Can anyone suggest material, sites, etc. to help me out. I am a wet behind the ears MIS Graduate who was taught nothing in his classes. Good old American College Education just isn't cutting it in the technical world.I need to learn how all this works...Socket programming, TCP/IP functionalit...

I am afraid there's no discussion forum reserved for powerbuilder, so i have to put this question in this forum. I have developed a cross-tab datawindow (report). Now since the columns of the report can vary from 3 to say 10 across the page i am unable to make the report heading center of the r...

Hello there,My business partners and I are looking into starting a business that would be membership-based. Our business plan includes that it would become a nation-wide organization. We are seeking a membership management software package robust enough to handle -- or be customized to handle our...

hi guys,im a bit of a dummy when it comes to this stuff but im looking for a html editor that will code cross browser.as much as i would love to write it all freehand i really dont have the knowledge yet.if anyone has any suggestions they would be greatfully recieved,Thanks,...

Coming from a windows development background I am mostly familiar with windows socket communication for communicating data between different machines in a TCP/IP environment. However, I am going to be starting on a dev project soon which will require a more robust communications method, between a hi...

Hey "gurus" I got one for yasIs there really any advantage to the windows registry in terms of it being used by my application?My app uses a .dat system settings file where everything is stored. I could try creating a new section in the registry but I dont get it, is it better? If so, how? Is it...

I am new to this, so excuse me if I sound ignorant ...How can DSR signal be asserted/deasserted on serial port programmatically using Win32 API's? I know that EscapeCommFunction() can be used to assert/deassert DTR... Does asserting DTR implicitly deassert DSR? Is this how DSR state is toggled?...

Tracking affiliates by Url to publisher and or website.I want to know is there a way in the programming world that dev-archive's or web devs do to know who thier competition is.By tracking and identifying theier true URL and or domain name.Tracking it back to the affilliate it came from or publ...

This is a question for the Eclipse people out there:I have an issue with the tab width that my code is getting saved with. I run Eclipse on my Windows machine which uses a mapped drive to a Linux system, which I save all my work on. I have Eclipse set up to utilize 4 spaces (chars) for a tab (vs 8...

I was just wondering if the entire english (websters or any unabridged version) is available for download in XML format. I found one thats closest - http://www.ibiblio.org/webster/You can see there is a single zip file available for ownlaod when you scroll down. But it seems to have parsing errors....

Hello, have someone setup an internet radio (or do you know some radio) streaming from a public IP, with VLC and in MP3 format?If so, can you report its URL here please?The reason for this request is thati have to write a web radio player in Flash, and i discovered that only radios streaming from VL...

hi...i was wondering if you have this problem in your countries...i work for a company, which pays me for developing asp.net applications... but at home, i have friends, or another companies who need applications to be developed... and they ask me how much would i charge them...talking about compan...

I want to devlop a GUI App, with buttons, a few streaming videos, and text. I then want to set up the app as a web server, so that is viewable, and controlable over the web. I want the web interface to look exactly the same (or as close as possible) to what the user sees when siting at the console...

I'm new to programming (did a little bit of BASIC on Commodores and Ataris in the 1980s) and want to learn to write programs that will run in the Windows environment. What I to do at first is make a program which will decode DTMF strings generated by Industrial Alert Siren sites (big sirens on...

Hello all,I am new the forums and programming in general. My question is, I have seen a company develope some sort of software that embeds a PDF into an EXE so that when you click the EXE the file (PDF) opens in Adobe Acrobat (no extracting to a desired location needed). I think this is a great id...

This ( http://cid-f7d26664ce20e649.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/BBSim%20-%20Demo/BBSim.exe) application is the title screen for the game I am writing.If you download the *.exe and run it, you will notice it fades if you hit the enter button after flashing text for a bit.Now, here is what I want...

I just wanted to know HOW anti adware and spyware work? Hows the coding logic part done? Not the UI. How does the software search for unwanted stuff? does it just search with a list of sites by a simple comparison looking for all the common places? A good anti-adware should search for a pattern, isn...

Hi,I've been wondering what the differences are between modular programming and object oriented programming. I've read Wikipedia on Modularity, however it wasn't very clear to me due to lack of examples.Could someone emphasize on the difference and similarities between the two, accomp...

hi...im gonna make an expert system that diagnose a certain disease thruogh symptoms..what's the best tool for this? it's not online.. also..does anyone know a certain modeling tool for expert systems? please help me with this...i really need your answers..

do people live with the crazy amounts of ads on this site?

Hello guys, I have a question regarding the transmission of data over some link.Say for e.g, we have a link with bandwidth y Mbps which means that y million bits can be transmitted every second!my question is, how many seconds woud it take to transmit x MB (megabytes) over a link with bandwidth of y...

Hi <br/>any one can tell about how we do .is there any application which can capture desktop image as a video file (specifically SWF file).<br/>reagrds<br/>vasanth

I have been a developer (MS technologies) for a few years now and have done a variety of applications for clients in different industries. Lately, however, I find myself wanting to focus on particular areas of development more than continuing to be a 'jack of all trades.' I realize that...

Hi, <br/>Does anyone know how to create/define column header in Excel 2007?<br/>Best Regards, <br/>Mushq <br/>Best Regards,<br/>Mushq

Does anyone know where to get a list of the hexadecimal attributes of the System colors? I'm using MS C# Express, and you know where you can select the color that you want to make a button/form/text box/etc..? It gives you the option of choosing a system color.All I need to know is what hexadec...

