Has anybody any experience in using Gupta (formerly Centura) Team Developer? If so, what do you think of it in terms of its capability to support the development of mature, scalable, maintainable applications? Thanks ...
I want to use the Windows Eventing 6 API from a C# application to log messages to a specific channel in Windows Server 2008 event log. There is a good example on how to use it but it's only C++. In the example it's mentioned that .NET doesn't support Windows Eventing 6. There are 2 examples in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc1...
Assume: A. C++ under WIN32. B. A properly aligned volatile integer incremented and decremented using InterlockedIncrement() and InterlockedDecrement(). __declspec (align(8)) volatile LONG _ServerState = 0; If I want to simply read _ServerState, do I need to read the variable via an InterlockedXXX function? For instance, I have seen...
I am working on the bootstrap application of an installer, and I have a dialogue that the user can open to select a different target directory from the given default. Currently, I'm using the CFolderDialog for that, but for the user to select a folder that doesn't yet exist, he has to create the folder first. Once the user has specified ...
I am using CreateProcess to create a cmd.exe process that is passed a parameter that it executes and quits, this makes command prompt flash up on the screen. I tried to avoid this by setting STARTUPINFO struct wShowWindow to SW_HIDE but this parameter seems to affect the calling window, not the window for the process that gets executed...
Is there any way to test my objective-c code on windows.. is there any ide like xcode for windows to develop iphone applications. ...
I need a code snippet for reading the mainboard uuid in c (in Windows XP and Windows Vista if there is a difference, else just for Windows). ...
Hi, I have a 3rd party DLL that needs to be loaded dynamically using LoadLibrary() and which uses the __cdecl calling convention. I need to be able to use the dll from VB6 so I've created a wrapper DLL of my own that uses the __stdcall calling convention and exports the functions that are needed. An additional requirement has now arri...
Is there any tool which displays at runtime, Page Faults delta on a per thread basis? Basically I have an application that is causing lots of page faults and I want to nail down the thread which is causing the maximum. ...
On which technological basis would you implement a multimedia app, which has to meet the following requirements: Platforms: Windows XP/Vista, Mac OS X, Linux (nice to have) Should play audio (mp3) and video (H.264 would be great) from local disk I looked into things like Cocotron which is a cross-platform Objective-C API similar to C...
This seems, to me, a slightly more specific question that those already asked, so: How reliable is the Windows Event Log service if I'm looking for a 'fire and forget' logging service, so that even an error in calling the service does not impact the caller, and is noted somewhere, somehow, by the OS? ...
Hi all, I have a delphi application where the main form is a login form - this contains various database and user objects necessary for the program. Once the user logs in, I hide this form and open another. My issue is, how do I cause the application to minimize when the child form is minimized? I figured out how to restore the chi...
I have an array of raw rgb data. I would like to know how can I draw this pixels on the screen in Windows OS? Now I use API function DrawDIBits, but I must turn up my image data. ...
Sorry, if this sounds ignorant. Is it possible to SECURELY upload data from a Windows Forms app using an asp.net web service or some other method? If so, what is the general way of doing it? I have never used web services before. I have an IIS 6 server with .net 3.5 installed. I need to build this windows forms program, which will hold...
I'm having trouble keeping my app responsive to user actions. Therefore, I'd like to split message processing between multiple threads. Can I simply create several threads, reading from the same message queue in all of them, and letting which ever one is able process each message? If so, how can this be accomplished? If not, can you...
Open the search side bar in Windows explorer (Ctrl + F). In the field labeled, "A word or phrase in the file:" enter a query starting with #, ! or @ that you expect to return some results. I get the following error: The Indexing Service query cannot be completed successfully because the volumes you have specified are not indexed Is the...
I'm trying to create a single instance Qt application and I'm at the point this works, but now I want to focus the already started instance when a second is started. QWidget::find(g_hWnd) should return the widget but it fails and crashes on w->show(); Any thoughts? #pragma data_seg("Shared") HWND g_hWnd = NULL; #pragma data_seg() #prag...
I saw a similar question about the reason Google Chrome wasn't written in C#. But with the upcoming version of Windows and Microsoft's flagship language, I am having a hard time understanding why Microsoft isn't pushing C# to its fullest potential to give it more exposure via their market share? In addition can be interpreted as "Is C# ...
I'm going a little nuts trying to understand the doc on impersonation and delegation and the question has come up what account my webservice is running under. I am logged as myDomainName\johna on my development workstation called JOHNXP. From Vstudio2005 I start my webservice via Debug and the wsdl page comes up in my browser. From T...
Hi, I have a script which checking something on my pc every 5 min and I dont want python to show on my tasktray is there any way to make python run in the background and force him not to show in my task tray ? thanks im using windows by the way ...