Hi All,I need to develop an application(GUI intensive) which runs on both windows and the MAC OS.based on ur experience can any one give some suggestions on this ?This is what i have learnt so far..1. .Net framework will not work on MAC OS.2. I have heard about other frameworks like QT,WxWidgets,Ult...

How or where do you guys get your graphical resources from? Design them yourself, through google, other applications, draw them in code etc? I'm currently design an prototype application with the focus on the graphical element and need some graphical elements to help visualise key features. Esp...

Hello, I hope this is the right place for this! I'm looking for a little help here, so any and all comments would be appreciated. I'm a full time student, but messing around with computers has always been a big hobby of mine. As it is these days, I do a lot of web development related wor...

I'm making an application and I need it so you can click a button and the contents of the form change. Here is an example: http://img347.imageshack.us/img347/7546/thesszb7.jpg ( http://imageshack.us)I want to know how I could click buttons (what would be circled in blue, but those are more of a...

HelloSome action has a 0.1 probability of happening. This was the solution I got:0.1 is 10%We chose a value between 1 and 10 and assign that value to the action.Then we generate a random number between 0 and 10. If that number is the number set to the "action", the action happens./* value between 1...

First a breif introduction, I'm in the process of developing an application for my company. I'd like to separate the presentation and business part of the application into two layers. The idea is to make the business layer independent of the presentation layer so that in the future we coul...

Ok here is a lil background of me, so Im building a company from the ground up. Its going to take a while. Im developing software. All kinds, like organizing programs for businesses or some nerds lol, programs to speed up the comp, programs to customize windows, so on and so forth. So a wide variety...

I need to figure out a way to write a program that will print a name label to the next available printer (their are 5 of them). So it three are already printing it will go to printer 4. Does anybody have any ideas or suggestions on accomplishing this? Or what the best programming language would be t...

Hi I have a specific problem with conversion of chinese characters on UNIX platform.I need to convert string mixed with simplified chinese characters and numbers to simpified chinese buffer compatible with format UTF8I have tried to use following function (see below)#include <stdlib.h>#include...

in my office we run windows xp pro. i need to develop a program that will send a message to the engineers secretary when they log into their computers for the first time in the morning. i do not know where to start. can i do this in vb .net? if not then what. if so then where would i begin? any help...

Here is source code for an amusing little program I wrote that will take a list of numbers from a text file and convert each of them to a range of bases from 1 to 206. Symbols for bases above 10 are taken from the ascii table (so I guess it works for bases from 1 to 207, but a space symbol in a numb...

I am not sure if this belongs here, but I could not find anywhere else to put this post.I have a serial RS232 bluetooth adapter that I need to communicate with. I have written a VC++ program that works with a USB bluetooth device and if the bluetooth device is installed, I can connect to the RS232...

I face a dilema here: I am a trying to decide what language to start with on my own and your opinions are requested. However, there are a few factors as to what my decision gets based on. I am learning VB .NET 2003 in HS right now (Which I fail to see the reasoning seeing as VB '05 is out for...

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I dont know where this fits, but the problem is urgent, and am hoping someone can help me out of this oneI have access to the message formats for a stock exchange, and basically the stock exchange transmits data in tab separated format. Now if im getting the broadcast from the exchange, how can I &#...

Hello,I am not sure if this is posted in the correct topic. Let me know if there would be a better place for this.I am working on a web application. I want users to have an automatically generated email address that other users write to and gets forwarded to the original users real email address. ex...

Hi,I'm currently using VS2005 (as a makefile project) to build a symbian application for the WINSCW platform (emulation). The process simply uses a makefile and a few command line parameters to build.I am able to output debugging symbols, but I don't know how I can make Visual Studio use t...

To open a new word document based on an existing template, we need to specify a value for the template argument of the Add method of the Documents collection. I m passing this value as "normal.dot". which is default template.If the template file (normal.dot) is saved in the UserTemplates path (C:\Do...

Hi. Up until now I've had a pretty general experience in C++ and I've recently started learning C#. But now I feel like I don't know what to choose. I'm really attracted by the speed development that C# offers, but I heard that it's slower than C++. I don't know what to...

hi there!does anybody know some command-line tool which i can use to switch to a certain application which is running on my windows machine (either by window-title, application-exe name, or the like)? the tool should have similar functionality as the button "Switch to" in task manager has.any help w...

I've just found these ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/learning/) MSDN webcast movies about C++ on Microsoft's web page and I was wondering if these are open to the public, or are they only for certain viewers. I'm asking this because when I tried to view one (http:...

Hi all...In a binary tree.. we have one parent node and two Child node, right child and the left child. Do we have a possibility for a datastucture that has one parent node and variable number of child nodes, instead of just two as in case of a binary tree??Simple put... is it possible to have one P...

Hello<br/>Can any one recommend me some good Visual C#.NET tutorials and a help forum? I have been searching for a help forum for Visual C#.NET for the past 3 hours but nothing so far. Any help will be much appreciated.

guys, is there any reporting tool aside from crystal report. im frustated using crystal. Where can i download it?<br/>Thanx guys!

