Autostarting an appliaction

You can add your appliaction to the system startup using the calss CRegKey
Here is the code snippet

#include "atlbase.h" //Required for CRegKey class

void RemAutoStart() // To remove old entry
{
CString strKeyName;
strKeyName = _T("myAppAutoStart");
CRegKey mKey;
mKey.Create(HKEY_CURRENT_USER,
_T("Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run"),
REG_NONE,REG_OPTION_NON_VOLATILE,
KEY_ALL_ACCESS, NULL,NULL);
mKey.DeleteValue(strKeyName);
mKey.Close();
}

void AddAutoStart() // To add new entry
{
RemAutoStart();
CString strKeyName;
strKeyName = _T("myAppAutoStart");
TCHAR sExeFilePath[490];
DWORD length;
length = ::GetModuleFileName(NULL, sExeFilePath, 490);
if(!length)
return;
CString sFullExeCommand;
sFullExeCommand.Format(_T("%s -AutoStart"), sExeFilePath);
CRegKey mKey;
mKey.Create(HKEY_CURRENT_USER,
_T("Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run"),
REG_NONE,REG_OPTION_NON_VOLATILE,
KEY_ALL_ACCESS, NULL,NULL);
mKey.SetStringValue(strKeyName, sFullExeCommand);
mKey.Close();
}

Open a working folder

C++ code snippet:

ShellExecute(NULL, NULL, L"C:\\Windows", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

C++ code snippet:

System.Diagnostics.Process prc = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
prc.StartInfo.FileName = "explorer.exe";
prc.StartInfo.Arguments = "C:\\Windows";

prc.Start();

Setup Package

If you are using .Net framework then the best and easiest choice for you is to make a Setup and Deployment project or Setup wizard.

Also you can use NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System), It is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution.

You can edit the script setup for the NSIS package using a simple editor like notepad or you can also use Mihov NSIS Helper, It is a program for graphical creating of script files for NSIS.

There another option for you InstallShield but this tool is not free.

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Source CNet

Documentation Tools

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Compare Databases

To compare SQL Server databases you can refer to this post -SQL Server Database Comparison and Synchronization-.

However to compare mySql databases you can use EMS DB Comparer for MySQL , It a cool tool for that purpose.

Start and Stop Windows Service

You can check these two MSDN articles:

Starting a Service

Stopping a Service

Or download this code snippet - 3kb