Hey, I have a program starting up through the registry, but I want it to start up more efficiently. So I asked some questions and I have found out that a windows service is the way forward. I have looked at how to make a windows service but I have not found any answers for what I need. I am trying to create a checkbox on my application...
Hey there I'm going through a lot of computers and a lot of data here and there. I'm moving it all to a server so everybody has access to it. There i have a folder for each computer. But a lot of the data is the same. Is there any program to help me combine the data that is the same ? It hell trying to do this manually. Basically i wa...
Hello, Could anyone tell why does a ComboBox (having the same font settings as a TextBox) look smaller (i.e. does not have the same height) ? The same application looks perfect on Windows Mobile 5. Could this be coped somehow ? Thanks. ...
I'm searching for info to setup a Mercurial Server for Windows (7 or XP) with an Apache (xampp if it is useful to know it) with the Push Model, just like in this question but my team is composed of 5 to 8 (unsolvent) guys who are each one working in separated places, so I don't think the bitbucket solution or anyother non-private repo ou...
Is there some way to launch a process in non-elevated way from an elevated one. My setup is launched elevated and when it finalizes, it will just launch the main application. Because the setup is elevated, the main process will be elevated as well which is not desirable. What is the best solution to this? ...
Hi, Does anybody has any pointer regarding this? We are currently trying with Java SOAP API. The URL used for windows live authentication is:https://login.live.com/RST2.srf <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:wsse="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401...
We are creating an x64 build of our Win32 app and I have to make our ODBC imports work. I have been searching the web but i can't seem to find any good information on what has changed and what is the best way to handle ODBC in a 64 bit app. Our current code uses classes that no longer exist like CDaoDatabase and CDaoTableDef. Can anyon...
I am looking for Windows applications guidelines, related to configuration, log files and other issues not related to user experience - like Store your configs in Foo directory Put temporary files in Baz one Default directory for open/save has to be Bar etc Thanks ...
Our perl program crashes when started on customer's Windows machine. Further tests shows that with the perl distribution we provide, a simple "hello world" script works, but breaks if it includes the line: use Win32::TieRegistry(Delimiter=>'\\'); It crashes with Access Violation for accessing a zero pointer. The stack points to regist...
Hi to all! My colleagues and I are thinking of giving git a try and see if we can easily move to it. We work on a Windows-only environment. On our own machines we already have git set up with mingw32 and SmartGit as gui client. Is there an easy approach based more on the concept of sharing folders than on the concept of "hosting server...
I was talking with an employee the other day and I remember them mentioning a tool that we use that enables you to see what messages the OS sends/receives when an event occurs (for example, when a link is clicked in Internet Explorer (or another browser)). Can somebody please tell me what this app is called? ...
I'm working on a project that makes heavy use of shell extensions. I want to test it in as any versions of windows as possible. Is there a service designed for this? Almost like a VPS host but with OS images for retail XP, XP SP1, XP SP2, etc ...
Are file descriptors supported on windows? Why do things "seem to work" in Perl with fds? Things like "fileno", "dup" and "dup2" were working but then randomly inside some other environment, stopped working. It's hard to give details, mostly what I'm looking for is answers from experienced Windows programmers and how file descriptors ...
Searching for books about Windows NT Service programming, I found "Programming Windows Services" by Randy Morin, and "Professional NT Services" by Kevin Miller. Both books are quite old. Does anyone know of more recent resources (book or other) about NT service development? ...
Hi all, I never do any windows programming. I also have no idea how I would start this project. Hoping I could get some high level steps. Problem: I have many versions of source on my computer. Each one may have a different description and a different state. I always get confused which one is in which state. I'd like it if I could...
Hi, I need to be able to to split the executable path and arguments in a command. Windows handles the following easily: "notepad.exe C:\testfile.txt" "notepad c:\testfolder\versioninfo.txt" "C:\Windows\notepad.exe" "C:\test folder\versioninfo.txt" rundll "C\Windows\somelibrary.dll" Anyone has a piece of code to parse such strings...
In Perl, I do a: rmtree($myfolder); Often this fails on windows. When ran again, it then succeeds. It seems like somehow it takes a while to delete the files in the folder, and somehow it tries to delete the folder before the files are gone. Is there a "this one actually works" Perl method to erase an directory with all its contents ...
I am using the .NET Compact Framework 3.5 and I am trying to determine if there is a standard way to store settings that a user to change in my application. I am aware of the Compact 3.5 SQL database, but I am trying to avoid that if I can to avoid a dependency that is not already installed on the user’s mobile device (I already have to ...
WinNT.h has the following lines in it, in the VS2008 SP1 install: #define BitTest _bittest #define BitTestAndComplement _bittestandcomplement #define BitTestAndSet _bittestandset #define BitTestAndReset _bittestandreset #define InterlockedBitTestAndSet _interlockedbittestandset #define InterlockedBitTestAndReset _interlockedbittestandre...
I refer to this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1448384/monitor-windows-share I am opening a new thread because I feel that thread is very unclear in both question and content. I am in Windows XP using .NET 2.0 VS2008 C# and managed C++. The question is how exactly to monitor the number and nature of open connections to a windows...