I want a small (< 30MB) standalone Windows executable (a single file) that creates a window which asks the user for the location of a directory and then launches a different program in that directory. This executable has to run on XP, Vista, Server 2003, and Server 2008 versions of Windows in 32-bits and 64 bits on x86-64 architecture...
As part of an application for a client, I need to have a section which reports temperature information (motherboard, CPU, HDD). I know there are standalone applications such as Hardware Monitor by CPUID, but again, these are standalone and I require something that I could interface with. Is there any app like this which has an API or i...
I have a Windows Event Log entry giving the offset of the failed call triggering an application crash. I have a release build, the corresponding .PDB file, and the source. I do not have a .MAP or .COD file. How can I find the failing source line? ...
When it comes to code launches how do you handle developer access to the server? Do they have RDP access to the machines to deploy code and make changes? Are they only given ftps access to the servers docroots and any .NET configuration changes are handled by the sysadmins? Do the developers even have access to the production docrooot...
I have followed the instructions to setup rxtx on windows from http://www.jcontrol.org/download/readme_rxtx_en.html. What I did exactly was copy rxtxSerial.dll to "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_07\jre\bin" and copied RXTXcomm.jar to "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_07\jre\lib\ext" (my JAVA_HOME variable is set to C:\Program Files\Java\j...
I'm going to have my website hosted soon on a VPS or dedicated server (with Windows 2008), so I'm trying to plan ahead. I wonder whether the built-in SMTP server that comes with IIS7 is reliable enough for a production server or should I look for an alternative? I heard good things about hmailserver and best of all it's free, do you have...
UDDI is for locating services on the Internet. Is there anything similar for locating services in a corporate or enterprise environment? For example I might want my program to be able to find a central reporting or policy server without configuration. Is this something I can do with Active Directory? Or do I need to do something else? ...
If I have a date, how do I calculate the week number for that date within that year? For example, in 2008, January 1st to January 6th are in week 1 and January 7th to the 13th are in week 2, so if my date was January 10th 2008, my week number would be 2. An algorithm would be great to get me started and sample code would also help - I'...
Is there a problem using VMware on Windows to host a virtual linux box running iptables? I have a configuration that seems to work on physical hardware but is flaky under VMware. I'm using VMware to run a virtual linux 2.6.24 machine on a Windows 2003 Server host. The linux application is essentially a NATting router that runs iptable...
Does anybody know if Microsoft has already decided which version of the .NET framework will be shipped in Windows 7 next year (2009)? Will it .NET 3.5 (SP 1) or maybe 4.0? ...
I need to send packets from one host to another over a potentially lossy network. In order to minimize packet latency, I'm not considering TCP/IP. But, I wish to maximize the throughput uisng UDP. What should be the optimal size of UDP packet to use? Here are some of my considerations: The MTU size of the switches in the network is 15...
How do I let Microsoft know about a problem I've found in one of their core library routines? Do they have a central repository to report these things? I am not a member of Microsoft Development Network (MSDN). Or should I even bother? ...
I have a window (derived from JFrame) and I want to disable the close button during certain operations which are not interruptible. I know I can make the button not do anything (or call a handler in a WindowListener) by calling setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DO_NOTHING_ON_CLOSE); but I would like to make it clear visually that it is...
I have built a windows C++ application that I'd like to port to linux. The main reasons to do this is ease of system maintenance for our IT staff. Apart from the one windows machine that runs this application we're a linux only operation. The reason this application was built in-, and runs on- windows is that it uses a windows API (dll ...
I am interested if there is a port for the server implementation. ...
Let's say I'm developing a new desktop application for Windows. Is there a list somewhere that I can consult (either from Microsoft or a 3rd party) of keyboard shortcuts that all Windows applications should support? (Note: When I say "all Windows applications" here, I really mean "all Windows applications where a particular keyboard sh...
My code processes all the files in a folder on a Windows box. I want to offer the user (who happens to also be me) the option to select the folder to be processed, using the standard File Chooser dialog. I am trying to use the GetOpenFileName function to make this happen. (I am actually calling it from Python via pywin32, but that shoul...
In Unix/bash, I can simply say: $ echo $? to find out the return/exit code of a program, both from interactive and non-interactive shells. Now, how can I do the equivalent in Windows/cmd.exe? ...
I have a little Perl script (On Windows) that checks some files for me as an aid to my day-to-day business. At the moment it prints out something like... 0% 25% 50% 75% Complete But I can remember scripts I've used in the past that didn't print progress on a line-by-line basis, but which updated the output on the display, presumably b...
I need to impersonate myself as a domain user in a ASP.NET application running on VMWare machine. Since the VMWare machine is not itself in the domain, ASP.NET is unable to resolve the user token (specified in web.config). Is there a way to do that? Thanks in advance, Petr ...