Software Development for Windows Vista

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  • Delaying and restarting before time?
    by Doron Goldberg
    4 Replies
    Last post by Laurence Melloul - MSFT
      • Hi all, I need to send an email from my wf and then wait for a reply before the wf continues. Right now I have a suspend activity after the mail is sent and then I resume the instance when the reply arrives. Now I need to make a change so the wf insntace will wait 40 hours for the reply and then will send a reminder. How can I wait for X time but still resume if a r
  • NumericUpDown control doesn't look right on Vista with VisualStyles enabled
    by Piperonni
    2 Replies
    Last post by Piperonni
      • Hi, This question was originally posted on dotnet.framework.windowsforms, but MSDN team seems to fail on their 'reply within 2 working days' claim. Anyway, the question was: The UpDown buttons of the NumericUpDown control don't look right on Vista with VisualStyles enabled and with certain combinations of DPI and screen resolution settings. Specifically, with 96 DPI and 1680x1050 resolution
  • Indices with AdvanceWidth
    by Yohan Perera
    1 Replies
    Last post by Feng Yuan - MSFT
      • Hi, <Glyphs Fill="#FF000000" FontRenderingEmSize="32.0" FontUri="/Documents/1/Resources/Fonts/arial.ttf" OriginX="168" OriginY="98" Indices=",X;,X;,X;,X" UnicodeString="AAAA" StyleSimulations="None" > </Glyphs> I want to specify a character spacing of 20px when this text is displayed. I don't
  • Error message - "The memory could not be read" - Help please!
    by alice_de_mum
    11 Replies
    Last post by superdave93
      • Hello all I'm new here, so I'm not sure whether I'm posting this in the right forum. I have just bought a Toshiba laptop today. I have been playing around with it (always had Windows XP, so Vista is brand new to me!) and everything had been fine till a few minutes ago. I uninstalled Norton (which was already on there) and installed McAfee instead. Installation was okay etc. So I restarte
  • ports for wmi
    by DioNNiS
    3 Replies
    Last post by DioNNiS
      • What ports need open for Windows Management Instrumentation (wmi) In msdn I read that it's 135 (wmi) and DCOM(445). But if I open this ports programm not work. In Windows Firewall Settings there policy Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) ( This feature allows remote management of Windows by exposing a set of manageable components in a set of classes defined by the Common Information Model (CI
  • Problem with catching errors in workflow
    by marcinmoroz
    6 Replies
    Last post by SonaliC
      • I have state-machine workflow, all states have fault handlers set( initialize, event driven part...) to catch all errors( FaultType: System.Exception ). In code, exaclty in code condition of IfActivity, i throw Exception, it isn`t catched by fault handler( WHY ) and workflow is terminated but of course event WorkflowTerminiated doesn`t fire. Why i know it is terminated - cause when i try to run it
  • Windows Vista Home Premium but no Aero ?
    by Zadeh
    4 Replies
    Last post by HeathKidd
      • Hello there .. I have some issues with my Windows Vista, i have the Home Premium package, but i dont have Aero IntelR PentiumR 4 CPU 3.20GHz 1,50 GB memory RADEON X800GT Graphic Card I have the latest driver for my Graphic Card yes ! Processor - 4,3 Memory - 4,5 Graphic - 5,9 Gaming Graphic - 4,9 Primary Hard Disc - 5,3 TOTAL: 4,3
  • Erasing a disc in .Net
    by eqs
    3 Replies
    Last post by David Burg - MSFT
      • I have read the VBS example and it used the MsftDiscFormat2Erase class. However, it seems that it is not implemented in the interop.cs. Is there anyway to erase a disc in .Net
  • exception handling with retry
    by John12
    1 Replies
    Last post by John12
      • I need the following... Do Activity A If Activity A Execution Result = faulted Delay Until Activity A Execution Result = Succeeded or RetryCount > MaxRetries I've searched, found and read forum posts. I've tried custom activities and while loops. Spent all day on this. This app based on MS WWF due in production in 2 weeks. User testing starts
  • Boot as safe mode, Vista never call custom Credential Provider
    by CoolSlob
    5 Replies
    Last post by Eric Perlin - MSFT
      • Boot as safe mode, why LogonUI never call custom Credential Provider many thanks!
  • Vista: Accept Files property in Picture control
    by J Loosme
    1 Replies
    Last post by Mark Beiley
      • I have a Picture Control in a dialog with the Accept Files property set to true. When executing the program under XP and I drag a file from the explorer and drop it on the picture control everything works fine, the WM_DROPFILES message is sent OK by the framework. The application then processes the file according to file type. - This do not work under Vista ! When debugging the applicati
  • How can i use my own fiilter which is written by myself?
    by alunlee
    3 Replies
    Last post by Michel Roujansky
      • I have written a custom filter successfully, but i don't know how can i use it in my dircectshow application.