Just like many other developers we are using log4xx tool for our logging needs. Recently a new requirement has come up that for some debugging messages at certain times we want to log the stack trace at the time of the logging call. It looks like there are two ways I can implement this functionali...

i have been learning c++ for some time,just a little beyond pointers and classesmy problem is simple >.<i can't come up with something to programso i can't practice,wich makes my programing skill very crappybut for some reason i can't find any use for what i knowi can't in...

Hi. I am trying to create a batch file to solve a problem. The problem is that I've got a finicky VPN client at a remote computer which often thinks it is connected even though it is not allowing data to move through the pipe. The only way to restore connectivity is to exit the client and re...

i don't know the right place to ask this question or if this is even the right site. but, i'm having a problem installing windows xp pro on my pc. i keep getting the following message.. E/1386/asms.error message . and it just keeps cycling through it over and over everytime i turn on my p...

hi<br/>does any one have any idea of deploying content type in MOSS using "Feature" feature of microsoft office sharepoint server.<br/>if so then please do share.<br/>thanx

if any one know how to create custom column using "Feature" feature of MOSS for the "Image" type?the following is the code for creating custom site column for "Choice" Type columnFeature.xml:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Feature Id="CA7BD552-10B1-4563-85B9-5ED1D39C073B" Title="myF...

Hello,I need a software tool for Windows that works as a PDF printer driver, I mean to stay among the real printers and to create PDF files from what I print to it ( must work with Excel, PowerPoint ).. I tried a few free ones but they all have some nags or annoying limitations, a commercial product...

i am installing microsoft visual basic express edition & i need to run it. i cant find the .exe file. need help.

The title of this thread might seem goofy, but it is something I've been discussion with a few people and may do an article about. The question is, how do you know what you don't know. Here is an example of what this question is driving at - SOA is a buzz term that has been around for a co...

Hi,I am getting errors when I deploy a program from a development machine to a non development machine in Vista. I tried to change the setting and I am unable to find the setting to make a static compile of a console program without the DLL errors it shows on non dev machines in Vista. Can anyone...

Hi Everyone,I have a MDB file which contains approximately 100 tables. I need to list all the tables along with information about fields (including name, type and size). Is there some tool for thsi purpose? or can I write some small application myself for this?I tried the Tools->Analyze->Docum...

I use these at work and at home - they are fantastic.InnoSetup ( http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php)is a very easy to use, yet extremely powerful, installation package generator. NUnit ( http://www.nunit.org/) is a great unit testing application for .net assemblies. :wave:...

Do the new multi-core processors impact how applications are built? Should they? Have they changed anything about what you are doing? Right now there are only 2 to 4 cores in the processors, but when there are 80 how will this impact your code? Does something in your code need to change?I'm int...

I've decided to take the plunge and go for C# (at home and at work). It feels very strange, to say the least. This is of course just the latest step on a long road of "it's strange, it's terrible" blending into "actually, this is great" whenever something new came along. I started by...

By using the following command:xcopy ..\..\export_ready\CompiledMaps\*.til ..\..\_temp\CompiledMaps\ /y /iit copies over files that have letters appended to the "til" part. For example, the source directory has .TIL files and .TILZ files. The TILZ files are copied over as well, when they shouldn...

Hello,I have a question regarding ADSI GUID in windows 2003. We want obtain a unique identity that exists on the client machine and also the ADSI server. I dont think it exists, the only ID that I can find that does exist is the hostname of the machine. The GUID is specific to ADSI, but does this ex...

have query that I can't get an outer join to work for. It is supposed to retrun everyone in the jobs table with a address type of 'MA' or return the person with a blank if they do not have that address type. The problem is: They are in the table with other address types, so it does no...

Can anyone recommend a good alternative to InstallShield (specifically, something less expensive)? I've searched sourceforge.net but didn't come up with anything, wondering if anyone out there has any suggestions.I regularly work with VB6, MSVC++ 6, and C#, and would like to find a good in...

hi <br/>do'nt you have any newbie section or something here?

Is a 15" notebook enough for programming? I'm afraid it might cause eye stress or a monitor 15" would force low resoltution (1024x780) limiting the amount of text i can see without scrolling.I'm a webdeveloper and when I'm programming I really to be able to see a large portion of the...

Hi:<br/>I was wondering if there is a program out there that creates a mock database.<br/>I would like to practice sql on it.<br/>thanks

Hi everyone, I am new to programming. It is something I have been messing with for awhile on a game I play and decided I wanted to learn this for myself. Can anyone help me with a direction of where I should start? My biggest question is how can I get a workable compiler that will not be expensiv...

Hello.<br/>How can i find out my hd serial number from win xp system? The reason i ask is because i failed to retrieve a serial num using WMi from a SATA hd WD800ADFD-75NLRm1 model. Is it possible that there is no serial, or that its impossible to retrieve it?<br/>Thx

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I just started working with a company that does a lot of programming with COBOL. The programming I do at work is done in a mainframe environment that takes forever to write code, compile it, run it, and check the resulting file to see if it did what I wanted it to do. So I wanted to download a COB...