Questions involving programming on Microsoft Windows technology, including its API.
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How to detect if an app was already installed before
How do software applications keep track of whether the user already installed the application before in it's Windows system?
Say you install app X, trial version, remove it, then re install it, and ...
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If I were to start doing a GUI how do I decide on what platform to use? [closed]
I hear about WPF, Silverlight but then there is also windows RT, metro stuff, windows 8 and so on at the moment - I'm having a hard time nailing what to bet on.
How do I, at a given point in time, ...
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1answer
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Are there Windows virtual images available for development? [closed]
I want to test deployment of a Windows application and a virtual PC seems the easiest method (I could be wrong, feel free to comment, but the question still stands). Courtesy my Windows 7 I have ...
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3answers
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Where do other programming languages fit in Windows 8 development model?
Today, Windows applications can be developed in numerous languages and frameworks. But in the upcoming Windows 8, with the introduction of WinRT, the development model is going change at a large ...
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What are my options for selling software independently on Windows?
I am looking to port a tool from the Mac app store over to Windows, the platform where I spend most of my time these days. I've spoken with the author of the original app and we've begun talking about ...
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Moving from Winforms to WPF
I am a long time experienced Windows Forms developer, but now it's time to move to WPF because a new WPF project is comming soon to me and I have only a short lead time to prepare myself to learn WPF.
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Ubuntu, OpenSuse, the world of linux for a web-developer
I'm learning web development. My main OS is windows 7 but I've used Linux and currently dual-booting with Ubuntu. My Linux knowledge however, is pretty limited. I can work with the command line on ...
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Reason to use mingw win32 headers and libs with LLVM/Clang
Is there any good reason (except "GCC is better") to use the MinGW win32api/headers/libs with LLVM/Clang. Suppose that in two to three years, Clang has matured enough (in C++0x and performance) that ...
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From .NET to low-level Windows kernel development, career suicide? [closed]
I have been writing applications for .NET for the past 10 years and got pretty proficient at it. Since I had C++ at the bottom of my resume, my current employer decided that it would be a good idea to ...
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2answers
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What's better than outputdebugstring for windows debugging?
So, before I came to my current place of employment, the windows OutputDebugString function was completely unheard of, everyone was adding debug messages to string lists and saving them to file or ...
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Best solution to run a Linux sandbox on my Windows machine? [closed]
I'd like to develop some node.js on my windows machine by using a virtual linux server that runs as a program and that I would access through ssh.
I'd like this virtual linux instance to access the ...
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2answers
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Windows OS design decisions [closed]
I've seen an interview with Richard Stallman some time ago, and he was asked a question about security and Windows OS which he answered saying that there are some relatively bad design decisions that ...
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How Would I Start With Prolog? [closed]
If I wanted to start learning Prolog on Windows, is there any package that would integrate Prolog into Visual Studio 2010? That is, a compiler and templates and so forth for working with Prolog on ...
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Porting Software [closed]
I would like to know what would be needed to study and understand in terms of computing platforms and OS (Linux, Mac OS X and Windows) to become a software porting engineer.
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Are there any tools for testing drag & drop Windows desktop applications?
I need to develop a Windows desktop application (win32 API) which will use drag & drop extensively in many formats, including my own. I need to test it, for example, with CF_TEXT dragging, CF_RTF, ...
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3answers
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How do large-scale applications handle GUI creation?
I'm interested in developing GUI-based Windows applications in C++, but I'm not sure how it's done in professional or large-scale settings. It seems it would take a lot of development time to describe ...
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2answers
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Which tools to use for Embedded Linux C++ development with a fast compiler and possibly cross platform
I'm not happy with our build environment for our Linux based (Ubuntu 10.04) equipment. It is embedded software we are developing. What I would like is to have the optimal mix of these wishes:
Use ...
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At what point should I have my Windows developers upgrade to the latest release of Windows?
At what point should I begin upgrading our developer's machines to a later Windows release?
From experience, Microsoft typically has an epic fail about every other O.S. (I am really not trying to ...
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Windows GUIs: How Long Will 'Deprecated' APIs Last? [closed]
Note I said 'deprecated' and not 'abstracted'. Back in the days of the MFC, the WinAPI wasn't deprecated because, from what I've read, the MFC merely abstracted the WinAPI. There's a difference, for a ...
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3answers
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What language should I seek to learn if I would like to develop for Windows?
What language should I seek to learn if I would like to develop for Windows? Not command-line stuff (obviously, I guess) but with Windows Forms and such? I've used C before (when working with ...
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Computation Program Not Running at 100% CPU Utilization
I have a program which has a GUI and performs some very heavy mathematical computations for a couple of minutes and then outputs a result. When I try to directly interface it through its DLL's, it ...
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Comparing Qt vs. MFC [closed]
For C++ (Win) devs, what is your case for preferring Qt vs. MFC (or vice versa) for UI development on Windows?
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Where to find resources to write a program like sandboxie?
Sandboxie is a program that will let you read from the hard drive, but when you try to write back it will redirect the file to a separate container. I would like to learn how to do something similar. ...
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Is there a good but lightweight C editor or IDE for Windows? [closed]
I would like to do some C development in Windows. But I'm struggling to find a good IDE or Text Editor that is lightweight (e.g. not like Eclipse) but also keep me productive (e.g. has auto-completion ...
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Why exclusively UNIX is taught at universities' operating systems courses? [closed]
I'm not sure this question can be asked here, but nevertheless.
