Software Development for Windows Vista

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  • 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
  • Vista doesn't like screensavers?
    by Dmitry Titov
    7 Replies
    Last post by Gary-gr8one2
      • Hi, I'm observing strange behavior from Explorer.exe - it deliberately disables screensavers... Basically, if a screensaver runs for "too short period of time" or is started by an application that sends WM_SYSCOMMAND with SC_SCREENSAVE wParam, the Explorer.Exe sets the HKCU\ControlPanel\Desktop\ScreenSaveActive to 0, effectively disabling screensaver. After 1 - 5 minutes, it com
  • LoadLibrary ("DBOXIISource.ax") failed - This program cant be started due to wrong program configuration
    by pcd
    1 Replies
    Last post by LGS
      • I get this error "LoadLibrary ("----------.ax") failed - This program cant be started due to wrong program configuration" trying to install a filter .ax on another xp computer with regsvr32. The filter installs ok in other computers. Is the problem with the filter or the program regsvr32 Any advice please Regards, pcd.
  • login script
    by linstead
    3 Replies
    Last post by VistaMarty
      • i have a login script went i try login to windows vista, i get the welcome screen (wait for about 20-30 sec) and the next screen is the desktop, the only way i get to see that login is if i but a msgbox. how can i show my login script. i also turn on the sync for the local machine and user and the visible for both also any help would be good. thanks
  • SendInput and Secure Desktop
    by David Weber
    9 Replies
    Last post by Sangil Seo
      • Hello, I am currently working on an application that can send mouse input to the Secure Desktop in Windows Vista Therefore I have created an application with manifest u(iaccess=true) and digital signature and copied it to \program files. Unfortunately when I now try to access the Secure Desktop with OpenInputDesktop() I receive ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED. Any clues on what I am m
  • SqlPersistance Service on multiple databases
    by Fahad
    2 Replies
    Last post by Anonymous
      • We are developing Web base application that will use WF. We will have one web application in the front and the client information will be stored in separate multiple databases. Therefore, WF persistance need to store each clients WF in separate databases. What is good way to pass client database information to the custom SqlPersistance service such that each clients workflow is persistance in thei
  • Using Replicator with correlation in a state machine workflow
    by Gy&amp;#38;&amp;#35;24
    1 Replies
    Last post by Saurabh Chechi - MSFT
      • A have a Send-Receive activity pair (generated by wca.exe) that works perfectly if I add it to a Replicator activity and enable correlation for them in a sequential workflow, like this: <replicator> <send /> <receive /> </replicator> Is it possible to use the same pattern in a state machine workflow My problem is, that in a state machine only the firs
  • Server 2003 COM+ 1.5 Hotfix Rollup Package 11 - Questions
    by salafa
    3 Replies
    Last post by Cuneyt Havlioglu - MSFT
      • I apologize if this is not the forum to post this question in. If it should be posted somewhere else, please let me know. KB 927673 references an available Hotfix Rollup for COM+. There are at least 11 fixes for behaviors we have seen under high load using System.Transactions. However, we want to have as much information on deploying the Rollup as possible before we open a case to get it. Is thi
  • windiff.exe command line parameters samples? (-LP. -LU,-LO, -L)
    by iamdacian
    2 Replies
    Last post by iamdacian
      • the windiff.exe / brings up a whole bunch of parameters that are very interesting and i would like to use, please see below. the problem is that i tried all kind of combination and i didn't manage to make windiff work from command line with perforce/source depot. any attempts to use parameters like LP, LU, LO, L it didn't responded correctly, most of the time silently opening the windiff UI. i eve
  • Can an application run as administrator by default if the user has admin privileges?
    by Rene Zhang
    2 Replies
    Last post by rpolansky
      • Or raise it's priority to allow some operations which need admin privileges. I don't want to see the secure prompt . I migrated a software to Vista OS, some UAC issues were raised. Thanks in advance.
  • InitializeDiscRecorder gives HRESULT of 0x80004005
    by DMeglio
    10 Replies
    Last post by David Burg - MSFT
      • I'm using IMAPI2 using the .NET interop.cs from the samples. My computer has 2 drives, a CD-RW and a DVD-RW. The DVD-RW goes just fine. However, when I call InitializeDiscRecorder giving the uniqueID of my CD-RW, I get a COMException with an ErrorCode of 0x8004005. The drive is a Samsung SW-232B. The uniqueID is: \\ \scsi#cdrom&ven_samsung&prod_cd-r#rw_sw-232b&rev_r301#5&37db9ab
  • Cannnot install VS2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation on WinXP2
    by Tiendq
    6 Replies
    Last post by SuperSaiyanZero
      • Hi, I cannot install VS2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation (v3.00.4203.2, downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=5D61409E-1FA3-48CF-8023-E8F38E709BA6&displaylang=en ) on my Windows XP2 computer. It always report following error message, although I've installed .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime (full version, ~56MB) successfully before: " P
  • driver was signed. however, system information says unsigned
    by Peter Chiang
    0 Replies
    Last post by Peter Chiang
      • There are no warning in the setupapi.log. When installing the driver, it says the driver is signed. After installing it, systerm information (msinfo32) says the driver is no signed. Do anyone know the problem. Thanks.