Hi,I'd like to know if you're using text modules for doing your software support work and if so, which ones. (The actual text would be great.)Before you start posting:I'm gathering texts for a text module library for my software ReplyButler ( http://www.replybutler.com/en/produkte/repl...

does it exist an hosting service that lets you have an empty virtual machine, in which you can install the OS and the software you like?

I have a date field value as 20/09/2007 and a time field value as 10:15. I want to combine these 2 values in one cell - 20/09/2007 10:15.<br/>How do I do this in Excel?<br/>Plz help.<br/>TIA.

Anybody having idea on this Raw memory pls post some links.

Obviously Creation of an OS is not childs play...I have a dos based program...I saw killdisk use FreeDos for their bootable cd...Is there a guide on using FreeDos in this fashion?I extracted the ISO files using 7ZipI renamed my program KILLDISK.EXE...I created the modified ISO using IfraRecorderI tr...

hello.i need a software able to do this :getting in input a video/audio live stream from an url (like a webtv) andoutputting it to another live stream, but in Flash format (playable with a Flash player).I tried with Flash Video Encoder + Flash Media Encoder + Flash Media Server, but they can not do...

In academia, I see coding almost exclusively done in a Lin/Unix environment with C. In companies, I often see a mix of C and C++ developed in Windows.What's more common these days with regard to language and platform? I guess I'm talking about languages with memory control.I like C++ in...

I have been advised to try posting elsewhere, but I don't know how to delete this post/thread to avoid duplication. I don't see any links for deleting a post either. Help.I am not sure if it is inappropriate to post the following; if it is, then I will retract it with your help, and apol...

Hello everyone.I'm still in school and currently co-oping with IBM and I have been for 7 months.I would really like a job where I'm coding all the time. The title of my current job is "Software Engineer" and I have been coding some but not all the time. Very little people even get to cod...

Hey everyone. dont know really where to put this so mods if you know of a better place move it on over I was wondering. How could i set up my home computer to put all my webfiles onto? i use bluehost as of now but maybe i could just use my home computer to host my domain. how would i go abotu this?...

I couldn't find a forum for this question and haven't had any luck at the msdn forums so I figured I'd try here. I am using VS2005's Setup Project to make an installer to deploy my software. I found everything I need in documentation and everything works perfectly except for on...

I needed some help with codes related to this,example-when you add a player in yahoo fantasy sports from the free agent pool, he is transfered to your roster and is no longer in the free agent pool.what kind of codes would u use to do that? another example would be something like neopets(i know lame...

I've been seeing the D programming language rise up the ranks recently, I was wondering if anyone in these forums had much experience with it and what their thoughts of it were?

Using Windows SDK User Interface<br/>I can't get SendKeys to work and all i need is to press the Enter key where the window is currently focused.

O'kay, it's a really long time I havent come here, because I was quite busy (this is my senior college year and I will have to do intra-college market analysis and segmentation in order to just begin my final thesis).Now I came because I'm having a serious migraine over software licen...

I was thinking about something today, is there ever a point where in programming that a man learns all he can learn? C++ and C# certainly have boundaries that can be reached. But I'm not talking about the limitations of the languages themselves versus other languages which can do more/less. I&#...

Has anyone ever used the Dependency Walker program to send functions to an output file? I've been able to get Dependency Walker to work in the command line mode to send the DLLs to a .csv file. However, I need to do this to get the exported function names in the DLL. Anyone have any suggesti...

We have a product that runs as a windows service. And now we are thinking of adding a security layer as an add-on to the service.The security layer should lock down the PC (not in the literal sense) but should restrict the users from using the PC to do other things other than use the functionality p...

first of I should mention that I have essentialy no coding skills in any programing language except for a very beginner level understanding of c. What I would like to know is what language would be the easiest to learn and also be capable of interfacing with hardware cpus and with windows, without t...

please, am a student of computer science, presently in my final year and getting ready to write my final year project. i have no topic yet thats why am writting.i want a suggest of a very nice topic that is impresive and interesting.i will appretiate any of your suggestion.thx....

Hi everyone. In addition to this ( http://www.dev-archive.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1495190#post1495190) post, I post here my latest tool for audio segmentation. This tool is used for segmenting an audio stream (like the speech-music discrimination demo) BUT, the segments are classified in 8 audio c...

Hello, I am looking for some information on what Type of laptop will I need for programming. Please forgive my newness. I am currently burned out on networking and workstation support and needing to start over so I have invested in Visual studio 2005 professional ( student edition ) This has came...

hi every body i am ashish working on eclipse having some problem can anyone help me out . i got prblem in makefile.i tried for a simple program as i m beginnerr.my code is as follows#include<stdio.h>#include<conio.h>void main(){ printf("hi how r u"); getch();}and my makefile as follo...

Hi all,We want to run some integration tests in our company. We have already written a lot of unit tests for each component (total solution consists of several different and separate applications).Now, we want to test the integration of all the components and test failures by taking servers down to...

bool Thread::Sleep(unsigned long dwMilli) throw() { unsigned long long qwCurrent(0),qwPrevious(0),qwDifference(0),qwTicksPast(0); const unsigned long long nFrequency = GetTicksInSecond(); // Uses QueryPerformanceFrequency const unsigned long long nTicksInMilli...