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Couldn't Debug the Complete Code to Create the Window

As what have said on Creating a Window (Windows): “Congratulations, you've created a window! Right now, the window does not contain any content or interact with the user.” But I couldn't debug ...
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Python parsing many word documents

I wrote a small program which extract data from a word document and process it. The tool runs only on Windows (XP) and uses the PyWin32 Library. Everything works but sometimes I have the following ...
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Git post-update hook “Not a directory” error

I am trying to set up git post-update hook in windows environment. Here is the code: cd /c/inetpub/vhosts/mywebsite || exit unset GIT_DIR git pull hub master exec git-update-server-info When I run ...
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How to force C++ allocate memory from disk?

I have thousands lines of C++ codes which work well on small text files, but crashes on huge text files (such as 2 GB size). Crash reason: app eats up memory. Is it possible to allocate memory from ...
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TerminateThread() returns error when terminating the thread

I have a ThreadA created using the CreateThread function. Inside ThreadA, another thread, ThreadB is created using the CreateThread function. Now, I want to terminate ThreadB from ThreadA but the ...
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Alternative for file access in windows share files

We have an application (built on .NET), which will need to read some mass storage files. So we deploy the application in the Web server, and put the data in the data server. Then the application in ...
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How to create a chat without using server in c#?

I'm trying to create a chat between two people. I searched for chats but they all were using the server, can anyone tell me how to create chat without server? Thanks...
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Why is it so much easier to kill a process on unix compared to ms-windows? [closed]

When a process enters an infinite loop, it must be killed. It never happened to me that it was a problem killing a process in linux or unix. kill -killalways kills. But why is it so hard sometimes to ...
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What's wrong with my newly installed PyGame? Details in description

My Python version is 2.7 and whenever I try doing import pygame it shows the following error message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module> import ...
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Windows 8 can not access the site of wamp from other computer on local network

I have installed windows 8 Wamp server here i have added my local site but as you know i am able to access http://localhost/test from the this computer where i have installed wamp the ip ...
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Jekyll fail to install on Windows 8 Ruby 2.0.0 [closed]

I keep receiving this error when trying to install jekyll. I have Ruby and Devkit installed straight to my C Drive.
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Why is the first character of the first line of a file in windows a 0?

So I'm reading a plain text file in Java, and I'd like do identify which lines start with "abc". I did the following: Charset charset = StandardCharsets.UTF_8; BufferedReader br = ...
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How to launch SQL Server Configuration Manager? [closed]

I've problem on launching SQL Server Configuration Manager on Windows Server 2008 R2, where the "All Programs" was disabled from the Start Menu. Is there any other way launch it? I cant find it from ...
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Straightforward way to learning OpenGL? [closed]

I've been trying to find a way to learn OpenGL but all the sources I have used either use the deprecated OpenGL pipeline or I haven't been able to setup OpenGL with their instructions. Does anyone ...
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How can I get the runtime length of a movie in .m4v format with VBScript, command line, or some other way?

I'm looking to get the runtime length of a movie in .m4v. I am going to loop through a folder of movies and then spit out the runtimes to a MySQL server database. What is a simplest way to get the ...

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