i want to read serial port when there is some data present i mean on the event when data arrives only then i will read serial port instead of continuously reading the port i have this code for continuous reading the port how can i make it event based. thanx in advance. while(1) { bReadRC = ReadFile(m_hCom, &byte, 6, &iBytesRead, NUL...
What are the various differences between the two symbols TCHAR and _TCHAR type defined in the Windows header tchar.h? Explain with examples. Briefly describe scenarios where you would use TCHAR as opposed to _TCHAR in your code. (10 marks) ...
Actual question(s): What happens "in Windows" when a program crashes from an uncaught exception? Is there a dll function, which I can hook, to log some basic information about a crash? Context: I am planning to write a program which will collect some very basic information about any applications which crash on my local pc. I was hopi...
Here is what I came up with. It works but I was wondering if there is something more elegant. Thank you! Misha /* Copyright (c) 2010 Misha Koshelev. All Rights Reserved. * * TODO: * - Add Linux support */ package com.mksoft.common; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileWriter; import java.io.InputS...
I'm using a JTree to browse the content of a folder and I want that when a user click on a file, the software shows a preview of it (a screenshot of its first page). The files are mostly Office documents and PDF. I manage to do it for PDF file using a module downloaded from Sun, but I'd like to know if there is a way to do it using any...
I have a Python script that I'd like to compile into a Windows executable. Now, py2exe works fine from Windows, but I'd like to be able to run this from Linux. I do have Windows on my development machine, but Linux is my primary dev platform and I'm getting kind of sick of rebooting into Windows just to create the .exe. Any ideas? PS: I...
I have an application built with the MinGW C++ compiler that works something like grep - acommand looks something like this: myapp -e '.*' *.txt where the thing that comes after the -e switch is a regex, and the thing after that is file name pattern. It seems that MinGW automatically expands (globs in UNIX terms) the command line so ...
hello i want to recursively list the absolute path to all files that end with mp3 from a given directory which should be given as relative directory. i would then like to strip also the directory from the file and i have read that variables which are in a for-scope must be enclosed in !s. is that right? my current code looks like this:...
My website is running on Asp.net v4 , IIS 7 , Windows server 2008. My cpu is running on 20-30% and the site is responding quickly. Every 2-5 mins i'm receiving the following error: Event code: 3001 Event message: The request has been aborted. Exception type: HttpException Exception message: Request timed out. , Request informatio...
I have started learning MVC2. I developed a simple customer search screen with Jquery and Json calls. In debug mode everything works. When i deployed to my local iis server and after configuring the app pools i got the app to run. When i do the search nothing happens, it like the json call is not working and i dont get any errors eith...
I'm trying to make a MFC application(client) that connects to a server on ("localhost",port 1234), the server replies to the client and the client reads from the server's response. The server is able to receive the data from the client and it sends the reply back to the socket from where it received it, but I am unable to read the reply...
Hey guys! I have this huge xml file (13 mb) and it has some malformed values. Here is a sample of the xml: <propertylist> <adprop index="0" proptype="type" value="Ft"/> <adprop index="0" proptype="category" value="Bs"/> <adprop index="0" proptype="subcategory" value="Bsm"/> <adprop index="0" proptype="de...
I'm trying to resolve an issue that I brought up at the end of the investigation into SHBrowseForFolder and folder shortcut browsing: I cannot figure out how IFolderFilter's member function ShouldShow should work to filter out everything but folders and folder shortcuts. I haven't found much documentation on this and my current solution...
I am looking for a means to kill a Windows exe program that, when being tested from a python script, crashes and presents a dialog to the user; as this program is invoked many times, and may crash repeatedly, this is not suitable. The problem dialog is the standard reporting of a Windows error: "Foo.exe has encountered a problem and ne...
I have seen this topic discussed several times, but emphasis is on "very good in-line-comparison" here, which was not really covered by those threads. E.g. I would like the tool to recognize and highlight that the resource "colorpicker_newstring" has been added when comparing the following two blocks. WinMerge and Kdiff both fail... Doe...
Hello, I am planning to automate some of the functionality of the GUI developed in Microsoft Visual C#. I am new to Automation with GUI. Would be glad if you share your experience regarding GUI Automation and some of the tools available for the automation. I plan to develop some programms / scripts in order to realise some of the fun...
Hello, I'm attempting to utilize the socket.h functions within Windows. Essentially, I'm currently looking at the sample code at http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/multipage/clientserver.html#datagram. I understand that socket.h is a Unix function -- is there anyway I can easily emulate that environment while compiling this sample c...
I have some code which gets the short name from a file path, using GetShortNameW(), and then later retrieves the long name view GetLongNameA(). The original file is of the form "C:/ProgramData/My Folder/File.ext" However, following conversion to short, then back to long, the filename becomes "C:/Program Files/My Folder/Filename.ext"....
Using the OpenSSL libraries one can create a CSR (certificate signing request) by doing this: openssl genrsa -out rsa.key 1024 openssl req -new -key rsa.key -out output.csr -config config.txt where config.txt contains the distinguished name to use in the certificate. I would like to do something similar under Windows using C#. Howe...
I get this error return whether I try LsaQueryInformationPolicy() on the local host or on some other machine in the domain. The flags I use for LsaOpenPolicy() are POLICY_LOOKUP_NAMES | POLICY_VIEW_LOCAL_INFORMATION but I also tried POLICY_LOOKUP_NAMES | POLICY_VIEW_LOCAL_INFORMATION | READ_CONTROL without success. The user I'm logged i...