windows

Infernal Libraries (aka DLL Hell)

In a Project of mine, I use a Delphi Application which dynamically loads a wrapper DLL (exporting C-Style functions) which in turn is statically link against a bunch of 3rd party DLLs. It works fine on my test machines, but on my customers computer it failed to initialize with an error Message like "Couldn't find entrypoint _somefunctio...

Easy way for Windows-based developer to view Android framework source code?

My immediate need is to take a peek at the source for EditTextPreference and see what I need to do to implement support for preferences with more structure. Can I run Git or repo under cygwin perhaps? Is there an easier way? ...

Enabling CTRL+Z property in masked edit textbox using VB.Net

Hi all, I am using a masked edit text box in my windows application that was developed by using vb.net. In normal text boxes (CTRL+Z- to revert back to original value) is working fine. But In case of Masked Edit Textboxes its not working fine. Can any one please help me about this. This ctrl+Z should provide the functionality as same...

delphi - calculate directory size API?

hi, Anyone knows other way to get a directoy's size, than calculate it's size by counting file with file? I'm interested on some win32 API function. I've google it about this, but i didn't found relevant information so i'm asking here. Best regards, PS: I know how to calculate a directory size by using findfirst and findnext and sum...

Safe to hold context within a Dictionary

OK so my question is self explanatory, here is some code so you can understand a little more. public Dictionary<string,VcardWindow> VcardWindowManager = new Dictionary<string,VcardWindow>();' And access like so: public void ShowVcardWindow(string VcardOwner) { VcardWindow Window; if(VcardWindowManager.ContainsKey(VcardOwne...

Query peak memory usage of a running process.

I need to query the peak memory usage by a running process from a C++ code. I looked at GetProcessmemoryInfo() function but it does not seem to give the information about peak memory usage by a process. Is there any function that does that and is it exported by kernel32.dll. ...

Getting Mercurial in-process hook to run on Windows

I'm trying to get a Mercurial in-process hook to run on Windows. The problem is not how to write the hook (I want to use an existing one, in this case BugTracker.Net's hook for Mercurial integration - I didn't find a direct link to the file, but you can see it if you download BT.net here, it's in the "mercurial" subfolder). The problem i...

Can two windows apps communicate using the command-line?

I worked on a Unix app where two applicants ran and talked to each other using the command-line, i.e each had a loop something like (treat this as pseudo code): bool stop=false; do { stringstring cmdBuffer; cin >> cmdBuffer string ret = processCommand(cmdBuffer); if(ret.length()==0) stop=true; else cout << ret; } while...

fopen file from windows network location

I can open files from a mounted network drive, but not from an unmounted one e.g \\mycomp\folder2\hi.bmp Any work around for this? ...

Configure registry permission tool

I have to write a key value pair in the registry. This is done using a tool. This fails sometimes. Is there any windows utility available which can set the permissions of the registry? If the specific user does not have permission to the registry, I should be able to configure the permissions accordingly - from an administrator account....

What is COM in Windows

I am using C#.net, Add Reference -> COM What is this? ...

Maximizing performance on udp

hey. im working on a project with two clients ,one for sending, and the other one for receiving udp datagrams, between 2 machines wired directly to each other. each datagram is 1024byte in size, and it is sent using winsock(blocking). they are both running on a very fast machines(separate). with 16gb ram and 8 cpu's, with raid 0 drives. ...

Do any visual tools exist for MongoDB (for Windows)?

I'm currently using MongoDB in a reporting system and have to delete a whole bunch of test documents. While I don't have too much trouble using the JSON-based command-line tools, it gets extremely tedious to have to keep searching for documents, copy-and-pasting OIDs, etc., especially from a command prompt window (ever tried to "mark" t...

Is there a way to detect an "almost" Remote Desktop disconnect (i.e., a brief period of high latency)?

I work for a trading company where our users interact with the primary trading application via a Remote Desktop connection to a server that's physically located within the exchange's facilities. A feature of our software is that it disconnects and pulls all quotes automatically if something goes wrong with the network and the RD session...

Log4Net with WCF Running As Service

Hello To All, I am running a WCF Service as Windows Service. I am having trouble getting log4net to do any actual logging In what app.config should I place my configuration code for log4net. The Service Host app.config the Service app.config or the underlying methods that the Service Calls? -b ...

ZwQuerySystemInformation / NtQuerySystemInformation - System Information Class 5

Hi, For 32-bit Windows, following declaration of _SYSTEM_PROCESSES structure ( System Information Class 5 ) with ZwQuerySystemInformation works fine for my purpose to construct process tree. typedef struct _SYSTEM_PROCESSES { // System Information Class 5 ULONG NextEntryDelta; ULONG ThreadCount; ULONG ...

Construct Process Tree in Windows

Hi, To construct a process tree in Windows "C" given a PID, which one is a good approach to go for Win2k, XP, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7. ZwQuerySystemInformation NtQuerySystemInformation CreateToolhelp32Snapshot I remember ToolHelp had issue in leaking memory for win2k. Please correct me if I am wrong. And using ZwQuerySystemI...

Replacing a file into multiple folders/subdirectories

Is there a way in command prompt to take one file and copy it into another folder and it's subdirectories based on it's name? I have an image named 5.jpg that has been put in a sub-folder that is in every folder in a directory. I want to do a search inside of the folder (with the old image) and its sub-folders and replace all of the res...

DLL Hell: SnacNp64.dll + gtkD

Apparently when I run some 32-bit apps I created using gtkD on Win64 systems with Symantec Endpoint Protection installed and network drives mapped, and try to bring up a file dialog, something in the runtime attempts to load SnacNp64.dll, a 64-bit DLL, into 32-bit address space. This DLL is a component of Symantec Endpoint Protection th...

Creating a simple finger application with batch

I would like to make a simple batch application that does two things. Asks the user to input a name, example "vega" Runs "finger [email protected]" and displays the output of that command. The following does the first thing, but I am not able to output the result from the finger. @ECHO OFF :begin echo Enter the name of the ...