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An application that runs stand alone in a desktop or laptop computer. Contrast with "Web-based application," which requires the Web browser to run.

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Where should a WinForm app keep its logs?

I am working on a WinForm application, that allows working to work with "projects" (think about the application as Visual Studio, and projects as VS Solutions). My question is - where should the application keep its logging files? Some requirements…
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What is the best way to store a secure information for further usage?

My desktop application asks a user for proxy-server credentials to use it later. But what is the best way to store this secure information for further usage?
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Where to store user data for a desktop application?

I am developing C#.NET desktop application and I want user to be able to create new database files. I´m new to desktop applications and I don´t really know where is the best place to store those files. I wanted to store them in my application folder…
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Differences in building UI between Web and Desktop Applications

The UI for web apps is constructed differently from the UI of desktop apps. I'm interested to know what are actually the major differences in building UI between the two styles of applications in the following areas: 1.Technology used …
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Embedded web browser engine for cross platform desktop application?

Possible Duplicate: How to embed a web browser control in a cross-platform application? I'd like to embed a browsing engine (HTML,JS,CSS,DOM) in my desktop applications. Which one is most suitable for me if I want to use it in a cross-platform…
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How to setup jBPM in a desktop application?

What I want: I'm creating a prototype that is supposed to read a bpmn2 file and list all its tasks. What I'm using: Currently I have a simple Maven application using jBPM 6. I don't need any application server, workbench etc., because it's just a…
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Preferred data-format for user-data in java applications?

I'm currently developing a desktop application in java, which stores user data such as bookmarks for ftp-servers. When deciding how to save these informations, I ended up using xml, simply because I like the way xpath works. I was thinking about…
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Run python script on node-webkit startup (nw.js)

I have a Python-based app that controls LEDs. It uses Flask to create a webserver so I can work with a nice UI using HTML, CSS, and JS. My current process: python home.py navigate to localhost:5000 in browser profit! I'd like to take it a step…
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One-Click application moving from Windows Forms to WPF

I have a Windows Forms application that I recently re-wrote in WPF, and I need to release it to my end users. I'd like to be able to have the users go to the ClickOnce install point for the WPF application and have their Windows Forms application…
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What language is Picasa written in?

This was asked about a year ago, but never really answered. It would be great to find out what language/gui framework was used to write Google's desktop Picasa app. Any ideas?
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Google Analytics for Desktop Application

I wanted to have analytics for my upcoming alpha release so I can analyse how the program gets used, how often errors occur and so on. Implementing an own approach of such is quite difficult and time consuming. Today I saw that the developers of the…
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HTML5 UI on .NET Desktop Apps in Visual Studio

Does anybody happen to know if it is possible to develop a .NET based desktop app in Visual Studio with HTML5 as a front-end? I know the answer on MSDN a couple of years back seemed to be no, but I'm wondering if there has been any change. I know…
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When click on Hyperlink in JavaFX, a relevant URL should open in browser

I am developing an application in which I have some links added to the Listview, and these links will keep on adding at runtime on some condition. What I can't find is a way to to open a url when clicking on a particular link. This is the code for…
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Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) html5 desktop application

I am new to Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). How can I create an HTML5 desktop application using CEF. I serached a lot. But still confused about developing the applicaion. please help.
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JPA desktop application single or multiple instances of EntityManager

In a desktop application that runs in a Java SE environment (no DI, no frameworks other than JPA, plain Java) it is better to create a new EntityManager for each operation in the persistence layer or share a single instance of the EntityManager in…
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