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• Yustme Smartcard based authentication with CardSpace

  When choosing to use Smartcard based authentication with CardSpace, how does the transmission from the certificate between the smartcard reader and the STS takes place The Information Card specifies the thumbprint of the certificate to look for, but what is the exact technical background; does it just searches your computer's Certificates store and all smartcard drives for that certificate, and then sends it towards the STS Would like to know more about it, since nothing specifically seems to be documented about this feature Vittorio and Shanahan, thanks alot for your input! Shanahan : You are right, the smartcard certificates are copied locally when inserting the card.  How ...Show All

• Jay K ATI TV audio problem - $300 offered

  If anyone is interested in getting paid to help me with this project, please email me as 2006a@ronhudson.com or two-thousand six at ronhudson dot-you-know-what. I will pay a bonus to the first person who can help me get the audio working on the platform I'm using now, or to the first person who can prove that my current machine/tuner card won't work with ds.net. There will be more follow-on work for this project if someone is looking for a nice little side job. For example, I can pay up to $1500 if someone can help me with the digital tuning piece. I know that these are questionably-low rates for this kind of work, but I just want everyone to know I don't EXPECT to get good help for free. I also plan to do as much of the actual programm ...Show All

• Gamargia Scripts on localized Windows

  Looks like Install-certificates.vbs and Install-website.vbs installation scripts do not work on localized Windows. Will do. Heh-heh. It is actually funny, in a twisted kindof way. The evolution of those scripts to install the samples came as a result of sooooooo many people having problems setting up simple little examples. I never intended for them to get so expansive, but setting up these darn samples to run in a variety of sites and configurations was tricky. I wouldn't normally have been concerned with that particular problem, but I see how it would make nothing but trouble elsewise. Rest assured, I'll fall back to the first web site. g Garrett Serack | Program Ma ...Show All

• AntonioMaia1 Publish as WebService Error: "The language specified is not supported by any of the installed packages."

  This is with the latest 3.0 RC and the RC5 VS2005 Extensions. Any ideas Thanks Help! This is holding me up, I cannot finish my POC. Some additional info: There are no errors in the Event Viewer. Thanks     Costas Webservices are published to developer server by default. You can publish this to IIS later. Just right click on the webservice and select Publish Website option. I was able to replicate this on my laptop as well. Here's the lappy info from VS2005: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Version 8.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0.50727 Installed Edition: Enterprise Microsoft Visual C# 2005 77642-113-300 ...Show All

• Thomas Schneider OT: Forum Available on Usenet?

  Is this forum available on Usenet I did a quick search for "workflow" on msnews.microsoft.com but wasn't able to find it. Thank you... Actually no, this forum is not available through any news group. It's only available via web here on msdn. Thanks, Angel ...Show All

• Geo725 CardSpace in Windows form application

  Has anyone tried invoke the CardSpace selector UI from a Windows form application instead of a browser Hi, of course, that’s no problem. In fact, all you have to do (if you want to have an easy live ;-) ) is to secure a wcf service endpoint with a adapted binding. If you try to do some communication with your secured service, CardSpace (in fact the client) will notice your wishes and start Windows CardSpace :-) In deep you have the same situation like on web applications. Your goal is to secure the communication with Trusted Identity and Trusted Claims. So to start, create a WCF service, make your server side app.config ready and consume your service in your WinForms application e.g. with Visual Studio 2005. The underla ...Show All

• DudleySoft can an activex be elevated(not an executable)?

  Hi, Thanks to Chris, I was able to elevate an executable file and call it from my test activeX. Now that I've tested this procedure works(activeX calling ShellExecute), I'm trying to apply the same procedure to our win-xp application. Our website runs an activeX with some arguments. Our activeX performs some admin-required actions(write on program files and registry). Then, it executes another executable. I am still thinking how to perform the same work on vista. Easiest solution would be our website runs a dummy activeX with arguments, the dummy activeX calls our original ActiveX(also has to be elevated), the 2nd activeX runs the final executable. In other words, I would prefer the above solution because it's the simplest. If that doesn't ...Show All

• teamonkey Using RuleConditions on Designer Hosted Apps

  Hi. I have a wf designer hosted in my win32 app. I'm trying to use the IfElseActivity on that application. I've created a form that allows the user to edit their Then / Else conditions and then, with that info, I create a new RuleConditionReference, and assign it to the IfElseBranchActivity, like this: RuleConditionReference reference = new RuleConditionReference (); RuleDefinitions rules = ( RuleDefinitions )(( CompositeActivity )container).GetValue( RuleDefinitions .RuleDefinitionsProperty); if (rules == null ) { rules = new RuleDefinitions (); (( CompositeActivity )container).SetValue( RuleDefinitions .RuleDefinitionsProperty, rules); ///container is the workflow } rules.Conditions.Add( myRuleCondition ); / ...Show All

