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http://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/[^]
For automating Windows applications and can be used by administrators as general scripting language.
Does not support .NET. Support 32 bit, 64 bit applications.
We can create standalone executable out of script.
Very easy to learn.
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AutoIt has been both a blessing and a curse for me! While it started out as a small scripting language for automation, it has since grown into a full programming language. It makes it so ridiculously easy to create Windows programs, including all / any controls and menus, that I used it almost exclusively at work for almost 2 years.
I used it to interface with COM objects in MS Office apps to create reports from Mainframe data harvested using the COM interface of Attachmate's Extra! terminal emulation software (BTW, Attachmate did a better job than MS). I'm talking Word documents, Excel spreadsheets with graphs, Powerpoint presentations, you name it. The pointy-haired ;-D types loved it.
Unfortunately, it was so easy to use that I didn't write anything in C (or anything else) for quite a while and got a little rusty.
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434[^]
I know what you're thinking. Another damn screen magnifier. Well, yes, Zoomit does that, but it was actually designed to assist in PC-driven presentations. With the draw tool, you can highlight areas on the screen. When in draw mode, you can enter typing mode, and the text will appear on the screen (nice big text). The break timer shows a big countdown clock.
Zoomit was written by Mark Russinovich, one of the founders of Sysinternals.
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Cool tool. You ain't no fool. 
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Cool tool. You ain't no fool.
True as a bool.
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Bool may be false
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
Trolls[ ^]
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Not worth a duel. 
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Why? He could eat gruel - it wouldn't make him drool.
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hmm..
there's surely a time
to give up on rhyme
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My goal is sublime;
Is that a crime?
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I had never heard of it. Thanks.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
Trolls[ ^]
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Find more tips in my upcoming book, Secrets of a Software Consultant.
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Very nice tool except for a small 'bug'.
When running multiple monitors it appears it will only zoom a section of the second screen (if the second screen is larger than the primary screen).
And even weirder when in a RDP session on the second screen it doesn't want to zoom at all but on the primary screen it does (when in a RDP session there).
Other than that very nice and I'll be using it at home (have a small wireless keyboard to type stuff on my big screen tv but the distance from the tv prevents me from using it fully since I can't see what I'm typing  )
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You should report that on the Sysinternals forum.
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I know but I can't find the forum for the zoomit app.
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Looks very nice. Thanks Hans.
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An alternative to InnoSetup, for the masochistically inclined, is the very powerful WiX[^]. Don't forget to download the Votive[^] pack for Visual Studio integration of WiX.
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Hmmmm. WiX. WPF. Masochism. Is there a trend there?
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Answering questions in the forums...
Yup, there's a definite masochistic streak going on there.
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http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php[^]
Despite being free, this utility has proven over the years to be one of the best and most popular installers for Windows programs. My clients use it for both shrink-wrap and in-house applications.
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Looks cool, my colleagues suggested WiX[^] & NSIS[^]. But I'm going to use this one.
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