Software Development for Windows Vista

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  • What to replace CM_Get_Parent?
    by Tony Cheung
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    Last post by Tony Cheung
      • Hi Experts, As read from MSDN that the API CM_Get_Dev_Node_Registry_Property from setupapi.dll should be replaced by SetupDiGetDeviceRegistryProperty in VIsta. I would also like to know if I am calling CM_Get_Parent, what should be used on Vista My current application developed some times ago was using this API to locate the parent device node of some USB device and it has been working nice
  • video on demand?
    by tieu
    14 Replies
    Last post by Chris P.
      • Hi all I have to create a multimedia application that can read a video file then split it into small parts. A client will download some parts of the video file and then play them. The client don't have a completed video file, just some parts of it, but the client is still able to play the video. Anyone knows how, please give me some guidelines. Thank you all.
  • Strange high DPI scaling issue with icons on Vista
    by JimMathies67
    6 Replies
    Last post by JimMathies67
      • Hey all, I'm experiencing a strange icon scaling issue with custom DPI settings. I'm running at either 110 or 120 DPI, with an ATI Radeon 1650 graphics card and one of the new Dell 30" displays. I'm using "XP Style" scaling. The following screenshot of my Welcome Center illustrates the problem - http://www.mathies.com/msdn/welcomecenter.png The lower two icons on the right were
  • Wierd IQualityControl problem. Help!!!
    by Bill Arnette
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    Last post by Bill Arnette
      • Well, I posted this to the mailing list last week and got no response, so I am going to run it up this flag pole. We are having a really strange problem with one of our filters. We are trying to implement IQuality control in a source filter but when it compiles/links it pulls in the GUID of the IAS Network Access Policy version of IQualityControl instead of the DirectShow version. However, another
  • ADFS Policy File - adheres to which specification?
    by Swarup Mishra
    2 Replies
    Last post by James Manning - MSFT
      • Hi, FOA, I am not sure if this is the right place to talk about ADFS or not, at least this forum sounded close to it. I am surprised that, despite ADFS being such a huge topic MSDN does not have a separate forum for it. Back to business! I have been trying to setup 2 ADFS servers to federate Active Directory users. While doing so, I also had a chance to read up about WS-* specifications. Wha
  • Changing program priviliges
    by Principher
    3 Replies
    Last post by AndyCadley
      • I am trying to save a value to the registry. In the beginning it worked but now I need to read the data from a LocalMachine level service. This gives me a problem, since my values are written to the virtual registry (or what ever it is called) so I cannot read them I have found that if I run the program which writes to the registry as administrator everything works, but I cannot ask the user to r
  • trying to update product components
    by DenMori
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    Last post by DenMori
      • I've got an interesting scenario I need to get running on Vista. I have a client setup kit written that puts the client software in Program Files\MyProduct. The way our product is architected is that the client is really only an installer for Crystal and MS redistributables. Our own DLLs are copied to a server share and we have our app set up so that when the short cut is clicked, it fires a sync
  • PLEASE READ: Microsoft.MediaCenter.UI.dll
    by Grahame Edwards
    14 Replies
    Last post by Andre.Ziegler
      • I would like to down load Media Center SDK to intergrate an application into the Media center where can I find this
  • Where is the Application database to be installed?
    by AP_ES
    14 Replies
    Last post by AP_ES
      • Hey all, According to the Windows Vista Software Logo Spec 1.0.doc ( Version 1.0.0006 ), Item 2.3 "Install to Correct Folders": Applications should be installed to Program Files or the user¡¯s AppData folder by default. For per-machine installations, user data must be written at first run and not during the install. Since the install potentially elevates to a different user
  • CreateIpForwardEntry and GetIpInterfaceEntry
    by MattyBoy4444
    3 Replies
    Last post by MattyBoy4444
      • I have successfully used CreateIpForwardEntry on Vista Release using the new GetIpInterfaceEntry. ¡°Route print¡± does show the new entry. But it doesn¡¯t do anything. With XP, it works fine. On Vista, the route is entered but the traffic still doesn't use the route. Does anyone have any suggestions Someone else is having the same problem: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.pub
  • Letting users choose which file types to associate with an application on installation of application
    by Andre721
    1 Replies
    Last post by Bruce N. Baker - MSFT
      • We were wondering how to go about giving the user the choice of which file types would be associated with an application while the application is being installed in Vista. For example, say we had a program that browses images with the file types of BMP, JPG, and GIF. The user installing the application would rather have another program already installed and associated with JPGs be the one to op
  • How do you code for generic event handlers?
