I've got a legacy application which is implemented in a number of Excel workbooks. It's not something that I have the authority to re-implement, however another application that I do maintain does need to be able to call functions in the Excel workbook. It's been given a python interface using the Win32Com library. Other processes can ...
There are plenty of programs out there that can create a diff patch, but I'm having a heck of a time trying to apply one. I'm trying to distribute a patch, and I got a question from a user about how to apply it. So I tried to figure it out on my own and found out that I have no clue, and most of the tools I can find are command-line. ...
Hello, We have a Native Embedded VC (EVC4.0) application running on a Windows Mobile 5 device. Now there is a requirement to get this application to talk with a new mobile application to be developed using either EVC4.0 or .Net CF. We were thinking of using MSMQ on the Windows Mobile device for inter process communication between these ...
Like most Python developers, I typically keep a console window open with the Python interpreter running to test commands, dir() stuff, help() stuff, etc. Like any console, after a while the visible backlog of past commands and prints gets to be cluttered, and sometimes confusing when re-running the same command several times. I'm wonde...
I tried running the service in the "Local System" : didn't work. I tried running the service in an account having rights on the network shared folder : didn't work. Do I have to create a standalone application for this and launch this application as a user with rights on the network shared folder? Thanks, Nic ...
Hello, Im looking for a way to delete Windows restore points using C# perhaps by invoking WMI. Any code snippet would be very helpful. Kind regards, ...
I usually have more then 10 opened application windows. When I write code I need to switch fast between a browser, an IDE and terminal windows. Alt + tab is too slow, too many windows to choose from. Virtual desktop is a work around for me. On a first desktop I keep browser, on a second IDE, etc. So I am able to switch fast between my m...
In an application we would like to control the windows pop-up messages that appear when a new USB drive is connected to the system. Ideally, the dialog box should be completely hidden. Any messages that could help? Update I know the trick to globally disable autoplay, but I'd rather control the behavior on a per event, per device bas...
I want to delete every "_svn" in every folder and subfolder... For example c:\ proyect1 _svn images _svn banner _svn buttons _svn Then I run something like rm-recurse c:\proyect1 _svn And I should get: c:\ proyect1 images banner buttons The ideal thing would be a tiny stan...
When in Windows XP, if I open the properties window for the file and click the second tab, I will find a window where to add attributes or remove them. While developing things, I noticed there was actually something I wanted to know about the file. How to retrieve this data? It's a string with name 'DESCRIPTION'. The actual tab is sayi...
Here is part of a stack-trace from a recent run of an unreliable application written in Python which controls another application written in Excel: pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, None, None, None, 0, -2146788248), None) Obviously something has gone wrong ... but what?[1] These COM error codes seem to be...
You know the one I mean: Is there a way to disable this? I'm writing an application to automatically test a large number of Excel spreadsheets which are used in a critical environment. Many of these sheets do crazy things which crash Excel. When Excel crashes I want it to terminate ASAP and without user-intervention. I definitely ...
I would like to host an application window from a process "A" into the main window of a process "B", just as if "A"'s window were a MDI child window. Is this possible in Windows? Or are there some tricks which would allow me to fake this? By the way, I'd like to remove the title bar (or better yet, all the non-client stuff) of "A"'s win...
Does anyone know of a utility (for Windows or Linux or MacOSX) that will append the selected contents to the clipboard? Rather than killing what's already there...(maybe using a different keyboard shortcut instead of Ctrl+C to do this? And I don't mean multiple-clipboard items... I mean concatenating multiple strings of text to the sam...
How can I find out the type of file system being used in Windows? Preferably in code. ...
I'm looking for a good icon editor for windows. Does anyone have some good recommendations? ...
Hello, What is the good way to check if the current computer is configured for dual/multi boot. If my active Windows OS is on D drive, I would like to check if there is any other Windows installed on other drives C:, E:, F: etc Basically I want paths to Program Files and Windows folders for each OS installed. Thanks. ...
Are there any Windows IDEs that support both Ruby and Python? I'm talking about the type of IDE that has syntax suggestions (auto-completion feature). I've tried Netbeans but it only seems to support Ruby (maybe there's a way to add Python support?) ...
Hi, I have a C++ project that I've been developing in Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition. It has come to the point that I'd like to port to 64-bit and continue development. What is the best way to do this using free software? My thoughts so far: The Express Edition of MSVC doesn't come with 64-bit compilers, so I can install...
I want to distribute a command-line application written in Java on Windows. My application is distributed as a zip file, which has a lib directory entry which has the .jar files needed for invoking my main class. Currently, for Unix environments, I have a shell script which invokes the java command with a CLASSPATH created by appending...