Questions involving programming on Microsoft Windows technology, including its API.

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Windows system tray applications for git repo monitoring [on hold]

Are there any Windows applications that can monitor upstream git repositories and notify you (via a system tray icon or something) if there are any new commits?
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create user when user account already exists on windows 7 [on hold]

I have installed POSTGESQL database on windows 7 using the wizard. Later I realized, that some administrative functions can only be performed when logged in under the username postgres. The wizard ...
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Doing e2e testing with native applications [on hold]

I come from a web background and one of my projects in school requires me to build a native windows application. I am not very familiar with writing GUI applications in MSVS and was looking for a tool ...
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SBCL development on Windows, including CFFI

I have been asked to automate the operation of a Windows (WinForms) application, performing some fairly complicated statistical analysis along the way. My first thought was the usual suspects: .NET, ...
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Write to pdf file while having it opened in Acrobat Reader in Windows 7 [migrated]

I'm using Texlipse as my default Latex editor. When I use Ubuntu I can leave the pdf file I'm creating opened in Evince and it just updates as soon as I save the Latex document in Texlipse and build ...
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Beautiful user interface vs. more and more technical features? [closed]

I will understand if you find this is more a discussion than a technical question and if you close the topic (then, where would be an appropriate place to discuss about that? thank you in advance). ...
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Windows developer account “Annual fee” [closed]

Im not sure if im asking this question on the right site, so let me know if i should get it moved. I'm thinking about experimenting with the Windows 8 app store, and buying a windows developer's ...
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Best way to process a queue in C# (PDF treatment)

First of all let me expose what I would like to do : I already dispose of a long-time running webapp developed in ASP.NET (C#) 2.0. In this app, users can upload standard PDF files (text+pics). The ...
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Java Program That Notifies When Camera is Being Accessed

I'm trying to find a developer to write me a pretty basic program. I am also a developer, but don't have enough time to write it myself. This program has a pretty basic function. It will notify ...
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Do I need to enable MSConfig services for wireless internet access? [migrated]

I am trying to disable all MSConfig startups and services for Windows 7 OS. Unfortunately after doing research I still have not identified what services are needed for wireless internet access. What ...
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How is Delphi going on the market? Is it worth yet to make a project in Delphi? [closed]

I use Delphi since 1999 because it is visual, fast, helpful and committed to good programming roles. That's what I tell my friends in the university and interviewer when I apply for a job in any ...
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How to programmatically turn off LED on USB? [closed]

I would like to find out how to programmatically turn off the LED on the USB flash drive. I haven't found any tutorials or good source to get to started with it. I'm willing to try to rewrite or to ...
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metro style on windows and android

I want to develop a rather simple app using windows 8 metro style for GUI. But i need this app to have the same appearance, GUI, for both platforms, so that end users that uses it both on PC and a ...
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Small self-contained windows desktop application technologies? [closed]

Firstly, I'm not new to this. I've written desktop applications for Windows going back to 1991 with Visual Basic 3.0. I've used C/C++ and Win32 API, VB3-6, C# 1.0-4.0 and currently knock out web ...
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Sharing dlls in a software deployment

We are moving our software project from the practically auto-creating Visual Studio Installer in Visual Studio 2010 to a WiX installer. I'd like to use this change to make sure things are right. The ...

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