In a .wxs file I have: <Environment Name="PATH" ... Value="%APPDATA%\Python\Scripts" system="no"/> Unfortunately this does not seem to work. After installing the installer on another machine, I do see that '%APPDATA%\Python\Scripts' is contained in the PATH environment variable. But typing 'foo' (where foo.exe exists in that set path)...
I have upgraded what had been a working AD Users and Computers property sheets extension from Visual Studio 2003 to 2008 and am trying to debug it. The symptoms are that MMC.EXE crashes when selecting that property sheet tab. I tried attaching to mmc.exe, but although the property sheet displayed the tab, the DLL is not on the call sta...
I downloaded the PhotoView reference app for Win7 with source. The app works, but I can't get the project to build. There is a ServiceControlInterop C++ project in the solution that won't build. I figured out that it needed the Win7 SDK, which I downloaded, but now that I've got the proper winsvc.h referenced I get a slew of new error...
I use Linux because it is a superior development environment to Windows. However I recently came across a Windows library called AHK that gives me great control to interact with applications. Is there an equivalent in the Linux world? ...
Hi, i am running windows Xp 64 bit. i want to hide the taskbar when i run my application. I tried codes by searching in google. In all those, it hides the task bar. But the problem is, when i open a notepad and maximize it, it is not actually into full screen. Because the space where task bar was there is still blocked with empty space. ...
I've got a bare-minimum Erlang port driver: erl_driver_bridge.c -> erl_driver_bridge.dll #define __WIN32__ #include "erl_driver.h" typedef struct { ErlDrvPort port; } erl_driver_bridge_data; static ErlDrvData bridge_start(ErlDrvPort port, char *buff) { erl_driver_bridge_data* d = (erl_driver_bridge_data*)driver_alloc...
i would like create new window station & windows desktop and attach my process to it. how can i do that i need to know Creating Window station and attach my desktop Creating & switching between Desktop effectively how do i attaching process to winlogon desktop(if it is possible ) Destroy created desktop and return back to windows des...
I am trying to simulate a scenario where connection to the server of one process is down while the connection to another server is up. Just pulling the network cable won't work in my case since I need another process connection to stay up. Is there any tool for this kind of job? I am on Windows. Thanks! ...
I want to capture following attributes from print server spool on print of any page. i am able to capture 3 of 4 attributes through these APIs(FindFirstPrinterChangeNotification, FindNextPrinterChangeNotification). but still i am not able to get data of file(so i can keep the thumbnail of this file by page by page) Computer Name - D...
My Win32 C++ application acts as an RPC server - it has a set of functions for processing requests and RPC runtime creates a separate thread and invokes one of my functions in that thread. In my function I have an std::auto_ptr which is used to control a heap-allocated char[] array of size known at compile time. It accidentially works w...
I am trying to find out if a given executable (or library) is compiled for 32-bits or 64-bits from Python. I am running Vista 64-bits and would like to determine if a certain application in a directory is compiled for 32-bits or 64-bits. Is there a simple way to do this using only the standard Python libraries (currently using 2.5.4)? ...
I have a multithreaded windows service application, I want to know every moment how many threads(with thread id, thread name, corresponding process id) are running which are created by my application. Thank in advance. ...
Hi, how to get an print preview content of an webpage using HTML control or web-browser control in windows mobile smart phone application using c#, c++ or ATL control. please guide us with any technical detail or any sample application associated with it. -Thanks in advance. GrabIt ...
My question is about handling temporary files in a small .NET program. This program/utility just does the following with two URLs: Download each URL to a string (WebClient.DownloadString). Save each string to a temporary file. Call WinMerge (Process.Start) to diff the two files (in read-only mode for both files). I currently have the ...
Assuming I have booted a 32-bit Windows Server with the /3GB switch, how can I make a .NET application use the additional address space? ...
I created a simple Win32 application to demonstrate UXtheme on XP by including a manifest dependency on the ver 6 commctl32.dll I then created a simple Win32 dll, built it with ISOLATION_AWARE_ENABLED, and tested it with an embedded manifest specifying both version 5 and 6 of Comctl32.dll I successfully got the exe and dll to use differ...
How good is the new Ruby Installer for Windows? I asked before about why Ruby was so slow on windows and now I've seen some impressive benchmarks showing marked speed improvements with the minGW compilation used in the new installers and am curious how it has worked for people who have tried it? How many gems are broken for this versio...
On Windows Server 2008 64-bit, I need an .msi installer file to write some files to \windows\system32\inetsrv folder. (The files are some XML Schema validation files, that C# XmlReaderSettings.Schema.Add() expects to be in that folder). When the installer runs, the files end up in \windows\SysWOW64\inetsrv folder, not where they need to...
How do I read performance counters in a .NET application without the application running as an administrator? The application is a Windows Service. The account it will run under is known at install time, so in theory I could add any non-admin permissions to that account at that time. ...
Hello all I want to start learning drivers programming under windows . I never programed drivers , and i am looking for information how to get started . Any tutorials ,links ,book recommendations , and what development tool kit i should start with ? (WDF will be good one ?) I really want to program following clock link text Thanks ...