yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] bfosterjr:
Thanks for starting this...

Do you think you could rename that to "Windows RT" instead... ?

WinRT is both wrong and misleading..

Cheers!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] jbarresi19:
I know I am a noob and I ask alot of questions but I really like learning. So I downloaded Rainmeter and I really like it but I am trying to add some plugins and can't figure it out....do I have to add it to some folder or something. Can someone please help?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
Plugins will need to be recompiled for ARM.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Soobin:
Is anyone interested in roguelike games such as Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup or Nethack?

I tried port these games, but it is not easy for Visual Studio noob..

Roguelike games are usually open source, but they are still terra incognita in here.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Dungeon crawl appears to be GNU tools only, saw nothing about compiling with microsoft tools so that might be out of the window.

Nethack again is normally GNU, but I did find a guy who has created a github repo with a version modified for visual studio: https://github.com/argrath/NetHack-VS2010 as well as a few other pages online about how to compile it in visual studio. So nethack is most likely doable. Otherwise, if you learn how to program it might be a fun project to write your own some day (just an idea for the future).
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Soobin:
There is a mention about "building on Windows(Visual Studio)" (line 283) in the source of Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup.

or just I have wrong idea about Windows RT porting?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
No, you dont have the wrong idea, you just have eagle eyes. I didnt come across that link somehow.

Looking at it further. It mentions perl, python and lua. I dont know to what extent they are required (something to do with a web server I think so possible not needed in the client) but it may complicate things. It does at least build with microsoft tools which is a start.

EDIT:

NO_LUA_BINDINGS=y in one of the make files for GNU build tools, possible a VS equivelant somewhere. Might throw the lua issue out of the window (although I think lua is on RT). Python and perl are both on RT.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Lua is available, yes (see the second post in the thread). Python is actually more likely to be a problem, as the Python build we have is missing a lot of the native interface stuff.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Native interface (or lack thereof) has a few workarounds at least. A few modules from the standard library that originally used native code do have 100% python versions available, however they tend do be much slower than their native counterparts (and not just because they are python not C. The algorithms themselves are often slower). Their often posted in relation to pypy, ironPython and jython, all 3 of which are not compatible with python modules requiring native code (exception pypy, it supports the ctypes library and does support the C API but due to heavy mods to how pypy works in comparison to CPython it isnt 100% compatible). IronPython and jython sadly some of the replacement modules are written with .NET or JVM calls, but there are a few pure python modules out there.

It is a shame that the native code parts of python don't work. Is it "just" a case of getting python to use THUMB2 for native code or something else entirely? (I say just, I understand that it may be quite complex to do so, wasn't trying to make it sound simple).

I think the python support may actually be for the server not the client.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
A large part of the native interface, at least for CPython, is written in assembly. This would need to be re-written in THUMB2 - possible, but not trivial by any means - or else re-written to not use any assembly at all (might be possible...). It would arguably be a lot easier to just get IronPython running on RT; in theory that should actually be easy since I think .NET 4.5 has the Dynamic Language Runtime built in.

Of course, that doesn't solve the problem of Python modules needing the native interface, unless IronPython is able to use P/Invoke for such things...
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
IronPython can use any module written in IronPython or can load any .NET library. It can P/Invoke but it doesn't really do that very well, syntax for it is a bit weird I think, probably best off writing a wrapper library in C# which you can use for any of your .NET projects then. Much of the IronPython standard library swaps native C code for regular python and in a few cases calls on the .NET standard library instead.

I find it odd that they have chosen assembly for CPython considering it is available on ARMv6, ARMv7, x86, MIPS and a few more exotic systems too.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] smb_gaiden:
Release: TFTP

I re-setup the project, re-compiled, and fixed a bug for crash on exit.

Project setup paths are not ideal, but I am including the source and project under accordance with the license and for your ease to make modifications should you choose.

Original author's page: http://tftpd32.jounin.net/
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] jimmielin:
Could anyone please try to port HeidiSQL (http://www.heidisql.com/), an open-source MySQL and MSSQL client? The source is included (http://www.heidisql.com/downloads/HeidiSQL_8.0_Sourcecode.zip) but I have been unable to find instructions for compiling, nor references to VS-based compiles either.

Also, it seems to require libmysql.dll - a quick search (http://grokbase.com/t/mysql/mysql/025k2tqkqs/license-question-on-libmysql-dll-and-c-c-api) indicates that this library is GPL'd (although only an older version), but I can't find documentation on VS compiles (much less ARM ports either). Could anyone please take a look at this? Thanks!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] jbarresi19:
I plan on buying the keyboard for my surface but for the time being I figured it would be easy enough to use mu Galaxy s4 as a Bluetooth mouse/keyboard. But I can't seem to do it because they all need me to download a server which I can't dl.....anyone got this to work or have any ideas?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Sorry, its a no go there. The servers are mostly closed source so you can't have them on RT, the phone cannot function as a regular bluetooth keyboard on its own independent of a server.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] wolf7:
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[Windows RT Development and Hacking] BIade:
Thank you

Thank you so much for all these wonderful things.

