I'm trying to investigate why a specific website is crashing often.The site is running on IIS 6.0 and .net 1.1.My main suspect is that the site often throws "System.Threading.ThreadAbortException" (which are caught and logged) due to an apparently extensive use of Response.Redirects.Now I'...

I want a small program/script which would do the following things :1) Check for any given windows service (for eg. Terminal Services) & if installed - Stop the service - Uninstall the service/program2) Install the application (service) & start the service automatically.The program should be...

Hi Gurus,<br/>I have drawn an Ellipse in a Window.<br/>If i click in the window by mouse, i should identify whether that point (where i clicked) is on the Ellipse or not.<br/>Please guide me...<br/>Thanks in advance.

Hi all, I want to control different multimedia devices (e.g. TV, DVDPlayer, and WMP in PC) by my program (in java).What intermediate (between my program and real device) software/hardware would be required?Which software/hardware i must purchase to do this? Thanks in advance...

hi,<br/> I want a code for BOyer - Moor string searching algorith in VB.<br/>i have two strings and i want to find the similarity in word among two string. Menas how many words are same in two string using boyer moor string searching algorith.

Would someone please take the time to explain to me the basic differences between a Class A and a Class B network and in which cases would you want to setup one over the other and if it really matters.<br/>Thanks, Mike.

hi, firstly i do aopologise if this is in the wrong area to post this particular query.ive been reading alot about bots, recently, and im intrigued to how they can be created.I would like this bot to be able to collect data from my website, well broken hyperlinks, and if possible present all this da...

Hi,I am looking for proper tool (proper programming language, libraries and/or platform) for development of application operating mainly on GUI. I mean drawing diagrams from blocks, connections between, something like EDA software but lets say that with different application.Requirements?1. Good IDE...

i do alot of programming through visual C# .Net and absolutely hate that there is no way to create system hooks on anything other than the keyboard and mouse. are there any programming languages at all which allow you to bind a hook to a particular event? (such as WM_CREATE)

what is a datawindow and for what it is used for?<br/>thanks, Isabella

This is a question for the programmers here that are currently in the software industry. I am wondering what it is that would make me a programmer that's able to hold a career? As in, exactly how many languages am I supposed to know? Can I get away with only one, or do I need to know two, th...

In addition to dev-archive, I also work with Developer.com (and several other site). Part of what I get to do is work with editors to set the publishing plan for some of these sites. My question to all of you is...If you could speak for all developers, what topics would you expect to see and what to...

hi all,<br/>i need some source code about titile above. i must develop some system using access. in that system when click the update button, the system will convert excel file into access.<br/>please help me..this is urgent situation

how do i maintain version for a product which has more than one client. The problem is different clients have different customisation. Should i label the versions or is there any other way? pls comment

I have a problem with using Word and OLE's. Although we hit it while working with Word automation the problem can be easilly replicated by using Word from its interface. Here it goes:1. create a Word Document and embed an OLE2. create another document and include the first one through an INCLUD...

Thank you for taking two minutes to answer my survey. I may do a couple of these over the coming months just to get a poll on responses. The questions will only take you ten seconds to read and answer. Please answer honestly. If you are not sure, say "No". <br/>Thanks,<br/>Brad!

Hello,I have to check in my Visual Studio 6.0 Visual C++ project into the repository. What files should be checked in? Since this is the first Visual Studio project being checked, I don't have a precedence. My guess is the source and header files (of course), the .rc file, and the .mak file....

Hi there developers! Are you looking for some random problem that you can work on during the weekend? Or do you wish to improve on your problem solving skills ? Then I suggest you check this site out: http://acm.uva.es/problemset/Here, they have HUNDREDS of problems that you can take a stab at. Furth...

Hello, this is my first time posting here. I hope this isn't a repeat question (and that this is the proper forum), I couldn't find any prior posts on this subject.I'm interested in creating a word processor that uses an xml document as its document source. Basically the intent is f...

Ah memories I remember my first .net attempt, was a distaster! but now a year later it all makes sense. Be persistant.

Hi,<br/>I am developing a software, which the user will buy online. This much I am able to do. But if the user coipes the software to some other system, it should not work on the other system. How to do this? Any tips?

Could someone provide me or tell me about a tool which would do the comaparison of 2 images.My requirements--1)I should be able to browse n get the images in main screen of the tool,where i can click "compare" button2)I just want a basic comapison whether the images are same or different...

I am about to rewrite a large project that I had originally written in Foxpro for Windows. I feel it is time to take it to another level.Ok so I had hear all about C - that seemed the way to go but then I find there is C and there is C, or rather C++ and C#.Trying to find the difference has taken a...

For all of you who dont know what a betabrite is, you can see it here: http://www.betabrite.com/pages/bbclassic.htmI am undertaking the task of making a program that can program the display from your computer, the only problem is I need a font that is like the display, as seen here: http://www.betabri...

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Just curious...do you see/hear that dev is going to C#, VB because of ease of use or is MS moving things that way for ease of their development ?

