Ha ha. I see you've had to deal with .SF2s... That's what I'm tryin to avoid, mannn.

installed that. double click .sln file - nothin happens. open with vs 2010 express - nothin happens. went to add/remove programs - did repair. still broke. so now looks like i get to try a new flavor of c++ express... Looks like 2015 express for desktop is my first stab... all i need is free c++ on bare metal win32 (and resedit) so hopefully i don't need a new windows sdk for resedit or debugging tools for windbg. pray for me, please :)

Yeah that makes sense. i don't support pre win7. I use linux at work (redhat), but that's just for boring webserver stuff. I've done a teeny bit of Android, but although the quality is there, it's got a long ways to go.

BillWoodruff wrote: For example: could I, through some API voodoo, cause the launching of a Win 8 desktop app to simultaneously launch a Metro App, or vicea-versa. I've not tried it, but you should be able to launch a desktop app from a Metro app (there's a LaunchDefaultProgram method available that should help). Doing it the other way would be problematic due to app store sandboxing restrictions. BillWoodruff wrote: I interpret "MMF" to mean "memory-mapped files:" correct ? Correct. BillWoodruff wrote: Can a Win 8 desktop app (through API voodoo ?) create a memory area it can share with Metro (your comment about no-can-do MMF makes me doubt this is possible) ? No it can't. If you want IPC, you either have to use the folder solution or hack around WCF to support this. As far as the symmbiosis - I don't think it really exists. Right now MS is living in this idealistic bubble where the internal teams are saying how great it's going to be and that people will instantly jump over to Metro - which has resulted in desktop getting short shrift. To give you an idea of what's going on, I'm a member of something called the XAML Disciples (formerly WPF Disciples), a group of WPF and Silverlight early adopters. Now, we are exactly the target audience that MS would expect to jump on the bandwagon. Towards the back end of last year, Sacha Barber and myself both said we couldn't really see what MS were hoping to achieve, and that we were underwhelmed because it would disadvantage our clients. At that point, we were jumped on by a fair few of the other disciples. Jump forward in time until the beta release, and the picture was a whole lot different - suddenly, all but one of those disciples changed their position to match mine and Sacha's. Not that the Sachanator or I were smug about it. ;) *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier

You have to be patient. Microsoft seems to be on alternating path: ... > XP (good) > Vista (scrap) > Win7 (good) > Win8 (scrap) > Win9 (hopefully good) > ... Cheers, Jani Giannoudis Meerazo.com - Resource Sharing Made Easy | Co-founder

Assuming your monitor has a standard vesa mount for the stand replace it with a heavier duty one that clamps to the desk. 3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18

Reminds me of this[^] ;-P

ResEdit works great

i need 2008 standard or SOMEthing with a resource editor tho... :((

stephen.hazel wrote: Can somebody tell me if 2010 (or whatEVER the latest free one is) has a resource editor without me goin' thru the full download / try it out / uninstall ? They should be publishing a version comparison chart soon, although it may not necessarily go to that level of detail. stephen.hazel wrote: I wouldn't think there'd be a problem using vs.net 2002 on win7 It will be unsupported but may be installable in the same way that VS 2003 is. I think "unsupported" in this context means that if you run into any problems you're on your own. Kevin

I don't know about that whole rather convoluted "arduino software layer" on top of AVR... But the AVR MCU has a good free c compiler. The propeller i think has a "weird" non C, non regular Asm, sorta kinda interpretted native instruction set... I think the board may be arduino "compatible". But the manual probably uses C if it's like a similar kit I got from that site/company/guy. (A single mcu AVR kit - pretty cool, but no "easy" way to do sound.)

Named a project MARIANAS once, cuz it was the epitome of feature creep. "Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end" - Unknown

Vista works out it's coming from removable media. You will also find there are locations you can't copy to. You can right click the file once it's copied onto your PC and push a button to say you trust the file. Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. "! i don't exactly like or do programming and it only gives me a headache." - spotted in VB forums. I can do things with my brain that I can't even google. I can flex the front part of my brain instantly anytime I want. It can be exhausting and it even causes me vision problems for some reason. - CaptainSeeSharp

If you need high precision sync between the audio/video streams Captivate probably isn't the right tool. I've never had sound embedded in anything I created, but the free-form way it handles modifying the playback, combined with it's synthetic keyboard/mouse strokes makes me thing it wouldn't work well. It's great for general purpose apps though. Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

Buy a charger and a set of batteries specifically for it. Then add it to the rats nest of wires around your PC. You'll never lack for charged spares again. Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

Whoa man. Blast from the past :)

I used bootcamp to partition my mac, got a vista home premium install that I use for gaming, visual studio etc. or for when something just simply isn't available for Mac. It happens every now and again. Easy to install, though it takes a while! It asks you to print off the instructions before you begin, probably a good idea should the worst happen but I've never had an issue. He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man

I've never seen anyone bragging about wearing depends before. :laugh: Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

Thanks. I assume the requirement is because their service people would not have a clue how to connect a linux machine to the internet. Or perhaps for the email (which I do not care about). If I get more annoyed at Comcast I may switch. John