Software Development for Windows Vista

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  • Production Environment Versioning & Deployment
    by curiousjs
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    Last post by curiousjs
      • Can someone point me to a good place that has some guidance for running state machine workflows using SQL Persistance in a production environment. I am getting ready to push a state machine application to production from my development machine. During development I ran into a lot of VERSION issues, especially when I made a change to the workflow definition. Now, this is really isn't a big deal in
  • How to use ActivityConditon and RuleSetReference in a custom object?
    by RolfWiki
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    Last post by Ramraj Balasubramanian - MSFT
      • I try to develop an environment for non-programmers based on the WorkflowDesignerControl example. Therefore I've to filter out all event (coding) properties and to give the remaining properties new (display)names in the local language. After playing around with different approaches (Browsabelattributes etc.) I found the article "Bending the .NET PropertyGrid to Your Will" (http://www.cod
  • Using registry entries for all users on local machine
    by chaxmbs
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    Last post by Bruce N. Baker - MSFT
      • Our application uses registry entries to save data related to the physical machine environment that is to be shared accross all users of the machine. Previously we were using the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\... keys. Vista does not allow modifications to these keys by StandardUsers, but instead uses Virtualization. As I understand this, it will present a problem in that all users may not see the s
  • CompositeActivityValidator
    by chakravarthy_b
    4 Replies
    Last post by Tom Lake - MSFT
      • Hi All, What is the difference between CompositeActivityValidator and ActivityValidator Can you provide examples for using CompositeActivityValidator. Regards, Chakri.
  • catch button event??
    by element8y
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    Last post by element8y
      • hi all, i am trying to develop a sideshow a gadget and using vista simulator! and i try to catch the back button pressed event but that button event can not be obtained! plzz help my code snippet is below ........................... ............................... gadget.MenuSelect += new EventHandler<MenuSelectEventArgs>(ButtonPressed); ........................ ...........................
  • Alternative for guids
    by Joey Ch&amp;#246;mpff
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    Last post by Khalid Aggag - MSFT
      • LS, Is there an alternative way to persist state machine workflows with an integer as key Or are there already alternative providers for this issue, if so help me out please. Thanx in advance. Joey Chompff
  • There will pop-up a "UAC" dialog when my program run.
    by ricmy
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    Last post by Firkinfedup
      • Hello everyone I have a program. It will connect internet . There always pop-up a "UAC" dialog when my program run. It tip " A unidefentified program wants access to you compater " now ,I want remove this dialog when my program run What can i do my program is build by VC6, and it must be work well in other Operate System. Please help me . thanks.
  • How to use File Writer Filter?
    by Rahul Garg
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    Last post by Harold Jimenez
      • Hi, I have written a Directshow Filter (derived from CSource) that reads a file using IAsyncReader and gives the same thing as output. Now I want to write this output data in a file using File Writer Filter. I have set the output media Major and sub types as { &MEDIATYPE_Stream, &MEDIASUBTYPE_NULL }; and with this I am able to connects filters in graph edit but when i run the fil
  • A generic job scheduling engine
    by manuj
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    Last post by Kavita Kamani - MSFT
      • Hi I only have a very high level familiarity with WWF. We are looking to build a load balanced generic job scheduling engine to run long running processes within our application. e.g. we can have a job to cleanse some data every night at 1:00 AM etc. Can we use WWF to build such a generic job scheduler Thanks
  • Specifying Volume Serial
    by Firkinfedup
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    Last post by jack_2009
      • Hi there, I have made some classes that wrap the IMAPI 1 API in order to burn a data CD. Everything works find but I would like to be able to do one last thing, I would like to specify the volume serial of the CD when I burn it so that I can force it to a specific value. Can this be achieved And if so, how Many thanks in advance! Nick.
  • XPS integration with an existing C++ document processing application using PDF
    by ChakshuShah
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    Last post by Manski
      • I have a document generation and processing application. It is written in C++ and uses Adobe PDF. The application will take PDF input (complete with tags and metadata) and show to the end user. The end user can manipulate the contents of the document, position the elements in the document as he wishes to, modify the headers, footers, details etc; he can assign variables and customize output. There
  • Event design
    by WilliamStacey
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    Last post by kushals
      • Is is just me, or does this event and eventarg arch seem a bit old school at this point Why not use predicate delegates for things like ifelse and while activities
  • Single Event / Multiple Handlers
    by thePoet
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    Last post by thePoet
      • I have a single event fired, and multiple external event handlers that need to receive that event and do special processing. By design, only one of those listeners will actually be run. I know there are ways to control which handler gets which event through correlation if you have multiple handlers and you need to direct the event to a specific one, but is there a mechanism, or pattern that has be
  • Why I can not intall the application?
    by Focus
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    Last post by Jolney
      • In the preparation of the test case, in step S.13:attach the application install executable to AppVerifier including msiexe.exe In my installation,I have a a.msi file and a setup.exe file. Does this step mean I have to attach them both or only attach setup.exe or a.msi only I do the above thing in an administrator privilege,and when i switch to logotestuser1,I cannot install it.
