Questions tagged [windows]
Questions involving programming on Microsoft Windows technology, including its API.
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Patterns for background apps using system tray and dialogs
I've had reasons to design an application that should 1) run in the background to show status and notifications, with 2) dialogs showing details and configuring the app through more powerful widgets. ...
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Hiding non-user-facing executables for Windows applications?
Our Windows application makes use of some open source components in the form of their publicly released executables. (One example is 7za.exe that we use to zip old log files.)
We do not want users to ...
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Does SQL Server Agent predate Windows Task Scheduler?
An old guru once told me that SQL Server Agent was created because Windows Task Scheduler did not exist at the time. However, all of my research shows that they both released in 1995. For Task ...
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Testing C# app backed by MSSQL database and Entity Framework - seeking advices for going with "test double" approach
I am new to C#, and Windows (coming from Python, Linux background). I need to add tests
to an existing C# codebase, which relies on a MSSQL database and Entity Framework.
In my old days when testing ...
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How to unit test a function (Windows API) that launches processes?
I've been tasked to use the Windows API (CreateProcessA, ExitProcess) to write a function that'll create, launch, and terminate some in-house applications (app1.exe, app2.exe). The two apps are fire-...
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What should I consider when determining what `ALLOC_MAX` should be in this type of I/O loop?
For, e.g. determining an amount of memory that is safe to allocate for processing file or device with this type of I/O loop:
HANDLE hFile /* = file open with GENERIC_READ */;
LARGE_INTEGER liSize;
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Why did IHVs have never extended Direct3D through the facilities of COM on which it is based?
It is well known that Direct3D, unlike OpenGL, was never extensible in itself - a deliberate choice of Microsoft to favor the average user's expectations of predictable behavior and inherent ...
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Adding a CLI to a Windows service
I have a Windows service that I would like to extend and add a CLI to it similar to docker or Elastic Agent, so I have a question about what kind of approach I should use for the *.exe to communicate ...
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How would I go about writing my own implementation of Win32 functions?
So I am currently coding a C program for Windows and come across a little bit of a problem. I've been compiling using the mingw-w64 toolchain. In my program, I am attempting to remove as many ...
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why we still have Windows Containers when Docker Desktop in Windows still uses a Linux VM?
we know that Docker on Windows runs a virtual machine in the background so that may seem like you are able to run Linux Containers on Windows, but behind the scenes Docker for Windows is actually just ...
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Screen share with Windows Remote Desktop Services
I need to create a WPF application that gives me the possibility to connect to other computers in the same network. I'm looking into Windows Remote Desktop Services, but it seems like it doesn't have ...
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Chose between .net 4.8.1 and .net core 6.0 . is the support life cycle an important factor to consider
I want to start developing a long-life ERP system to a customer. now on paper I would chose to develop it using .NET core 6.0 with SQL Server. But one of the main drawbacks which the customer did not ...
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How can I protect an SQL connection string in a client-side application?
I am developing a .NET Windows application and I need to make requests to a SQL Server instance. How do I secure the authentication data in my code in case someone decompiles my application?
I know ...
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I'm adding Windows Home support to my client application. How can I perform automated testing?
My team and I publish a client app as part of our solution. It includes a CLI but there are other components as well. Currently most of us develop locally on MacOS, and as part of our CI/CD we have a ...
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Share Global Variable in DLL, feasible or naive?
So the gist is to have a static global variable that can be modified by different executables. For example I have 2 different source files including the same dll.h:
dll.h
#include <iostream>
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