Almost each operating systems or systems programming course is taught using UNIX only. I wonder what are the reasons for this? Why ...
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Visual Studio c++ Windows forms?
I've been slacking off with learning how to program because I'm at my wits end trying to figure out the next step. I want to be able to create forms applications just to test random things and give ...
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2answers
1k views
How big a problem is Qt's cross-platform GUI? [closed]
I read something on this site saying that Qt's GUI being a big problem that stop programmers from using Qt. They say the problem is that the GUI don't look native, and they are inconsistent. I ...
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Is Windows suitable for Ruby development?
I've read that Windows is not recommended for Ruby development and this is last thing that stops me from starting some projects in Ruby. Are there any changes to this?
Or any suggestions to make ...
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1answer
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Is Windows a “second class citizen” in the Django community?
I'm currently doing R&D for a web application which we plan to host ourselves initially and then allow customers to self host.
My task has been evaluating web frameworks to see which would give ...
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Programming language for simple program?
I am wondering about which programming languages people see fit to create a program idea that I had. I am looking to create a fairly simple program whose main functions are adding to, managing, and ...
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Windows 8 Metro Application Guides
Can you please suggest some good tutorials or books where one can start learning development on windows 8 Metro applications?
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What scripting language to use for large file transfers on windows xp client machines
I'm a java developer that is tasked with creating some scripts that will handle large xml document file transfers by hitting some web service api's from windows xp client machines. There may be other ...
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is there any point learning win32 in 2011?
I am 17 years old and have been programming in c# for around a year. I have some basic understanding of c but the whole win32 api is confusing to me at the moment. At this point in my life, do the ...
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How to keep .Net assemblies relevant through high-flux period
How much do you, as .Net developers, consider the changes between Windows XP, 7, & 8 when choosing your development environment and libraries?
We are nearing the end of Windows XP; Windows 7 is ...
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What were the reasons why Windows never had a decent shell? [closed]
I was reading a topic on SO: Why are scripting languages (e.g. ...) not suitable as shell languages?. Especially I liked the answer by Jörg W Mittag, from which I learned interesting things about ...
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What's new in Windows 8 for desktop apps? [closed]
I see all kinds of demonstrations about Build of the new features in Windows 8 for Metro apps, but not much for Desktop applications. Is there anything new for desktop-style apps; or has nothing ...
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Can Hadoop be made production-stable on a Windows platform?
Is anybody using Hadoop on Windows (Win32 or Win64) in production for serious work?
If you've tried it and rejected this combination can you give your (top) reasons?
If you managed to make it ...
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Where can I find windows via c/c++ video training?
There are plenty of windows programming online-video courses but most of them is about .net programming. But many task cannot be accomplished by .net such as API Hook. I think to be a windows ...
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Reason behind multi-line declaration style?
I'm a little curious about the reason behind the Windows header file declaration styles.
When I read them, I see multi-line declarations such as the following:
WINBASEAPI
HANDLE
WINAPI
GetStdHandle(
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Easiest language for simple Windows applications for novice Windows programmer? [closed]
Expertise: 11 years PHP programming
I'd like to get into simple Windows programming for a kiosk project. What language should I choose?
My criteria:
easy to learn, "higher"-level language (e.g. ...
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What are the consequences of still sticking with Windows XP despite there are Windows Vista, 7 and very soon 8? [closed]
From a .Net programmer perspective, what are the consequences of still sticking with Windows XP despite there are Windows Vista, 7 and very soon 8? How does having windows XP limit programmers ...
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What should I be using to store data in a legacy web development project?
I'm currently working on a project that uses a Webserver running in Windows CE 6.0. Since this server only supports classic ASP (i.e, no PHP, ASP.NET, etc.)/ I plan to use XML as the database.
Is ...
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Will Metro-style Apps replace Desktop Apps? [closed]
Microsoft Windows8 supports new Metro-style apps, and Metro apps don't use Win32; they run on WinRT.
I wonder if the Metro-style Apps was invented for only tablets. Does Microsoft hope that ...
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What are “Metro apps”?
While it is relatively new now (2011/09/15), are there any resources for explanations of Metro applications for Windows8?
I've not seen anything at the moment that summarises an "elevator pitch" for ...
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What is the best way to maintain software tool chains?
Short Question
What is the best way to create, maintain, and distribute software development tool chains?
Background
I am trying to develop a workflow / process to create an isolated environment in ...
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Switching to Windows Identity Foundation - Should we use the SQL Server role and membership provider?
We have an application which uses SQL Server as the back end. It was client server based, now it will be web based. Our implementation to logon was a user ID and password hash/salt stored in the ...
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How can I configure my programming environment to enable rapid switching between projects?
It often happens that I develop multiple different projects at once, so I need a solution to switch from one environment to another.
I have created batch files to do the job but as this thing grows, ...
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Unit Testing For Different Environments
How does one do unit testing for multiple environments that behave differently?
Here is my problem. I have a PHP class for which I'd like to create unit tests. The class provides shortcuts for ...
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MonoTouch/MonoDroid + C# = trustable? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
MonoTouch vs Objective-C for iPhone/iPod/iPad development
As a C# developer, would you learn Java to develop for Android or use MonoDroid instead?
I'm very curious ...
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What is a good general purpose profiler that works on any program?
I deal with a plethora of languages daily and I can't afford to learn the profiler tools specific to each language. I would like suggestions on a general purpose profiler, anything that would offer a ...
