Where can I find all messages translated into different languages for netsh.exe?
My problem is that I run netsh.exe to handle a Wi-Fi hotspot in my application and read/parse the output to see what happened. Now the problem is, that I cannot really parse the output, because it is different in every language version of Windows.
I am looking for a site that could have all the localized messages from the netsh.exe. Is there any? Another solution would be to somehow force the messages to another language (English), but I haven’t seen a good way to do that.
I went with alternative solution: .NET and P/Invoke
Solution on GitHub.
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This is question is about the general architecture, I do not require anyone to solve this little hack for me, although I won't be angry if someone does ;).
Suppose I have a web app that spawns standard unix processes (like Travis CI). While it seems simple enough to pick the stdout of such a process, I'd rather like to make the whole thing asynchronous (like e.g. Travis). So I thought of passing the whole output through a websocket and into some web-based terminal emulator.
However, the only emulators I could find were fully interactive (i.e. they allow for user input and thus have some custom server-side component). My goal would be to have a piece of client side code and just stuff the output into it.
So what is necessary to create a websocket, attach it to the stdout of a server-side process (preferably emulating a tty for colors and fancyness) and display a terminal client-side? I recon there are control codes to distinguish a tty from a text file and these control codes need to be encoded on the websocket somehow, but is there some documentation on this?
I have done this for .NET applications. I think this may be worth for you as example.
I have a small .NET project named NLog.Contrib.Targets.WebSocketServer that is a log watcher with WebSocket and AngularJS. Basically, it broadcasts the data that is being logged through a WebSocket, and there is an AngularJS directive that shows the data. How to highlight data is more a presentation stuff, so it will depend on the framework you use. Basically, this component attaches to whatever .NET application that uses NLog as logging framework, so you can try to find some extensibility point in Travis yourself and attach your thing there.
About attaching to stdout, I have a proof of concept about a web interactive CMD.exe also in .NET, although you can disregard the stdin part. If you use Mono, probably is the same thing than in Windows.
I think this is very similar to what you are looking for. If you have a more specific question let me know.
You can use STDWebsocket in order to achieve this. For examples, simply read the index.html script tag. It should solve your problem (or anyone that go through this question)
I am working on building a system that can monitor how users react to security alerts on their systems (software updates, warnings etc.). It also needs to monitor the web traffic and the processes running on the system and I am looking to the community to help me design this system. We intend to provide users with test laptops and monitor their behavior over a period of time to see how they react to security alerts thrown by various applications and the OS(windows in this case).
Following are my questions
Can I use windows hooks to solve the first problem i.e finding how users reacted to the alerts thrown by various applications. Specifically, can global hooks be used to solve this?
(How this information should be collected (XML?) and relayed back to a server(how frequently?) is another problem)
Can I do this in C# or it has to be done only in c++ or VB?
Do you know any alternate approach to solve the problem? Is there any software that has these capabilities.
I have many more questions but getting these answered would be a good first step. Really hoping for some good insights from the knowledgeable people on this community
Thank you in advance
Edit:
Example scenario is when adobe prompts you to update the flash player or the antivirus prompts you to update definitions or any application displays a notification(security related having keywords like update, warning, install etc.) needing the user to take some action. Windows system updates is another example. I want to know how the user reacted to these alerts/notifications/updates (which are typically a pop-up window). So i was wondering if i placed a global hook that can monitor the content of the windows displayed on screen and notify me(server) when certain words like update, alert, warning etc. appear in the content/title of the windows and what the user did with the message(dismissed it, Oked it etc). Unfortunately, i do not have any more specifications than this. I can use anything I want to achieve this and I am not clear on what my choices are.
Edit 2:
After having reviewed my requirements and having read about hooks, I feel like I could achieve this by a combination of hooks and the following textGrab SDK, http://www.renovation-software.com/en/text-grab-sdk/textgrab-sdk.html. I want some guidance to know if I am on the right track. I am thinking if I can install hooks then it gives me handles to all possible windows on the screen and I can use the textGRAB SDK to look for certain keywords in those windows. Although this may capture some interesting text, I am still not sure how I will know what action the user had taken on the window. Anybody having any experience with either hooks or textGRAB, please let me know if this looks like a reasonable thing to do. If the community has some other Ideas on how I could possibly monitor security related messages thrown by any application in the system, please suggest. I am looking forward to some useful advice for completing a challenging project.
