I have an application that I wrote that will let me explore/manipulate Virtual disks for a legacy computer emulator. Can someone point me in the right direction hook it into Windows Explorer, in the same way that Zip Folders are integrated (also similar is Acronis True Image backup files (.tib files).
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I work on a large C/C++ project and the code base is maintained in Clearcase. Till date we primarily work in Linux environment and we don't extensively use IDE. We directly checkout and edit files through VI.
Since I got access to Clearcase for Windows access, I am now trying to access the sources files in Eclipse. I primarily want to use Eclipse for Editing and Code Navigation. I create views through my unix account. I am able to mount the same view on my Windows PC using Clearcase Explorer. I am able to access the code and make changes to the file that were checked out earlier.
Can someone familiar to Eclipse please let me know how I can view that code base in eclipse. I do NOT want to create copies of the code base in my local filesystem. If I try creating a new project with the code base drive as the root folder, the project wont get created since I don't have write permission in that folder.
Is there a workaround?
Thanks in Advance!
As long as you can mount your Linux filesystem on windows, you should be able to reference the sources directly from Eclipse.
The most important detail, for the ClearCase plugin to work is for the .project to and .classpath files to be right alongside the sources, in your snapshot view.
See:
"When committing projects should I include .project & .classpath?"
"imported Eclipse project not linking to ClearCase"
"Clearcase plugin for eclipse usage"
For that Unix view to be recognize from Windows, you would have to tag and register it in the Windows region: "ClearCase: Are views created in Unix not visible from Windows and vice versa?".
Note that the case of snapshot views (accessing Unix views from windows), as this help page details, any ClearCase operation might fail:
See "Before accessing snapshot views across different platforms"
You can access snapshot views across different platforms, but you cannot issue Rational ClearCase commands across platforms.
For example, you cannot check out files in snapshot views on UNIX workstations from Rational ClearCase hosts on Windows computers, nor can you create shortcuts to snapshot views on UNIX workstations from Rational ClearCase Explorer.
If you are on a Rational ClearCase host running on a Windows computer and you hijack a file in a UNIX snapshot view, the hijack is detected when you update the view from a Rational ClearCase host on a UNIX platform.
In your case, if by "mounting" you mean mount dynamic view, then you should be ok, as mentioned in this help page, use Region Synchronizer to import the Linux or UNIX view tag of the view into your Windows network region.
I am building a small WPF application that will be distributed/sold on a USB Flash drive. The application will run from the flash drive and all data entered will be stored on the flash drive.
I have built my proof of concept but my question is how do I build the install? When I try to publish the app it creates the normal setup.exe and the needed manifest files. The setup appears to check for prereqs (framework and such) then installs a startup icon. But it truly installs the program on the hard drive of the computer, which is not what I want.
Can someone point me in the right direction as to how to deploy/build/publish the application to not install but run from the USB Flash drive?
If it has to run on machines that don't already have the .NET framework (3.5 SP1 would probably be the minimum) then there is no way to avoid a big installation step that effects the target machine permanently.
Just compile and run the .exe that is created in the debug directory. I run .NET .exe from network drives all the time. If the .NET framework is not installed then it will fail.
I currently have many Linux VM's set up on VMware Workstation, there are some shared folders that contain source code that is held on the host computer. The issue I am having is that whenever I try to compile a file by using any compiler I get an Illegal seek error and file not recognized. Is there any way around this? I am using an Ubuntu 64-bit VM with Windows 7 as the host and the location of the shared files are on the Windows 7 hard drive.
I've run into a number of problems doing development over a network share in the past and suggest rather than sharing the files via SMB, you'll find more luck if you check in/out the files from a source control system (or simply copy them) so they're on a "local" drive on both the guest and host.
I have started coding an FTP client application (for fun). I’m trying to represent remotely hosted files with icons. For example, let’s say I’m browsing the root folder of an FTP server (/) and want to display the Backup.zip file with the icon association from that client operating system. On some systems, this may be the windows compression icon and other operating systems this may be WinZip or WinRAR icons.
I have the client browsing local files with the SHGetFileInfo() function. This works great with files that are local, however, this function requires the physical file in order to retrieve the associated icon. So, this will not work with remotely hosted files. I have found some samples of loading icons given a file extension, and this is really where the question comes in... What would be the best strategy to get icons associated to remote files?
Go to the registry every time and look up extension to icon associations
Create 1 byte files with each extension and use the SHGetFileInfo() function for remote files (using local 1 byte files as association for remote files)
Other strategies???
What would a professional software company creating an FTP client do?
Thank you for your time.
-Jessy Houle
I suggest that you don't go to the registry every time: go if you need to, but if you've already been for a given filetype then remember/cache that result (within your program) and reuse it.
Use the procedure here from a previous Stack Overflow question on the same idea and uses the registry instead of an actual file.
How can I get the filetype icon that Windows Explorer shows?
I'm looking to build some functionality for a content management system for the editing of files stored on the server.
I'd like to provide users the ability to easily download files locally to their computer, open the file for editing, and save it back to the server. The process should be as seamless as possible.
Here's the steps today:
Click the link to download the file (say a PSD) in a web browser
Save it to disk
Find the file, open it for editing in Photoshop
Make changes, save the file
Go back to the browser,navigate to the file that was downloaded.
Click "replace file"
Find the file, upload it back to the server.
Here's what I want:
Click the link to open the PSD file
File is downloaded, Photoshop launches
Make changes, save the file
File is uploaded back to server, replacing the original file
Those who have used Sharepoint know that this works (using WebDAV) but only with the Office applications (PPT, DOC, XLS). I'd like it to work with all file types.
This will take some kind of software to be installed locally - perhaps a separatly installed application with a mime type registered, a signed java applet, or a firefox extension.
This seems like a problem that should have been solved. Has anyone seen this done before?
Windows client OS has a WebDAV redirector and has had for a long time, so
a) you shouldnt need a client piece and b) it's not specific to Office files.
The fun bit is the server end, implementing a WebDAV server.
WebDAV isnt supported on client OSs like Vista (IIS5.1 has support, 6.0 doesnt), only on Servers (2K3, 2K8...)
There is goo/examples/frameworks (cant recall which from when I researched it) available for implementing a WebDAV server, but it requires a server OS [so I had to discount it as the host in my case could potentially have been Vista/7, not server/XP).
The site WebDAV Resources includes a link to at least one open-source server implementation. I haven't used this software, I'm just citing the reference.
It appears that Apache has deprecated or dropped support for server-side WebDAV since the Jakarta Slide project has been retired.