When developing and deploying native Windows applications, I often need to install a runtime before being able to run my binary, or statically link the library with my binary. For instance, after building a "Win32 Console" project with Visual Studio 2008, attempting to run the program on a fresh Windows 7 image results in: The applic...
I have to start using CVS at my new company so that I can play nicely with the developers who are all *nix users. I happen to be a Windows Vista user and unfortunately do not have the ability to switch anytime soon. I am also not exactly a command line guru yet, so any simplified method is ideal for me. I discovered TortoiseCVS today an...
Hi Folks, I am looking for some advice on handling WM 6.5 Gestures in a C# 2.0 Application. Currently things like pan and scroll are interfering with controls like the Tab Control and listviews. Is there a way to catch these using C# 2.0 and handling them? I've been looking at the MSDN wrappers etc but these are built using .Net 3.5 an...
Background: We are currently looking at converting a piece of RTF text to a propriety format on a server. We currently have some spike code using the Richtextbox in the System.Windows.Controls namespace to convert the text to xaml and run it through a xslt transform to the required format. This works fine in the spike but have concerns...
So a .exe file is a file that can be executed by windows, but what exactly does it contain? Assembly language that's processor specific? Or some sort of intermediate statement that's recognized by windows which turns it into assembly for a specific processor? What exactly does windows do with the file when it "executes" it? ...
We are using VB.NET and ASPx for our project. we would like to separate the aspx pages and put them on the IIS server (web server) on one m/c and the business logic and DAL layer on another IIS server (application server) on a different m/c .The database is on another m/c. Is such a configuration possible ? If so how can it be implemente...
Hi I am currently trying to develop an application to upload files to an Amazon S3 bucket using cURL and c++. After carefully reading the S3 developers guide I have started implementing my application using cURL and forming the Header as described by the Developers guide and after lots of trials and errors to determine the best way to c...
I'm programming in Python with a wrapper of the kernel32 dll, so I can use any functions of this dll, like GetLogicalDrives(), for instance. I'm trying to obtain the information of the physical drives, even if they are not mounted. I've seen a question similar to this, but I need the information of the not mounted drives. All methods I'v...
We have an in-proc crash handler which is using MiniDumpWriteDump() from DbgHelp to write a minidump is case of a process crash. I know its not the best way to do it, however, at the moment we do not have other option. The problem is: one certain executable always creates 0 byte dumps. But it works well for other processes. What could...
I'm looking for a winxp terminal tool that will send/receive raw bytes, not just printable ASCII like the hyperterminal that ships with winxp does. Preferably open-source. ...
Hello, I have a problem in using time. I want to use and get microseconds on windows using C++. I can't find the way. Thnaks ...
I work in a Windows Terminal Server enviroment where if you left the computer for a while, windows lock the session and terminal is power off. What i need is the code needed to send a message to Windows for it to believe the user is in front of the PC (mouse or keyboard activity). Thanks in advance ...
Hello, I noticed that if I have a .js file in windows explorer (not Internet Explorer, I'm meaning the folder explorer...) I can actually click on it and it will execute, giving error messages, like say "window object is undefined". Is there more information about the environment where the .js script are run into and the objects availab...
For a long time now, I've largely developed using open source languages, toolkits, etc. on Linux and Mac. A new project, though, is about to shove me into the .NET world. Moreover, a .NET world whose products will be deployed to a Windows infrastructure. In my mind, I made the assumption that I wouldn't be able to develop for this platf...
Hi, happens to me occasionally: I start my program in visual studio and due to some bug my program goes into 100% cpu usage and basically freezes windows completely. Only by utter patience requesting the task manager (takes forever to come up and paint itself) I can kill my process. Do others encounter this too sometimes? Is there a ...
I just installed copSSH for Windows. When I boot it up I get a directory C:\copSSH\home\Nick\.ssh which has my pub and private key it. When I access this directory via a Cygwin bash window using ssh user@host I get happily logged in. However, when I open a git bash window with git clone ssh://user@host it tries to access ...
We have a bizarre and very infrequent issue where people can't log off the Windows server when our product is running. The system is multi-application, all MFC/C++. The apps are run from a management service so they survive logoff. It's been running fine for donkeys years in loads of installations around the world. I wrote a test appli...
I am writing a program to kill and restart explorer but I don't want to hard code the location becuase some people install windows in diffrent places (for example i found someone who had it installed in the d:\ drive where the C:\ drive did exist but had nothing installed on it) I tried looking under Environment.SpecialFolder. but I don...
This may already exist I hope. I want to create a Windows service that schedules tasks (much like the Windows o e) but it would run C# assembles dynamically from a local folder (schedule rules via a XML file for that task) so I don't have to create a Windows service or console application every time I want some automation code but can b...
I'm trying to accomplish the following ridiculous task: I have a text file containing a set of fully qualified filesnames. I want to iterate through the file and append each line to a common variable, that can be passed to a command line tool. For example, the file might be: C:\dir\test.txt C:\WINDOWS\test2.txt C:\text3.tx...