  • DShow, IMediaSeeking, TIME_FORMAT_FRAME
    by Torsar2
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    Last post by Torsar2
      • hr=VideoMediaSeeking->IsFormatSupported(&TIME_FORMAT_FRAME); For some videofiles (3gp, wmv) return S_FALSE. Why How to be To receive TIME_FORMAT_MEDIA_TIME and calculate
  • default binding in my base custom activity class: error Cannot resolve Activity with relative source '/workflow'
    by DavidR100
    4 Replies
    Last post by Robert Wilczynski
      • I'm defining a base custom activity from which all my other activities inherit. I want them all to have access to something I am calling my "ApprovalsContext" - a class with a number of properties. I've set up a property on the workflow, and my base activity has a depenedency property: Code Snippet public static DependencyProperty ApprovalContextProperty =
  • Problem about ffdshow
    by Lucsa&amp;#64;BJ
    1 Replies
    Last post by Thore Karlsen
      • any one know about ffdshow i want to find the interfaces of "brightless" && "contrast" in ffdshow,then i can adjust brightless and contrast with them,but now i can not find the interfaces,i need help,anyone can tell me thank you very much!
  • InvokeWorkflowActivity doesn't call 2nd workflow
    by Somsong
    4 Replies
    Last post by llima
      • I'm trying to get one workflow to call another one. I tried using the invokeWorkflowActivity, I set the TargetWorkflow to the workflow that I want to get called. It's in another project so I added the project as a reference. What else do I have to set up in order for this to work properly. I get no errors, the first workflow starts and then completes as expected because the call to start the wo
  • Question on an old 16-bit application
    by BlaineMVP
    9 Replies
    Last post by Paul Marriott
      • We have a legacy 16-bit application that we still support. It was originally designed for Windows 3.1 (remember that ) and its architecture requires a "feature" of 16-bit DLLs where different applications could share the memory space of a common DLL. In the example, the central admin.dll stores the state of the logged in user to the application. Other "modules" can then call th
  • Can't find any .dsp or .dsw files in samples
    by novice_dshow
    2 Replies
    Last post by novice_dshow
      • hey guys well, i know this is kinda silly question, but has really frustated me......... Now I am Win XP, using Visual Studio .NET 2003, and installed Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 SP1 today (after realising DirectX doesn't contain directshow anymore :-( ), then from the command prompt i did nmake at the samples folder, well after a long time it was all over.......and now i can't
  • About Application Event and MediaPlayer
    by Kenen
    4 Replies
    Last post by Kenen
      • Dear All: Who can give me an example about how to use application event I had read the document carefully and implement a sideshow client. I had traced in windbg, and I think it works as I think. But the control operation is always failed. I think when in a menu and after a click, I should send out the menu action event; when in a context menu, a context menu event. But when the
  • Test Case 9 - event loss
    by Barron Gillon
    8 Replies
    Last post by Barron Gillon
      • Unfortunately, our application, a standard .NET 2.0 app, appears to stop receiving most events when we enter an RDP session. When I click on the window, it becomes the active window, but I cannot activate any of the controls; I cannot click on buttons, I cannot move the cursor to text boxes, the app is (almost) completely unresponsive. I _can_ maximize and minimize it via task manager. I can't
  • Custom activity storing configuration data?
    by madladuk
    1 Replies
    Last post by jdw - MSFT
      • Hi all. New to WWF. We currently use Microsoft Commerce Server Pipelines with custom components and looking at moving this over to WWF. My queston is, with CS the pipeline our custom components simply store the data in a dictionary object and CS stores this to the pipeline file. How does this work with WWF An example being an email component would need to store the email subj
  • Custom Rule Expression parsing error.
    by aschaeffer
    13 Replies
    Last post by Jurgen Willis
      • I am creating some custom rule expressions for my users to make use of in rules. I created a basic sample to sum a list of numbers. When I try to use my expression I get an error from the rule set designer saying: "Error parsing the Action(s): The method "SUM" on type "Company.Workflow.Rules.SUM" does not exist, is not accessible, or has no match with the signature specified." I have downloaded ot
  • Dynamic Update
    by Clive Foley
    2 Replies
    Last post by Clive Foley
      • Hey, im testing out dynamic updating of state machines and im trying to change a HandleExternalEventActivity in an EventDrivenActivity. The EventDrivenActivity is in a StateActivity. I'm basically trying to remove the HandleExternalEventActivity and add in a clone but with a different event handler for the Invoked event. Unfortunately i get the following exception: ""EventActivity child
  • Certified for Windows Vista Test Cases and ClickOnce
    by sak8888
    1 Replies
    Last post by Bhall
      • Several of the Certified for Windows Vista Test Cases indicate that they are not applicable for ClickOnce applications. I am just looking for a confirmation of what not applicable really means. For example, TEST CASE 26. Verify the application can be installed quietly from the command line (Req:2.13). Does this mean that this test will not be executed for ClickOnce apps Do we need to apply fo
  • error code # 643
    by Eduardo de la Garza
    14 Replies
    Last post by Jonathan Pickard
      • i have the windows vista CR1, then when i am installing the updates, after apear a windows messege, says filed update error found code 643, and dont install the update, what can i do