First of all, you need to define, how you will "see" security alerts in code. "Security alert" is quite a vague term. Will it be some window with some caption and some message to the user or ... ?
Next, about web and processes: Windows hooks won't help you with your task. They are more low-level and not as advanced as you'd need. You can't hook network traffic (you need either network filter driver for pre-Vista or Microsoft Filtering Platform for Vista and later). See this question for some information about checking the process list with C# (there seems to be no easy way to catch process startup either).
It honestly sounds like you need a more solid direction. I commend you for trying to provide details, but It appears that you still need more information about your problem(s)..
I will attempt to answer some of your questions, but like I said - it sounds like you need to know more about your problems before we can provide you with optimal answer(s).
-Alerts is too vague a term, you will need to define this better. Are these 'alerts' applications that YOU have control over or are they third party applications? Not every application will show an 'Alert' in the same fashion, and even if they did - I think using a System Level Hook would probably be too problematic to implement your solution with. I'm not saying it's necessarily impossible, but you're talking about possibly implementing a different set of logic(to determine the data for a given application's Alert(s)) for each application that you want to monitor.
-It's impossible for any of us to determine the optimal storage mechanism for your particular needs, that is something that you will either need to provide more details about or decide on your own.
-How often you collect data is also something that you will have to either provide more details for or decide for on your own.
-C/C++ Would probably provide you with the most portable solution, although there is nothing preventing you from using c# to call Win32 API. (Not everyone has the .NET framework installed - believe it or not)
-The problem that you mentioned appears to be a somewhat specialized problem... I don't know of any existing software that will do everything that you want to do.
Another possible issue that you haven't touched on:
You haven't specified your target audience for this 'service', but I want you to know that if I found an application monitoring as many events as what you're talking about doing, I would promptly remove it and write a nasty letter to the company that wrote it.
In summary, Read this Article on hooks to get a better understanding of how they work.
Does anyone know of any tools out there that will let me run and debug a VXML application visually? There are a ton of VXML development tools, but they all require you to build your application within them.
I have an existing application that uses JSPs to generate VXML, and I'm looking for a way to navigate through and debug the rendered VXML in much the same way that Firebug allows one to do this with HTML. I have some proxy-like tools that let me inspect the rendered code as it is sent to the VXML browser, but there's a ton of JS, which makes traversing the code by hand rather difficult.
Has anyone worked with a product that allows for this?
Thanks!
IVR Avenger
There is JigSaw Test suite - has free trial license and reasonably priced.
There is IBM's debugger - part of WebSphere Voice Toolkit.
Many other products have debuggers - a very good summary is here
Disclaimer: I am the development manager for Voiyager (www.voiyager.com), a VoiceXML testing tool. It doesn't meet your criteria nor do I believe it is the type of tool you want, but I thought it was worth mentioning it.
As far as I know, there isn't such a test tool for VoiceXML. In fact there are very few VoiceXML tools on the market and hardly any of them test or analysis. The vendors that created development tools, have all been acquired by other companies. Some of them offered did offer various forms of debugging that were specific to their tool set or stayed at the Dialog (caller input) level. From your question, I'm assuming you need much lower level debugging capabilities.
I think the alternative paths are minimal and somewhat difficult. I believe your primary goal is to debug or rewrite an existing application, but you haven't provided any specific challenges beyond the JavaScript. Some thoughts or approaches that may help:
Isolate the JavaScript and place the code into a unit test harness. That will go a long way to understanding the logic of the application. Any encapsulation of the JavaScript you perform will probably go a long way towards better code maintainability.
Attempt to run the VoiceXML through a translation layer to HTML so you could use FireBug. The largest challenge would involve caller input (ie processing the SRGS grammars). You could probably cheat this by just having the form accept a JSON string the populates the field values. There are tools on the market to test grammars. Depending on the nature of your problems, you could take a simple and light approach and attempt this over just the trouble areas.
Plumb the application with a lot of logging. This can be done through the VoiceXML LOG element, or push the variable space back to the server. By adding intermediate forms, you may be able to provide a dump from each via the VoiceXML Data element.
