I have an MSVC Makefile Project in which I need to set an environment variable before running NMAKE. For x64 builds I needs to set it to one value, and for x86 builds I need to set it to something else. So for example, when doing a build I would want to SET PLATFORM=win64 if I'm building a 64-bit compile, or SET PLATFORM=win32 if I'm b...
After reading the MSDN article about proper user interface here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa974176.aspx I want to modify the message boxes I use in my applications to reflect those guidelines (for example, have the Main Instructions in a larger font, better named Buttons, etc...). My question is, is there an API that al...
I use a population count (hamming weight) function intensively in a windows c application and have to optimize it as much as possible in order to boost performance. More than half the cases where I use the function I only need to know the value to a maximum of 15. The software will run on a wide range of processors, both old and new. I a...
In MSVC, how can I make any unhandled C++ exception (std::runtime_error, for instance) crash my release-compiled program so that it generates a dump with the full stack from the exception throw location? I have installed NTSD in the AeDebug registry and can generate good dumps for things like memory access violation, so the matter here ...
My current setup is Python 2.5/ Django 1.1.1 on Windows. I want to start using Django 1.2 on some projects, but can't use it for everything. Which is just the sort of thing I've got virtualenv for. However, I'm running into a problem I've never encountered and it's hard to Google for: installing Django 1.2 into a virtualenv has no effect...
I am writing a perl routine that mounts specific drives at startup. However, when the drives are mounted, they appear in "My Computer" with odd names like "dir$ at 'machinename' (H:)". Is there a way in perl or C to specify this string (or just the 'dir$' part?) at mount-time? ...
Hi. I want to write a batch file that will take the contents of a file, and replace any environment variable references inside the file with the actual environment variable values. Is this possible? Basically, if a file had this: %PROGRAM FILES%\Microsoft SQL Server\ then I would want the file contents to become: C:\Program Files\...
I need a tool which will discover whether an arbitrary process is running in x86 or x64 mode on a machine. I need to do this programatically from C++, based on a process ID. There has to be some way to do this (as you can clearly see it from the task manager). Does anyone know of a windows api that will tell you, given a process ID, w...
Can python retrieve the name of the user that owns a windows service? I've had a fiddle with win32serviceutil but to no avail, nor can I find much documentation on it beyond starting and stopping services. Thanks! ...
I still see advice about using the LPTSTR/TCHAR types, etc., instead of LPWSTR/WCHAR. I believe the Unicode stuff was well introduced at Win2k, and I frankly don't write code for Windows 98 anymore. (Excepting special cases, of course.) Given that I don't care about Windows 98 (or, even less, ME) as they're decade old OS, is there any re...
I am trying to make a .bat file to edit the redirect in index.asp to be the filename of the file selected via the context menu option .bat file. I know how to replace the file: @echo OFF del/q D:\e-lib\index.asp copy %1 D:\e-lib\index.asp but not how to edit the contents so that the redirect within index.asp points to the filename of...
Hi, I have a DHTML layer that floats across a webpage. Everything is working with the DHTML layer, except when it goes pass the Windows Media Player toolbar. It goes behind the toolbar. Any idea how to fix this? Thanks in advance for your help. ...
Looking at the Windows SDK, I found this #define directive for MAKEINTRESOURCEW: #define MAKEINTRESOURCEW(i) ((LPWSTR)((ULONG_PTR)((WORD)(i)))) Can someone explain to me what the heck that means? For example, what would be the value of MAKEINTRESOURCEW(0)? (1)? (-1)? ...
Hi i am new to the system programming...i want to read information from fat table like total sector,total physical drive,containing logical drive types and as well containing files in the drives(like their file size,when accessed)with all information of files..and then display of these files with respect of their hierarchy at GUI. this ...
I'm Windows developer, I'm using Microsoft visual studio 2008 SP1. My developer machine is 64 bit. The software I'm currently working on is managed .exe written in C#. Unfortunately, I was unable to solve the whole problem solely in C#. That's why I also developed a small managed DLL in C++/CLI. Both projects are in the same solution. ...
Whenever I install a new font on a Windows 2003 server, I can't use it immediately in my asp.net web application. The application gets the font through the CreateFontIndirect gdi32.dll win api, and then use this font to create a dynamic text image in my asp.net application. It seems like fonts get cached somewhere, because I will just ge...
I need to create a basic app to check the availability of components and if necessary download them to any computer running Windows XP or above. Which language (preferably free or VS 2010) should I use to create such an application which can run without requiring any frameworks installed beforehand? ...
Following http://stackoverflow.com/questions/659647/how-to-get-folder-path-from-file-path-with-cmd I want to strip the path (without the filename) from a variable. following the logic of the methods discussed above I would like to use batch bellow, which doesn't work. any takers? possible? set cpp="C:\temp\lib.dll" echo %cpp% "C:\temp...
hi all, I found this structure called OBJECT_ATTRIBUTE in one of the nt dll functions..I was curious to know about that structure and I went through its documentation(msdn)...In the OBJECT_ATTRIBUTE structure there is a parameter called PUNICODE_STRING objectName...As per the msdn documentation..it says that the objectName "the name...
This may sound like a repeated question on SF, but I could not find a clear answer to it, yet.So. I installed Paramiko 1.7 with "setup.py install" command and while running the demo.py program, I got this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Documents and Settings\fixavier\Desktop\paramiko-1.7\demos\demo.py", line 33, ...