windows-xp

Which free HTML/CSS IDE has best readable code formatting ?

Which free HTML/CSS IDE has best readable code formatting for XHTML and CSS ? in one click or from keyboard shortcut? I don't want to give more time to proper indention, tab ec, want to select whole code and give good-looking formatting. I need easliy scanable Code formatting and syntax highlighting. and missing things (if anything is ...

What directories do the different Application SpecialFolders point to in WindowsXP and Windows Vista.

Namely I have: Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData Environment.SpecialFolder.CommonApplicationData Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData I am unclear as to were these point to in Windows XP and/or Windows Vista. What I found so far is that the ApplicationData points to the ApplicationData Folder for the current user i...

How do you place controls on the chrome of a WPF Window when the user is on Windows XP?

How can you place controls on a frame of a WPF window? I took a look at this but I don't know how to do this in WPF. link textThe problem comes when The application has to run on Windows XP where there is no DWM support. Also, if this is running on Vista without DWM, could the article still work? ...

WxPython, popup menus, callbacks and Windows XP

My goal: the user clicks a button. From the button pops up a two-level menu. The user clicks on something, and this triggers a callback which does stuff. Here is a minimal example: import wx class MyApp(wx.App): def OnInit(self): frame = TestFrame(None, -1, "Hello from wxPython") frame.Show(True) self.Set...

Unkillable console windows

I'm developing an OpenGL based 2d simulation with GLUT under Visual C++ 2008, sometimes when I have an assert() or unhandled exception and break into the debugger, the GLUT display window closes, but the console window remains open.They just cant be killed!!! They do not show up with Task manager, Process Explorer or any other tool, I c...

What are good diff tools that are self contained and can be used from a ...

What are good diff tools that are self contained (small in size and in as little files as possible), and can be used from an USB with no extra fuss ? Not looking for command line ones. So far I found diffuse ... any more like it ? ...

Two Ubuntu Instances (Guest) networking with XP (Host) in virtual box v3.1.4

So here is my current objective: I need to create two guest instances of Ubuntu Desktop 9.10 in VirtualBox on a WindowsXP host. (This is needed for communications later on.) (this step is almost done) I need to establish networking between all three OS's, the host and two guests (Guest1 -> Host -> Guest2). I know that generally, to es...

Program to create window transparency in XP

I'm looking for a program to create window transparency within Windows XP; somewhat like Glass2K. I've used Glass2K and found it extremely processor intensive and would like to try something else. The application needs to act upon the current Windows Theme rather than be a theme itself like Aero Glass. ...

Can't write the SysWow64 value to registry with vbscript for Screensaver

Scripts, registries, screen-savers, oh my! I'm trying to use a screen-saver on a Windows XP 64 bit machine which uses a .NET app which makes an interop call which relies on some x86 Shockwave Dlls (some Shockwave animation). Everything should be in the %systemroot%\WINNT\SysWOW64 directory. When the timeout for the screensaver occurs,...

Visual Studio 2010 RC with Office 2010 and Office 2007 installed

I have Visual Studio 2010 installed on my Windows XP development machine along with Office 2007 Professional and Office 2010 Professional. I am trying to develop several add-ins for Office 2007; however, I prefer to use Office 2010 on a day-to-day basis. How do I set Visual Studio 2010 to install the add-in and open Word 2007 when I pr...

python on 32 bit

Hi I am running Windows XP, on 32bit. How do I install python? When I run the installation file, it gives me an error saying "installation package not supported by processor type" does python need 64 bit to execute? ...

Microsoft.Web.Administration on Windows XP

Is it possobile to use / reference Microsoft.Web.Administration in Visual Studio on Windows XP ? I know, that is not possible to install IIS 7 on XP, but I (must) use Windows XP as a development machine. ...

Problem add site to IIS6

I have installed IIS6 in my pc that have the OS in XP. I have installed - IIS6 Manager, - IIS6 Resource Kit Tools I can open: Start>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Internet Information Services (IIS6) Manager , But I cant add new site in IIS, I can't see the wwwroots site. In the right click in Internet Information Services I can ...

IP Address Lookup in VB.net (XP vs Windows 7)

Currently I use the following code to retrieve the IP address of the local workstation... strIPAddress = System.Net.Dns.GetHostEntry(strComputerName).AddressList(0).ToString() This is fine for the Windows XP workstations. However, in Vista and Windows 7, this returns the IPv6 address which is not used at all. Is there a method of sett...

How can I programatically force Windows XP to display thumbnails for a folder?

I have an application that calls ShellExecute with a folder path. This brings up the folder in explorer. However, I want to make sure that the folder is set to display the contents in thumbnail view. How can I ensure this happens? ...

unable to use turboc through xp. why? solution?

Hi, I'm having problems opening directly TurboC++ compiler(dos version) on Windows X. if I click on the TurboC++ icon through windows GUI it opens for a sec(a blank dos screen) and shuts down. so i have to access it through the command line i.e., cmd (enter) c:\tc\bin (enter) tc.exe This way TurboC++ opens and I'm able to program and...

how to find all application/Thread running in a process in windows application in c# ?

Hello All, i want to get list of all application or Threads attached with a process.For example when we open different window all run with explorer.exe or we open different window of mozila all are in firefox.exe. i have to check that if a window is all ready open no need to open this.and if it is in background or minimized then then ac...

Replacing "," with a "." in cmd on all files in a directory

The title pretty much says it all. What would be the easiest way to replace commas in all files it can find in the current directory with dots? (preferably, without installing some extra tools, but I'll settle for something small .... cygwin's not small :) ...

How to view Mercurial changeset changes using a GUI diff tool

We use both Examdiff and Kdiff3 to view Mercurial changes. Just add this to .hgrc: [extdiff] cmd.kdiff3 = cmd.examdiff = C:\Program Files\ExamDiff Pro\ExamDiff.exe And then you can type hg examdiff or hg diff3 to see a complete diff of all your changes. What I would like is to do the same to see a "before and after" of files for a...

How do I compile for windows XP under windows 7 / visual studio 2008

I'm running Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2008 Pro and trying to get my application to work on Windows XP SP3. It's a really minimal command line program so should have any ridiculous dependencies: // XPBuild.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application. // #include "stdafx.h" int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) { pr...