Almost all Windows applications with GUI (WinForms or Native) use GDIPlus. But this technology is quite old, and it shows many limitations. Alternatives are WPF, or Silverlight, Flash? But Developer Tools like Visual Studio and Delphi still use GDIPlus as reference. When will this change? ANd moreover: will there be a portability? Lik...
I have implemented a windows xp service application that starts a couple of working threads. From one of the threads i need to send custom messages back to the service. How do i do that? ...
Previously I used to piddle around with VB6 to develop a couple of personal projects. Following my upgrade to Windows 7, I've decided to piddle about with vb.net Express Edition 2010. If I wanted my VB6 application to blend in with the visual style of Windows, I would use the code and techniques described here. In short, I would use a M...
Hi, We are getting an error message [Exception - 80070057] while creating COM class object through web application [ASP .NET, C# .NET]. The COM server is installed in a remote machine, its connected to web server using DCOM (COM+). But its not happening all the time, it will happen only after trying lots login through webpage. The COM...
Looking for a command line tool for Windows / linux environment that can check a PDF file for any errors (not for repairing). ...
I need to run a javascript code on server side using IE8 (the javascript works with activeX objects) But I need to run it from command line, from PHP. So in short, I will install apache + php on 2003 Windows server, and php will use system() to execute iexplore running a page of javascript. I would like to know if this is logically pos...
hi guys, I'm a Java developer and I'm using Ubuntu to develop. The project was created in Windows with Eclipse and it's using the CP1252 encoding. To convert to UTF-8 I've used the recode program: find Web -iname \*.java | xargs recode CP1252...UTF-8 this command gives this error: recode: Web/src/br/cits/projeto/geral/presentation/...
I have installed msysgit, and I am attempting to use it inside of Hudson. Whenever I run a command in an interactive shell, whether it be git-bash or a command prompt, the commands are instant. When I run them in Hudson, they lag for a very long time. Running /bin/git help took 63 seconds when I just invoked it. I've never waited long e...
In Windows XP (SP2 if necessary), is there any way to detect, from a userspace application, that a TCP/UDP socket (from any process) has opened? I know of the GetExtendedTcpTable() and GetExtendedUdpTable() functions, but they only detect currently opened sockets. Some sockets close immediately after they're opened that the only way I'...
Hello! I am creating an old-school dialog in c# using a System.Windows.Controls.TextBox . Is there an easy way of limiting text input in this box to numeric only? Thanks! ...
Assumptions: Microsoft stack (ASP.NET; SQL Server). Some content management systems handle user-generated content (images, file attachments) by storing it in the file system. Others store these items in the back end database. Some examples of both: In the filesystem: Community Server, Graffiti CMS In the database: Microsoft Sharepoin...
This questions is relevant to an application I'm currently working on, but I don't have much to go on in terms of finding an answer. The basic questions is what is the delay (or how to estimate it) between the time that a user presses one of the mouse buttons until the information is posted to the window message queue and is available fo...
From articles I have found online there appears to be two forms of unique identifiers for files on NTFS: Using Windows API GetFileInformationByHandle(), we can get access to the struct BY_HANDLE_FILE_INFORMATION, which contains a volume serial number and a low/high file index. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363788(VS.85).asp...
How do I tell if Putty already knows about and has cached credentials for specific ssh servers? ...
hello, can anyone help me with loop in batch for windows? i want make script that will allow me to do something like this: 1. copy all folders and files from Drive I: to X:\folder0001; 2. when done display: "Done"; (i ejected cd) 3. "enter" to next copy; 1. copy all folders and files from Drive I: to X:\folder0002; 2. when done display...
I'm writing an installer module and I need to add a value to the system %PATH% variable permanently. How can I modify it from the C# installer code? ...
I want to make a dll with an exposed C function accessible to applications on the system. Is there a better way to make it available than modifying %PATH%? Because people don't like adding it to %PATH% here. ...
Using SimpleParse on Windows and following the examples at http://simpleparse.sourceforge.net/scanning_with_simpleparse.html, the following error happens: ValueError: Unable to complete parsing of the EBNF SimpleParse has not problem doing the same on Ubuntu Linux. ...
i'm attempting to get code to list of all icons visible in the notification area, to the left of the time. i've been experimenting with EnumDesktopWindows and GetWindowLong, without finding any way to single out the system tray icons. thanks! ...
Hi, I need to create an installation file for Windows in such a way that the setup: Registers the .exe at startup so it launches everytime machine is booted Runs the .exe and opens a webpage upon completing installation . Could anyone please give me some tips on how I could do this? ...