• tvenhaus Data Execution Prevention (DEP) and the MSHTA

  With DEP's new roll in vista and how it interacts with MSHTA, it is causing some headaches with Web applications running Activex and Java Applets. We have an application that used to run fine in Windows XP service pack 2 with Java Applets and it still runs fine in IE7 under vista, but now that DEP has control over the HTA, it's a different story. I thought the reason for HTA is to give the Web Application more interaction with the client machine it is running on. I know this leaves the client machine open to more vulnerabilities, but that was the risk you took running a Web App in an HTA. Our application is on a local server and should be trusted. Is there anything we can do to let Vista know that our applets are secure or let the user de ...Show All

• swapna_n InfoCard schema

  hai Can any one post the info card schema and the envelope security schema..... Thanks and Regards Raguvind If you are looking for the .CRD file format, you can find some documentation on Vittorio's blog here http://blogs.msdn.com/vbertocci/archive/2006/08/02/686790.aspx If you are looking for wire-protocol information, you pretty much need to go look at the ws-trust spec. I don't have any additional details at this point I can get you. Garrett I'll be posting the source code to my Managed Card Creation API within the next few days. I think it'll be easier to show you ;) Garrett Hi Garrett Thanks for your help it really helped me a lot..... but i have some doubts regarding t ...Show All

• Kidsauth News: "WPF/E" Feb 2007 CTP is Live!

  Freinds, Earlier today, you may have noticed your “WPF/E” December Community Technology Preview (CTP) control expired.  No worries though- we’ve just posted the February CTP for Windows and Mac  to Microsoft's download center and updated the samples on the Channel 9 Playground to work with the new CTP.  Note that to get your samples working with the February CTP, you’ll need to change out the agHost.js file with the new one found here . Tomorrow we’ll update the website with details on what’s new in this release, and an updated SDK and samples will be available soon too. Thanks, "WPF/E" Marketing   Great! Here is the link without the owa redirect. ...Show All

• Michael Cummings Args from WorkflowRuntime.CreateWorkflow

  Where (in the workflow) can I reference the arguments passed in on the WorkflowRunTime.CreateWorkflow( Type, Dictionary<string,object>) ) Thanks, Clay Thanks Serge ! Geez, It's somewhat easier than I'd imagined. The runtime is reflectively setting the args into properties, eh I figured I'd have to get them and deal with them myself. I guess I was intent on a difficult solution ;-) Thanks again. Clay Clay, in the technology samples of the sdk, take a look at the "SequentialWorkflowWithParameters" sample: for each parameter passed as part of the Dictionnary, you need a corresponding property in the workflow. Hope this helps Serge ...Show All

• Phil Rogers Squeezing objects

  I was wondering whether it is supported to "squeeze/distort" objects into various affine and skeewed forms Basically what I wan't to do is squeeze an image (or any other object for that matter) into the following shape: ___________ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ I would also need a variant the would require adding some skewing like this: ___________ / | / | / | / | / | or ______________ / / / / / / / / / / ...or anywhere in between these. (and no, I'm not talking about clipping :-) Any ideas on how to accomplish this are very welcomed! It's me, the ma ...Show All

• chaza vista isguest doesn't appear to work

  hi. i'm struggling with discovering if a user is a guest in vista using c# and .NET 1.1. i've tried calling WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().IsGuest but it always return false whether i'm using the vista guest account or not. i've also tried the IsAnonymous property which also always returns false. i also tried getting a WindowsIdentity object from Thread.CurrentPrinicpal like follows: AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetPrincipalPolicy( System.Security.Principal.PrincipalPolicy.WindowsPrincipal ); WindowsPrincipal principal = (WindowsPrincipal)Thread.CurrentPrincipal; WindowsIdentity identity = (WindowsIdentity)principal.Identity; but again i get the same results. currently i'm reduced to comparing Environment.UserName with "Guest" which i ...Show All

• gerbenvl SampleGrabber fail after unlocking from lock screen in XP

  Hey guys, I'm having a problem whit my direct x graph; I'm performing acquisition with a SampleGrabber (and also using a callback to retreive my samples). If I go to "lock screen" (windows lock computer) during the acquisition and I come back to my application (unlock), the callback function is stop being called (no sample anymore), so my acquisition fails ... any idea what may be my problem(s) Here my graph : CaptureFilter (from camera) -> SampleGrabber -> VideoRenderer CLSID_VideoInputDeviceCategory->CLSID_SampleGrabber->CLSID_VideoRenderer (CLSID_VideoInputDeviceCategory, the first video capture device install (and the only one)) I'm seeting up a callback (class derived from ISampleGrabberCB) and im ...Show All