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by Igor Ladnik
Wrapper to facilitate usage of TCP sockets
by Arthur V. Ratz
This tip is especially useful for users who own the licensed copy of Windows 7/8/8.1, and would like to upgrade to Windows 10 after July 29, 2015.
by Arthur V. Ratz
Use HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Ajax for creating a simple lightweight Windows Vista/7 sidebar desktop gadget
by J.Starkl
A windows-service which can handle different operations in separate threads and which can be controlled by a small GUI program

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Lee Algorithm Mazesolver in MFC and Direct2D
by peterswinkels
A Visual Basic 6 program demonstrating how to access databases using Microsoft ADO and how to automate Outlook and Excel.
by Andreoli Carlo
In our company, we find ourselves in need of using the internal PC (buzzer) on Windows7 64bit. At the end, we figured out how to do it.
by Abhishek Sur
New Win7 features explained with simple demo applications

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3 Mar 2024 by Shao Voon Wong
Lee Algorithm Mazesolver in MFC and Direct2D
13 Sep 2023 by Fernando Guedes 2023
I am having problems installing WIN XPESP" on an Advantec PC. I had done the download of XPESP2 from Microsoft Site. When I unzip, I only got three zipped files: xpespea, xpesp2b, xpsp2c. In your article, I read that we also need msde.cab,...
11 Sep 2023 by Dave Kreskowiak
You can't download the files from anywhere. WinXP Embedded went end-of-life way back in 2009.
11 Sep 2023 by Richard MacCutchan
You should post this question to Microsoft, it is their product. Windows XP (as far as I am aware) went out of support years ago. [edit] I assume that you are referring to Installing XP Embedded[^]. however, that was written 15 years ago, so is...
10 Sep 2023 by OriginalGriff
Even if this wasn;t a MS product, this is the wrong place: don't post this under Quick Answers as we have no idea which of hundreds of thousands of articles on this site you are working with! If you get the code from an article, then there is a...
17 May 2023 by MasterCodeon
hello everyone!i am trying to send a string to another application.the way i am trying to do this is by using the SendMessage function in the windows api, and i am setting the WParam parameter to a string value(when i imported the function i did use a string type for this parameter).now in...
15 Aug 2022 by firestar1
cant find issue in this using Terraria.ID; using Terraria.ModLoader; namespace thepromod.Items { public class mechanicalspikyeye : ModItem { public override void SetStaticDefaults() { DisplayName.SetDefault("mechanical suspicious looking eye"); Tooltip.SetDefault("This is used to...
24 Jan 2022 by peterswinkels
A Visual Basic 6 program demonstrating how to access databases using Microsoft ADO and how to automate Outlook and Excel.
14 Jan 2022 by Andreoli Carlo
In our company, we find ourselves in need of using the internal PC (buzzer) on Windows7 64bit. At the end, we figured out how to do it.
7 Oct 2021 by User 9916080
This maybe what you are looking for. From Google: Epson TM-T88III Drivers[^]
6 Oct 2021 by DoingWork
How to Configure EPSON TM T88III Printer in Win7 with USB to Paralell Converter. What I have tried: I have connected Printer via Parallel to USB Converter. I have Virtual Serial Port. In Devices and Printers: I click to Add Printer. Selected...
6 Oct 2021 by OriginalGriff
Try here: TM-T88III software - Epson[^] If it still doesn't work, you may have to get a bus-mounted parallel port instead of USB - but the chances are that a new printer would work out cheaper in the long run ...
15 Aug 2021 by Ragi Gopi
hi i want to upload a MS infopath file in LAN server in my institution ...the people in the institution will fill the form and will submit.So for a trail i installed wamp ...I put the infopath form.xml in C:\wamp\www\xml\ ..its not working.. the error is : This XML file does not...
26 Apr 2021 by Member 13074437
The method I used us to call the special folders and build it myself as follows: Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.UserProfile) & "\Downloads\"
29 Mar 2021 by Abhishek Sur
New Win7 features explained with simple demo applications
19 Mar 2021 by mukesh_panth
Hi All,I am using VB.Net, VS2008 and Win7.I want to add multiple images in one picturebox using VB.Net and display on printpreviewcontrol for print. How can display multiple image in print preview control.Help will be very apprecited.Any link or idea my give me.mukesh :-)
24 Feb 2021 by wcb2@cornell.edu
I have a Windows 7 application where I need to change the icon displayed on the main form and the icon that is displayed by Windows on the taskbar at runtime. In code I am simply changing the Form.Icon property and this works no problem if I run the app from the EXE. The icon changes in...
24 Feb 2021 by Member 15082031
I am having the exact same issue but I never realized that it was happening because of a "Shortcut". I noticed this behavior when I would pin my application to the windows 10 task bar. If I don't pin the application, I can simply change the...
24 Oct 2020 by Harsha T, Amarnath S, S Mahesh Reddy
A simple viewer of images stored in the DICOM 3.0 File Format (C#). The file should have raw pixel data, uncompressed. Window Level functionality is also provided.
2 Jul 2020 by Member 14621376
Application won't show you taskbar in runtime until you have any shortcuts to it. If you get rid of all shortcuts and run from Runtime folder, it will work fine... But this is not what we need. nobody anywhere didn't provide for solution what......
9 May 2020 by Member 10978521
HiI would like to use QR scanning to open up folders.My company manufactures steam turbine blades made of steel. We have a Laser engraver capable of putting QR codes on the steel parts, however, I would need the scan to open the parts contract folder. The folders are all offline, and I...
9 May 2020 by Oleg_Ko
Hi! QR code is a graphically encoded information. So, you need a program, which can use your scanner, receive that information, and open an appropriate folder for you. I didn't come through one can do this yet. However, someone could make it for...
