I've got a project that was written in BASIC. I'm not sure of the exact reason, but the app will not function except when being run from a FAT-16 file system. I'd rather try to set up and environment that will support this app in a modern OS (Vista/XP) instead of rewriting it. Does anyone know how to get an app like this running in...
Hello all, I thought that CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA\company\product should be the place to put files that are common for all users of the application and that the application can modify, however, on Vista this is a read-only location, unless modified by the installer (as per MSDN - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms995853.aspx), so.....
I need to save a users login information in encrypted form for this application im building but im not sure of the best place to save the file. I dont want to save it into the program apps folder as i want it per user. So what is the best folder (or way) to save it into? Edit: Using c++ ...
I've searched a lot for an answer for this question in the web: they say it's true, SBCL doesn't work under Vista. But I really need to work with lisp on my home Vista laptop and VM doesn't help really... And CL is not so interesting because of speed... If you have any recommendation, please share! ...
I want to be able to intercept the shutdown event in C# for Windows Vista. Due to the advanced security features with Vista, any applications that are running after the shutdown command is called are halted and displayed in a list, prompting the user to do something with them. Does anybody know how to overcome this and what events I ne...
Many, if not all, of my old VC++ 6.0 MFC apps don't work in Vista and Server 2008. I had that migration was a problem, but now it's my problem :( How do I go about making these things work? Is that possible? I've searched, but is there some repository of knowledge on this subject? edit: Compatibility mode seems to work. ...
I get the following error when attempting to install RubyGems. I've tried Googling but have had no luck there. Has anybody encountered and resolved this issue before? C:\rubygems-1.3.0> ruby setup.rb . . install -c -m 0644 rubygems/validator.rb C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/validator.rb install -c -m 0644 rubygems/version.rb ...
This question might not seem programming related at first, but let me explain. I'm stuck with using a keyboard that doesn't have "home" "end" "page up" and "page down" buttons. I need those functions for programming. So the question is: what's a good/free utility to define system wide shortcuts and macros in vista? Mapping for example ...
I noticed that writing to a file, closing it and moving it to destination place randomly fails on Vista. Specifically, MoveFileEx() would return ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED for no apparent reason. This happens on Vista SP1 at least (32 bit). Does not happen on XP SP3. Found this thread on the internets about exactly the same problem, with no re...
Hello everybody! For a project I built a custom DataGridView column which contains NumericUpDown controls. It is implemented similar to the suggestion from Microsoft The column works fine under Windows XP. It accepts the entered digits and decimal separator. Under Windows Vista I have the odd problem that the control only accepts the d...
For a university project I programmed a Internet Explorer Browser Helper Object to process web document information while browsing. It were running successful on Windows XP with IE6 and IE7. Now I have the issue that under Windows Vista the same BHO needs administrator rights to run. Browser and BHO running if you start the IE as admin...
I have two vista Business machines. I have IE 7 installed on both. On my first machine (Computer1) if I go to this site (http://www.quirksmode.org/js/detect.html), it says I am using "Explorer 6 on Windows". If I use Computer2 with Vista Business and IE7, it says I am using "Explorer 7 on Windows". Here is a screen capture. The same...
I can't shake this error when compiling my Visual Studio.NET 2008 solution. The project that's generating the error is a VB.NET Web Application in a 12 project solution (mixed types and languages). I've tried all the tricks I can find on google, and the obvious of removing the directoy and folder manually. I'm running Vista Business 3...
Please can someone advice what is the best place (path) to put some application data which should be accessible and editable by all users. This is considering both Windows XP and Windows Vista and i expect that change in any file of above path does NOT trigger UAC! ...
I'm using HttpListener to allow a user to set up a proxy on a user-defined port. When I start the HttpListener, I get an exception if the application isn't running under administrator privileges in Vista. From what I've read, this is expected behavior - administrator privileges are required to start listening on a port. But I'm sure the...
I installed CruiseControl.net ( from the CruiseControl.NET-1.4-Setup.exe installer ) on my Vista x64 development machine. The server portion is running fine; however, the webdashboard piece is not working. The first error message I saw when I tried to pull up http://localhost/ccnet squawked about not being able to run in integrated pip...
Hello, I am writing a very specialized app in C# that floats as a mostly transparent window over the entire desktop. I want to be able to create and pass mouse events to applications behind mine, and have them appear to operate "normally", responding to those events. It would also be preferable if the window manager could respond. I am ...
Hi all, I have been developing a C# windows form application in XP. It all works just fine. But in Vista it was not able to write the log or scoreboard file to the hard drive. I found out that I needed a manifest file to allow the popup to ask it to be run as admin. This all worked well and I am very pleased. My problem is I do not...
I installed Ruby and Ruby on Rails yesterday on Vista 32bit using the directions on this site: http://rubyonrails.org/down so I downloaded the installer, then Gems, then I downloaded rails with Gems. now I can't use the Gem or Ruby commands in the command line... so I assume there's something wrong with the environment variables, but I...
I am doing .net programming in addition to c and c++ development and want more flexibility on my home machine. I want to be able to have both Linux (probably Ubuntu) and Windows Vista on my home computer. Is there a way I can install both and on boot be prompted for which one to start? Is there a way to set Windows to default? I have...