To get whether the system is in tablet mode or not, query the system metric ConvertibleSlateMode like so (not tested, but it should work fine as far back as XP): public static class TabletPCSupport { private static readonly int SM_CONVERTIBLESLATEMODE = 0x2003; private static readonly int SM_TABLETPC = 0x56; private static Boolean isTabletPC = false; … Read more
Virtual webcam is typically a software only implementation that application discover as if it is a device with physical representation. The mentioned applications use APIs to work with web cameras and ability to extend the APIs and add your own video source is the way to create a virtual web camera. In Windows there are … Read more
UPDATE Jan 2021: WebView2 has been released. This enables integration of the Chromium based Edge as a web control. It’s a lot more complicated to use, unfortunately, but a lot more powerful. Works with WinForms or WPF or C++ apps. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/ UPDATE May 2018: FINALLY Microsoft has made it easy. https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2018/05/09/modern-webview-winforms-wpf-apps/ For now, the new … Read more
Windows 10 allows using all default OpenSSH tools. However, git was throwing permission denied for every time when I tried to clone repositories from Github, Gitlab or Bitbucket over SSH. You need to perform a few tweaks to make it work. Make sure ssh-agent service enabled, or run in Powershell (as administrator): Get-Service -Name ssh-agent … Read more
For Windows builds HIGHER than 17713: WSL uses the file /etc/wsl.conf inside each Linux VM’s filesystem to configure its behavior. Add the following configuration settings (explained here) to /etc/wsl.conf, creating that file if necessary: [interop] appendWindowsPath = false Note that appendWindowsPath must be under [interop] for this to work. You may need to shutdown the … Read more
Spent some time looking at this on three machines with Win10 Creators Edition and VS2010, VS2013, VS2015 and VS2017 installed, where it works on two machines and fails on the third. All had VS2015 Update 3 and all should have been installed with the same options. Running the following batch file C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual … Read more
Windows 10 does not come with all the older MSVC Runtimes installed. You will also have to install any of these that are missing. Microsoft Visual C/C++ Redistributable 2008 (VC9) 32bit / 64bit Microsoft Visual C/C++ Redistributable 2010 (VC10) 32bit / 64bit Microsoft Visual C/C++ Redistributable 2012 (VC11) 32bit & 64bit selectable on this page … Read more
I recently wanted to just this as well – and I found the answer so i’m posting it here for future reference and I couldn’t find a working example in C# anywhere. First of all your app needs requireAdministrator permissions. To do this, right click on the project in the Solution Explorer and click Add … Read more
The problem is that the Python interpreter doesn’t enable the processing of ANSI escape sequences. The ANSI sequences work from the Windows command prompt because cmd does enable them. If you start Python from the command prompt you’ll find the ANSI sequences do work, including the ones for enabling and disabling the cursor. That’s because … Read more
Since GDI forms on Delphi don’t support alpha channels (unless using alpha layered windows, which might not be suitable), commonly the black color will be taken as the transparent one, unless the component supports alpha channels. tl;dr Just use your TTransparentCanvas class, .Rectangle(0,0,Width+1,Height+1,222), using the color obtained with DwmGetColorizationColor that you could blend with a … Read more