Hello, What are the pros/cons of using SRVANY compared to creating a Windows service? (I've noticed here that SRVANY is not advised to be used in a production environment, but would like to understand the reasons) Thanks. ...
Hi, I have a C++ Windows application myapp.exe which loads several plug-ins. Plug-ins need to find the path to their DLLs. I can use GetModuleFileName for this, but it need the handle for the plug-in DLL. I don't know where to get this handle. GetModuleHandle(NULL) returns the handle to the executable. One option is to use GetModuleHa...
In Windows, I am looking at generating professional graphs using any mainstream programming language (C#, VB.Net, Java, PERL, etc). The best free looking graphs I have found so far is Microsoft Chart Controls for .NET. What other graph controls/modules do you suggest? Note: Added free to the requirements. ...
Is there a C++ function to turn off the computer? And since I doubt there is one (in the standard library, at least), what's the windows function that I can call from C++? Basically, what is the code to turn off a windows xp computer in c++? ...
Is there a way to programmatically launch a chat client (eg: MSN Messenger) and automatically open a chat window for a specific contact? I'm hoping for something similar to ShellExec("mailto:[email protected]"), but for chat instead of email. ...
I am writing a memory tracking application that hooks all the calls to HeapAlloc using IAT patching mechanism. The idea is to capture all the calls to HeapAlloc and get a callstack. However I am currently facing a problem with getting the callstack using DBGHELP Apis. I found that the dbghelp dll itself is linking to MSVCRT dll and thi...
Hello everyone, I want to create a Windows Installer, the 1st step I want it to call another installer (will install dependent components of my application), and the 2nd step I want to install my own application. I want to do all tasks in one installation process, and I have the dependent component installation package at hand (an exe f...
Hello, Basically when user resizes my application's window I want application to be same size when application is re-opened again. At first I though of handling SizeChanged event and save Height and Width, but I think there must be easier solution. Pretty simple problem, but I can not find easy solution to it. ...
I have a CTabCtrl subclass which I'm trying overriding WM_PAINT to perform custom drawing. The only problem is, when I change the selected tab, I get artifacts left on the dialog where the old paint code hasn't been erased before the new code is painted on top. (The standard tab controls have the selected tab appear 2 pixels bigger than ...
Hello guys, Here is a question not directly related to programming. Being fed up with Microsoft Windows XP Professional, and the lots of eye-candy, I want to try Microsoft Windows Server 2003 as the main OS on my development PC. (The other reason is a better version of IIS than 5.1). And knowing that Win2K3 was originally designed as...
Currently, it is just a windows-based application (slowed down guitar software) written in Delphi. However, I do have plans to port them to the following platforms : Mac iPhone Web-based How do I go about this? What is the bes programming language to use? What kind of developers do I need to look for? And how long will these projects...
I have a .net based windows application which is running in memory. I want to trigger one of the function in the app from an external application which is not .net based. How can I achieve this? The triggering should be real time. ...
My boss has a windows application that he wrote. It is not a Windows console application, but a Windows GUI application. We, of course, have the source code, but he does not want it to be a console app. He wants it to remain a regular GUI application. The thing is, he wants to be able to call it from PHP, passing it parameters, and h...
I feel really stupid for asking this but I have been thrashing for over 8 hours. How do I get the Selected Item to show its text in my WPF combo box when selected? Above is an option dialog that allows users to select and configure the available tournament displays. The problem is the selected combo box item shows the UserControl in...
When I run gem install <somegem> command the gem utility tries to access my home directory. It contains some non-latin characters and installation fails because of that. For example: E:\ruby\bin>gem install <somegem> ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::ENOENT) No such file or directory - C:\Documents and Settings\<user> I...
How do I programmatically determine the network connection link speed for an active network connection - like Task Manager shows you in the Networking tab? I'm not really after the bandwidth available, just a figure for the current connection, e.g. 54Mbps, 100Mbps etc. ...
Visual Studio or Eclipse - which IDE is better for Qt on Windows? Taking into account Eclipse is free I'm especially interested in Express version of VS but I'm open to non-free versions if this would allow much better integration with Qt. Before posting you might take a look at similar questions on SO to avoid writing what I've already...
Hi, I am working on a windows keyboard filter driver and I need to write to a file. I tried using zwcreate,zwwrite, and zwclose but the driver is not running at PASSIVE_LEVEL and I got the BSOD. I have never written a windows driver before. Thanks for the help! EDIT: Thanks J. Passing! ...
I have noticed some applications (like steam) are able to start/stop services as a normal user with out invoking the uac control. Does any one know how to do it? OS: Vista/Win 7 Visual Studio 2005 C++ . Edit: I was playing around with the steam service last night trying to work out how it is different. If i put my service exe where th...
hello, If my C++ app crashes on Windows I want to send useful debugging information to our server. On Linux I would use the GNU backtrace() function - is there an equivalent for Windows? Also, is there a way to extract useful debugging information after a program has crashed? Or only from within the process? Richard (Advice along the...