I want to programmatically disable the notification I get when I connect to a wireless network. I know there is a way to disable ALL notifications (see here) but is there a way to only disable the one issued by Windows wireless Manager (i.e. wlanapi.dll). Many thanks! ...
Hi All, I'd like to study up on the latest technologies for writing Windows desktop apps. My last experience was with VC++ 6 using MFC. The landscape seems more complex these days, I'm not sure if I should learn .NET, don't really know what Windows forms, WPF are etc. All I want to do is be able to write some simple Windows GUI apps,...
I am trying to find out how much memory my application is consuming from within the program itself. The memory usage I am looking for is the number reported in the "Mem Usage" column on the Processes tab of Windows Task Manager. ...
At my workplace we are using CVS as the version control system. Since we are using Windows mostly, TortoiseCVS and WinCVS serve as the GUI front-ends to CVS. Is there anything like those front-ends for one of the distributed VCS (bzr, hg, git)? I know we could use the command line but that is not an option. I've already tried Bazaar an...
I have a web application, written in Coldfusion, which periodically starts using 100% of the server's CPU and crashes the Coldfusion service. Since I have been unable to reproduce the problem myself, I'd like to find a utility which will notify me by email when the CPU usage begins to climb, so I can hop on the server, look at FusionRea...
Currently we have a DLL that checks whether a username/password is a valid Windows user using the Windows API LogonUser method. We need to enhance it so it checks whether the user belongs to a specified group as well. Is there a Windows method that does that? Given a Windows username and password, find out whether the user belongs to a ...
I'm going to try out turbogears however I'm on windows vista. however due to firewall proxy problems, it seems i can't download .egg files which is required for setup turbogears to get installed in my windows environment. I do have a bootable, or I can make a bootable Linux USB, I can try cygwin but I am not sure where to start with cygw...
My record sheet app has a menu option for creating a new, blank record sheet. When I open a sheet window, I can open new windows without a problem, using subprocess.Popen() to do it. However, under Windows (I haven't tested it on other OSes yet), if I open a new window then use the "open file" dialog to populate the fields with data fro...
What memory leak detection tools are available for use with open source C/C++ on Windows? ...
Have you ever tried this feedback calling an external zip.py script to work? My CGITB does not show any error messages. It simply did not invoke external .py script to work. It simply skipped over to gush. I should be grateful if you can assist me in making this zip.py callable in feedback.py. Regards. David #**********************...
I develop rich client software on Mac OS X and Linux. I wish to port an application to Windows and not being a user of Microsoft products, I'm not very familiar with Windows in general. What I'm familiar with: On Mac OS X, I have the option of Cocoa and Objective C or Carbon and C/C++. On Linux, I have the option of GTK+ and C/C++ or Q...
As part of our build process I need to set the version information for all our compiled binaries. Some of the binaries already have version information (added at compile time) and some do not. I want to be able to apply the following information: Company Name Copyright Notice Product Name Product Description File Version Product V...
I'm automating some source control software functionality using a dot bat script but given that our svn repos are hosted in a *NIX box, I'm facing the eternal case problem between these two worlds. Is there any cmd.exe function to convert the value of the Windows system variable %USERNAME% to lower case? Thanks much in advance! ...
I have a data acquisition program written in C++ (Visual Studio 6.0). Some clients would like to control the software from their own custom software or LabView. I would like to come up with a simple API with a dll I can distribute to them and would like some tips on how to get started. This is going to be VERY basic, maybe 4 or 5 comm...
How to register an extension to a particular custom application programmatically? For example, i have a custom application created using C# on Windows. How can i register a file extension so when i double click a file with this extension, it starts my custom application and then i can deal with the clicked file in my app? I need to do ...
I have two C DLLs that I need to access in the same executable. I have header files and .LIB files for both libraries. Unfortunately a subset of the functions that I need to access have the exact same names. The best solution I have been able to come up with so far is to use LoadLibrary to load one of the DLLs and explicitly call its met...
Does anyone know how to use the Raw Input facility on Windows from a WX Python application? What I need to do is be able to differentiate the input from multiple keyboards. So if there is another way to achieving that, that would work too. ...
I know that sounds a weird request. But I was installing a bunch of packages in Ubuntu yesterday, using apt-get and I started wondering if anyone had adapted it or produced anything similar for Windows. What I mean is a) an package manager / installer for Windows. And b) a repository of free-software packages in a compatible format. ...
Pretty all in question... I'm looking for batch script, code or library which allows to edit and create settings for PPPoE connections in windows when hardware and infrastructure is already present. Also I'm looking for script/code to change active connection. .NET is preffered, but any other language will do as well. Thanks in advance...
Hi all, How to use batch file to check if an application still running or not? If the application still running, this process will loop again and again. Else, there will be error message. Thank you very much ...