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How to detect Windows 64-bit platform with .NET?
In a .NET 2.0 C# application I use the following code to detect the operating system platform:
string os_platform = System.Environment.OSVersion.Platform.ToString();
This returns "Win32NT". The ...
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How can I update the current line in a C# Windows Console App?
When building a Windows Console App in C#, is it possible to write to the console without having to extend a current line or go to a new line? For example, if I want to show a percentage representing ...
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How to get a path to the desktop for current user in C#?
How do I get a path to the desktop for current user in C#?
The only thing I could find was the VB.NET-only class SpecialDirectories, which has this property:
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How check if given string is legal (allowed) file name under Windows?
I want to include batch file rename functionality in my application. User can type destination filename pattern and (after replacing some wildcards in pattern) I need to check if it's going to be ...
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Memcached on Windows (x64)
Does anyone know IF, WHEN or HOW I can get Memcached running on a Windows 64bit environment?
I'm setting up a new hosting solution and would much prefer to run a 64bit OS, and since it's an ASP.Net ...
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How to shutdown the computer from C#
What's the best way to shutdown the computer from a C# program?
I've found a few methods that work - I'll post them below - but none of them are very elegant. I'm looking for something that's simpler ...
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Is the Windows dev environment worth the cost? [closed]
I recently made the move from Linux development to Windows development. And as much of a Linux enthusiast that I am, I have to say - C# is a beautiful language, Visual Studio is terrific, and now ...
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Accessing a Shared File (UNC) From a Remote, Non-Trusted Domain With Credentials
We've run into an interesting situation that needs solving, and my searches have turned up nill. I therefore appeal to the SO community for help.
The issue is this: we have a need to programmatically ...
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How do I get the title of the current active window using c#?
I'd like to know how to grab the Window title of the current active window (i.e. the one that has focus) using C#.
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Using C#, how does one figure out what process locked a file?
In Windows, how do I determine (using C#) what process locked a file?
Third-party tools are helpful, but not what I'm looking for.
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.NET WPF Remember window size between sessions
Basically when user resizes my application's window I want application to be same size when application is re-opened again.
At first I though of handling SizeChanged event and save Height and Width, ...
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How to get the word under the cursor in Windows?
I want to create a application which gets the word under the cursor (not only for text fields), but I can't find how to do that. Using OCR is pretty hard. The only thing I've seen working is the ...
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Elevating process privilege programatically?
I'm trying to install a service using InstallUtil.exe but invoked through Process.Start. Here's the code:
ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo (m_strInstallUtil, strExePath);
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How to validate domain credentials?
i want to validate a set of credentials against the domain controller. e.g.:
Username: STACKOVERFLOW\joel
Password: splotchy
Method 1. Query Active Directory with Impersonation
A lot of people ...
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How do I spawn threads on different CPU cores?
Let's say I had a program in C# that did something computationally expensive, like encoding a list of WAV files into MP3's. Ordinarily I would encode the files one at a time, but let's say I wanted ...
