Question says it all, I've got a 500,000 line file that gets generated as part of an automated build process on a Windows box and it's riddled with ^M's. When it goes out the door it needs to *nix friendly, what's the best approach here, is there a handy snippet of code that could do this for me? Or do I need to write a little C# or Java...
Does anyone have a Powershell script to change the credentials used by a Windows service? ...
Are there Windows API functions that allows reading what the current password policy is? For instance, minimum length, complexity etc. If not reading, is there a way to verify a password against the policy programmatically? ...
Windows Programming: How to put a file that is frequently accessed in the OS cache? ...
I am programming in C++ (Visual Studio 2008) and wish to do the following in both Windows XP and Windows Vista. Play audio files (wav, mp3, others if they come along for free...) and be able to control the left/right sound levels independently. Play tracks from audio CDs and be able to control the left/right sound levels independently....
When obtaining the DPI for the screen under Windows (by using ::GetDeviceCaps) will the horizontal value always be the same as the vertical? For example: HDC dc = ::GetDC(NULL); const int xDPI = ::GetDeviceCaps(dc, LOGPIXELSX); const int yDPI - ::GetDeviceCaps(dc, LOGPIXELSY); assert(xDPI == yDPI); ::ReleaseDC(NULL, dc); Are these va...
My company change the domain from abc to xyz and now i can't log into my local sql2005 via Windows login nor sql login. both login gave me this error: An error has occured while establishing a connection to the server. blah blah blah...Sql server does not allow remote connection. Error:26 - Error locating Server/Instance specified. i ...
When SIO_FLUSH socket ioctl is used in a Windows environment (in user space), I am confused as to what happens. Does this: (1) completely discard the data from the TCP/IP send queue into a black hole, or (2) push the queued send data across the connection until the buffer is empty, or (3) something else? Thanks! ...
Our app encrypts a value using RC2 in C++ code and I wrote a decryption routine in .NET The problem is that it works fine on our dev server, which is Windows 2003 but fails on the Windows 2000 one. It's running the same code and I checked everything else and it seems there are differences in the way the 2 encrypt. Has anyone had any ...
I'm using two commercial libraries that are produced by the same vendor, called VendorLibA and VendorLibB. The libraries are distributed as many DLLs that depend on the compiler version (e.g. VC7, VC8). Both libraries depend on a another library, produced by this vendor, called VendorLibUtils and contained in one DLL. The problem: Vendo...
How does one preserve the settings in the Open Dialog box? For example, I would the Open Dialog to remember that I chose the Details view and sorted by date modified. ...
MS is calling Azure an Operating System. To me, it feels much more like a framework. I am having a bit of trouble defining the two separately. I have a general intuition, but I am not articulate enough to really say if Azure is really an OS or just a framework sitting on top of Operating Systems. ...
There's an executable file generated from my program in MFC and I want to use it as the default program to open the .jpg files. That is to say, each time I double click a .jpg file, my program will run. I tried to add some registry entries linking .jpg files with my program, such as HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.jpg\shell\open\command (set its val...
I downloaded and installed this version of wxPython for use with my Python 2.6 installation: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wxpython/wxPython2.8-win32-unicode-2.8.9.1-py26.exe When I run Python and try to import wx, I get the following error: C:\Program Files\Console2>python Python 2.6 (r26:66721, Oct 2 2008, 11:35:03) [MSC v.1500 ...
How do Window's programmers profile their native C++ code? On Unix/Linux you have gprof [thanks Evan] & valgrind (I personally used this one, although it's not a real profiler), and recently I'm on Mac and Solaris, which means I moved to dTrace. Now when I've had the need to profile on Windows in the past, like at my previous job, I used...
Hi All I have a batch file that does this. ECHO A41,35,0,a,1,1,N,"Mr ZACHARY KAPLAN">> test.txt There are about 30k similar lines. It takes the batch file about 5 hours to run. Is there a way to speed this up? /Jeanre ...
Up to now in my application, I've been supporting all flavors of Windows from Windows 98 to Windows NT/2000 to XP to Vista. But because of adding Unicode in my next version, support of Windows 98 would still be possible, but very difficult. I know there are still some of my users running Windows 98. What are the pros and cons of me n...
what is the best way to track and lower GDI windows handles . . ...
Does anyone know, or have a link to an article or a step by step tutorial, that would tell me how to distribute a .net MONO application with a minimum install? The full package of Mono is like 75 MB but I know al lot of that is the compiler and libraries that I don't need. I just want the minimum runtime files. What files would I need ...
I have a support environment where we connect to many of our customers' systems using VPN and Remote Desktop. Right now, support personnel have to manually set up the VPN connection on their workstation. Is there a way to programmatically create the VPN connection? ...