How can I get my gtk buttons to look more like standard windows buttons? In this particular example, I have OK and Cancel buttons, but they're a different size than the OK and Cancel buttons in every windows app. How can I change their size to look more like windows'? ...
I have run into another problem with my current project. The program needs to values and keys periodically while running. Each time I attempt to edit the value, I get a code 5, Access Denied. How would I go about doing this so the values can be editied, but the user doesn't have to enter admin credentials to run the application? I am us...
Hi, I want to use windows 7 features like icon overlay, and thumbnail tasks but my question is that can i do it without using any other API on just my plain .net 3.5. i recently enabled jumplists on an application in my c#.net 3.5 using the Shell routine so can something like that be done for icon overlay and other windows 7 taskbar fe...
I'm trying to make my Gadget html to navigate to another page, but when I try to do it via window.location = 'http://newurl.com' It opens the address in a default browser new window. All I could do so far is to iframe the page in the gadget html (in the flyout html it didn't work), but the site I'm trying to frame has a frame detecto...
How to I detect if a Windows 7 computer has .NET Framework 3.5.1 feature checked, and in particularly, the "windows communication foundation http activation" feature turn-on? ...
Hello I had an php apliccation with mssql2000 (sql server 2000) , I'm using appserv 2.5.9 with apache2 and php5. I've upgraded my computer to Windows 7 Ultimate x64, and tryied to run the application, but it goes to sloooooooooooooooooooow Since like 2 years, works perfectly fine (not application problem, and no db problem, works fine...
Hi everyone, Got a nice new laptop for work but unfortunately I don't have any admin rights to install anything on it. I'm an amateur developer and would like to utilize the laptop at home to do some fun coding on the side (and to learn). What tools are available out there that I can use that won't require an installation or elevated pr...
Some of the applications running on Windows 7 (Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, in example) use the icon they present in the task bar to show a little progress bar. Is it possible to use that feature using the .NET Framework 3.5? ...
I created a new WCF project with the default template in VS 2010. I then created a console app to act as a client to connect to the WCF Service. Here is the code I am using to connect to the service: ServiceReference1.Service1Client client = new ServiceReference1.Service1Client(); CompositeType ctype = client.GetDataUsingDataContract...
Hi, I am usign WindowsApiCodePack for windows 7 to make a thumbnail toolbar for my form. In the form shown event i am doing this: tbButton1 = new ThumbnailToolbarButton(new Icon("myOverlayIcn.ico"), "Next Event"); tbButton1.Click += new EventHandler<ThumbnailButtonClickedEventArgs>(button1_Click); tbButton2 = new ThumbnailToolb...
Hi, i am trying to make a thumbnail toolbar for which i need a icon so i added icon using solution explorer in the resources folder now when i do Properties.Resources the icon name does not appear. code can be found here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3519181/problem-showing-thumbnail-toolbar-in-net-3-5-form thanks ...
Stumbled across this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8z6watww.aspx Is this strictly true? Does Windows 7 Starter edition really not support the .net framework? Or... - Can you get it to install anyway, just MS won't support it. - Are there older versions.. e.g 2.0 or 3.0 which will work? ...
Hello everybody. I'm using since today Eclipse on Windows 7 64bit. So eclipse is still pretty virgin, i just installed android plugin for it. And I have many memory problems with it, which I didn't have with a worse computer however on 32-bit-Windows XP. Did anybody make the same experience and what have you done to fix this out of m...
I'm currently working on my applications installer and I'm wondering where the executable files should be installed to in Windows 7. If I'm installing as admin my executables files get put in C:\Program Files. If I install my product as a normal user where should the executables be put? Thanks in advance. ...
Hi, I am trying to add programmatically a custom button to windows explorer toolbar in windows 7. I know how to add it manually but I need to do it in an installation process. Manually adding it involves changing windows registry. Also if someone knows how to take ownership of a key in windows registry (even beeing an administrator) and...
My application has a standard top level window for the application. I need to force a repaint of the window chrome (otherwise known as the non-client area of the window). I do not care if the client area is also repainted or not but the chrome itself needs to be forced to repaint. In particular I need this to work on Windows 7. Whether...
Hi I'm on windows 7 trying to set up with ODBC data source administrator a dBase DSN connection. We have this on the servers and I'm trying to replicate on my local machine to test but I can't find the Microsoft dBase driver that we use on my machine. Does anyone know how to get this on Windows 7? ...
I have made a TForm derivative that acts like the drop down part of a combo, or a hint window, or a popup menu - a temporary thing. It has no caption - its BorderStyle is set to bsNone. The form is displayed non-modally using Show, having set its position. To make it stand out, it needs a drop shadow around its border. However, a conseq...
I've noticed that some applications (eg. Visual Studio 2008, Gallio Icarus 3.1) don't look that great (eg. fonts are blurry) when I run them on my laptop which has fonts set to 120%, whereas other applications seem to render fonts crisply. I have unchecked the 'Enable Windows XP style scaling' option in the 'Custom DPI Setting' dialog i...
My program asks user if he wants it to be added to autorun, and it requires administrator rights to perform its code properly (level is set to "requireAdministrator" through manifest). However, after adding it to autorun through registry, Windows Defender blocks its start on system start-up due to it requiring administrator rights (as i...