`\**\` This pattern is often used in [Copy Task][1] for recursive folder tree traversal.  Basically it means that all files with extension `config` would be processed from the all subdirectories of `$(Services_Jobs_Drop_Path)` path.


MSDN, [Using Wildcards to Specify Items][2]:

&gt; You can use the **, *, and ? wildcard characters to specify a group of
&gt; files as inputs for a build instead of listing each file separately.
&gt; 
&gt;  - The ? wildcard character matches a single character.
&gt;  - The * wildcard character matches zero or more characters.
&gt;  - The ** wildcard character sequence matches a partial path.
&gt; 
     
MSDN, [Specifying Inputs with Wildcards][3]
&gt; To include all .jpg files in the Images directory and subdirectories
&gt; Use the following Include attribute:
&gt; 
&gt; Include=&quot;Images\\**\\*.jpg&quot;


  [1]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3e54c37h.aspx
  [2]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171453.aspx
  [3]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171454.aspx

Ideally, i would want the entire interface to have a **custom styling** that is seen on the ios (itouch / ipad) or android equivalent with the virtual keyboard present. See below for more details.

A custom set CSS hacking rules to be active, when the keyboard is &quot;present&quot;, is also an acceptable solution.

Targets both androids and ios, on a website (HTML/JavaScript/CSS)
Also note that the layout inside is: **&quot;fluid&quot;.**

**Edit:** This was more design, then text; So the changes are not disorientating. At the lowest level, I just desire a design change with and without the virtual keys **(Perhaps just a background change).** 

**The question on which, this is a good or bad design idea, is debatable. However, I feel is irrelevant to the question. For such an exploit can have uses more then text (such as games, or interactive media).**

**Hence the bounty:** Despite no longer needing the answer for the project I was working on (an alternative design was used). I still believe this question can benefit from being answered.

**Default Behavior** 

                           +--------+ 
                           |        |
    +------------+       +-+-hidden-+-+   &lt;- ~50% hidden
    | +--------+ |       | +--------+ |
    | |        | |       | |visible | |
    | |        | |   \   | |        | |   &lt;- ~50% visible
    | |  100%  | |  ==&gt;  | +--------+ |
    | |        | |   /   | |virtual | |
    | |        | |       | |  keys  | |
    | +--------+ |       | +--------+ |
    +------------+       +------------+

**Desired Behavior** 


    +------------+       +------------+   
    | +--------+ |       | +--------+ |
    | |        | |       | |visible | |   &lt;- 100% visible (example styling)
    | |        | |   \   | |        | |      Custom Styling
    | |  100%  | |  ==&gt;  | +--------+ |
    | |        | |   /   | |virtual | |
    | |        | |       | |  keys  | |
    | +--------+ |       | +--------+ |
    +------------+       +------------+


screen styling when virtual keyboard is active

`ls -la /dev/tty` shows the output:

    crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 0 Dec 14 22:21 /dev/tty

What does c at the beginning mean? When I do something like `pwd &gt; /dev/tty` it prints to the stdout. What does the file /dev/tty contain?


What is special about /dev/tty?

What does the following file path mean? 

    $(Services_Jobs_Drop_Path)\**\*.config

The variable just holds some path, nothing interesting. I&#39;m a lot more concerned, what the hell the `**` mean.
Any ideas?

P.S. The following path is used in msbuild scripts, if it helps.

What does two asterisks together in file path mean?

What does the following file path mean?
<pre><code class="hljs language-arduino">$(Services_Jobs_Drop_Path)\**\*.config
</code></pre>
The variable just holds some path, nothing interesting. I'm a lot more concerned, what the hell the <code>**</code> mean.
Any ideas?
P.S. The following path is used in msbuild scripts, if it helps.

I am working on Windows. I want to execute a function `foo()` every 10 seconds.  
How do I do this?

Executing periodic actions

I&#39;m trying to use **Jenkins (Global) environment variables** in my xcopy script. 

    ${WORKSPACE} doesn&#39;t work
    &quot;${WORKSPACE}&quot; doesn&#39;t work
    &#39;${WORKSPACE}&#39; doesn&#39;t work



How are environment variables used in Jenkins with Windows Batch Command?

After installing TeamViewer, I have changed the wampserver port to 8080, so the address is `http://localhost:8080.`

For the host file located at C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\, I have also made the change as below

BEFORE&lt;br&gt;
`127.0.0.1       www.example.com`

AFTER&lt;br&gt;
`127.0.0.1:8080       www.example.com`

When I access www.example.com, it doesn&#39;t redirect to my wampserver, how can I fix it?

Using port number in Windows host file

I am writing a cross platform program. I want this one program to run under both Windows and Linux, so I have two different code segments for the two platforms. If the OS is Windows, I want the first code segment to run; if it&#39;s Linux, then I want the second code segment to run.
  