One Tip for classic-start-menu: Perhaps you could repack your brilliant tool with 2 Folders:

-Skins

-Data (or anything else)

This tool Looks in the the parent Directory for a Folder named "Skins". otherwise you wont be able to select a Skin...

After that, it works perfectly and looks just AWESOME.

P.S.: Perhaps you want to add a small script which restarts the Explorer after execution.

those two things done, it would be more user-friendly.

I could upload my modified Version, but [MENTION=1854527]netham45[/MENTION] deserves the Reputation.

If [MENTION=1854527]netham45[/MENTION] give me the permission, i will upload it...

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Noob-question:

Media Player Classic Home Cinema is open source. Any chances of beeing ported?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] ericerk:
Is there any news on alternative browsers for the RT?

i.e.

Chrome

Chromuim

FireFox

Opera

Anything that's not Internet explorer.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Chome - Not open source

Chromium - Coming back to

Firefox - Coming back to

Opera - Not open source

There is QupZilla for RT now, thats not really an improvement on internet explorer in any way other than not being internet explorer. Its a functioning browser though, fairly nice one too.

Chromium and firefox have both been mentioned several times over the last few days. Not happening any time soon. Huge codebases, no THUMB2 javascript engine support, and thats a huge undertaking to write yourself. Technically they are feasible to be ported to RT, its just such a huge amount of work that its highly unlikely to ever happen in the near future. One day maybe.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] ericerk:
Anything that isn't I.E. is an improvement.

Why wouldn't Mozilla work on firefox for RT?

This might be a crazy suggestion, but why can't some one de / recompile the chrome app (from android) from Java to C AND C#.

This might be hard, BUT in theory all the DB's are already there.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
why would Mozilla work on Firefox for a jailbroken system, they won't port Firefox to jailbroken devices and Microsoft won't allow a legit port.

And I presume you are not a programmer, your crazy suggestion, well you said it (no offense intended btw). A) its illegal, chrome for android is proprietary software. B) won't work anyway. The android source code funnily enough is heavily dependant on android, not windows, also you can't just take software and convert it straight to another language easily, actually easier to rewrite from scratch, what you have proposed is even more effort than getting chromium working in the first place.

What the hell is a DB?? Database? Not a clue what your on about there.

If you don't want internet explorer, use qupzilla. Working browser at least.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] ericerk:
Never mind.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] BIade:
If you want Firefox that hard, check out the remote-app-trick...

I can confirm that Firefox, winamp, photoshop cs6 and Dreamweaver cs6 runs perfectly with it...

I dont like IE neither, but I have to regret that I havent got any problems with it on my surface rt...
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] ericerk:
I'm going to assume, that there's flash and (SilverLight) Netflix support.

My next issue would be about ad blockers.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
IE has Flash. Nothing else will, though; Flash for RT is ActiveX (what IE uses) not NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API, what all other browsers use). Don't ask to port it; it's closed source and highly platform-dependent besides.

Sadly, there's currently no Silverlight support at all. It's worth looking into Moonlight, seeing if it can be ported... but it's outdated; I think Netflix now needs a newer version.

On the other hand, why do you care about browser-based Netflix? The app is free, and should give a better experience anyhow!

Ad-blocking is built into IE since version 9, the feature is called "Tracking Protection" but it makes a good ad blocker too. You can subscribe to "tracking protection lists" (even some, like EasyList, which are also available for AdBlock Plus) and use those.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] penars:
Anybody care to port WinSCP, pretty please? This would singlehandedly make the Surface my work laptop of choice.

Thanks in advance!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/winscp/files/WinSCP
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
WinSCP has been discussed, use the search function.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] ericerk:
Is there like a repo or something for the anti ad's or ads for that matter for it to block??

(Sorry my surface hasn't shipped yet, that's why my question are coming across as really really dumb)
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
He already mentioned one in that post, EasyList.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Linnunium:
Awesome work! could u plz help me? this is an excellent dictionary. I really need it, btw I live in China.

http://www.octopus-studio.com/download/MDictPC.zip

it is open-source. Anyway, thanks! :o
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
It is not open source. It has a closed source license and no source code is available for download.

Free software is not necessarily open source software.

