What is Windows' best I/O event notification facility? By best I mean something that ... doesn't have a limit on number of input file descriptors works on all file descriptors (disk files, sockets, ...) provides various notification modes (edge triggered, limit triggered) ...
Hi, I'm looking for a profiler in order to find the bottleneck of my c++ code. I'd like to find a free, non intrusive, good profiling tool. I'm a game developer and I use PIX for Xbox360, I found it very good (but not free) I know the Intel v-Tune, but it's not free. There exists any free profiling tool? ...
Some points to consider when answering my question: I'm new to PHP, coming from a Windows / .NET background My PHP dev enviroment consists of a Vista x64 / IIS7 with FastCGI / PHP5 I need something light-weight The following features would be nice Syntax highlighting and colorization Code formating Auto-completion ...
I manage a high-school computer lab with ~40 machines, have old PCs with varying hardware. I need to roll out Windows XP + a standard set of apps and settings for new machines, and to re-format older machines. What tool is available to help with this? It doesn't have to be perfect, but if it minimizes the time I set in front of machine...
I'm looking to have windows recognize that certain folders are associated to my application - maybe by naming the folder 'folder.myExt'. Can this be done via the registry? A bit more info - This is for a x-platform app ( that's why I suggested the folder with an extension - mac can handle that ) - The RAD I'm using doesn't read write ...
I need to use XmlRpc in C++ on a Windows platform. Despite the fact that my friends assure me that XmlRpc is a "widely available standard technology", there are not many libraries available for it. In fact I only found one library to do this on Windows, (plus another one that claims "you'll have to do a lot of work to get this to compi...
Possible Duplicates: ipod touch / iphone development on Windows? iPhone development on Windows I don't have a mac, but I wish to develop iPhone applications on Windows platform. Is this possible? ...
I have a shortcut on my desktop which opens a command prompt with many arguments that I need. I set the 'start in' field to d:\ and it works as expected (the prompt starts in d:). When I choose Advanced -> run as administrator and then open the shortcut, it starts in C:\Windows\System32, even though I have not changed the 'start in' fi...
Is there anyone out there who has Windows Server 2008 virtual hosting under $75/mo? ...
Hello, I suspect that one of my applications eats more CPU cycles than I want it to. The problem is - it happens in bursts, and just looking at the task manager doesn't help me as it shows immediate usage only. Is there a way (on Windows) to track the history of CPU & Memory usage for some process. E.g. I will start tracking "firefox", ...
I'd like to to associate a file extension to the current executable in C#. This way when the user clicks on the file afterwards in explorer, it'll run my executable with the given file as the first argument. Ideally it'd also set the icon for the given file extensions to the icon for my executable. Thanks all. ...
I have apache 2.2 and tomcat 5.5 running on a Windows XP machine. Which tomcat/apache connector is the easiest to set up and is well documented? ...
We have a number of scripts that we use for various deployment and data import tasks. These are currently called through a number of command lines calls or batch files. We'd prefer a cool little interface to run them and collect feedback rather than a plethora of drop downs. This will probably be developed in our developer's "20% time" ...
Hi. I have a problem (and have been having it for some time now) -- the new sound mixer stack in Vista features new cool things, but also re-invents the wheel. Many applications that used to use Volume Mixer on a Windows system to mix different voiced outputs into one input (for example Wave-out + Line-in --> Stereo Mix) have since stopp...
We need to optimize the text rendering for a C# Windows Forms application displaying a large number of small strings in an irregular grid. At any time there can be well over 5000 cells visible that update 4 times per second. The font family and size is consistent across the cells, though the color may vary from cell to cell, as will bo...
Hi! Does anybody know of a tool to test OCSP responses? Preferably, something that can be used from a Windows Command-line and/or can be included (easily) in a Java/python program ...
I have created a namespace extension that is rooted under Desktop. The main purpose of the extension is to provide a virtual list of ZIP files that represent a list of configurable directories. When the user clicks one of the those items the contents of the related directory are zipped in place and the resulting ZIP file is stored in a c...
The win32.perl.org web site provides references to several Perl distributions for MS Windows. For a long time I have been using ActivePerl from ActiveState but recently I switched to Strawberry Perl. IMHO The only advantage that Active Perl still has over Strawberry Perl is the fact that it comes with Perl Tk which means its easy to ...
I'm teaching (or trying to teach) computer programming to a grad-student. Her previous experience amounts to little more than writing spreadsheet formulae. Which IDE or text editor should I recommend? Please bear in mind that: I only meet my student about once a week. She uses Windows and I use Linux. She doesn't have a community of...
How do I make one? I am kind of a newbie in Windows API. Is there some sort of manual for this sort of thing? I am specifically interested in a Core API. Thank you for any help. ...