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  • Can't Install Visual Studio 2005 Extensions - Workflow
    by George BR
    1 Replies
    Last post by Tom Lake - MSFT
      • Hi everyone, I hope someone can help with this one! I'm trying to install Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation My machine is running Windows XP SP2 with Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition, DotNet 3.0 and the Vista SDK installed. I have installed the Windows Communications Foundation extension and that is working a treat! The file I downloaded (Visual Stud
  • Music Playback in Vista Problems
    by Steven Berger
    14 Replies
    Last post by Maurits
      • Since installing Vista Ultimate, simple music playback using various programs is hampered by digital stuttering (similar to Max Headroom) from all music players. Vista can't get through a single song without these hiccups. Occurs in: Media Center; Rhapsody; Winamp, WMP 11; iTunes about every 30 seconds. My system is Windows Premium Ready; Acer Aspire 9800 (20" notebook) Dual-core T2600;
  • Checkable treeview not working as expected
    by Nicolas_qc_au
    1 Replies
    Last post by Martin Xie - MSFT
      • Hi, We have developed an application that has a tree view that has checkboxes using Visual Studio 2003 and .net framework 1.1. We have encountered an interesting problem under Windows Vista. Essentially, in .net we have an event that gets triggered BeforeCheck and AfterCheck whereby you can prevent the checkbox from being checked/ticked. Under Windows 2K and Windows xp, all is well. Un
  • Vista64 not offering needed resolutions but XP64 does.... :O(
    by jrussell211
    2 Replies
    Last post by jrussell211
      • I recently upgraded two of my computers, one with an Nvidia 8800 GTX graphics card and another with Nvidia 8600 GT, loaded Vista 64 Ultimate and could not get a screen resolution of 1600x900 needed for windowing a game but when I loaded XP64 on the one with the 8800 GTX card I was able to select that window resolution. I contacted Nvidia and their answer was it is a driver issue with Vista althoug
  • Error while talking to STS
    by Raguvind
    5 Replies
    Last post by Toland Hon - MSFT
      • Hi In my cardspace i have installed a managed card. When my application tries to reterive the security token from the security token service it throws the following error and closes the cardspace digital applet. Log Name:      Application Source:        CardSpace 3.0.0.0 Date:          3/
  • CoImpersonateClient() across Integrity Levels
    by Alex Chmut
    6 Replies
    Last post by Eric Perlin - MSFT
      • Hello all, I have an app that runs elevated that talks to an unelevated app via COM. I want the COM servers in the unelevated app to be able to impersonate the elevated client to perform certain file operations with full admin rights. Whatever CoInitializeSecurity() parameters I have been trying to apply on the client does not give the server appropriate rights ending with ERROR_BAD_IMPERSONATION_
  • Vista Certification Test Case help with WRP
    by RonakPPatel
    2 Replies
    Last post by Bruce N. Baker - MSFT
      • Hi, S.15 in (Machine Setup and Configuration) S.1 Attach application install executable to AppVerifier including msiexec.exe. Note: Does not apply to the install of ClickOnce applications. If the application is native x64 use x64 version of AppVerifier unless installer is Win32(x86) then use x86 version of AppVerifier. a. Open AppVerifier. b. Unche
  • [Q] SetGateways of Win32_NetworkAdaperConfiguration WMI Class
    by SucceedEgg
    14 Replies
    Last post by Bruce N. Baker - MSFT
      • Hello, In the following code, SetGateways() method clears the previous gateway setting in ohter Windows than Vista. In Vista, the previous gateway setting is never cleared by this VB script. Is this a bug FYI, I have executed it in the elevated cmd prompt. Thanks in advance. ===== strComputer = "." strSettingID = WScript.Arguments(0) strIpAddr = WScript.Arguments(1) Set objWMIService = G
  • How do I run ASP pages(active server page) on vista home basic
    by Ragsv
    12 Replies
    Last post by Rock Climber
      • I recently purchased a notebook. It has come with Vista Home Basic 32 bit. I want to develop a web project (ASP) using Active server pages. I dont how to enable IIS and how to create virtual directories and how to run ASP pages, I have searched a lot in the system I didnt find any solution. Could anyone help out
  • SDK sample question--SampleCredentialProvider
    by leon123
    6 Replies
    Last post by vish2007
      • I download "SampleWrapExistingCredentialProvider" sample code at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=1287ec56-77b4-48c4-8b58-35b7295d6c2c&DisplayLang=en . Then implementing a credential filter to filter the original account and just show the new duplicate account. In GetCredentialCount function, " _pWrappedProvider->GetCredentialCount(&(_dwCre
  • where is CEAppMgr.exe? - Unable to Install Windows Mobile Software on Vista
    by Howard Hinman
    5 Replies
    Last post by asowerby
      • I purchased some third party software for my Motorla Q Smart Phone. When I try to install the PC portion of it on my Vista RTM Toshiba Tecra M5, I receive an error dialog indicated that the setup program cannot find CEAppMgr.exe. Any ideas how to correct this Thanks, -Howard
  • Basic question about WF..
