Hi, I am trying to fetch pages using "httpwebrequest", but the links also have relative path in them like (.../something/, ../.../something/) , i am trying to map them to absolute path, i am not too good at programming, do we have any utility helpers to do the job, any links, articles, tutorials appreciated. Thank you in advance. ...
Quoted from here: BOOL WINAPI CreateProcess( __in_opt LPCTSTR lpApplicationName, __inout_opt LPTSTR lpCommandLine, __in_opt LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpProcessAttributes, __in_opt LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpThreadAttributes, __in BOOL bInheritHandles, __in DWORD dwCreationFlags, __in_opt LPVOID lp...
As part of our nightly build on windows, an installer package is created using NSIS. I would like to automatically test the "correctness" of the installer. This might be things like: Checking the platform of dll files. Checking the install folder. Testing the uninstall function doesn't leave any files behind. Checking registry keys ar...
Windows file system supports scatter/gather IO.(Of course, other platform does) But I don't know when do I use the IO mechanism. Could you explain me a proper case? And what benefit can we get from using the I/O mechanism?(Just a little IO request?) ...
Since I had so many issues installing RoR on my laptop with Windows 7, I thought I would share my steps with you. Many people tell you to use InstantRails. I did that one too, but the option below worked best for me. Download and install Ruby 1.8.7 http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/71492/rubyinstaller-1.8.7-p299.exe Download the l...
We have a c++ application (console) that runs on windows and unix. This application used output files to output verbose log files of system calls/prints/etc. The prblem is, that in certain occasion we might get signal 11/2 after new features are added. Now whenever, that happenes, we do not get 'almost complete' information from log f...
not using WTS (Terminal Services is not running...) ...
Hi, I am new to windows. My web application is leaking huge amounts of memory. I am using apache 2.2.15 and PHP 5.2.13 I used "Windows Debugging Tools -umdh" to detect leaks. And the output of the trace is as below(difference before stress and after stress) : 217800195 ( 222666334 - 4866139) 3266192 allocs BackTraceC6 3240839...
I have multiple python processes running in their console output windows. I can set their console title via win32api.SetConsoleTitle(). Thats nice, but it would be even nicer to set some versioninfo strings (like description/company name/version) during runtime as that would allow me to easier differentiate between the (generic) python p...
I'm looking for a flexible alternative to the standard Windows (VB) message box for us in VB6. I'd like features such as: 1. Non-modal (but always on top) 2. Timer (so that it disappears after X seconds) 3. Custom button names. (Instead of saying "do you want to quit? Click Yes" I can have "Quit" and "Continue" on the button names. I'v...
Hey All, I'm trying to make a push notification service, mainly as a learning experience (so please do not start suggesting open/closed source alternatives). Being a hardcore Win32 c++ developer, i don't have a lot of web dev. knowledge. What I'm trying todo: Expose an API (over http(s)) to send push notifications to a certain devic...
Although most of the time it's C:\WINDOWS\system32, but sometimes it can be in D partition or alike, how to get it programatically? ...
RtlInitUnicodeString(&sddl, _T("D:P(A;;GA;;;SY)(A;;GA;;;BA)(A;;GA;;;BU)")); status = IoCreateDeviceSecure( pDriverObject, sizeof(DEVICE_EXTENSION), pDeviceName, FILE_DEVICE_DISK, 0, FALSE, &sddl, NULL, &pDeviceObject ); // Succeed IoCreateSymbolicLink(...) // Succeed And I tried to open in user...
What I know is \\.\ It is used when we open a device's symbolic link in user mode \??\ It is used when we open a device in kernel mode \\?\ long file name \\ UNC path. But I want to know more detail. Could you explain more certainly about these prefixs. ...
Can anyone either point me to (or provide here) a clear, step-by-step approach that will get Mozilla's signtool (distinct from the Windows program of the same name) installed and working in a Windows environment (specifically, Windows 7)? It appears to be the best tool available to build a XPI file to package up a compiled Firefox exten...
Does anyone have experience with Windows appbars (application desktop toolbars)? I have figured out how to implement them from the documentation (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc144177%28VS.85%29.aspx), and I've got it working pretty well. But I'm noticing when there are multiple non-auto-hide appbars on adjacent edges, the top...
I don't find any solution for this... please help me out I'm using a FolderBrowserDialog in my application. If I try to create a 'New Folder' within the FolderBrowserDialog and immediately after I try to rename the 'New Folder' and hit OK (not Enter) the SelectedPath property has the 'New Folder' in it's path and not the name that I e...
I need to do the check in a method contained in a shared library that is referenced by a windows forms application and a windows service. When we do the check in console mode, I must allow potential dialogs. In case of the windows service, I will write messages in the event log instead. I found many way to do that using compilation dir...
In this document, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(VS.85).aspx#paths To make these device objects accessible by Windows applications, the device drivers create a symbolic link (symlink) in the Win32 namespace, "Global??", to their respective device objects. For example, COM0 and COM1 under the "Global??" subdirectory ...
At MSDN Installing a Filter Driver there is a sample file given (reproduced lower). In the [upperfilter_addreg] section there is the registry line HKR,,"UpperFilters",0x00010008,"upperfilt". What is the meaning of the 0x00010008 flag ? Note that this file is meant to install an Upper Filter Driver. Thank you microsoft for your great...