I'm currently doing a research project dealing with genetic genome matching across multiple DNA bases. I'm most familiar with Java, C, and C++. I was able to write some code to match DNA base strings against DNA base substrings across multiple genetic genomes. It works but it is very slow...

Hello,I am a newbie to linux. My notebook keyboard is german. But the keyboard setting in my linux is english i guess. So i am having trouble in typing y,z and special characters. How can i change the settings to german keyboard so that when i press 'Y', it is interpreted as y iteself. Als...

Hi Folks,I am stuck with a problem, and I hope you guys can help out. Let's say my program shall load a bunch of "items" from a file (and/or database, source does not matter is handled via a factory/interface). Each item defines a basic set of attributes. Depending on the "type" of the item (a...

I am developing a database for a construction company which will be accessed by 30 users over five depots. I want the system to be scalable to handle, say 150 users over 25 depots. The database will manage client contacts, quoting, estimating, projects, stores list, employees, OHS etc. I want to...

What does it mean when you recieve a grey reputation?

This is a very interesting atricle...<br/>ZDNET article ( http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6125612.html)

Does anyone have experience making a shopping cart in Japan (that will accept Japanese forms of payment, such as Japanese credit cards, C.O.D., pay at the convenience store, or bank debit)? I have found a few payment system sites, but my Japanese isnt good enough to completely understand them. Can...

Hello,I wish to check in/out my source code at remote SourceSafe database. Searching through internet, SourceAnyWhere seems to have got a high reputation in this field. Do you also use this tool for internet source code control? I would appreciate any of your comments on this so that I could save th...

I'm a beginning computer programmer and I'm finding that i'm falling far behind in my class because i'm not understanding the concepts. Is anyone willing to help me, I have a couple of assignments that i'm trying to do as well as some concepts to understand. A tutor would b...

I just put up a new site, graphnu.com, with plenty of cool graphics. Does anyone have a good advice about putting a video stream together with a flash player? I appreciate your comments and suggestions! Thanks a lot in advance! <br/>April

Hi, I see some developers using codepath(usually an integer value, like 0,1,or 2,...), what's the significance of codepath? when you see a returning value of codepath is 0,or 1, or someother value, what does it tell you? thanks

Hi all,I decided to set myself a challenge - one that can really test my programming ability! I thought of developing my own programming language. This would not be a language that would be in competition with C/VB/Java ! But simply a challenge for me.Now, I just have one question: Should I use a...

HOW about a job of Cobol programme? if you are searching for a new job, will you take a COBOL job position which will offer you a training if you have no experiences of it? <br/>Thanks!

So I've decided to go from the web world to a new object oriented programming world. But as I get into things, I was under the impression that the major language was C++, and that languages like C#, ASP.NET, Java, etc were all lesser languages.. Now I'm starting to see that each language i...

I've been having trouble figuring out my application's memory consumption:In order to stress test my application, I've run a script which does exactly the same operations 300 times. I've analyzed the windows counters regarding the application memory usage - Private Bytes & Virtua...

hi expertsim a beginner coder mainly in c# c++ im final year at my bachlor what i feel im not able to bigger projects from where i can find open sources and good projects(not too hard or not too easy)and read thenm and learn more than just some syntax i dont work i just read lessosns for master degr...

A spot to discuss my editiorial from today's dev-archive newsletter...<br/>Feel free to disagree with what I said or to bash it!<br/>Brad!

Hello,I am curious about the following regarding open source code. Imagine 5 people download the Firefox source code and makes major changes to it, ading features that they want, and removing things they don't like etc. 1)Who then decides which codes changes make it to the Firefox program that...

Does anyone know of a site with an active forum that has WinHelp as its subject? I'm trying to learn how to author help files, but one of my references was written for Windows 3.1 help, with procedural steps that involve using the pif editor, and other obsolescent methods to generate the files...

hi<br/>what will be the output of the following printf statement?<br/>printf("%d",(5.0/2))<br/>when i am running it using gcc compiler the output is 0 .<br/>can you explain?

Hi,I'm working on a project which requires parsing the SOAP responses from webservices. All the test services I've produced in VS 2005 have returned data in the format<soap:Envelope ....> <soap:Body ....> <TestServiceResponse xmlns=...> <TestServiceResult&g...

I am just wondering:<br/>Why is it, that I/O isn't built in, in the C++ language itself ?<br/>instead of handed over to the compilers ?<br/>regards,<br/>The SharK

Hello,I am using Visual Studio 2005 (VC++). I have to connect to web service. for that am using the Add web refernce option in project menu. When am doing this it is asking for the WSDL location. this i have to give manually. My requirement is that i have to read this location from a file and pass i...

Hello all I have joined this forum not only to learn this programming language but also to scout out developers and coders for a new and exciting open source project...The project, OADE (or OAQDE) stands for Open Aqua Desktop Environment. And is exactly what it says it is. The goal of the project i...