I have a string containing a date, and another string containing the date format of the first string. Is there a function that I can call to convert that date into something like a SYSTEMTIME structure? Basically, I'd like the opposite of GetDateFormat(). ...
Are pipes considered dangerous to use in Windows, from a security standpoint? ...
I notice that Windows XP Event Viewer show a list of typical actions under System logs every time I start or shutdown Windows, and I can tell when my day starts and ends. Is there anyways I can record the time every time I lock my screen and every time I re-login? There maybe a way to fool System Event Logger into submission, but a fre...
I'm new to Windows programming and after reading the Petzold book I wonder: is it still good practice to use the TCHAR type and the _T() function to declare strings or if I should just use the wchar_t and L"" strings in new code? I will target only Windows 2000 and up and my code will be i18n from the start up. ...
const char* title = "old title"; HWND hwnd = FindWindow(title, title); SetWindowText(hwnd, "new title"); This sets the title bar to "new title", but the caption in the task bar is still "old title". How do I set both? If relevant, this is being done in a DLL loaded in the process which owns the window. ...
I am running GNU Emacs on Windows so entering: M-x shell launches the Windows command-line DOS shell. However, I would like to instead be able to run the Cygwin Bash Shell (or any other non-Windows shell) from within Emacs. How can this be easily done? ...
Does anyone know of a better GUI client for displaying Windows System Monitor log files? (System Monitor is sometimes called Performance Monitor.) I'm trying to track a long-term memory leak in a C# application running on Windows XP or 2K3 by comparing memory usages to run logs. Specifically I want a client that will allow me to see the...
My understanding is that in unix, when memory is freed, the memory doesn't get returned back to the operating system, it stays in the process to be used again for the next call to malloc. On windows, I understand that the memory actually gets returned to the operating system. Is there any big difference between these two ways of doing ...
I want to be able to selectively copy a list of files and preserve their directory structure. The problem is that there are quite a few files that their path exceeds 256 character. How is this problem usually handled? Edit: I should make it clear that I only want to selectively copy files, not folders. I don't think robocopy can be e...
Our CD autostarts, but occasionally customers have that disabled (by a CD burner, etc.). As a backup, we include instructions on the back of our CD (below). I'm trying to find better instructions, for Windows XP and above. (Ideally for Windows 98 and above) CURRENT If it does not auto-start: Repeat instructions (above) once. If that ...
I'm fairly new to deploying desktop applications, so this is the first time I'm building an installer for my software. Currently, the first time I run my software after installing it, it crashes. After that, it runs fine. I'm still in the process of debugging this issue, but I've noticed that a reboot immediately after installing and ...
Hi, I am working with a peripheral device that needs to be communicated through serial. I can send it commands using Hyperterminal, but now I need to write programs that will let me do it without Hyperterminal. Can somebody point me to a website and/or show me a sample hello world program to get me started? I have searched for many s...
I've tried downloading the Rails package and installing it on Windows, but have no idea to make it work. I have had some experience with this commbination: PHP 4.x + 5.x (Windows) LIGHTTPD (Windows) Connecting to a Firebird Database (Windows) Can anybody enlighten me? ...
I have an application running only on Windows and a batch file that launches it. I want to invoke this batch file from Linux, meaning something like Linux batch will launch the windows batch with parameters and this in its turn run my application. Can I do that? How? ...
I'm using TortoiseHg 0.5 (which includes Mercurial 1.0.2) on Vista64. My understanding from the Mercurial Book is that Mercurial should handle filenames in a case-insensitive manner on a case-insensitive filesystem (such as NTFS, which is what I'm on). However I find that my installation of Mercurial is in fact sensitive to case: >hg st...
On OS from win 2000 or later (any language) can I assume that this path will always exists? For example I know that on win xp in some languages the "Program Files" directory have a different name. So is it true for the System32 folder? Thanks. Ohad. ...
Does anyone know how to use ANT as a EditPad (Windows)? I know i can use a external tool using Configure Tools in the Tools menu but do not know how to configure ANT. ...
Is it possible to easily embed ActiveX controls in Java application? Is it worth it. In my next project I should either use existing activex in Java app or have to reimplement everything from scratch, so I'm wondering what will be less hassle. ...
I would like to stress test a win32 application by sending a lot of random keystrokes to it, and I wonder if anyone could point me to some software I could use. Ideally, I should be able to specify which keystrokes can be sent, and control rate (random min/max). ...
$sql = "INSERT INTO images (path, useremail, approved, flagged,caption,date) VALUES ('$target','$email',0,0, '$caption','$b')"; $sql1 = "INSERT INTO users (name, email, phone) VALUES ('$peoplename','$email','$phone')" $conn->execute($sql, $sql1); Above is the code Ι am using to try and write to 2 tables. Before Ι introduced connection ...