How would I go about extending the functionality of windows explorer in XP?
Is there some way whereby I could create a "plugin" of some sorts that could hook into explore.exe to add additional folder browsing functionality? What language could I use to achieve this?
This is an expansion of a question I asked here.
There's a great series of tutorials on CodeProject which might help you. C++ is required there.
There is an old O'reilly book called 'Visual Basic Shell Programming' that explains the API's for this in some detail. While taken from a VB6-centric point of view, the API's are all exposed through COM, so they can be used from any language that supports this. This article discusses using the windows shell with .Net and a tool to build an interop assembly.
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I am looking for a language or class reference for FiddlerScript.
The Fiddler ScriptEditor has a class explorer. But this only contains a very limited amount of documentation.
For example, what methods are available for the Hashtable or JSON.JSONParseResult classes? What can I do to get the current system time?
Then language looks a lot like CSharp but is just different enough that using CSharp documentation is frustrating.
A normal class reference of language manual is necessary, and also sufficient to answer all my other questions.
FiddlerScript uses JScript.NET language, which is not so supported and popular these days. There is an online tutorial, and Eric Lawrence also recommends Justin Rogers's Microsoft JScript.NET Programming book as an advanced JScript.NET reference.
Otherwise Understanding FiddlerScript blogpost by Eric Lawrence is a good entry-level tutorial specifically for FiddlerScript, more info is also available in the Debugging with Fiddler book. Using the Fiddler ScriptEditor (installed with Fiddler) also eases FiddlerScript development.
JScript.NET-based extensibility is preserved and enabled by default for more of a compatibility reasons, but for new projects you can use C# as an extensibility language by choosing C# in Tools -> Options -> Scripting -> Language in Fiddler options.
OpenEdge Developer Studio is built on Eclipse where usually the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+J can be used to create JavaDoc for classes and methods.
For Progress however I am unable to figure out how this should work.
Could someone help me out here?
To create an html documentation (like http://help.consultingwerkcloud.com/smartcomponent_library/release/) use this here:
https://github.com/Riverside-Software/pct/wiki/ClassDocumentation
https://github.com/Riverside-Software/pct/wiki/HtmlDocumentation
For documentation comments in PDSOE, I'd suggest you have a look at:
https://www.hh-berlin.de/oedt/features/editor
It's going to be commercial. I'm beta-testing it since a while. And it's working really, really nice.
From the last few days, i am trying to figure out best reporting tools for my work. I have mongoDB database server and now i need to integrate it with reporting tool. For mongoDB i used the C binding so i am looking for a reporting tool in C/C++. I came across some great tools like BIRT, Jaspersoft and Pentaho but i didn't get clean answer whether they have support for C/C++. So my question is do they have C/C++ binding or API?.
Also if you have some other tools recommendation for my work then please share that also.
To answer your question: No, these tools don't have a C/C++ API.
However, as Stennie pointed out in the comment, this shouldn't really be necessary, as you can use them with a http API. If you really want to use integrate them tightly with a C/C++ program, consider embedding Java into your program and see Embed Java into a C++ application?.
I have started using Git for my other development projects (PHP, HTML, JavaScript, etc.) and can now see how beneficial it is, however I've been unable to find anything similar for Dynamics CRM 2011/2013 as a lot of the solution development is done within the web interface.
I'm guessing this is not possible, but could someone with more experience than me please confirm this or let me know which tools I should be looking into?
Thanks
You can use the Visual Studio Developer Toolkit available in the SDK to version control your plugins and web resources initially. I'd recommend this as your first step.
If you choose to take it further you can also look at using the SolutionPackager tool to version control your solutions. This will split out your solution zip file into separate version controllable files for each component. It works best when you follow the developer workflow outlined in the linked MSDN article
I'm new with this Perl Win32::OLE automation. I have been reading and trying out some examples. I have a few questions (excuse me if i'm using incorrect terminologies - do correct me):
Can OLE be used to automate Visual
Studio 2005? I only found examples
with Word, Excel and IE. How do
you know which app can be used?
How do I get the name of the program ID
to be used. For instance, "Excel" in
Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application')
How do I get the available functions
for each programs. For instance,
Workbook, only can be used with
Excel, not Word.
Thanks for your time :)
The Win32::OLE documentation provides a rudimentary starting point.
As for your questions:
I do not think VS 2005 provides an OLE automation interface.
See this post on PerlMonks.
An excellent source of information for Microsoft Office applications is the Object Browser. You can access it via Tools -> Macro -> Visual Basic Editor. Once you are in the editor, hit F2 to browse the interfaces, methods, and properties provided by Microsoft Office applications.
Typically, the OLE automation model is up to the software you are trying to automate. You can usually figure it out by looking at the documentation, for example for the Microsoft products it will be in MSDN. For Visual Studio and the Office tools, you can also use the macro recorder to help figure out the syntax, since you can record a script that does vaguely what you want and then modify it.
Also, Visual Studio comes with the tool called "OLE/COM object viewer" (Oleview.exe) which can be used to open and read the type libraries for some target software. The type library is usually contained within a .tlb or .dll file and contains the more or less full description of the OLE Automation types defined for the application. You can look at the .idl thus reverse engineered and try to figure out what kind of things are possible.
To get a brief overview and introduction I would suggest looking at this The Perl Journal #10. Created by Jan Dubois.
Also here are some examples, if you havn't stumbled across it yet Examples
Hope it helps