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• JeroGrav Question about the Listen activity

  Hi, I have a custom activity defined as follows: while listen activity - HandleExternalEvent -> Code activity (exit while loop) - delay -> Code activity (process records) My questions is: is there any way to get rid of the delay activity Because if the external event didn't occur, I want to keep processing records without any delay... Any thoughts Thanks a lot. My pleasure. Sorry it took so long to get back to you. I sent a zip file to your e-mail address of record (with the forum). If that's not a good address, I can send one anywhere. Just tell me to where. I also changed the file extension to ".zi_" so your e-mail service wouldn't filter it out. Hope it's h ...Show All

• kageg Using AVIStreamWrite seems to be corrupting AVI headers on Vista (RC2 build5744)

  I am using the Video for Windows (VFW) API to create AVI files. My code works fine on XP Pro SP2 and Windows 2000. However, the same code running on Vista creates the AVI files with bad headers. The corruption begins after the video and audio stream format headers starting at the JUNK chunk. Example: //Stream header info comes before this Low rate size 00000294 (660) 00000000000000D4 JUNK 00000000 00000000000000DC LIST 0002200E movi 00000000000000E8 00000000 00000000000000F0 00000000 00000000000000F8 00000000 Notice the JUNK chunk has an invalid size of 00000000. And the 'movi' tag falls within the junk chunks. This throws off the indexes. I found that this "junk" gets wri ...Show All

• amoner rich User experience

  I guess we are at one of those times when there really is not a clear answer to a key problem and that is the delivery of rich ui experience in a browser. By this I do not mean animations and SVG but professional looking forms(input), trees, menus and dialogs. These are the artifacts that of course WinForms have and of course one can deliver much the same experience in a Web App but the energy to deliver it is tremendous. We write a lot of Javascript and CSS and then battle with the thankless and sometimes unsolvable cross browser issues. Recently we have started using controls from Telerik and I must say they are impressive. However they are just taking away some of the pain , what we really need is to have these capabilities in WPF/E as ...Show All

• lnkaye Invoking the Card space UI

  Hi         I am having a scenario where my Client UI should invoke the card space UI and this is followed by the user selecting a card and retriving the security token from a STS, the Security token is in turn given back to client UI.... I am able to load the Card space UI using the " CardSpaceSelector " but iam actually unable to make the card space to talk to the STS and get the security token of the selected card. is this possible need help regarding this. Regards Raguvind Ganesh So, just so I understand, you want to have your local application get a security token. Who/what is the destination of that To use CardSpace you need thr ...Show All

• s12 Power management and network applications

  Hello, I am trying to understand the affect on socket based network applications when the system moves into S3 state. Would the transition in and out of S3 be seamless for these applications (assuming ofcourse that the wake on LAN/wake on wlan driver/firmware keeps the "other end" happy. As an extension to this question: Are network interfaces brought down before the system is taken to S3 Any reading material/white papers that discuss this Are there any tools that I may be able to run to check the behavior Preliminary investigation on my end indicates that messenger type applications are happy (as long as the Wake on interface keeps the other end happy). But I wanted to know if this is by design on Windows. Is this be ...Show All

• Ksenia Mukhortova IPendingWork vs IWorkBatch

  I think I have a reasonably clear understanding of how to use IPendingWork and its commit functionality. However, I can't find any examples of using IWorkBatch and the docs don't mention much about this interface. How do the methods of this interface work in comparison with IPendingWork and commiting at Persistence points Thanks. StormBizTalker, IWorkBatch is just the place to add the work from the IPendingWork interface. The only available interface is the Add(). The Add() will take the "work" from IPendingWork and add it to the collection, for batch processing. hope this helps ...Show All

• rodolfosp Modify ActiveSync synchronization service provider (SSP) to run on Vista?

