In one of our commercial applications (Win32, written in Delphi) we'd like to implement full text search. The application is storing user data in some kind of binary format that is not directly recognizable as a text. Ideally, I'd like to find either an in-process solution (DLL would be OK) or a local server that I could access via TCP ...
I've been using Destop.open() to launch a .pdf viewer on Windows machines, both Vista and XP, and most of them work just fine. However, on one XP machine the call does not work, simply returning without throwing any exceptions, and the viewer does not launch. On that machine the file association is properly set up as far as I can tell:...
Hi, Our current application is a single OpenGL EXE containing multiple pages. The EXE is responsible for accessing data sent across the network via UDP. It accumulates the data and stores it in a host of singleton structures. The individual pages within the EXE access the singleton structures to process the data as they see fit. In ...
On windows you have a problem you typically never encounter on Unix. That is how to get a thread to sleep for less than one millisecond. On Unix you typically have a number of choices (sleep, usleep and nanosleep) to fit your needs. On windows however there is only Sleep with millisecond granularity. You can however use the select system...
Is there an equivalent schema & data export/dumping tool for SQL Server as there is for MySQL with mysqldump. Trying to relocate a legacy ASP site and I am way out of happy place with working on a windows server. Note: The DTS export utility own seems to export data, without table defs. Using the Enterprise Manager and exporting the ...
Is the documentation for Rich Edit Controls really as bad (wrong?) as it seems to be? Right now I'm manually calling LoadLibrary("riched20.dll") in order to get a Rich Edit Control to show up. The documentation for Rich Edit poorly demonstrates this in the first code sample for using Rich Edit controls. It talks about calling InitComm...
Does anyone know how to flush the disk write cache data from the cache manager for the current directory (or any given file or directory, for that matter), from a Windows command line? ...
Anyone knows how to remove a USB drive using the win32 API? I do a lot of work on embedded systems and on one of these I have to copy my programs on a usb-stick an insert it into the target hardware. Since I mostly work on the console I don't like to use the mouse and click on the small task-bar icon hundret times a day. I'd love to w...
In JavaScript: encodeURIComponent("©√") == "%C2%A9%E2%88%9A" Is there an equivalent for C# applications? For escaping HTML characters I used: txtOut.Text = Regex.Replace(txtIn.Text, @"[\u0080-\uFFFF]", m => @"&#" + ((int)m.Value[0]).ToString() + ";"); But I'm not sure how to convert the match to the correct hexadecimal format t...
Two years ago, we shipped a multi-gigabyte Windows application, with lots of video files. Now we're looking to release a significant update, with approximately 1 gigabyte of new and changed data. We're currently looking at DVD fulfillment houses (like these folks, for example), which claim to be able to ship DVDs to our customers for $5...
Any recommendations on grep tools for Windows? Ideally ones that could leverage 64-bit OS. I'm aware of cygwin, of course, and have also found PowerGREP, but I'm wondering if there are any hidden gems out there. ...
After compiling a simple C++ project using Visual Studio 2008 on vista, everything runs fine on the original vista machine and other vista computers. However, moving it over to an XP box results in an error message: "The application failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect". What do I have to do so my compiled ...
I have several applications that are part of a suite of tools that various developers at our studio use. these applications are mainly command line apps that open a DOS cmd shell. These apps in turn start up a GUI application that tracks output and status (via sockets) of these command line apps. The command line apps can be started w...
I'm building a toy database in C# to learn more about compiler, optimizer, and indexing technology. I want to maintain maximum parallelism between (at least read) requests for bringing pages into the buffer pool, but I am confused about how best to accomplish this in .NET. Here are some options and the problems I've come across with ea...
I am getting an 403 access forbidden when attempting to open a page under a vhost where the document root is sitting on a different drive than where apache is sitting. I installed using the apachefriends release. This is my httpd-vhosts.conf file: NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1 <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1> ServerName foo.localhost Document...
Using Windows Server 2003 in a multi-user environment (via Remote Desktop, using it as an application server), how to mount a (preferably encrypted) volume in a way, that won't show up on any other user's desktop? Tried, and failed approaches: tweaking user rights -display of mounted volume can not be changed. Bestcrypt / truecrypt. B...
What is the best C++ IDE or editor for using on Windows? I use Notepad++, but am missing IntelliSense from Visual Studio. ...
On Windows, is there any way to programatically approve a USB device after insertion, if it is of a certain type (say Removable Drive) allow its use, otherwise not? Also not to allow running of drivers, only allow usage of the device in an approved way? I.E. We want to allow the insertion of USB drives, but not have to worry about viru...
Hi, there. The question is how to make the similar thing like symlink in windows like in *nix. It's really hard to write whole path to the file in console (even using [tab], it's not the way if you need to change language). Adding everything in PATH is tiring too. It'll be great to make a symlink running one command. Actually I'm lookin...
I am working on a small application in VB.NET. The program needs administrator privilege for doing some tasks. Is there a way to ask for administrator privileges during the execution if the program? What is the general way of changing the user account under which the application is running? ...