can I make use of something that Vista h...

SDK for writing DVD's

I need to add DVD writing functionality to an application I'm working on. However it needs to be able to write out files that are being grabbed "live" from a camera, over a long period of time. I can't wait until all the files are captured before I start writing them to the DVD, I need to write them out in chunks as I go along. I've loo...

WSDL.exe download

I recently heart from WSDL.Exe, but did not find a download link. Anybody know the link? ...

EPiServer Development

Aside from Episerver.com What other websites do people who develop using EPiServer use as development resources!? Been using coderesort.com but I find that it lacks examples of how to do stuff. Many thanks, J ...

Differences between JDK and Java SDK

Is there any substantial difference between those two terms?. I understand that JDK stands for Java Development Kit that is a subset of SDK (Software Development Kit). But specifying Java SDK, it should mean the same as JDK. ...

WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW jumping to background on window destroy

Weird issue: Open a large notepad window create a toolwindow (style WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW) create 2 more windows (normal overlapped) (WS_OVERLAPPED) close those 2 overlapped windows (child of desktop or the toolwindow) the toolwindow jumps behind the notepad window Does anyone know why this is the case? Or what I could be doing wrong? I...

Use Windows API from C# to set primary monitor

I'm trying to use the Windows API to set the primary monitor. It doesn't seem to work - my screen just flicks and nothing happens. public const int DM_ORIENTATION = 0x00000001; public const int DM_PAPERSIZE = 0x00000002; public const int DM_PAPERLENGTH = 0x00000004; public const int DM_PAPERWIDTH = 0x00000008; public const int DM_SC...

Fast library to replace CDC vector graphics

I have a mature MFC C++ application that displays on screen and prints using CDC wrappings on the Win32 GDI. While it has been optimized over the years, I would like to replace it with something a bit faster. The graphics included rendered triangular surface models, complex polylines and polygons, and lots of text. It needs to meet th...

Where should I download corflags.exe from?

I'm running Windows Server 2008 64-bit "workstation" and would like to get corflags.exe. Which SDK do I need to download? Edit: I know about .NET Framework 2.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) (x64) and Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 but I was hoping to find something smaller as these are quite large downloads...

iPhone Image process

I have taken the image from UIImagePickerController, but the file looks too big to be transfered through internet, I'd like to resize the images. I couldn't find any method related to the image process. Any recommendation? Thanks. ...

Editing Excel Spreadsheets easily with the SDK

Hi, is there anyone who makes use of the Microsoft Open XML SDK 2.0 for editing Excel Spreadsheet, I edited Open XML documents already by only using XML methods, but as there exists the SDK, does someone know if there are really easy methods for some essential functions? For Example the inserting of content in a cell. Also the Open XML ...

Anyone have any impressions, hints, tutorials from developing for Google Android devices?

I have a T-Mobile G1 and I'm going to download the developer SDK and see if I can create a few simple apps for my phone. If you've done similar development, please answer below and tell me about your experience. Please share any links you found especially useful. Thanks! ...

Is there a fingerprint reader api/sdk?

I need to read the user's fingerprint from my application. What I really want is a simple SDK that works with a lot of inexpensive fingerprint readers but I can deal with something that works only with one specific model if that model is cheap and available worldwide. And it has to be royalty-free, I can pay for a development license b...

Creating a custom ODBC driver

At my current job, we're looking to implement our own odbc driver to allow many different applications to be able to connect to our own app as a datasource. Right now we are trying to weigh the options of developing our own driver to the implementation spec, which is massive, or using an SDK that allows for programmers to 'fill in' the d...

ABBYY FineReader Engine API Resources

Does any one worked with ABBYY FineReader Engine 9.0 API? There are almost no resources available on internet. The only thing is the developer reference help file installed along with it. But that is not sufficient enough. ...

Is there a difference (re optimizations) between MSVC++ 2008 and PSDK compiler?

I have just installed the Platform SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET 3.5 on my new system, and for the first time tried to compile a project for WIN64. The Unicode Release version of that program, built for 32 bit (using the optimizing compiler from the no longer available Free Toolkit), comes in at about 2.8 MB. Using the amd64 com...

Symbol SDK - Get Device Serial Number

Has anyone done any dev work woek the Symbol Device SDK. I want to get the Device Serial Number and write it to a value in the registry. Does the Symbol SDK get you the facility of getting the Device Serial Number, if so do you no what the class is called as there are quite a few in the SDK pack? Any help would be welcome..... ...

blackberry development, is it as userfriendly as smartphone dev?

Hi, I have played around with smart phone development (windows ce), and it seemed pretty straight forward using vs.net and having a nice emulator etc. How is blackberry development? Seeing as it uses JavaME I am guessing learning the SDK/syntax for a .net developer wouldn't be that hard to get going with. But what about the developme...

iPhone or Android?

According to a recent article iPhone has gained a better appeal than Android among programmers. I'm quite a newbie to Java and a complete profane to ObjectiveC, in your opinion, in which one of the two could I have a try? ...