Hi, I am working in C#. I find myself creating dialogs for editing my application settings all the time. For every control on the dialog I am reading the configuration file and set it accordingly. After pressing OK, I am reading all the controls and store the values in the configuration files or something similar again. This seems to b...
I have a Winforms application and a combobox has it's datasource set to a DataTable when the form loads. The data displays fine in the combobox. Then after a user clicks a button I want to create a new DataTable and assign that datatable as the datasource for the combobox. The problem is that after setting the datasource to be the ne...
I know how to download an html/txt page. For example : //Variables DWORD dwSize = 0; DWORD dwDownloaded = 0; LPSTR pszOutBuffer; vector <string> vFileContent; BOOL bResults = FALSE; HINTERNET hSession = NULL, hConnect = NULL, hRequest = NULL; // Use WinHttpOpen to obtain a session handle. hSession = WinHttpOp...
I know how to get the user that last modified a file, but does Windows track the process that made the modification as well? If so, is there an API for looking that up? ...
I have a set of 10 AD groups. What I'd like is to programmatically find out which users in the AD domain are NOT members of those 10 groups. There is only one domain. I know it's possible to perform ADO SQL queries in a vbscript but I was wondering (hoping, praying) if someone had a canned script? I suppose a hacky way might be: Dump...
Hello everyone, I am refering the following document section "Windows Media API for Capturing the Screen" to capture screen and the original code works ok. When I am adding additional feature (I just added several lines to make it record from default audio device), it fails at thew following line (I debugged and looks like it fails at C...
python setting at httpd.conf: <Directory "C:/depot/projects/web/"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all AddHandler python-program .py PythonHandler mod_python.publisher PythonPath "['C:/Python25/Lib/site-packages/mod_python/',]+sys.path" PythonDebug O...
Is there any difference between the following when a intranet URL in accessed in IE Add an entry in drivers/etc/host file for a name and IP vs Use IP directly e.g. it works with the following link if I have a host entry as (XYZ 10.0.10.200) http://XYZ/SiteDirectory/ABC/Default.aspx but when I tried to use IP instead of name http://1...
I've added this entry into the context menue of an USB stick via autorun.inf: [AutoRun] shell\pageant=Activate SSH Key shell\pageant\command=PuTTY\pageant.exe PuTTY\davids.ppk Both PuTTY\pageant.exe and PuTTY\davids.ppk are files on the USB stick and should be picked up from there. When I run this in a shell from the root of the stic...
Does anyone know a Library which provides a Thread.sleep() for Java which has an error not higher than 1-2 Millisecond? I tried a mixture of Sleep, error measurement and BusyWait but I don't get this reliable on different windows machines. It can be a native implementation if the implementation is available for Linux and MacOS too. ...
I know that it is possible to use "OS authentication" to authenticate Windows users in Oracle database. The process is basically passing current Windows user id to Oracle for authentication. The question is - is it possible to authenticate domain group in Oracle (as it is possible with SQL Server integrated security), so that there wou...
I can't find any free programmer-oriented text editor that would run on windows and would edit remote files over ssh(sfpt). Any suggestions? ...
I'm a C# developer and I see how .NET makes developing Windows applications easier. Type-safety, memory management and a great IDE are but a few things that make developing .NET applications a breeze. Unfortunately these applications require the user to install .NET framework before they install the application itself. This can confuse t...
Problem: I am using Windows as a guest operating system in a Virtual Machine and a funky keyboard setup. I need a way to be able to troubleshoot cases when keyboard hotkey combinations are not functioning properly. Question: Does anyone know of a program that quickly and easily displays on the screen what keypress windows thinks it got ...
I have created the necessary manifests for my COM server DLL and a client application to work registration-free in Windows XP. I've tested all kinds of combinations (with and without a registration) and in all cases the client application sees the side-by-side version of the library if the manifests are present, and the registered one i...
I would like to see how a program responds when it's connection is severed. Aside from disabling the network card, is there a way to sever a tcp connection in Windows without killing the process, or the thread that owns the connections? ...
I understand that CoCreateInstance finds the COM server for the given class id, creates the object instance for that id and retrieves an interface from that object instance. CoGetClassObject() finds the COM server for the class id, creates an instance of the class factory for that class id and retrieves that class factory interface which...
We're writing a Windows client application in VB.NET. On the first launch of the application it loads a local HTML file "User Guide" for the user to get acquainted with the new software. There is also a menu option to access the content which also produces the same error. Whenever the page is launched, a dialog box appears stating that "...
Hey guys, I'm trying to remotely debug a shell extension on a VM-Ware Vista installation through Vistual Studio 2008 (host system is Vista as well). My problem is that the shell extension gets registered correctly, but is never called. When I copy the extension to my virtual system by hand and run it there, it works fine. Is this mayb...
I'm trying to use Araxis Merge as my diff / merge tool for MSYSGit. I found a few resources on the net: On the Araxis site, they mention an "easy" way, but it implies a executables (araxisgitdiff.exe and araxisgitmerge.exe) that are not part of my distro. I also found some info in gitguru, but the actual information re: Araxis is spar...