At work I'm using Perl 5.8.0 on Windows. When I first put Perl on, I went to CPAN, downloaded all the sources, made a few changes (in the .MAK file? to support threads, or things like that), and did nmake / nmake test / nmake install. Then, bit by bit, I've downloaded individual modules from CPAN and done the nmake dance. So, I'd like ...
Does anyone have a good guide to capabilities of Windows Services under XP? In particular, I am trying to find out what happens when a program being run as a service tries to open windows, but hasn't been given permission to interact with the desktop. Basically, I have a program that is/was a GUI application, that should be able to run ...
I'm interested to know the best / common way of storing a this pointer for use in the WndProc. I know of several approaches, but each as I understand it have their own drawbacks. My questions are: What different ways are there of producing this kind of code: CWindow::WndProc(UINT msg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM) { this->DoSomething(); } ...
On X Windows I had a cool 'silent-alarm" reminder script that would change my root window (background) color to solid red, just for a few seconds a few moments before changing it back. Is there a way to do this for Windows XP? I'm thinking some kind of scheduled task that uses cscript to set registry keys (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Pane...
At work, we have a windows server 2003 with IIS and Subversion installed. We use it to publish and test locally our ASP.NET websites. Every programmer has Tortoise installed on his PC and can update/commit content to the server. Hosting the repositories is working fine. But the files kept in those repositories needs then to be copied to...
What tool would you recommend to monitor the connectivity status of a machine, this is if a given machine it is able to connect to some web servers over time. It should be able to log the status. There is a long list of freeware at http://ping-monitors.qarchive.org/ ...
I remember my old Radeon graphics drivers which had a number of overlay effects or color filters (whatever they are called) that would render the screen in e.g. sepia tones or negative colors. My current NVIDIA card does not seem to have such a function so I wondered if it is possible to make my own for Vista. I don't know if there is s...
I want to create a keyboard and mouse hook which will be started as a windows service. I want to monitor the activity of the various users who use the system throughout the day. i.e. which users are active at what times. Is is possible to determine which user will be receiving the events? (The service will be running as a separate user ...
Where can I find the IIS object schema? All I found from MSDN was a picture of the class hierarchy. To be clear, I want to configure IIS through either WMI or ADSI and I'm looking for something like the Active Directory schema, only for IIS. I want a list of all the objects I can configure, which objects they can be contained in and wha...
Sometimes, we experiment "access denied" errors due to the antivirus which handles the file at the same time our program wants to write/rename/copy it. This happens rarely but makes me upset because I don't find the good way to deal with: technically our response is to change our source code to implement kind of retry mechanism... but w...
Can someone give me some working examples of how you can create, add messages, read from, and destroy a private message queue from C++ APIs? I tried the MSDN pieces of code but i can't make them work properly. Thanks ...
I have just installed Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition and therefore IIS6 (comes as standard). I have also install the windows component that enable the administration of IIS from the browser (https://server:8098/). The problem I have is that I have to log-in to this tool but the Server Administrator u/name and p/word does not let me...
I would like to replace the default malloc at link time to use a custom malloc. But when I try to redefine malloc in my program, I get this error: MSVCRT.lib(MSVCR80.dll) : error LNK2005: _malloc already defined in test.lib(test.obj) This works perfectly on any Unix, and it works on Windows with most functions, but not with malloc. Ho...
I'm currently having a major issue with a python script. The script runs arbitrary commands through a handler to convert incorrect error reporting into correct error reporting. The issue I'm having is getting the script to work correctly on windows with a command that contains ampersands in it's path. I've attempted quoting the command,...
I've been using: Webmin Free, Apache only Cpanel Paid, Apache only I believe Plesk Paid, supports IIS Recently managing sites on our Windows/IIS machines have been becoming a chore. Installations, Configurations, Monitoring; have all been mostly done by hand and with a mess of scripts we've put together over time. Does anyone know o...
Ruby's standard popen3 module does not work on Windows. Is there a maintained replacement that allows for separating stdin, stdout, and stderr? ...
I've been using Git on Linux for about a year, and everything works fine. Since recently, a colleague has joined development and he's using Windows. Everything works fine there as well, but sometimes when he tries to push changes to a remote repository (bare) on Linux server it bails out with 'Invalid file descriptor' message. I update ...
Can I simulate in C#/C++ code Control-Alt-Delete sequence in Vista? When UAC enabled/disabled? How it is done in XP? Can you provide a code sample that works in Vista? ...
Do any C++ GNU standalone classes exist which handle paths cross platform? My applications build on Windows and LInux. Our configuration files refer to another file in a seperate directory. I'd like to be able to read the path for the other configuration file into a class which would work on both Linux or Windows. Which class would o...
I ran into an issue when installing Team Foundation Server 2008 Workgroup Edition. I have a Windows Server 2003 SP2 machine that's practically new. I have installed SQL Server 2008 with almost all of the options. When I run through the TFS installation, it allows me to enter my SQL instance name and then goes through the verification pro...