See if your application will run in one of the open source VoiceXML browsers (not sure of the state of the open source browsers as we've built and bought for our various product lines). If you can get it mostly working, you can use the development debugger to provide some ability to step through the logic. However, it is probably one of the more difficult paths as you'll really need to understand the browser to know when and where to stick your breakpoints and to figure out how to expose the data you want.
Good luck on the challenge. If you find another approach, I would be interested in seeing it posted.
An alternative debug env is to use something like Asterisk with a voicexml browser plugin like the one from http://www.voiceglue.org/ or for a limited licence, i6net.
You can keep all the pieces separate(dynamic html and vxml application in php/jsp/j2ee/, tts processing, and optional asr processing as separate virtual machines with something like virtualbox. If the logic can be kept the same, then it is just a matter of changing the UI based on the channel.
A softphone is all you need to call a minimal asterisk machine, which has the voicexml browser with the url of the vxml in the call plan.
I just used Zend Framework as php is used in this environment, and changed view suffixes(phtml vs vxml) based on the user-agent string.
Flite for tts is fine for debugging, and when your app is ready you can either record phrases, and there was a page on the ubuntu forums with directions for how to increase flite quality with some additional sound files.
Do you have tried Eclipse VTP or InVision Studio?
Eclipse VTP
This is Eclipse plugin. But I feel that it is user-unfriendly a little (of Japanese viewpoint).
InVision Studio *Required create user account*
This is Convergys's IVR tool. It has to edit standard VXML mode. (Unfortunately, It's not exact matching.)
For just debugging vxml, I use Nuance Cafe's VoiceXML checker. It doesn't give you a visual tree or anything, but it's pretty good at spotting syntax errors and is free. I think they might also have more advanced debugging tools if you look into it, but I haven't had the need. (Note: I have no association with them)
http://cafe.bevocal.com/tools/vxmlchecker/vxmlchecker.jsp
I'm looking for the same problem that most of the links are down. I found a document where they propose an open source solution, which works as a plugin for Asterisk (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228873959_Open_Source_VoiceXML_Interpreter_over_Asterisk_for_Use_in_IVR_Applications) and is available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/voxy/
I would like to know if there are current options to create a VXML structure graphically, like the next image.
I'm asking this question after I got a very good answer to: How do I detect the 2 states of “Switch User” in Windows
My intention is to find out if the Switch User under KDE/Gnome has a similar API call I can monitor with FreePascal.
If not with FreePascal, at least the respective lib entry used in C/C++
Yes, a dbus package is installed, and afaik I ran the examples end of last year.
See /packages/dbus/examples/busexample.pp for an example
I'm pretty sure that monitoring DBUS messages you can catch messages about session enter and exit. Actually i don't know if FreePascal provide DBUS apis.
A dirty solution can be execution and parse /usr/bin/dbus-monitor output.
Good luck
I've been looking over the following VB code:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vb/toggleNetworkConn.aspx
If you look under "The Methods", you'll see that he does a test to see whether or not the shell item verb is either "En&able" or "Disa&ble" - it looks pretty obvious that these are the same text strings that are listed in the right-click context menu in Network Connections. The obvious problem with this approach (as pointed out by someone in the comments on CodeProject as well) is that this is English-specific; depending on what language the OS is running, it's going to use different words. The programmers response was to potentially use the index of the verb, but this is arguably worse than the original solution, since you would then be performing some arbitrary operation if it wasn't the correct command (and I don't believe it's guaranteed to be in a particular order in the verb list).
So my question, is it possible to get from the system (via some call or the registry) the OS-language specific text for Enable and Disable? I've searched the registry for both strings without any success, but I thought someone with more multi-language experience might have the answer. Also, I'm not using VB (I'll be using C++) so don't worry about doing it in any particular language - API calls or pseudo code is fine. I also need the solution to work on both XP and Vista (and hopefully Windows 7 as well). Thanks!
It looks like the text for the verbs might be handled via Registry String Redirection. You'll need to identify the CLSID for the connections component. I poked around but didn't find any verbs registered for the network connections CLSIDs I came across though...
The closest thing I've found is part of IShellFolder, specifically GetCommandString() which returns a universal string describing an action - in this case it literally returns "enable" or "disable". The problem with this particular API is while it works, it doesn't actually return anything on XP - apparently while it's available on older OSs, it's really only useful on Vista or greater.