Can Subversion support translating filename path components during checkout/export and commit? For example, can I set up SVN (client side or server side, doesn't matter) to automatically substitute and ':' characters in path names, replacing them with the character '+', instead? Basically, Windows can't tolerate certain characters in f...
Solution for Windows XP or higher. Preferably in C# or else in C++. We do not want to broadcast using a subnet directed broadcast (e.g. 192.168.101.255) since the device we are trying to contact is not responding to this. Instead, we want to be able to send UDP datagram with a destination of 255.255.255.255 from a specific NIC/IPAddress...
I am writing a .NET Windows service whose role is to launch a GUI application(whose source is unavailable). The operation is a fire and forget, no communication besides initial command-line parameters. The service ought to run as a given Windows account. Problem: The app that the service launches is not displayed on the desktop. It ne...
Given that: The server is on windows xp running ActiveState Perl The server is connected to an internal network and an external network A computer on the internal network is broadcasting in udp to 10.4.255.255 on port 9722 I need to: listen to the broadcast and pass the messages to a function This is the code I am using: my $sock; d...
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I am used to doing Rails development work on a Mac. However, now other developers will be working with me and they use Windows, both XP and Vista. I am trying to figure out the Windows environment so I can help them. In OS X and Linux you have this kind of thing... $ cd [Rails project root] $ script/console Tried it on Windows but al...
i would be interested in switching to Dvorak keyboard layout. The problem that everyone runs into is that common programming(1) keyboard shortcuts, such as: Ctrl+C Ctrl+V Ctrl+Z will no longer be the keys on the bottom left of the keyboard, since the Dvorak layout has C, V and Z in different locations. The Mac has solved this proble...
Is it possible to have a COM method which passes a HWND? With the following method in my object CoCreateInstance returns DISP_E_BADVARTYPE (0x80020008): STDMETHODIMP ShowDialog(HWND hWndParent); So far, I'm getting round this problem by passing an OLE_HANDLE then casting it but it feels like a cludge: STDMETHODIMP ShowDialog(OLE_HAND...
Hi there! Would it be possible through c# to actually do a windows search (the one you find in Vista from the menu with higlighting (e.g you write 'fire' and get 'firefox')). Thanks :) ...
I need to get the size of a directory, recursively. I have to do this every month so I want to make a PowerShell script to do it. How can I do it? ...
I want to modify HTTP requests headers using an Internet Explorer Browser Helper Object. I basically need to change a few headers for every request, and then modify the response before it returns to the browser. I tried using the OnNavigate2 events, but those don't even give you access to all of the headers. I tried making an Asynchron...
One of the files in my installation needs to get copied into a location pointed to by a registry key/value pair on the user's destination machine. Right now, I have a kind of kludgy solution where I have the files set to copy to [TempFolder] in the Components view, and then some custom InstallScript code in my OnFirstUIBefore() function...
How would I find the driver letter of the main hard disk on a Windows Operating system. That is, the drive with Program Files, System32, etc. ...
The Windows Task Manager shows CPU usage in percentage. What's the formula behind this? Is it this: % CPU usage for process A = (Sum of all time slices give to A till now)/ Total time since the machine booted Or is it something else? ...
In his blog entry Printing documents to Microsoft XPS Document Writer without user interaction Feng Yuan says If you're printing from your own applications, it's easy to specify MXDW as the printer driver and provide a file name for the XPS document to be saved to Can anyone explain how to do that and provide a code sample? The m...
what should i learn as a programmer to write kernel like microsoft windows i know c and c++ but what should i do to write kernel is it necessary to know basics of kernel programming of linux how to become expert in both linux and windows kernel prograaming ...
Hello everyone, Is it easy to write some .Net code to record screen and audio (from computer mic), then output to an wmv file. Any reference code? BTW: I searched all codes from WME SDK, no such sample code. thanks! George ...
Hello, I want to know when a new file is created on a specific directory, Instead of scanning the directory from time to time, I understand that there is a way to make the O.S tell my program that a new file was created. how does it work? Thanks Edit: as suggested below, this is similar to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/61253/how...
I'm looking at adding logging to an application, and I'm considering using Kiwi syslogd and a freeware library (clSyslog) to send logging messages to the daemon. I briefly looked at log4c, and found compiling it with VC++ would take me more time than I had. What tools do you use and recommend for logging messages? ...
An application I have recently started work on has to register two dll's, "because of ActiveX". This makes it difficult to have multiple version of the application present on your machine - say the installed product version, and Debug and Release versions of the latest development sources. What are the alternatives to registration ...