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How do I get text-icu working on Windows?

I was able to cabal install text-icu without errors. (I used --extra-lib-dirs and --extra-include-dirs to point to the lib and include directories in the binary distribution of icu4c.) I was also ...
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How to make TRichEdit behave like WordPad on Windows 7 when changing font for certain non-text characters?

With the help of Sertac Akyuz, it seems the direct reason is related to the charset of \bullet: In my localized Windows, the \bullet input by typing Alt(0149) always gets \fcharset134, and attempts to ...
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Running an accessibility application requires following steps

I am trying to create a UI automation client for metro app automation but when i set the uiAccess to true it gives the message (while building), Running an accessibility application requires ...
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How do I configure TortoiseHg to open a file in the right program based on its extension?

I'm using TortoiseHg v2.2.1 with Mercurial 1.9 in WindowsXP. How do I configure TortoiseHg to view a file based on the application Windows has associated with its extension? For example, if I have a ...
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No vsync without Aero composition; cannot turn on Aero on CreateDesktop() made desktop

I'm rendering with OpenGL. My stuff is sandboxed so I use CreateDesktop() to prevent shatter attacks. However, the new desktop has no Aero composition when created for whatever reason (though the ...
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getGraphicsEvent for reading the key board for a noninteractive session

In older versions of R, version 2.9 anyway, I was able to run an R program from batch using rterm.exe and create a graphics window that a user could scroll back and forth and view the graphs. I was ...
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Clipboard operations in Delphi

Local workstation: Win 7 Terminal Server: Win 2008 Server Outlook: 2003 running on local workstation. I'm trying to implement copying and pasting of Outlook messages from local workstation to ...
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Out-of-proc COM server stuck

I'm using out-of-proc COM server (COM singleton "Engine" implemented using DECLARE_CLASSFACTORY_SINGLETON), it works in STA (CComSingleThreadModel, _ATL_APARTMENT_THREADED). COM server clients: ...
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Cannot read BCDStore info on Windows 2012 Server using WMI

We are using the following function to get the number of processors specified by the current boot configuration. This number is used purely for logging. The function below works fine on XP, Vista, 7, ...
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MS.Internal.XcpImports.MethodEx(IntPtr ptr, String name, CValue[] cvData

I am getting an error "Value does not fall within the expected range". The stacktrace is given below. Please help... at MS.Internal.XcpImports.MethodEx(IntPtr ptr, String name, CValue[] cvData) ...
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Django-pydobc SQL server connection problems on windows

Another developer and I are setting up a django (v1.4.2) project using a legacy SQL server database (SQLEXPRESS) on another server. So far, we have been able to connect to the database from linux and ...
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Windows Store apps Shader model 4_0_level_9_3 and VPOS

In order to build shaders for Windows Store apps (and Windows Phone 8) Shader model 4_0_level_9_3 you need to use the vs_4_0_level_9_3 and ps_4_0_level_9_3 . While all this sounds fine using the HLSL ...
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Typekit and @fontface issues on all Windows browsers with Ruby on Rails app, especially Chrome

My Ruby on Rails app hates custom fonts and I don't know why. Here are some of the errors and troubleshooting that I have gone through. First, there were devastating display errors that only happened ...
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Microsoft Crypto API Disable Use of RSAES-OAEP Key Transport Algorithm

I'm using CryptEncryptMessage to generate a PKCS#7 enveloped message. I'm using szOID_NIST_AES256_CBC as the encryption algorithm. The generated message appears to be valid but is the RSAES-OAEP for ...
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How can i track COM+ events call with Delphi?

I have a huge application that was made with COM+ Objects and i want to track/log the call of events of these components. The objective is to find the problems and refator that methods. I have found ...

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