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• AIMDBA Certified for Windows Vista - Test Cases

  Hi, I am in testing process to get aour application certified for Vista. I use the Certified for Windows Vista Test Cases document for this, from Microsoft. I have a question regarding TEST CASE12 which says that there should be no errors when running several ICE validations. I have no ERRORS but I have several WARNINGS when runing this ICE validations, and the warnings I get are coming from Microsoft MSM modules. The question is if I can ignore the ICE warnings to get certified for Vista Zoli Hi bzoli, According to the test case: TEST CASE 1. Verify application’s MSI installer does not receive any errors from the Internal Consistency Evaluators. (Req:2.1) (IF APPLICATION DOES N ...Show All

• tiger10 How can i vary Directsound playback speed but retain original pitch?

  I have an audio recorder.player component I've written in C# using DirectSound. Can anyone shed some light on how i would slow playback down but maintain the original pitch. I susspect I'll need to FFT the data in the playback buffer, apply some sort of transform to it DFT it to something with more samples per second and play it, but the details are beyond me. Thanks, ger Thread moved to the appropriate forum - apologies in advance if it is in the incorrect subform. Thanks! I'm afraid that if he's doing playback of audio files, it's DirectShow, which, amusingly, is no longer part of DirectX. I've moved it again. ( sorry for the ping pong ) ...Show All

• Rand AlThor useing IAMCrossbar with 4 input

  hello , i have 4 input video capture card (PIC2000) . now i use IAMCrossbar::Route , it can change the input . but when i changed , the picture looking not so good . it must waiting about one second then the picture normal . how can i change all the inputs in the same second , and the picture looking normal . thanks. You will need to synchronize all 4 inputs to the same timing in order to reduce the sync delay but depening on the board design that may not change anything either. The video capture will take at least a frame to sync up to the different video signal when you switch. UP Try asking here: http://www.supervisioncam.com/forum/ Hi,Douglas Jordan . how to synchronize all 4 inputs to the ...Show All

• DavidTait Sending control sequence characters?

  Using Win32 it's possible to send RAW bytes to a printer (e.g. could be used to send control sequence characters to a Point of Sale printer to tell it to "cut" the receipt paper, etc...) Is this possible under the XPS printing model or have we lost that fine grained control According to this article it can't really be done in .NET in the same print job as a PrintDocument. Is this the case with XPS http://support.microsoft.com/ scid=kb;EN-US;322090 Wow no responses Is anyone out there from MSFT listening :) ...Show All

• Helio D Windows Workflow Foundation and Active Directory

  Can I connect to Active Directory within the Windows Workflow Designer so I can add / assign a user to a certain Activity Hi anderskj1, Maybe you ca advise me. I have downloaed some sample code but none are any way similar to what I want to do. I want to implement a WorkFlow in ASP.NET using Windows Workflow Foundation. I have a Web Form where user 1 fills in the form and submits it. This form and the saved data is then sent to user 1's boss who reviews the data and submits the Web Form to his boss and so on and on until it goes to the top of the Organisation where it is finally approved or rejected. Each time the form is subnitted an email is sent to the next person on the Organisation hierarchy letting them know th ...Show All

• Speedie Supporting IMediaSeeking

  Hi All, Is it sufficient to support IMediaSeeking on Source filter only or is it also required to implement some pass through functions on the transform filters as said on http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa919887.aspx under "when to Implement" section Regards, That page also says "This is enabled by default in the pin base classes." Is something not working Or are you not using the base classes for your transform filter ...Show All

• Stckmn3 WPF/e vs. HTML

  After reading Mike Harsh's blog post What WPF/e Really is . I'm kind of disappointed with the approach that the Architects are taking with WPF/e, as in that it augments HTML instead of replacing it. Why not Personaly I find that HTML slows me down in producing rich content for my users (something that WPF promises). Sure its easy, its fast, and we should keep it (not every website needs rotating letters). However, as I see .NET being used -alot- for mission critical application, I would only EXPECT WPF/e to take the fore front and upgrading the way we provide commericial services on the Internet in a fast, uniform way. Flash is doing this, Flex is not 'augmenting' the Web, its rewriting it. Share your thoughts. > ...Show All

• Steve Whitley Vista Beta 2 - Missing theme parts?