  • Keyset Does Not Exist
    by bth123
    13 Replies
    Last post by forsethg
      • Hi all, I was testing CardSpace on my dev box just fine, but when I deploy it, I'm seeing a KeySet Does Not Exist error ... my example is just like the one here: http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/security/Microsoft_CardSpace_Using_a_Card.aspx The error is getting raised specifically here (line 130 -- though, I can't help but ponder the warning on 129 about errors): Line 129: // a
  • How to cancel a running workflow
    by Akshay S Bhatnagar
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    Last post by Akshay S Bhatnagar
      • How to cancel a running workflow and then I want to keep the workflow in a consistent state too Please help!
  • USB Communication Device Class (CDC) working with VISTA
    by alviny
    11 Replies
    Last post by asidorenk
      • For the USB CDC devices, they work in Windows XP with usbser.sys. However, VISTA seems no longer support USB CDC, it does not take the XP's usbser.sys and .inf files. Is there any way to install the USB CDC driver in VISTA
  • Windows Vista: Safer
    by Varun_Kumar_6aaee4
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    Last post by Varun_Kumar_6aaee4
      • Relax¡ªWindows Vista automates the processes that help maintain the health and security of your PC, freeing you to focus on the things you enjoy the most. Use scheduled and network backup ¡ªavailable in the Home Premium , Business , Ultimate , and Enterprise editions of Windows Vista¡ªto preserve critical system settings and priceless files such as pictures, music, and movies. Performan
  • TransactionScope & TSQL Transactions
    by .NETPhreak
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    Last post by Florin Lazar - MSFT
      • I was able to discover that if we use TransactionScope with a particular IsolationLevel (ReadCommitted, for example), all the child scopes need to use the same IsolationLevel, or else an ArgumentException will be thrown. Now the issue that keeps boggling me is what will happen if someone else (another developer on my team) writes a TSQL procedure with a different IsolationLevel, and this SPROC wil
  • Generating secure attention sequence programatically
    by Jamie551775
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    Last post by Eric Perlin - MSFT
      • Windows Vista has an option (under gpedit.msc > Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Logon Options > Disable or enable the Secure Attention Sequence) that, when checked, allows the Secure Attention Sequence (SAS) to be generated by services and/or accessibility applications. Does anyone know what the API is b
  • vista blocks application at startup
    by pwinant
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    Last post by PhilWilson
      • Hi, I'm a software developer and I have a question about Vista. Our application (a .NET 1.1 app) requires Administrator access and we have the "requiresAdministrator" access level defined in the application manifest. That part is working fine. However, our application needs to startup when the computer boots so we have it in the "startup" folder. For some reason (I can't ima
  • Visual Studio 6.0 SP5 setup on Vista Beta 2 (5384)?
    by Ted.
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    Last post by Number4
      • Does anyone know how to get around the MDAC check in the Service Pack 5 setup of Visual Studio 6.0 For some reason it doesn't detect MDAC 2.5 or higher which it requires (even though Vista obviously has a later version - 6.0) and the setup will not continue from that point. I've tried every registry key I could think of to trick it into thinking MDAC is installed. Thanks Ted.
  • Scheduled task is not working in Vista.
    by Adasgupta
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    Last post by Adasgupta
      • Hi All, i have an application which Schedules a task in Windows and currently we are making the appliaction to work with Vista also.But i saw that , whenever I create the task prgrammatically ( the app is written in VB .Net 05) , it is creating the task in the scheduler , but is not getting executed by OS. The program it searches is in C:\Program Files\XXX\YYY\ZZZ\abc.exe , but when schedule
  • Installer packages Examples?
    by allison_h
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    Last post by Bruce N. Baker - MSFT
      • Hi, Can anyone recomend any good labs or examples for learning how to create msi's or clickonce packages, especially ones that will meet the vista logo requirements Thanks, Ali.
  • Custom property page and registry problems
    by Csenteri Barna
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    Last post by Csenteri Barna
      • Hi I managed to add a custom property page according to the SideShow documentation using a device coinstaller (appears in the device Control panel properties so it works). My problem is how to transfer those settings to my SideShow driver. The IWDFDeviceInitialize::RetrieveDevicePropertyStore works only from inside the driver so I cannot use the IWDFNamedPropertyStore from the coinstaller. O