Please don't link directly to .zip downloads, its more useful to link to the page rather than us downloading potentially malware ridden zip files.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Ri3v|:
Just got a surface rt...I wonder is it possible to port bluestacks(android emulator) for rt:good:

www.bluestacks.com
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Ahem. Do you see that line of bold text at the top of the very first post in the thread? Go read that one (again).

Then, go read the forum rules. Start with the very first one.

Your sig asks me to teach you. As your teacher, I suggest you tally up the number of things wrong with your request here. Thanks!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Lets have a look at the very first post.

Nope. No bluestacks. Nor is bluestacks an emulator if you want to get technical.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] :
And then you could start out by actually looking up BlueStacks. It uses Google's OPEN SOURCE source code. So technically it's open source for the most part.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
the same applies to you. I am fully aware what bluestacks is. It is

not

open source.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Dalvik may be open source, but BlueStacks emphatically is not. Also, seriously, this has been discussed before.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] malberti1993:
Can you port excel 2010 or a version that supPorts addons like data analysis.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
did you read the very big bold text on the first post which specifically says not to ask for closed source software ports. Excel is not open source, its not even free. It is impossible for us to port.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] JAmerican:
I got a Surface RT and I must say the best PDF app is the SumatraPDF provided here. All those metro apps are terrible! Even the default Reader provided by Microsoft. Thanks for compiling it for ARM!:good:
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] BIade:
Hey mates :)

Just wanted to inform you, that "JDownloader" runs with IKVM :) It takes a long time to load (about 2min) but after that it runs smooth. You have to set the theme to "Default Windows" in settings. I wrote a little starting-script and put a shortcut on my Desktop with the proper icon. If anyone is intrested, just tell me :)

Cheers

Blade
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] cphilip:
True crypt

Hi,

I am kind of interested in the surface rt. Has anyone tried to run the program called "True Crypt?"

http://www.truecrypt.org/

Thanks

EDIT : I did a search using the search tool on this site, It looks like no one has found a way to port true crypt yet.

My search results could be wrong. So, if anyone has some information regarding running true crypt on surface rt, please reply. In my android tablet, I am able to run a program called EDS lite and it is compatible with Truecrypt.

Truecrypt is very useful to me and I am happy that I can bring my private True crypt encrypted volume files everywhere with me and use it on desktop or android tablet. If the surface rt can handle truecrypt encrypted volume files then, that would be even more ideal situation than the android tablet.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
If they had they would have posted.

Off topic, swear I have seen the name cphilip outside of xda somewhere
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] cphilip:
Hi,

Maybe, you might have seen me hanging around in slatedroid forums. I was around xda forums quite during the windows mobile 5 days.

If True crypt is hard to port to surface rt, what about the software called "Freeotfe."

http://www.osalt.com/freeotfe

Freeotfe works very much like truecrypt.

In the world of android, there is a program called LUK manager that can decrypt volume files encrypted by Freeotfe on the windows desktop.

This makes it very convenient because I can use the same encrypted volume file on the windows desktop as well as on the android tablet.

I hope someone who is good in porting legacy windows softwares to surface rt will look into these useful softwares.

I want so much to believe that there is hope in surface rt.

I used to be a big fan of windows pocket pc. Suddenly, capacitive touch screens became popular. There was a shift of interest for software interface menus that are finger friendly instead of having to pull out a stylus. There was also a great interest in making devices that can handle internet browsing well. Microsoft was slow to adapt to the change of interest for bigger screens, finger friendly menus, internet handling and therefore windows pocket pc faded away. Windows pocket pc used to dominate those days.

I like to see windows rt become successful but I am also aware that INTEL processor maker seems determined to enter the mobile devices market that used to be dominated by the ARM processor makers. Asus already manufactured their Fonepad android tablets with intel atom processor. So, it is a very difficult period to decide the future of windows RT.

It is nice that Microsoft has decided to create an arm based os and it is very impressive indeed. Just like in the days of the pocket pc, I am not expecting that microsoft ARM based operating system can do everything the INTEL based windows can do but i am hoping that it can at least handle useful softwares like

Truecrypt or

Freeotfe

as well as the Android.

If windows rt can handle softwares that the Android can handle than it won't be long before windows rt will become more powerful than the android. As much as we like softwares that are finger friendly, i don't think we can completely avoid having to use a stylus for certain programs. Windows rt is offering that freedom of choice use what is best according to the situation.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] maxxie85:
Arduino IDE

Hi,

I know Arduino IDE envirement is open source, so I was wondering if it is possible to compile it to RT. Would be awesome!

Does someone know if this is possible and maybe knows a way of doing it?

Regards
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
you wouldn't be able to actually program your arduino from the tablet with no COM ports available (no ftdi, CDC, cp2100 series, pl2303's or anything else on RT) so it would be source code only, it relies a fair bit on java too. It may work as a code editor, but there are other softwares already on RT for that.

