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StackOverflow reputation using Windows Command Prompt (cmd.exe)

How can I view my reputation with a Command Prompt script? (In reply to StackOverflow reputation using PowerShell, because I'm bored as hell.) ...

How to implement a guitar amp or FX emulation on windows platform?

which tech should I pick up? Should I write a driver or something? Thank you very much ...

Starting services that depend on side-by-side assemblies using Windows Installer

Hi, We are in the process of updating the construction of our product's .msi package for Windows Server 2008. The main component of our install is an application that is run as a Windows service. There is also a configuration application that gets run during install to set up registry entries for use by the service. The service and t...

How many Windows handles in use is "too many"?

I understand that the answer to this question may depend on registry settings and on the version of Windows, and perhaps on the amount of RAM if there is not enough memory. For the sake of this question, assume that the server has plenty of RAM (3+ GiB). If an application (3rd party application in this case) leaks handles at a few hund...

Which version of MSXML should I use?

Seems like this would be a common question, though I could not find it on SO. Which version of MSXML should I use in my applications, and more importantly, how should I decide? There is MSXML3, 4, 5 and 6. I recently posted some code in calling-wcf-service-by-vbscript that used MSXML v4. AnthonyWJones posted that I shouldn't use 4...

How can I convert a string from windows-1252 to utf-8 in Ruby?

I'm migrating some data from MS Access 2003 to MySQL 5.0 using Ruby 1.8.6 on Windows XP (writing a Rake task to do this). Turns out the Windows string data is encoded as windows-1252 and Rails and MySQL are both assuming utf-8 input so some of the characters, such as apostrophes, are getting mangled. They wind up as "a"s with an accent ...

Change the target of a desktop icon (but not the icon "picture")?

How can I change the target of a desktop icon (but not the displayed icon) with a "programming language" (vbscript or anything else) ? for example: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe (with firefox-logo-icon-picture) to E:\start_firefox.bat (with the same display icon, and not the "bat" icon) ...

Access VPN connection on guest Virtual PC from Host OS

Hello, I am running as my Host OS - Win 7 x64 and running an instance of Virtual PC XP. I am running the Cisco ISPec VPN Client on the Guest XP VPC OS and can successfully connect to my company's corporate network. I cannot run the Cisco IPSec client sw on the Host, because it is 64-bit, Cisco doesn't support 64-bit on its IPSec clien...

Reading a Unicode file in C and passing contents as ASCII via sockets

Hey, I've being trying to figure this out, but nothing seems to work. We have an application that reads thousands of transactions files using the normal "fopen fgets etc", which we parse using normal C functions "strstr, strchr, etc" and return back a normalized char *. However, now we need to read some files that are in Unicode (from ...

enterprise message queue system for windows server

I'm looking for a message queuing system that runs on windows server similar to jms. ...

Windows batch file: waiting between steps in a <for> statement

I am trying to use a for statement in a Windows batch file ("File A") to call another program ("File B") for each .pdv (Procoder DV, not part of the problem) file in a particular directory. I want File A to wait until File B has finished running on the first .pdv file before it asks File B to run on the next .pdv file, but instead, all t...

Block windows UI

I'm trying to build a simple app for parenting control in .NET. The main idea is to force a certain user account to run my app and to block all access to windows desktop UI. Anyone know how can i achieve this or where should i start researching? Thanks. ...

Problem connecting to SVN repository

Okay. Just looking for some advice on how to debug a problem with connecting one machine to an SVN repository. Here are the details: (1) Two of our machines successfully connect to the SVN repository, but one machine does not. (2) We are all using Windows XP and are using the TortoiseSVN client. (3) We all were able to connect from ...

What's wrong with GetUserName Win32 API?

I'm using GetUserName Win32 API to get the user name of my computer, but I found the user name is different (uppercase vs. lowercase only) when using my VPN connection into work when I was at home. I’m wondering if the VPN client or other software could be affecting the username? ...

Documentation on the SEE_MASK_NOZONECHECKS environment variable

I'm helping to try track down and reproduce an issue with our web application in Internet Explorer for one of our clients. Their browser process is launched with the SEE_MASK_NOZONECHECKS environment variable set. I'm trying to find out the changes that variable will have on Internet Explorer's behaviour. A Google search reveals a single...

Error running tutorial that came along wxPython2.8 Docs and Demos

I tried the following example code from the tutorial that came along "wxPython2.8 Docs and Demos" package. import wx from frame import Frame class App(wx.App): """Application class.""" def OnInit(self): self.frame = Frame() self.frame.Show() self.SetTopWindow(self.frame) return True def main()...

Monitor UDP packet loss in Windows Server, Java

My Java application receives data through UDP. It uses the data for an online data mining task. This means that it is not critical to receive each and every packet, which is what makes the choice of UDP reasonable on the first place. Also, the data is transferred over LAN, so the physical network should be reasonably reliable. Anyway, I ...

Suggestion for a cross platform line graph library for .NET and Mono

Hello I'm writing a cross platform datalogging application in C# so I use the .NET compiler for Windows and Mono for the Mac. I'm at the stage now where I'm building the GUI for my logging application, I have a plug in arcitecture so am reasonably flexible on what I use. I'm looking for a charting library to initially plot simple line ...

Indexing in ESE

Does the Microsoft "Extensible Storage Engine" expose enough access to the storage manager to allow me to write a custom access method, for example a GiST? Alternatively, is there a basic log manager / buffer pool manager project for Windows that I could extend to play around with GiST without re-inventing the entire wheel? (Access meth...

Get available screen area in autohotkey

I'm trying to write a few simple AutoHotkey scripts for moving windows around, and I'm having trouble getting the correct screen size values. I'm trying to get the size of the usable area on the screen (generally the full screen resolution minus the taskbar, and maybe any other docked windows like the sidebar in Vista). Neither of the ...