6 Apr 2020 by Doctor Autonomy
A surprisingly easy way to avoid memory leaks with new/delete allocations in C++
30 Mar 2020 by Member 14787235
I am also the same problem, in my case php xampp server is blocking internally to IIS server. I stopped the xampp process in task manager, that solves my problem.
30 Mar 2020 by ashriv
I try to debug my web service with IIS7. It doesn't start and throws an error."Unable to start debugging on the web server. The remote debugging components are not registered or running on the web server. Ensure the proper version of msvsmon is running on the remote computer."my...
4 Feb 2020 by drummerboy0511
Hi there. I'm wondering how I would be able to get the path for the user's download folder (in Windows Vista and 7) in VB.NET.My current attempt at accessing this folder was to get the user's music directory, "subtract" the "Music" string from that path, and add "Downloads" to it. However, I...
4 Feb 2020 by schlebe
The VB.Net (not C#) function that I use is following Private Function SHGetKnownFolderPath _ ( ByVal rfid As Guid _ , ByVal dwFlags As UInt32 _ , ByVal hToken As IntPtr _ , ByRef pszPath As IntPtr ) As Int32 End...
23 Jan 2020 by Steffen Ploetz
Another fully functional ownerdraw menu with minimal effort - this time based on Win32, with icons instead of bitmaps, with accelerators and tested for ReactOS and WinNT 4.0 to Windows 10
11 Dec 2019 by Madhu Nair
Try changing the insert query to like given below - Dim strquery As String = "Insert Into Images (PatientID,[Image],ImageNumber) VALUES ('patient0050','patient00501.JPG','1')"
11 Dec 2019 by mukesh_panth
Hi,I am using Vb.net,Access2007 and Wind7. I am getting this type of error msg..cmd.ExecuteNonQuery() Run-time exception thrown : System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException - Syntax error in INSERT INTO statement.Problem is that this query is not working in my vb.net code but it is working in...
5 Dec 2019 by Petrov Vladimir
Compact and simply Vector Formula of the Intersection Point of Two Line Segments
11 Nov 2019 by Suk H. Lee
WPF Window allows tabbing by drag and drop
26 Sep 2019 by William Costa Rodrigues
This article explains an easy method to download and update your WinForms application
12 Sep 2019 by amir tarek
i make a class called smartcard.cs using c# programming languagethis class uses winscard and kernel32 libraries to connect to smart card and read data from itmy program works fine on X32 bits Windowswhen i tried X64 windows 7 it works fine until select the smart card reader and try...
21 Jul 2019 by RickZeeland
Take a look at the ArchitecturesAllowed option: Inno Setup Help[^] Normally you should not change this directive from its default value, but if you install any 32-bit device drivers, you should set this directive to x86, as 32-bit device drivers cannot function on 64-bit Windows. It is also...
9 Jun 2019 by OriginalGriff
The error is not in that code: it cannot generate it, so it's likely to be in the code for the class that mechanicalspikyeye is derived from: ModItem - which we have no access to. Start with Visual Studio: double click on then error message in the error pane, and it will take you directly to...
4 Jun 2019 by Thomas Daniels
Unfortunately, the pcntl installation page[^] says: Quote: Currently, this module will not function on non-Unix platforms (Windows).
4 Jun 2019 by Kepiting Bula
I can't execute php apps because Call to undefined function pcntl_fork() how I fix this problems. I used XAMPP for windows 7. Problems are $pid = pcntl_fork(); if ($pid == -1) { die("ERROR"); } else if ($pid == 0) { head($argv[2]); exit(0); } else { $pids[] = $pid; ...
8 May 2019 by Bruno Tabbia
Automatic positioning and resizing of explorer windows, without overlapping (for obsessive superusers)
13 Mar 2019 by essentialSQL
In this guide, I’ll show you how to get started using Power BI.  We’ll then get some sample data and use it to build a simple project.
5 Feb 2019 by charles922
Demonstrate Clipping Plane in WPF 3D - Part 3
2 Jan 2019 by Octavio Loyola-González, Miguel Angel Medina-Pérez, Andres Eduardo Gutierrez Rodriguez, Milton García Borroto
In this article, we introduce a framework in C# for fingerprint verification, we briefly explain how to perform fingerprint verification experiments and how to integrate your algorithms to the framework.
6 Nov 2018 by Dirk Bahle
How to create a new tool window in AvalonDock [2.0]
6 Nov 2018 by Member 14046103
Does your application require any administrator privileges? This is the first thing I would check. The 'users' likely won't have admin access. For instance, if your app creates a folder on the C:\ drive - it will require running under admin access. Most developers create and test with admin...
16 Oct 2018 by JL Doty
Fully exploit features of OpenHardwareMonitorLib.dll
29 Sep 2018 by libbyliugang
A splitter control for dialog can auto change the linked window's position
13 Sep 2018 by Member 13908153
I want to capture desktop image in win7 using Getfrontbufferdata, a interface function in DirectX9Ex. But I met the below two problems. 1. In Windowed Mode,I can capture desktop image correctly. Then I want to capture image in full-screen mode. So I changed the Windowed value into FALSE,But...
13 Sep 2018 by KarstenK
Read the article and code about Capturing an Image. The trick is to use the full screen as device context.
27 Aug 2018 by momo.pomo
hello everyone... i am working on "WINDOWS FORMS, C#"sorry to bother you, but i have to display my project in which i am working on "speech recognition" i actually want to draw a shape (in built in C# like circle), when a user asks to make it, can anyone tell me the syntax to connect the two...
21 Aug 2018 by charles922
Demonstrate Clipping Plane in WPF 3D, Part 2