I'm personally a huge fan of energia, fork of the arduino IDE for msp430 and stellaris launchpads.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] BIade:
Hey master, I use Adruino for programming my teensy. (i works via USB) i got 4 teensy 1.0 and one teensy2++. But I think that we cannot get the driver for rt neither :/

Just wanted to add the info about programming via USB

Cheers

Blade
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] ivanABIch:
compiling OTR plugin for Mirand

asking if someone can help with compiling OTR plugin for Miranda IM

•Miranda IM. Multi-protocol chat/IM client. http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1649674&d=1358334467

the source of OTR plugin is located here http://addons.miranda-im.org/details.php?action=viewfile&id=2644 unfortunately compiled version did not worked, and I do not have possibility to recompile it on my own

thank you very much.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SilverHedgehog:
Pfft, I'm not sure people even read thread titles anymore.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] kitor:
Notepad++ V6.5 Unicode (latest version). I just build to try if my visual studio is working with arm correctly :)

Fully working, including toolbar, that was missing for me in 6.2.3.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Corstian:
Is something known about a ported NetBeans version? It's open source and it's an awesome IDE. Any information?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
IKVM doesn't have all the features that Java has, and it's also really slow. Even if NetBeans booted under it, which I doubt, it would be unusably slow.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Actually, you could probably run NetBeans that way if you wanted to (@Corstian: NB is a Java application, not a Windows one). It *would* be slow, though, and without a compiler all you could do is read and edit code (I guess you could use it to compile C# through the built-in compiler, but... meh, there are better IDEs for that, probably even on RT).
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Alaq:
Hey guys, I read in this thread about some kind of remote app trick, apparently the user was running Firefox and PhotoShop cs6 perfectly with it. I didn't find anything during my searches... Can anyone help? Thanks!

Link to the post: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=45152159&postcount=835
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Remote desktop. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/connect-using-remote-desktop-connection

Firefox and photoshop run on a windows x86 machine. The desktop gets streamed to the RT tablet, the inputs from RT get streamed to the x86 pc.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] cx1:
I use https://sites.google.com/site/kimknight/remoteapptool.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] BIade:
He send me a PM. I gave him a full instruction with all links he might Need ;) (also with the hint to allow multiple users)

The only reason for me, why I needed Firefox was the plugin called "proxmate" (I dont like censoring)

But my Workaround for IE was to use a Proxy for Initial loading the desired site (i.e. grooveshark) and then turn it off right after loading. (this ensures fast Internet-connection [without Proxy])

Has anyone here managed to send files via email in desktop-mode with right-click in Explorer?

Microsoft says its a nogo, but since we managed to edit our context-menu for i.e. 7zip and Notepad++, i was curious if anyone here did the trick with the mail-app :)

Cheers

Blade
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] jessenic:
I use RemoteApp from my Windows Server 2012 R2, working perfectly.

For the send email from sendto menu it works fine for me. I have the desktop Outlook as the default mail app, you might need to use that.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] coldbloc:
Could the open source BSDiff / BSPatch be ported to RT.

http://sites.inka.de/tesla/f_others.html#bsdiff

http://sites.inka.de/tesla/download/bsdiff4.3-win32-src.zip

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What effort would it take to re-create the EmptyStandbyList.exe for RT. It's a little tool for wiping your RAM cache. MagicAndre1981 suggests "look at the sourcecode of ProcessHacker for NtSetSystemInformation with SystemMemoryListInformation parameter" and that is available on sourceforge. Is there a need for this on RT, would people even use it ?

http://forum.sysinternals.com/rammap-empty-standby-list_topic27297.html

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Here is another good open source one, RunAsSystem and RunFromToken, could be useful for many things from RT. Basically it allows you to open cmd.exe or regedit under the trustedinstaller or system account. Might be worth a look.

http://reboot.pro/files/file/237-runassystem-and-runfromtoken/
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] ebildude123:
Can someone port Classic Shell v4(.0.2)?

It has a new Windows 7 style menu.

http://www.classicshell.net/
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] kitor:
No, version 4 is no longer open source.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] ebildude123:
Ah, didn't know that. Shame on them D:
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] BIade:
You can use my Settings.xml provided in subvert, if its good enough for you ;)

My user-friendly script with integrated Explorer restart is also included.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] ebildude123:
Thanks, used your repo to install classic shell, but I went with the SevenVG skin. http://www.askvg.com/download-class...ike-start-menu-and-start-button-in-windows-8/
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] grkballerz:
xbmc

Can you guys please port over xbmc to win rt... it is open source. it is already compiled for arm on android. Call me a noob if u want but imtried renaming the .apk to .exe and all I got was "windows cannot find C://...." should be easy.