  Hi, I'm currently developing under Vista and maintaining apps written for Windows XP which use custom drawn theme elements quite extensively and have noticed that various parts of the default Vista theme are not defined - for example: "startpanel" no longer has "SPP_USERPANE" defined for DrawThemeBackground() Obviously, I realise that Vista doesn't make use of the top/bottom elements of the startpanel like WindowsXP does but am wondering if I am to expect themes to be 'partially' defined like this in the final version Ok, I can check the OS i'm running on and whether the result of DrawThemeBackground() is S_OK (or checking if the part is defined) but i'm unsure as to whether start making adaptations now based ...Show All

• shg_yl Lightweight transactions vs. Connection pooling

  As I understand it, if you open a second SQL connection within a transaction it will automatically be promoted from a Lightweight Transaction (LT) to a full DTC version. However, normal advice with ADO is to utilise connection pooling by simply opening the connection and closing it ASAP. Therefore doesn't the adivce seem to clash since if you open the second connection (even if it is exactly the same connection details) you'll lose out on the LT Whithout seeing your code it is hard to make comments. In general when using transactions where you want the best performance and scalability you want your transactions to start as late as possible and to commit them as soon as possible. When using Distributed transactions you give up a ...Show All

• MitchMc How to succeed in getting Vista Startup?

  Hello everyone, I have a big problem that my program will be blocked of Windows Vista's Windows Defender. The UAC setting is on and I found it so stange that both my program and Spyware Doctor need UAC confirmation to run, but why does not Spyware Doctor get blocked but only mine get blocked Hi, thanks for your reply. The registry entry is "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run", the same as Spyware Doctor. And I can see the obviously difference is Spyware Doctor get a signation, mine doesn't. But I made a simple program that is just a window, it can run at Windows Startup and it will not get blocked. By the way, you say the manifest file is a way to resolve this pr ...Show All

• PastillaReturn HELP! Output to analog video device

  Hi All I'm trying to write a simple VJ (Video Jockey, *NOT* Visual Java ) Application to run on any PC equipped with an Analog Video Capture Card. This Card (and many others) has a Composite Video Output (physical) pin, which means it can output NTSC analog video to a standard TV monitor, projector, etc... I've been through the DirectShow Documentation for a while now, I bought the book from Mark D. Pesce (quite good), looking for the means to write a digital video stream (from an avi, mpeg file, whatsoever) into this Video Card. Essentially, what I want to achieve is the OPPOSITE of Analog Video Capture. But I'm overwhealmed (wrong spell ) at the HUGE amount of filters, video renderers, interfaces, alternatives, etc. offered by Dire ...Show All

• Ruddles WWF & WCF

  Hi, I am new to WWF & WWF My requirement is like 1) I have windows application where I input values. 2)using WCF the input value has to sent my workflow and I need to process the same in work flow Let say addition, I am receving 10 & 5 from Windows application and adding these values inside workflow. 3) Later the result vaule has to sent my windows application using WCF. I have done same using  windows application(client) and a host service. The sample given by microsoft Expense Reporting is bit difficult for me Appreciate the solution in simplest way.  If any one can provide sample code also welcome. Please get in touch with me ASP umeshnath@hotmail.com Thanks & Regards ...Show All

• Bruce Baker New Screencast: Introduction to State Machine Workflows

  Folks, I finally decided to get around to doing a screencast. Aside from a few problems where my microphone turned me into a heavy-breathing stalker, I think it turned out quite well. It's 24 minutes long, so it may take a few minutes to download if you're not on a good broadband connection. Click here for the blog entry and the screencast . Enjoy! Few comments: 1) You don't need to make your EventService serializable. Simply call EventHandler with null as sender in your raise events. However, derived from ExternalDataEventArgs SomeMyEventArgs have to be marked as serializable. 2) There is nice Ctrl+[dot] combination in VS, to implement interfaces (when cursor in on interface reference in class declaration), to ins ...Show All

• redshock [HOWTO] Capturing IMAPIv2 Software Traces

  Hello everyone! While we have strived to increase the quality of the error reporting in IMAPIv2, we realize that there are still some problems that are difficult to debug by error codes alone. Additionally, there will still be some generic error messages coming out that don't make it easy to track down the problem. To assist in debugging, we have built software tracing into IMAPIv2. Software tracing allows the component to send tracing messages that will be logged if and only if a trace has been initiated by the user on the given component. These logs can then be used by us at Microsoft to hopefully help track down issues. Theoretically, this process is as simple as: 1. Start software tracing on a set of GUIDs ...Show All

• vhmau Dictionary Extension

  I am trying to develop an application where a I can switch the main system dictionary used by the handwriting recognition engine to other dictionaries. I want to use the system dictionary so that the change is affected in all applications that use this engine. I have been trying to do some research to discover what dll's are being used, where the dictionaries are, ect. The only thing that I've managed to locate so far is the User dictionary, and I have not found any kind of resource that explains what files are being used and how. I am new to development for Tablets and am looking for any pointers, suggestions, or ideas that anyone may have to help me out with this. Thanks B.J. Hi Stefan, Tha ...Show All