I work in the embedded world, using mainly C and no GUI at all (because there is no display screen). Moving over to the non-embedded world, in which I have nearly no experience, what is the best programming environment (langauge/IDE/etc) for me to build a simple window-form application that will run on all the common platforms: windows/...
What's the best way to maintain a multiple databases across several platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris) and keep them in sync with one another? I've tried several different programs and nothing seems to work! ...
Is there a way to develop iPhone applications on Windows? I really don't want to get yet another machine. There is a project on http://code.google.com/p/winchain/wiki/HowToUse that seemed to work with iPhone 1.0, but had limited success with iPhone 2.0, plus it requires all the Cygwin insanity. Is there anything else, or do I have...
I need to build a simple, single user database application for Windows. Main requirements are independence from windows version and installed software. What technologies (language/framework) would you recommend? My preference for language is the Visual Basic. EDIT: What about VB.Net and SQL Server Compact Edition? ...
I have an application that is installed and updated via ClickOnce. The application downloads files via FTP, and therefore needs to be added as an exception to the windows firewall. Because of the way that ClickOnce works, the path to the EXE changes with every update, so the exception needs to change also. What would be the best way t...
The only experience I have so far with a touchscreen interface was one where everything was custom drawn, and I get the feeling it's not the most efficient way of doing it (even the most basic layout change is hell to make). I know plenty of GUI toolkits intended at keyboard & mouse interfaces, but can you advise something suited for tou...
Is there an easy way (in .Net) to test if a Font is installed on the current machine? ...
I am interested to learn: what are the most common technical causes (from the perspective of operating system programming) of an operating system crash (not limited to Windows crashes)? I'm looking for an answer not like "too many apps open", but what specifically happens when too many apps are open that causes the crash. ...
I have a Windows executable (whoami) which is crashing every so often. It's called from another process to get details about the current user and domain. I'd like to know what parameters are passed when it fails. Does anyone know of an appropriate way to wrap the process and write it's command line arguments to log while still calling...
I'm looking for good windows GUI library for C++. The Ideal in my opinion shoud be: Modern. MFC, wxWidgets, Qt were started a long time ago and they don't use modern C++ features and standard library. Have a rich set of controls with decent features. The ability to drop HTML almost everywhere is a happiness for which I love wxWidgets ...
We have various servers that have many directories shared. It's easy enough to look at the share browser to see what the "top level" shares are, but underneath is a jumbled mess of custom permissions, none of which is documented. I'd like to enumerate all the shares on the domain (definitely all the 'servers', local PCs would be nice) a...
I have been trying to produce a statically linked "single binary" version of my game for windows. I want to link with sdl, sdl_image and sdl_mixer which in turn pull in a few support libraries. Unfortunately I haven't found a way to get them all to compile and link using cygwin/mingw/gcc. As far as I can tell all existing public versions...
I'd like to know how to grab the Window title of the current active window (i.e. the one that has focus) using C#. ...
Suppose you have a full path to an accessible file or folder on the system. How can I get some kind of unique identifier for the physical device that the file (or folder) actually resides on? My first attempt was to use System.IO.DriveInfo which depends on having a drive letter. But UNC paths and multiple network drives mapped to the ...
How do I programatically (Using C#) find out what the path is of my My Pictures folder? Does this work on XP and Vista? ...
So, at my current job we're usually 1-3 developers, 1-2 art directors and 1 project manager on each project, with the smallest ones just being one of each and the larger ones being three developers and two art directors. I'm looking for a software, combination of softwares or some type of service that will allow us to manage our project...
I know C is not a very popular language but I need it for school. I'm fine working on Linux using gcc as my C compiler but would like a Windows solution. Any ideas? I've looked at Dev-C++ from Bloodshed but looking for more options. ...
What's the best way for a running C or C++ program that's been launched from the command line to put itself into the background, equivalent to if the user had launched from the unix shell with '&' at the end of the command? (But the user didn't.) It's a GUI app and doesn't need any shell I/O, so there's no reason to tie up the shell af...
I'm trying to build a Windows installer using Nullsoft Install System that requires installation by an Administrator. The installer makes a "logs" directory. Since regular users can run this application, that directory needs to be writable by regular users. How do I specify that all users should have permission to have write access to ...
From time to time I need to dump usb traffic under windows, mostly to support hardware under Linux, so my primary goal is to produce dump files for protocol analysis. For USB traffic, it seems that SniffUsb is the clear winner... It works under XP and has much nicer GUI than earlier versions. It produce huge dump files, but everything i...