So I wrote the following code, but it gets an error while building both on Windows and on Linux. What should I do to solve it?

    #ifdef __unix__                    /* __unix__ is usually defined by compilers targeting Unix systems */

        #define OS_Windows 0
        #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
        #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
        #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
        #include &lt;string.h&gt;

    #elif defined(_WIN32) || defined(WIN32)     /* _Win32 is usually defined by compilers targeting 32 or   64 bit Windows systems */

        #define OS_Windows 1
        #include &lt;windows.h&gt;
        #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
        #include &lt;tchar.h&gt;
        #define DIV 1048576
        #define WIDTH 7

    #endif

    int main(int argc, char *argv[])
    {
        if(OS_Windows)
        {
            MEMORYSTATUSEX statex;
            statex.dwLength = sizeof (statex);
            GlobalMemoryStatusEx (&amp;statex);

            _tprintf (TEXT(&quot;There is  %*ld %% of memory in use.\n&quot;),
                        WIDTH, statex.dwMemoryLoad);

        }

        else if(!OS_Windows) // if OS is unix

        {
            char cmd[30];
            int flag = 0;
            FILE *fp;
            char line[130];
            int memTotal, memFree, memUsed;

            flag=0;
            memcpy (cmd,&quot;\0&quot;,30);
            sprintf(cmd,&quot;free -t -m|grep Total&quot;);
            fp = popen(cmd, &quot;r&quot;);
            while ( fgets( line, sizeof line, fp))
            {
                flag++;
                sscanf(line,&quot;%*s %d %d %d&quot;,&amp;TotalMem, &amp;TotalUsed, &amp;TotalFree);
            }
            pclose(fp);

            if(flag)
                printf(&quot;TotalMem:%d -- TotalUsed:%d -- TotalFree:%d\n&quot;,TotalMem,TotalUsed,TotalFree);
            else
                printf(&quot;not found\n&quot;);

        }

        return 0;
    }


Detect Windows or Linux in C, C++

What is the difference between cscript and wscript? Which is best for doing Telnet and FTP automation in Windows?

Difference between wscript and cscript

I added the recent nuget package restore feature to a solution using &#39;Enable NuGet Package Restore&#39;:
http://docs.nuget.org/docs/workflows/using-nuget-without-committing-packages

However it broke my build server and I didn&#39;t have the time to fix it, so I wanted to remove it. There&#39;s no option for that as far as I know, so I removed the following line manually from all my *.csproj files:

    &lt;Import Project=&quot;$(SolutionDir)\.nuget\nuget.targets&quot; /&gt;

The problem now is that every time my *.csproj files are checked out or open my solution, the line is automatically added again, breaking my build if I accidentally check it in :(

Any ideas how I can remove it permanently?

UPDATE: despite the answer below it still keeps coming back when opening the solution, anyone with the same problem?


remove nuget package restore from solution

I&#39;m trying to get simple output by exec task with `msbuild`:

    &lt;Project xmlns=&quot;http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003&quot;&gt;
      &lt;Target Name=&quot;Test&quot;&gt;
        &lt;Exec Command=&quot;echo test output&quot;&gt;
          &lt;Output TaskParameter=&quot;Outputs&quot; ItemName=&quot;Test1&quot; /&gt;
        &lt;/Exec&gt;
        &lt;Exec Command=&quot;echo test output&quot;&gt;
          &lt;Output TaskParameter=&quot;Outputs&quot; PropertyName=&quot;Test2&quot; /&gt;
        &lt;/Exec&gt;
        &lt;Message Text=&quot;----------------------------------------&quot;/&gt;
        &lt;Message Text=&quot;@(Test1)&quot;/&gt;
        &lt;Message Text=&quot;----------------------------------------&quot;/&gt;
        &lt;Message Text=&quot;$(Test2)&quot;/&gt;
        &lt;Message Text=&quot;----------------------------------------&quot;/&gt;
      &lt;/Target&gt;
    &lt;/Project&gt;

But get next output:

      echo test output
      test output
      echo test output
      test output
      ----------------------------------------
      ----------------------------------------
      ----------------------------------------

How can I get output by my script?

How get exec task output with msbuild

Is it possible to use Microsoft&#39;s XML document transform, for preparing web.configs, outside of MSBuild? I would like to use PowerShell to do these transform without having to run this through the MSBuild engine.  If Microsoft had used standard XSLT it would be easy to do in PowerShell.  From what I can tell I have to use their C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.Tasks.dll which requires a build engine. 
Thanks

Web.Config transforms outside of Microsoft MSBuild?

I have an automated build process that I&#39;d like to extend so I can build the libraries I am distributing via NuGet.  Currently, running nuget.exe to create the packages is a manual operation.

