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I've been using TortoiseSVN in a Windows environment for quite some time. It seems very feature-complete and nicely integrated into the Windows shell, and more importantly, it's fairly painless to teach to colleagues with little or no experience with source control. However , since we have moved…

We are using WMV videos on an internal site, and we are embedding them into web sites. Now, this works quite good on Internet Explorer, but not on Firefox. I've found ways to make it work in Firefox, but then it stops working in Internet Explorer. We do not want to use Silverlight just yet, esp…

How do I make it so mailto: links will be registered with my program? And then how would I handle that event in my program? Most of the solutions I found from a quick Google search are how to do this manually, but I need to do this automatically for users of my program if they click a button…

I run into a situation every couple of months where I need to develop a solution that's scheduled to run periodically, but I haven't found a way to handle this in Windows that I'm entirely happy with. Every time I do it, I end up feeling corralled into using a Windows Service, which seems to be an…

Ok, I'm a web developer, but I find myself dabbling in windows forms projects every now and then. One thing that confounds me to this day is the following. Assume you are doing something like the following List<string> myitems = new List<string> { "Item 1", "Item 2", "Item 3" }; Combo…

I have a cross-platform (Python) application which needs to generate a JPEG preview of the first page of a PDF. On the Mac I am spawning sips . Is there something similarly simple I can do on Windows?

I'm writing a CMS application in PHP and one of the requirements is that it must be able to interface with the customer's Exchange server. I've written up this functionality a few times before and have always used WebDAV to do it, but now I'm leaning away from that. I will be running the site o…

I'm working on a multithreaded C++ application that is corrupting the heap. The usual tools to locate this corruption seem to be inapplicable. Old builds (18 months old) of the source code exhibit the same behaviour as the most recent release, so this has been around for a long time and just wasn'…

Back in the old days, Help was not trivial but possible: generate some funky .rtf file with special tags, run it through a compiler, and you got a WinHelp file (.hlp) that actually works really well. Then, Microsoft decided that WinHelp was not hip and cool anymore and switched to CHM, up to th…

I need to copy hundreds of gigs of random files around on my computer and am pretty leery of using the vanilla file copy built into Windows. I don't want it to hang on a "Are you sure?", "Are you really sure?", "Even zip files?", "Surely not read-only files too!" loop as soon as I step away. …

As a LAMP developer considering moving to a .Net IIS platform, one of my concerns is the loss of productivity due to lack of shell... Has anyone else had this experience? Is there possibly a Linux shell equivalent for Windows?

What software is recommended for working with and editing large XML schemas? I'm looking for both Windows and Linux software (doesn't have to be cross platform, just want suggestions for both) that help with dealing with huge XML files.

Does any know a good rule of thumb for the appropriate pagefile size for a Windows 2003 server running SQL Server?

I started trying to play with Mono, mostly for fun at the moment. I first tried to use the VS plugin that will convert a csproj into a makefile, but there seemed to be no version available for VS2005. I also read about the MonoDevelop IDE, which sounded nice. Unfortunately, there's no pre-fab Wind…

I need to send and receive data over serial connections (RS-232 and RS-422). How do I set up and communicate with such a connection? How do I figure out what the configuration settings (e.g. baud rate) should be and how do I set them? In particular I am looking to do this in Java, C/C++,…