What's a windows command line statement(s) I can use to get the current datetime in a format that I can put into a filename? I want to have a .bat file that zips up a directory into an archive with the current date & time as part of the name, eg "Code_2008-10-14_2257.zip". Is there any easy way I can do this, independent of the regiona...
Does anyone know if there is an API to get the current monitor state (on or off) in Windows (XP/Vista/2000/2003)? All of my searches seem to indicate there is no real way of doing this. This thread tries to use GetDevicePowerState which according to Microsoft's docs does not work for display devices. In Vista I can listen to GUID_MO...
Various programs can do stuff only when you haven't used the computer for a while (eg screensaver, Google Desktop indexing, etc). How do they know when it has been inactive? Is there some function in Windows that tells you how long it has been inactive, or do you have to use some kind of keyboard/mouse hook to track activity yourself? ...
I'm trying to create a self-contained version of pisa (html to pdf converter, latest version), but I can't succeed due to several errors. I've tried py2exe, bb-freeze and cxfreeze. This has to be in windows, which makes my life a bit harder. I remember that a couple of months ago the author had a zip file containing the install, but now...
I'm looking for a method to acurately determine if an interface is the physical 802.3 ethernet port on a pc in windows. Using ipconfig /all I can list all the interfaces, and when I do this on my pc several entries can be listed here including VPN, Bluetooth, Wifi and the physical ethernet interface. I'm looking for something like, "is...
I have a VB6 application that needs to update it's self. For this purpose, the PM has recommended using a batch file that is to be launched from the application. The batch file should kill the process, download the new version from a local server, overwrite the old files and launch the application again. My problem with this is that I am...
Which one you have used is the best? I have used DotNetPanel before and looks quite ok, except lack of SQL Server administration tool (I mean something to a level like phpMyAdmin for MySQL) any good suggestion? Features I would like: 1. Application Pool Management if possible 2. SQL Server Management 3. Speedy ajax file manager 4. Manag...
I've got two applications I'm developing using Qt on windows. I want the user to be able to press a button in one application which makes the other application come to the foreground. (The programs communicate using QLocalSocket / named pipes) Currently I'm using Qt's QWidget::activateWindow() which occasionally brings the application t...
This is not yet particularly programing related but, I am very interested in how Vista and XP resolve network names in a home LAN situation. With Windows 2000, network name resolution was either done via the netbeui protocol - tcp/ip networks needes a wins server. XP and Vista no longer install netbeui by default, so its entirely unclea...
Are you aware of any serious performance problems with checking if a file exists before you open it and send it? The context for this is a web application that serves up files dynamically via an ASP page. I was told that there is no check for whether or not the file exists because the database stores this information and shouldn't be wro...
There seems to be lots of different ways to register assemblies with the GAC, as in, they 'work'. However, what's the "proper" way of doing it? In response to Lou Franco (and gacutil): I'm using Gacutil for development, but it seems to me to be not the proper way to install it, since gacutil isn't included in the basic .NET utilities ...
I'm copying a file from folder A to folder B and then trying to copy the file permisions. Here are the basic steps I'm using: CopyFile(source, target) GetNamedSecurityInfo(source, GROUP_SECURITY_INFORMATION | DACL_SECURITY_INFORMATION) Print source SD using ConvertSecurityDescriptorToStringSecurityDescriptor SetNamedSecurityInfo(target...
The company I work for currently uses "Go To Meeting" to share our desktops but it's quite expensive for what we use it for and we are looking for cheaper (or even free) alternatives. We have evaluated yuuguu and yugma but they aren't up to scratch. They are both slow and only allow the sharers to share the entire desktop as opposed to ...
I'm running PHP 5.2.6 on a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise box. IIS is set to deny anonymous access and use Integrated Windows authentication. I'm using a PHP script to save a file uploaded from a web form. The file is uploaded to a temp folder, the script creates a file name and path depending on other variables from the web form, and ...
I need a way to determine whether the computer running my program is joined to any domain. It doesn't matter what specific domain it is part of, just whether it is connected to anything. I'm coding in vc++ against the Win32 API. ...
Hello all, Is there a JSP script I can run to point to a JPEG file on the local filesystem to be printed to the Windows default printer? Thanks. Edit: I have the file on my server already. How would I load the file into a browser to run window.print()? Thanks ...
Can anyone recommend a good Ribbon interface library? I can see that Microsoft is (maybe) planning to release a native Ribbon interface library in Windows 7: http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080917/windows-scenic-new-ribbon-based-ui-platform/ But for now, which 3rd party libraries are the best? ...
I've installed the Windows XAMPP package on three separate computers, 2 running Windows Vista 32 bit ( 1 Ultimate / 1 Home Premium ) and 1 running Windows Vista 64 Home Premium. After enabling xdebug in php.ini and restarting apache, viewing the default XAMPP localhost index causes apache to crash in the same way every time, reporting '...
I'm wondering if it is possible to deploy Windows Media Foundation without Windows media player 10 or 11? Here's the context. I have a WPF application running in a corporate enterprise setting. WPF requires Windows Media Foundation for rich media support. Windows Media Foundation is distributed via Windows media player 10 and 11. The co...
Trying to implement a progress dialog window for file uploads that look like a cross between IE download dialog and Firefox download dialog with a python GUI library on Windows. What asynchronous (S)FTP libraries are there for python? Ideally I should be able to do file upload resumes and track the progress of each parallel file upload...