  Where can I find developer documentation for Vista's Windows Mobile Device Center (WMDC) I want to modify an ActiveSync SSP to run on Vista. Is this contained in the Windows Vista SDK Thanks, Frank That information is not quite what I am looking for - it is too generic. Perhaps WMDC uses those interfaces. Thanks, Frank An ActiveSync desktop provider developped under Windows XP doesn't seem to behave in the same way under Vista. For instance, errors returned by the desktop provider don't seem to be taken into account. And no information is available on how to communicate with the WMDC to display message to the user. Is there any documentation to descri ...Show All

• DeadlyEvilRyu Widgets/Controls

  Is there any inclusion for controls in the future for WPF/e initial release I know there are none in the CTP which is fine but I am curious to know if this will be expected for the first full release or not Reason I ask is I would love to replace our HTML form system with a WPF/e one. As far as input controls go, you have them already. Just float your html controls over the wpf/e control. Simple. How does a C# code-behind solve the syntax issues with Javascript As I understand it, you will always need javascript with WPF/E because that is the glue between the control and the browser. XBAPs don't use javascript because they run in a sandbox, not the browser per se. As I see it you already have a ...Show All

• Brian_W Help for Vista compatibility

  We are trying to run an application as a standard user but Vista is still asking for elevation. We need support and it seems hard to find answers. - Does someone can gives us help - Is it possible to find which part of the code cause this elevation Is it possible to test on windows XP the Vista Compatibility The standard user application can't run properly where can I find help Thank you for the quick response. So your application launches and right away it elevates, which it should not do. The log above is the result. Is your application unmanaged code This is a new application correct, it wouldn't have a shim in place Do you have the Application compatiblity toolkit (ACT 5.0) installed One t ...Show All

• jasse_91 Windows Vista Hands-On lab missing VS2005 source code

  The download located at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=5F0C8D20-A8D5-4DA3-A977-E039A40D67D5&displaylang=en is missing the VS2005 source code that is necessary for the lab. Where can we get the source code for the Windows Vista Hands On lab Hello CaseyB412, Please see the following MSDN posting http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=924480&SiteID=1 . Thanks! Matthew Braun ...Show All

• WXS123 Restart Manager and Windows Services

  Hi there, I'm trying to get rmtool.exe to shutdown a windows service, but it doesnt seem to handle the shutdown messages, even though there are three messages handlers that have been added to it, one for service control messages, one for ctrl-c messages and one handling windows messages, and still no response from my service. I think I might have the wrong syntax for closing a service with rmtool.exe, but I'm not sure. I'm running rmtool.exe from an admin command prompt. the test case says to use "rmtool.exe -f $dir|<service> -S" so I have tried different combinations, but the only time rmtool.exe seems to see the service process is when I use the executable file path, where I get this output: C:\folder> ...Show All

• stang4lyfe How to get(set) cursor position in my service before logon?

  Hello, I noticed that an interactive service cannot run in vista any more. This issue is good to security, but bad news for me using an interactive service. My service is simple and needs only 2 functions - one is getting cursor position and the other is setting cursor position. These 2 functions can be implemented through one other user application after user logon. But before user logon, how can I do this job Thank you in advance. Sweating Egg;; You probably need a different approach. Let's start with the underlying requirements: Why do you need to get/set cursor position from a service Hello, there. Our software is like the Star ...Show All

• horaciojk How to redirect on XAML file to anotherXAML file in same project

  Hi, How can i call one xaml file from another xaml file in same project . Example : Suppose in my First.xaml file have one button .onclick of this button i want to show second.xaml file how i can achive this by using javascript as a code behind. Thanks Thanks for reply. I think your not getting my problem 1 Here i explain my problem. ============= Suppose i have two canvas their names like = canvas_first . canvas_second In my canvas_first contiain two buttons their names are like First_btn and second_btn . when i click on first_btn then the first.xaml file is loaded in canvas_second and when i click on second_btn then second.xaml is loaded in ca ...Show All

• Uwe82 Non-square pixels - grab image

  Hi guys, I'm capturing images using the vmr9 getcurrentimage() function. I'm grabbing the images from a DV camera that output 720x480 and has an aspect ratio of 4:3. So, the VMR is resizing to 640x480 (set in vmr9mixingprefs). However, when I try and grab the image buffer, I don't get the resized image, I get the original image. All of my images are 720x480 and slightly distorted. How can I capture the resized image If that isn't possible, does anyone have an easy way to get a non distorted image Thanks. ~Steve I don't think the VMR actually adjusts the pixel count in any way; it just sets the display window correctly. If you can't do the same yourself, then I think you will need to resize the image with ...Show All

• Phillip Williams DirectShow filter development

  Hi! I am new to Direct Show (DS) but I have to learn the hardest area of DS. Does anyone know any training class for this Could anyone give me a basic flow for direct show filter development area Not how to use DS filters but to implement the DS filter. Thank you Starfish There are several filter code examples in the Platform SDK. You might also find some of the resources on this site to be useful: http://tmhare.mvps.org/ ...Show All