  • SqlTrackingService & Sql Server 2000
    by Doron Goldberg
    7 Replies
    Last post by Doron Goldberg
      • Hi all, I'm trying to start the tracking service using sql server 2000. I have used all the required scripts and everything looks ok inside the db. (no errors during setup...) Problem is that nothing is written into the db, and no errors are happening as well. When I change the connectionString to a sql-server 2005 instance everything works by the book.
  • Dynamically add activities to a workflow... from within an activity
    by msdnjota
    4 Replies
    Last post by msdnjota
      • Can anyone tell me if this is possible I'm having some trouble getting to access to some of the objects required, such as the WorkflowInstance. Any help greatly appreciated.
  • Owner draw combobox on Vista??
    by Nobody1234
    5 Replies
    Last post by Jason Baginski
      • When I try to use my owner draw combobox on vista, it doesn't seem to support any of the fx like cross-fade. I am simply responding to the WM_DRAWITEM message. I've seen some new UX theme api's for doing the animations, but it would appear that I'd need to rewrite the whole combobox from scratch to block the built in fade first. Then paint the whole client AND non client areas. This seems like ove
  • Updates for Windows
    by londag
    4 Replies
    Last post by londag
      • I install automatic updates and received this error message: RTHDCPL.EXE Illegal System DLL Relocation the system DLL user32.dll was relocated in memory. The application will nt run properly. The relocation occurred because the DLL C:\WINDOWS\system32\HHCTRL.OCX occupied an address range reserved for Windows system DLLs. The vendor supplying the DLL should be contacted fro a new DLL. I ha
  • DESPERATE HELP NEEDED -Reading an image of a USB device
    by tootypegs
    2 Replies
    Last post by tootypegs
      • Hi, im hoping i can seek some help and advice from here. My plan is to develope a program that will read a USB thumb drive and allow all the files and structure to be viewed. In a perfect world i would like to be able to create an exact copy of the thumb drive. I've herd that my best way to do it would be to create a .dd image of the USB drive Anyway i was hoping that someone could giv m some
  • How to call AccessibleObjectFromID
    by Esben Rud
    2 Replies
    Last post by Tequilla
      • I am trying to call AccessibleObjectFromID in order to get the Interface IAccessible for Internet Explorer. But AccessibleObjectFromID needs an instance of IAccessibleHandler and I don't know how to create one.
  • Issues with crystal reports...
    by AksaiGora
    1 Replies
    Last post by Kavita Kamani - MSFT
      • Hi All, Issue with Crystal Reports. Deployment works smoothly. But whenever I run the program, I get a database logon screen. How do I set the program to bypass the logon Kindly assist, Gora
  • Adding an IP Address to an Interface using VB
    by resonant
    0 Replies
    Last post by resonant
      • Hey there. I'm trying to add an IP Address to an interface using vb .net My current implementation is using shell to call netsh, but this is ugly. I poked around the WMI documentation for a couple of days and found little to help me in the Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration class. Upon further research it looks like the IP Helper API may be the answer. I'd like some explanation on how to use
  • application compatibility testing
    by divya mittal
    1 Replies
    Last post by Matthew Braun - MSFT
      • hi, what are the best practices that need to be followed in order to test an application for application compatibility regards, divya
  • CryptoAPI AES 128bit for SSL stream in Windows VISTA seems not compatibale with openssl
    by CooperXu
    3 Replies
    Last post by Bruce N. Baker - MSFT
      • Does anyone know how to make it work for Openssl and CryptoAPI using the new AES 128bit in Windows Vista I had tried the SDK sample in the "Microsoft Platform SDK\Samples\Security\SSPI\SSL\WebServer" as the server. Client side is application using Openssl library. Both can handshake and exchange AES symmetric encryption key. Openssl client can decrypt the AES 128bit stream from WebServe
  • While activity with counter ?
    by Jarod.Net
    2 Replies
    Last post by MarcusAK81
      • Hi :) I am tring to rewrite one of my Code Activity that became to long. It looks like this: foreach(DataRow rowSomeData in someDataSet.Table["MyData"].Rows) { if(someCondition) { while(someCondition == true) { DoSth(); } } } I thought I will build workflow from this logic but if want to write While activity that acts as a for loop, I'd need some i
  • usbser.sys replacement in Vista?
    by Dimz
    5 Replies
    Last post by Flying Banglaman
      • Does anyone know if the usbser.sys virtual serial port file was replaced with something else in Vista I have a driver for a usb GSM modem that is referencing it, and when registering the INF File, Windows says that the "file could not be found". I copied XP's version to the c:\windows\system32\drivers directory but to no avail. The modem uses the Siemens MC75 chipset, for which i c