I made an installer using the ISTool wizard and everything is fine. Under my program name in the start menu, I have MyApp MyApp Help Now, I want to add 2 more entries that are identical to the first (MyApp) but that passes a command line argument to the executable MyApp MyApp (Console Mode) MyApp (Remote Admin Mode) MyApp Help Shou...
I have a solution in C# with 2 project of 2 different types: windows app and class library. They all share the same namespace but I can't access forms in windows app although I add reference to System.Windows.Form in CL project. Help me, please! ...
Hello, I'm looking at WPF to develop the front-end of a proposed application where I work and really I'm here just looking for other peoples experiences of how memory intensive WPF applications are in general? I've tried a few openly avaliable applications and to me they seem pretty memory intensive, so what are your experiences, with ...
Hi, I want to install a windows service on a remote service. In the following blog you have said to use 'servicecontroller' http://stackoverflow.com/questions/469397/installing-a-win32-service-using-msbuild-and-microsoft-sdc-tasks However in the 'ServiceController Members' in the .chm file of 'MSBuild Community Tasks' there is no me...
Is double-buffering still required when Desktop Composition is enabled? In Microsoft's Application Compatibility Guide: Graphical Device Interface (GDI) Prior to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, a window handle (HWND) was painted directly to the screen, which had certain benefits, but limited how Windows could di...
hi, I have a .doc or .dot file and I'd like to view it in PrintPreviewDialog. I heard that I only can view it if I can load the .doc content into PrintDocument object or atleast paint the content on. Anyone know how to do it? Thanks in advance ...
Window's COM allow us to wrap our application function for out-of-process invocation. If the COM interfaces are well defined and design, it is certainly great to consume the services via scripts and any programming platform that support COM/Automation/Active-X. I am just wondering if there exist any alternate methods to design of what ...
Hi, there, I just installed Oracle, and I am working with SQL*Plus because the GUI tool, SQL Developer, won't work. I need to run some scripts, and I found that after starting SQL*Plus I couldn't navigate from a session to another directory. The instructions that I did find after I searched on the internet all talk about a gui interfac...
Is it possible to copy a new file created by third party application inside a directory automatically on windows? It goes like: Third party process 'P' creates a new temporary file 'F' inside a directory 'D'. Whenever this file F is created by the process P, I want to copy this file F into another directory D2. Additional problem is th...
I want to scrape string data from some binary text files that contain embedded SQL statements. I don't need any fancy cleanup--just some way to extract the readable text. I'm using vb.net, but a call to an external utility would work too. ...
Is Python generally slower on Windows vs. a *nix machine? Python seems to blaze on my Mac OS X machine whereas it seems to run slower on my Window's Vista machine. The machines are similar in processing power and the vista machine has 1GBs more memory. I particularly notice this in Mercurial but I figure this may simply be how Mercuri...
Is there any Perl module which has the capability to send raw packets on Windows? I know there is Net::RawIP, but it seems that it does not work on Windows. ...
How big (in bits) is a Windows BOOL data type? Microsoft defines the BOOL data type as: BOOL Boolean variable (should be TRUE or FALSE). This type is declared in WinDef.h as follows: typedef int BOOL; Which converts my question into: How big (in bits) is an int data type? Edit: In before K&R. Edit 2: Somethi...
I want to setup two Hudson Masters on the same Hardware. This will make administering Hudson easier, since both servers are used by two different (and independent) teams. So far I tried to install one server as a service. I verified the installation and it is running ok. I than copied the installation into another path and changed the s...
I'd like to be able to do the equivalent of FormatMessage - generate a text message for debug and even runtime builds that can report some of the common HRESULTs, or even spit out things like what the severity is, what facility it was, and possibly a description of the error code. I found this simple function, but its too simple, and mo...
Or are these terms used to refer to the same thing? I'm trying to implement some custom buttons showing a bitmap image, into my Win32 app. One tutorial indicates I should be creating child windows using CreateWindow(). However, I have downloaded a bunch of source code from another tutorial on creating "child controls", and no referenc...
It's very on the Mac to create a loadable plugin as a bundle and make it use symbols in the Host executable. How can this be done on Linux and Windows? I hear there's -rdynamic on Linux that may come in handy but I'm completely at a loss as far as Windows goes. The point is to move away from linking both the host and the plugin against...
Sinatra app: require "rubygems" require "sinatra" get '/' do "Hello world. It's #{Time.now} at the server!" end windows XP with latest version of mongrel, sinatra, shotgun. ruby 1.8.6 running shotgun test_app.rb results in C:\Files\sites\sinatra>shotgun test.rb == Shotgun starting Rack::Handler::Mongrel on localhost:9393 Th...
I'm looking for a way to detect if a Process started by my application has in turn spawned additional Processes. The hope is that i can have a thread that starts and application, watches until it exits, and then triggers some other action when that application exits. The problem is that with some of the applications that i want to monito...
There's a chapter in Robbins' Debugging Microsoft Windows Applications where he discusses the assembly code created for Windows apps. This is a community wiki question--please post links to other books, websites, blogs, articles etc. which discuss the x86 assembly code generated by Windows. I'm looking for a little more in-depth discus...