Hi Everyone. I have an environment with Delphi 2010 + SQL Server 2000 +Windows 7 (RC) for i am testing it on Windows 7... When I try added a new dbExpress connection for SQL Server and press "Test Connection" from the data explorer, I'll get the following message:- Borland.Data.TDBXError: DBX Error: Driver could not be properly initia...
I have done my best to install a copy of SQL Server 2008, but have discovered my "Reporting Services" installation has failed. Furthermore, when I attempt to "repair" both the installation (and the "Shared Components" only, per a work-around I found here, will update with link if I find it) I have no had any success, as the SQL Server 2...
I am using the Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework to try out of some of the new UI features of the Win7 taskbar. I am coding in C#. I have a question regarding jumplists. All of the sample code provided assumes that the entries on the jump list are used to call out to run a particular application or open a document, e.g....
I'm now learning Tcl/Tk, but as I'm running Windows, I want to create a fully featured(professional) development environment for this language, but I need to know: Which tools I need to install(first of all)? What are the IDEs that support Tcl/Tk development? What is the best text editor to develop in? Where I can find some librarys fo...
I have a Acer Aspire One AOA 150 with Windows Xp Home. I want to write a simple GUI taskbar applet on Windows Xp and Windows 7 which can monitor the voltages from the power supply, the temperature of the system,S.M.A.R.T. hard disk temperature data and the CPU and fan speeds. Much like the functionality of GKrellM, a GTK applet designed ...
I get the System image list by calling SHGetImageList: SHGetImageList(SHIL_LAST, IID_IImageList, (void**)&imList); I have a list of 256x256 images, but size of small icons which have not 256 version, have size 256 too. I need to get each icon with it's true size. How can i find out its size? I'm get the size of an icon by using the ...
I use SystemParametersInfo to remove the Desktop wallpaper. SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER, 0, _T(""), SPIF_SENDCHANGE) later I restore it with the same method. SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER, 0, NULL, SPIF_SENDCHANGE) That worked fine for all Windows versions including Vista. But with Windows 7 I found out that th...
I am trying to make an app that controls the volume of another process using the Windows 7 Audio API. What I'm looking for is the ISimpleAudioVolume for the session used by the other process. I have tried using the IAudioSessionEnumerator but it will only give me the IAudioSessionControl2 of the session. Using the IAudioSessionControl ...
I've recently upgraded my development machine from Windows XP to Windows 7. How can I tell which w3wp.exe process belongs to which App Pool on a desktop running Windows 7? On a server running IIS6, you can run c:\windows\system32\cscript iisapp.vbs On a Windows 2008 Server running IIS7 you can run appcmd list wp But what about on my...
Hi, I have written a wizard in c++ which installs some files to the program files folder under windows. As I understand, I need Admin rights to write to program files under Vista/7. So my question is: Is there a way to turn on Admin rights while the application is running respectively only for one wizard page? Or do I have to start anot...
What version of .NET Framework is built-in for Windows 7? ...
Cant seem to get XP Mode working on my evaluation copy of windows 7. Is there any good software out there to test on multiple ie's on windows 7. IETESTER site has been down for at least a week now. ...
Firefox keeps showing me text in font size I didn't set in css . In IE6 ,7 ,8 and in Chrome text has proper size, but in FF it's bigger. I use font-size: 10pt in css , in one place I put font-size property , html is valid , css is valid . This only happens under Windows 7 . http://tommymedical.pl ...
Does anyone have a free text-editor that works well in Windows 7? I'm currently useing Programmer's Notpad 2, but it keeps crashing or having UI bug issues. LIST TextPad NOTEPAD++ GNU Emacs Zeus Lite Vim ...
Hello all, I was wondering if anyone could give me a starting point of how to capture the entire screen in Windows Vista/7? I know how to do it in previous versions of Windows, but would really like to keep everything in the D3D stack, without resorting to GDI/BltBit calls. I realize that you can get a live thumbnail of a given window...
Hello, I am developing some basic html pages, i am setting colors of text usimg color code #e7eddf it seems fine in windows but seems different in mac. Can you explain me why its happening and also suggest me some work around for that?? I am using firefox on both the mac and windows ...
I maintain a large C++ application using Win32 and i want to use some of the new controls introduced in Vista/Windows 7 (New ballon help, command links, status bar notofications. I have downloaded the Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines, but i dont find a corresponding API Reference. I know that some of these controls will b...
Hi, I wanted to access the thumb cache of vista and 7 to be used in my ImageList. I know how to do it in XP by means of the thumbs.db files, but in vista and 7 the thumbs.db is not present so how will i do it? ...
I am trying to get started on opengl programming from the videotutorialsrock.com site. It wants me to install GLUT and the OpenGL SDK. I was able to download GLUT successfully but the link he has on this page http://www.videotutorialsrock.com/opengl%5Ftutorial/get%5Fopengl%5Fsetup%5Fwindows/text.php does not work on my 64 bit Windows 7 i...
I am following the tutorial on the DJango site, which I previsouly did using Windows XP and everything went fine, but on Windows 7 I get the following error: sqlite3.OperationalError: unable to open database file I use the following: python manage.py sql Blog Does any one have any ideas what might be wrong. The database file is lo...