**What is the best way to setup VS 2010 so that my NuGet package (*.nupkg) file is the end result of a &quot;Release&quot; build?**

Keep in mind that I have other files (content and tools) for some of the packages. And, in most cases, I have multiple projects merged into a single NuGet package to support .NET 4, Silveright and Phone 7.

*(I should clarify that the existing &quot;automated&quot; process is a simple batch-file runner that builds a solution using the command line.)*

**UPDATE**

I want to refresh this discussion because the issue has not been resolved.  While the link @pravin supplied is helpful, it doesn&#39;t address the fact that I have multiple projects in a single package as well as other contents like PowerShell scripts, configuration and source code transformations, etc.

The best example I can use is an assembly that has both a .NET 4 and Silverlight 5 version. These are distributed in the same package.  I cannot use a post-build event to create the package because the package is dependent upon TWO projects.

Automating creating NuGet package as part of build process

I figure out that NuGet allows proxy settings configuration since [1.4 version (June 2011)][1]. But, I can&#39;t find any command line example.

I&#39;m trying to run some build and NuGet can&#39;t connect.

How do I configure the proxy settings on the command line?


  [1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/release-notes/nuget-1.4

NuGet behind a proxy

I have a path (including directory and file name).  
I need to test if the file-name is a valid, e.g. if the file-system will allow me to create a file with such a name.  
The file-name *has some unicode characters* in it.

It&#39;s safe to assume the directory segment of the path is valid and accessible (&lt;sup&gt;I was trying to make the question more gnerally applicable, and apparently I wen too far&lt;/sup&gt;).

I very much do not want to have to escape anything unless I *have* to. 

I&#39;d post some of the example characters I am dealing with, but apparently they get automatically removed by the stack-exchange system. Anyways, I want to keep standard unicode entities like `&#246;`, and only escape things which are invalid in a filename.

---

Here is the catch. **There may (or may not) already be a file at the target of the path.** I need to keep that file if it does exist, and not create a file if it does not.

Basically I want to check if I *could* write to a path **without actually opening the path for writing** (and the automatic file creation/file clobbering that typically entails).

As such:

    try:
        open(filename, &#39;w&#39;)
    except OSError:
        # handle error here
[from here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4102896/check-whether-a-path-is-valid-in-python)

Is not acceptable, because it will overwrite the existent file, which I do not want to touch (if it&#39;s there), or create said file if it&#39;s not.

I know I can do:

    if not os.access(filePath, os.W_OK):
        try:
            open(filePath, &#39;w&#39;).close()
            os.unlink(filePath)
        except OSError:
            # handle error here

But that will *create* the file at the `filePath`, which I would then have to `os.unlink`.

In the end, it seems like it&#39;s spending 6 or 7 lines to do something that should be as simple as `os.isvalidpath(filePath)` or similar.

---

As an aside, I need this to run on (at least) Windows and MacOS, so I&#39;d like to avoid platform-specific stuff.


``

Check whether a path is valid in Python without creating a file at the path&#39;s target

I need to extract the name of the parent directory of a certain path. This is what it looks like: 

    C:\stuff\directory_i_need\subdir\file.jpg

I would like to extract `directory_i_need`.

Extract a part of the filepath (a directory) in Python

So I have a web project, and I&#39;m trying to get the root directory of the website using the c# method `Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()`.  I don&#39;t want to be using a static path as the file locations will be changing in the future.  This method is running in my imageProcess.aspx.cs file, but where I thought it would return:

    C:\Users\tcbl\documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\ModelMonitoring\ModelMonitoring\imageProcess.aspx.cs

I&#39;m instead getting:
    
    C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\DevServer\10.0\

Can anyone explain why this is happening and what a possible solution might be? Thanks a lot.

Getting current directory in .NET web application

I tried to get the directory of the console application using the below code,

    Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location

but this one gives me where the assemble resides. This may be different from where I executed the application.

My console application parses logs with no parameters. It must go to the `logs/` folder inside of the executable&#39;s folder or if I give it a path to `logs/` it parses it.

How to get execution directory of console application

Is there any way to determine current filesystem location of executed class from the code of this class, in runtime, given that it&#39;s executed using `java` command? 

For example for following class:

    public class MyClass{
     public static void main(String[] args){\
       new MyClass().doStuff();
     }
    
     private void doStufF(){
       String path = ... // what to do here?!
       System.out.println(&quot;Path of class being invoked: &quot; + path);
     }
    
    }

Is there any way to get and print the correct path in filesystem of MyClass.class file just being invoked?

Similarly, if I invoke jar file from `java -jar` command, is there any way to get a path of jar file from within classes inside that jar?


P.S.:Please, **do not make any assumptions about working directory** from which `java` command is invoked!

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screen styling when virtual keyboard is active

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