I have a Windows application that uses a .NET PropertyGrid control. Is it possible to change the type of control that is used for the value field of a property? I would like to be able to use a RichTextBox to allow better formatting of the input value. Can this be done without creating a custom editor class? ...
I need to create a batch file which starts multiple console applications in a Windows .cmd file. This can be done using the start command. However, the command has a path in it. I also need to pass paramaters which have spaces as well. How to do this? E.g. batch file start "c:\path with spaces\app.exe" param1 "param with spaces" ...
Is there an API call in .NET or a native DLL that I can use to create similar behaviour as Windows Live Messenger when a response comes from someone I chat with? ...
I need to write a couple of python scripts to automate the installation of Microsoft Cluster Ressources. More specifically, I'll need to query MS Cluster to be able to get a list of ressources with their parameters. And I also need to be able to create resources and set their parameters. Is someone knows if there is a package/module....
I have a Windows XP SP2 virtual machine which can be accessed via VNC. It's also running Deep Freeze so there should be no problem in forcing it to reboot. I am looking for a way to force the operating system to reboot instead of shutting down or completely remove the ability to shut down the machine using software applications (such as ...
If I attempt to connect to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard's built in vnc server at a low color depth from Windows, the client bombs after connecting. It only works when I set it to the highest color depth. I've tried with at least 3 windows VNC clients. Any ideas? There some setting I can set in Mac OS X? It takes about 20 seconds to repaint the...
Windows file system is case insensitive. How, given a file/folder name (e.g. "somefile"), I get the actual name of that file/folder (e.g. it should return "SomeFile" if Explorer displays it so)? Some ways I know, all of which seem quite backwards: Given the full path, search for each folder on the path (via FindFirstFile). This gives ...
There's Quicktime SDK for Windows, but any application that uses it needs quicktime runtime libraries to be installed on the system (SDK itself just has headers and library stubs, and not the actual DLLs). If my application uses Quicktime, I'd like to install the necessary libraries with it's installer, thus not requiring user to instal...
How do you quickly find the URL for a Win32 API on MSDN? It's easy for .NET methods -- just add the method name (for example, System.Byte.ToString) to http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/. However, for Win32 APIs (say GetLongPathName), this doesn't work: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/GetLongPathName. I want to be able to use t...
Hi, The following question answers how you get large memory pages on Windows "how do i run my app with large pages in windows". The problem I'm trying to solve is how do I configure it on Vista and 2008 Server. Normally you just allow a specific user to lock pages in memory and you are done. However on Vista and 2008 this only works i...
Let's say I write a DLL in C++, and declare a global object of a class with a non-trivial destructor. Will the destructor be called when the DLL is unloaded? ...
We need to reliably get the Quick Launch folder for both All and Current users under both Vista and XP. I'm developing in C++, but this is probably more of a general Windows API question. For reference, here is code to get the Application Data folder under both systems: HRESULT hres; CString basePath; hres = SHGetSpecialFolderPath...
I'm trying to figure out what a Java applet's Class file is doing under the hood. Opening it up w/ Notepad or Textpad just shows a bunch of gobbley-gook. Any way to wrangle it back into a somewhat readable format so's I can try to figure out what it's doing? Environment == Windows w/ VS 2008 installed. ...
Hi, I want to add an item into the Desktop context menu (the menu you see when you right-click on an empty space on the Windows Desktop). Something like Catalyst Control Center in this screenshot: I know how to add items to files' and folders' context menus through registry, but the Desktop seems to work differently: I didn't even f...
I would like to call my unmanaged C++ libraries from my C# code. What are the potential pitfalls and precautions that need to be taken? Thank you for your time. ...
We have various php projects developed on windows (xampp) that need to be deployed to a mix of linux/windows servers. We've used capistrano in the past to deploy from windows to the linux servers, but recent changes in architecture and windows servers left the old config not working. The recipe works fine for the linux deployment, but ...
I have an ant build that makes directories, calls javac and all the regular stuff. The issue I am having is that when I try to do a clean (delete all the stuff that was generated) the delete task reports that is was unable to delete some files. When I try to delete them manually it works just fine. The files are apparently not open by an...
I have a command line program, which outputs logging to the screen. I want error lines to show up in red. Is there some special character codes I can output to switch the text color to red, then switch it back to white? I'm using ruby but I imagine this would be the same in any other language. Something like: red = "\0123" # characte...
We are using a software program at our school to enter IEPs (Individualized Education Programs). When entering goals and objectives for a student, users are provided with a Save and a Close button. Close is meant for users not wishing to save the goal they just chose. However, our users are sometimes wanting to back out of the screen ...
I have this idea for a free backup application. The largest problem I need to solve at the moment is how to access files which are being used or are system files. I would like the application to be able to perform a full backup of files (i.e. not on a disk sector by sector level). I'll turn the server part of the application into a ser...