    by John Portnov
    1 Replies
    Last post by Kavita Kamani - MSFT
      • Dear WF Gurus, I have xoml only state workflow with OrderLocalServices sample code. I need to declare event handlers outside of OrderLocalServices code (ie., maybe in xoml CDATA ) to avoid recompiling the workflow code assembly when creating new xoml with external event handlers. Any suggestions Thanks in advance, JP
  • how to design a custom "SetState" activity
    by Steve1999
    3 Replies
    Last post by Saurabh Chechi - MSFT
      • Can someone please offer me some basic advice to get started I want to create a custom activity that will be a child of a event driven activity. I want this custom activity to have a property called "CheckState". You would set the property to say..."InProgress". Inside the execution of the custom activity, i will use compare the value of the custom activity SetState property
  • Breakpoints not working in console application with sequential workflow during debugging (VS 2005 - VB)
    by Marius Roets
    6 Replies
    Last post by LorenzP
      • I develop an console application with 2 workflows in Visual Studio 2005. The breakpoints does not work during debugging mode in the one sequential workfloe, but not the other sequential workflow. It just execute the workflow and ignore the breakpoints set on activities. Why I also have a problem that on the WaitHandle.WaitOne() it does not pickup the waitHandle.Set () when the workflow comp
  • CorrelationManager.ActivityId changes when in a method under Workflow
    by Cory Cundy
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    Last post by Cory Cundy
      • I am having an issue with the CorrelationManager.ActivityId changing on me when I am running inside of Workflow. I understand that the CorrelationManager utilizes the CallContext to store its state, but I can't figure out why the ActivityId is a different guid when running under Workflow. In fact, the ActivityID is set to the WorkflowInstanceId. Within my workflow method I can do a CallContext.
  • urgent: WWF installation issue
    by John.Doe
    1 Replies
    Last post by John.Doe
      • I uninstalled a demo version of a profiling tool, that integrated into Visual Studio. On the next start of Visual Studio 2005 it came up with a message that it could not load the plugin of the profiler and asked if it should be skipped, so I confirmed this and VS came up. I can now still work with .cs files: compile, build, run, everything works OK, except the Windows Workflow Foundation. If I
  • Superimposing of text on moving video in DirectShow
    by JD Prasad
    11 Replies
    Last post by Bowljoman
      • Hi All, I m novice to DirectShow application programming and this is my first project in my career.I have to make an application which plays a movie file and superimposes the text upon it.Can i have the sample code please for reference. In this project i m able to run the movie file by using the sample code given in MSDN, after that i dont have any idea to how to display text.please help
  • Khmer LIP
    by Saruth
    5 Replies
    Last post by CRT2007
      • 1- Will khmer LIP for Vista be available at the same time as other language like Laos 2- The khmer "daunpenh" font is too small and not "readable". Will this problem be fixed for the next service pack or khmer LIP Thanks Saruth
  • SequenceActivity inheritance
    by Markus Rytterkull
    4 Replies
    Last post by Markus Rytterkull
      • Hi! I have a few custom activities which all inherit from my base class which inherits from sequenceactivity. Is is possible to use the designer in both my base class and the other custom activities Specificaly, I would like to add a ifelse to my base class which should be run after the flows that inherit from this base class have completed. Is this possible Thanks for your help!
  • Difficulty with Cardspace.. Plz plz help
    by gold420sam
    14 Replies
    Last post by Toland Hon - MSFT
      • hi everyone, I am trying to develop an application using cardspace where a user will be prompted for using cardspace instead of normal checkout process involving filling credit card number and username/password. I have been able to run and see samples in Introduction to CardSpace with Internet Explorer 7[1].0.zip.I have made a website using Visual Studio whereI have reached a point where the chec
  • UI Spy can't navigate portions of FireFox
    by staja2
    3 Replies
    Last post by zaphibel
      • I was hoping to automate FireFox, but I am unable to navigate to certain controls. UI Spy is also unable to navigate to the controls and gives the following exception: UI Automation tree navigation is broken. The parent of one of the descendants exist but the descendant is not the child of the parent Is this most likely a FireFox issue or a problem that will be worked out in future versions
  • How to install an AddIn when installed using RunAs - My Documents location
    by DavidThi808
    3 Replies
    Last post by AndyCadley
      • Hi; Ok, how do we handle the following scenario: The user of a computer does not have admin rights. The setup program therefore has to Run As an admin user to install our AddIn. We have a bunch of sample documents. Since we don't know the user's My Documents we cannot install them there. This computer is used by 30 different people, all of whom use Word on it. Only 1 user need
  • Getting the best image quality when writing .wmv files; best practices?
    by MMCompton
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    Last post by MMCompton
      • Hello, I'm relatively new to DirectShow, and have learned a lot from this forum. One thing I've learned in my DS work is that capture and stream properties that work well for one type of capture device (e.g. a webcam) don't work well at all for other capture devices (e.g. screen capture filters). This of course is not surprising, especially for paramters such as capture dimensions, frame rat
  • Visual Studio 2003 hangs on Vista Build 5472
    by MReynolds
    12 Replies
    Last post by Dr. Eamonn Lavery
      • If I try to use the "Find in Files" feature of VS 2003, it just hangs VS and you can only kill the process. This happens when you select search in Entire Solution or Current Project. Note: I have launched VS to run using Administrator. This did not happen on Vista Builds 5342 or 5308. Is there any workaround
  • Re-visit the same StateActivity
    by AhmadKQ
    2 Replies
    Last post by AhmadKQ
      • I have a custome StateActivity that contains a property. I change this property value when an event fire. one of the events inside the stateActivity fires to re-visit the same stateActivity. In this case, i found that the property value is reset to its original value. How can i fix this problem