    by usguy
    8 Replies
    Last post by usguy
      • Hi, I am new to windows workflow, so please be easy on me. Gosh this is such difficult question to put it here. I am not sure how to word it. Please let me know if I am not clear. I finsished watching webcat and now I am exploring samples and playing with it, I have one basic question though. I know what workflow is. But I am confused and I don't know how to fit it in software. May be when I wr
  • Ms DTC working as RM in XA transaction
    by MateX
    11 Replies
    Last post by MateX
      • I am trying to use MS SQL and other MS resource managers in a transaction coordinated by IBM Websphere MQ (which is XA compliant). To do this, I need an xa_switch structure for all RMs. According to the article http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/interopmigration/network/usrscman.mspx "MS DTC [...] implements the XA_Switch and makes it available through a static library." But I was
  • Test Case 32 - services crashing with event log entries but no WER dialog
    by Marcus_YA
    3 Replies
    Last post by Bruce N. Baker - MSFT
      • Hi, Im running through test case 32 and am having a problem with services that we are running, as well as processes that are started by those services. When I use threadhijacker to crash the threads, the processes are dying as expected, and the 2 entries are placed in the event log, but there is no WER dialog displayed. Has anyone else seen this behaviour The WER dialog is displayed
  • windows vista - users
    by SWATHI_VS
    3 Replies
    Last post by Bruce N. Baker - MSFT
      • i would like to give more permissions to my standard user. is it possible to create a user that have some of admin rights in windows vista thanks
  • Delay activity - 60 days timeout perid error
    by Indigo Cowboy
    14 Replies
    Last post by Tony Steele
      • Hi , I have delay activity that is set on period of 60 days. Code for timer initialization: daWaitingForDocuments.TimeoutDuration = TimeSpan .FromMinutes(60*1440); //60 days Value from quickwatch inspector: daWaitingForDocuments.TimeoutDuration {60.00:00:00} System.TimeSpan this code is inside constructor, and it doesn't throw exception. But when state machine workflow enters sta
  • Test Case 32
    by John D. Benjamin
    9 Replies
    Last post by John D. Benjamin
      • I get the following message on injection of the exception by threadjacker into my programs(one of them a simple one line form program - just opens a blank form) wriiten in C# and under Vista x86: ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// MyApplication.exe: Common Language Runtime Debugging Services Applic
  • Time stamping frames in a live video source filter
    by dyonutz
    14 Replies
    Last post by dyonutz
      • Hi all, I have a video source filter with one capture pin that gets JPEG frames from the network, decompress them and outputs them. I have no audio stream, so I don't have to worry about synchronizing video with audio. All works well except for time sampling the frames. I have to say timing in DirectShow is really complicated, and no really explanatory samples/articles can be found. First o
  • Setting DefaultValue for DependencyProperty of Collection<T> returning type
    by Aleydis
    4 Replies
    Last post by Aleydis
      • Hello, I have a workflow activity containing a DependencyProperty of some generic Collection<T> returning type (in my case it's actually an IDictionary<T,V>). How can I set the DefaultValue for this property The default value has to be a non-empty Collection<T> (or Dictionary<T,V>, or whatever). The PropertyMetadata ctor accepts only a value type (no reference
  • How to encode captured video to Ogg Theora
    by empeem
    3 Replies
    Last post by LGS
      • Hi everybody. I have an aplication that captures video, previews it and saves to a file in AVI format. The problem is I'd like to have it in Ogg Theora. What codecs I should use and how put them into a code Anybody can help
  • How can I know if the user is an administrator on the system or not in C#?
    by Ala Kushlaf
    2 Replies
    Last post by Bruce N. Baker - MSFT
      • I am working on an application as a standard user and it downloads files from the internet and updates the program files folder of the program. Vista blocks the whole process without throwing any exceptions when the process starts. How can I check if the user is admin or not to disable or enable this functionality Thanks a lot
  • How pull filter and push filter works?
    by Starfish2000
    5 Replies
    Last post by Harold Jimenez
      • I am reading the MS SDK documents but still don't understand how the filter receiving and sending the stream data. The current problem is I inherited a set of filters from previous developer and the graph got lock-up after a minute of receive stream data. The MS a-sync sample was use as source filter and the CTee was use as transform filter (lockup at this point). I am very new to Direct Show. Ho
  • Error Code 643 Windows Vista Security update .net 1.1
    by Trintoc2
    11 Replies
    Last post by Morbidlynx
      • trying to installed windows updates for service back .net 1.1 on Vista Ultimate and keep getting error code 643. tried everything i could find (adobe fix, windows installer etc..) and nothing. anybody got anything new
  • Vista SDK causes C2065: 'IPPROTO_IPV6' : undeclared identifier
    by Bill Cumming
    14 Replies
    Last post by Bill Cumming
      • I am running Studio 2005 SP1 on WinXP and I'm trying to compile my app for Vista. I needed access to the SetThreadUILanguage, so I installed the Vista SDK from MSDN. Without changing any source code I merely recompiled the app. Everything compiles OK except a proxy class that talks to a web service. The compiler automatically updates the web reference and #includes <atlsoap.h>, which
  • a process definition tool
    by NMM
    1 Replies
    Last post by Angel Azcarraga - MSFT
      • Hi I am about developing a generic process definition tool. The user will be allowed to define the business process model by dragging and drop the functionalities. Then this model will be converted to xml file and saved to a repository. Is this program suitable to implement such a tool If it is not, can you suggest a program to implement this tool.