windows-xp

django access local testing url

I am running windows xp and django 1.2.1 locally. I was wondering if there is a way to allow outside applications to be able to access a url in my local app. For example I would like the url: http://www.127.0.0.1:8000/my-url to be able to receive push notifications from a webapp while I am working locally. It's a pain to have to upl...

Error in opening Silverlight 4 application thorugh aspx page in XP

Hi, I created a silverlight business application on VS2010 in my Win7 virtual PC. I only added a button to home.xaml..rest everything else is untouched in the template's code. I deployed the application on IIS 7 and when I try access it on win XP machine..I get an error "Unhandled Error in Silverlight Application" code: 2105 After a b...

How do I scrape what a transparent panel shows into a bitmap?

Question: How do I scrape what a transparent panel shows into a bitmap? Background: I need to make a form that sits on top of everything and blurs part of the screen but doesn't stop the user from interacting with it. Odd... I know. I created a form and added a panel to it. I then set the set background color of the panel to red. Th...

Script to open newest image (latest timestamp) in XP?

Hello- I need some type of script or command that when triggered, opens up the most recent timestamped .jpg file within a specific folder ex: c:\images I will use autohotkey to call the script/command (AHK may even be able to execute for all I know) at specific intervals. Any help appreciated. Thanks! ...

Advantage of running Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 7 instead of Windows XP

Is there any advantage of running Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 7 instead of Windows XP? ...

How to convert an image file to BMP programmatically using native Windows XP capabilities?

Is it possible to convert an image file to BMP format using WindowsXP's native libraries and scripting capabilities? I'm talking about WSH, JScript, VBS, etc... C++ is also good for what I need if it can be compiled with Dev-C++ ...

Silverlight button.Click event not fired while tapping the touchpad under XP/Bootcamp

Is that only me? What did I smoke? Anyway... I notice the following strange thing: Silverlight button.Click event isn't fired while tapping the touchpad under XP/Bootcamp. Pressing the touchpad (that produces the nice "schhhkklong" sound) then fires the click event as expected. Except silverlight every buttons under XP/Bootcamp UI reac...

PrincipalContext.ValidateCredentials Always Returns False With Machine ContextType on XP

I'm using PrinciaplContext.ValidateCredentials to validate a set of credentials against the local machine: string account = Context.ReadLine(); string pass = Context.ReadLine(); using (var context = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Machine)) { bool valid = context.ValidateCredentials(account, pass); Console.WriteLine("valid: "...

Install WinForms application without admin rights

I develop a Windows Forms application using VS 2008. Application will be deployed in Corporate Environment: a network (VPN, LAN) is in several cities, many PC clients Windows XP; and there is a only Server Win2003, with several WCF Services, Windows Service, shared folders, and Database that use the WinForms app. Network is WORKGROUP, no...

problems deploying with capistrano from windows

Hi, I am trying to set up capistrano with github so that I can deploy from my windows XP laptop to my ubuntu server. Capistrano gives the following output when I run cap deploy: $ cap deploy * executing `deploy' * executing `deploy:update' ** transaction: start * executing `deploy:update_code' updating the cached checkout o...

how to implement windows 7/vista window flip on windows xp?

I have try using DirectX to capture and rotate output, but the output effect is static, not like in windows 7 win+tab. ...

git ignore exception not working as desired

WinXP + mysisGit1.7 In my .gitignore file, but still can't see Demos/path/to/file/file.cpp being tracked by git. I have below entries: Demos/ !Demos/path/to/file/file.cpp The absolute path is: c:\Project\Demos\path\to\file\file.cpp What could be wrong? Please help, thanks. EDIT: I found the way how mysisGit .gitignore work on ...

Android development on Eclipse + Win XP - Autocomplete syntax hangs.

I switched from a Mac to my PC because Eclipse on a Mac was killing me. Windows definitely is much better, but eclipse hangs for 5-6 seconds everytime I try to make it autocomplete my syntax. Say when I hit imgView. and wait for it to pull up an image view properties, it just hangs for 5 seconds and then pulls them up. Is there any way ...

Why could Curl be slower than a web browser?

I am using this class to make one GET and another POST request to a website (the first request is to set a cookie). I am testing in a Win XP virtual machine with virtualbox, using wamp from wampserver dot com. The 2 requests takes from 10 to 18 seconds (with curl), but if I make those request directly via the webbrowser in that same virt...

Windows service dll search path.

I have developed a windows service using .net . My service makes some calls to unmanaged code like follows - [DllImport("cmxConnect.dll")] private unsafe static extern String cmxQuery([MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] String s, long* connPointer); I have placed cmxConnect.dll within the same folder as the service executable. The servi...

django-admin.py startproject is not working

after installing django I tried django-admin.py startproject mysite and that worked, then I got a simple site working and I wanted to start on something real, so I tried django-admin.py startproject newsite and nothing happened. Whenever I try the command nothing happens now.. any idea what is wrong? ...

Batch file to change all network shares on computer

I need to change all shares of //foo to //bar in a batch file. Say i have R: //foo/foo and Z: //foo/bar I need to have a batch script that makes them R: //bar/foo and Z: //bar/bar Anyone have any idea how to do this? I'm thinking of looping through somehow with net use but that's as far as I've come. Will be researching myself as well ...

CastleProject ActiveRecord and SQLite XP-only problem

Hi, I have written a stand-alone Windows Forms application in Visual Studio 2005 using C#, CastleProject ActiveRecord and SQLite as database (using the SQLite connector). The published application (the binaries from the bin directory) works perfectly on windows vista and windows 7 computers, however when copied to a Windows XP computer...

What is the maximum length of a Windows XP drive label?

Hi, Question is pretty much self-explanatory. I'm working with naming USB drives if that matters. Thanks. ...

How to acess COM port of remote system?

I Want to access the COM port present in the remote system from system. Any help would be appreciable. I am using windows XP in both remote as well as local system. ...