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• davidgreen24 Test Case 13 for Vista Certification

  I'm looking at Test Case 13 which says: Verify application's installer contains an embedded manifest. (Only applies to applications that are using a non-self-containing bootstapper or chainer to install the app) Anyone know what exactly a "non-self-containing bootstrapper or chainer" means I am familiar with what a bootstrapper is, but I'm so sure sure about the context here. Can anyone enlighten me That dash problem occurs when you copy the command from the MSDN help web site as I just did! http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756929.aspx Did you find some way to get rid of this error I get the same error message as you. ...Show All

• palmirag Copy File to System32\Drivers

  Hello, I encountered a problem that my program cannot CopyFile to C:\\Windows\\System32\\Drivers even though my property is Administrator, what I got by using GetLastError is Access Deny. But I really need to copy some files to that place, is there any other way I can do this Thanks! Hello, Because the DLLs and SYSs we bought need to be put in \\System32\\drivers , otherwise it wont be able to function. So This really bother me. I dont really understand what you guys mean "The app needs to run elevated", Can anyone explain thie concept Thanks! Hello, Arron Like I meationed at the beginning of this post threads, I am su ...Show All

• TRID Drag and drop?

  I'm interested in writing automated tests for a rich WPF client that has drag to move and drag-select functionality. I like the UIAutomation stuff a lot. To round out my tests, though, I'll need to implement mouse click-drag-release behavior. What's the recommended approach for this Win32 SendMouseInput Any guidelines or code samples to point me to Thanks! Luke I don't think UIA supports those. One need to use the SDK API (eg SendInput or SendMessage) ~JK I also need this functionality but haven't found any solution to it yet. If I do I'll post it right away...hopefully Microsoft has a nice solution in UIA itself, but I don't think so. Grtz, Nick ...Show All

• chris6804 EnqueueItem from within a code activity

  Is it possible to call wfInst.EnqueueItem from within a code activities execute method As I was trying to do this the thought occurred to me that I would need the runtime to get the workflow instance using my instance ID. But, is it permissible to even get the WF runtime from within an activity because of the things the WFruntime allows you to do Thanks! This isn't the supported way of doing this. EnqeueItem is a host operation, and you do not have access to the workflow runtime or workflow instance objects from within the workflow. The proper way to achieve this is to make a call to a local service via a CallExternalMethod activity. The local service lives in the host and has access to the work ...Show All

• Hooper Vista Logo Compliance

  Hi All, I am currently working with Vista Logo Compliance for software need following information urgently. Please help. What is the process of getting Vista Logo Compliance for Software ( Applications). How can one apply this to any application for getting the same IS there any example available or data found that can be shared for getting Logo compliance. Is there any tools available for getting Logo Compliance. What approach one should follow to achive the same. What are the best practices for getting Logo Compliance. Whate are the Check list for getting Logo compliance. Regards, Ajay Kumar Ajaykr wrote: What application are you trying to certify Techonlogy What current ...Show All

• Chris Jiang installutil.exe installing windows service

  I'm tring to install a windows service and keep getting the following message, can anyone help with this TIA C:\Program Files\My Application>installUtil.exe MyApp.exe Microsoft (R) .NET Framework Installation utility Version 2.0.50727.42 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved. Running a transacted installation. Beginning the Install phase of the installation. See the contents of the log file for the C:\Program Files\My Application\MyApp.exe assembly's progress. The file is located at C:\Program Files\My Application\MyApp.InstallLog. Installing assembly 'C:\Program Files\My Application\MyApp.exe'. Affected parameters are:    logtoconsole =    assemblyMyApph = C:\Program Files\My Appli ...Show All

• Piroc Flash Professional 8, | VISTA | Bug

  Hi I recently installed Flash 8 on my computer I found when I double click on a symbol to open it, it as dotted lined boxes slow increses in size then opens the symbol this is very frustrating is there anyway to make it faster like it was on XP Hiya, If you switch to windows classic in your themes then it will work F.....ck! YES! You just saved my world! Thank you a lot :-) It works! Thank you Birnam Designs for helping! I was having this issue as well, thanks for taking the time to post a solution! Thank you for helping. Had the same problem and was working around it, now I don't h ...Show All

• Bijivb How to cancel/ignore an event

  So here is my scenario: I have a workflow published as a web service. This workflow sends out e-mails and processes incoming e-mails. Currently, I have my mail functionality implemented in a local service, and it works fine. The only problem is when the worker process is recycled, the mail service stops polling for mail, at least until the next web service requests restarts the web application. What I'm thinking of doing is moving the mail polling functionality into a separate Windows service or scheduled task. I figured I could have this separate service send a web service notification to the workflow instance when an e-mail is received. Here's the problem: There's no correlation token with web services, and just because the ...Show All

• Windows Project Sample location needed

  Folks, I apologize in advance if this has been asked and answered. I did some due dilligence on google and the local search engine and couldn't come up with anything 1. Anybody know where I can find an example of an application that loads a XOML-only file from disk, activates that workflow, and then runs it 2. Anybody know what a best practice is for having the workflow control the UI In other words, I want the workflow to tell my GUI which form should be displayed. I've come up with a couple of ways to do it, but I want the best way to do it - I'm thinking it would involve some event pub/sub, but I'd like to hear what you folks think. Thanks! Kevin for testing purpose, I've downloaded Tom sample : http://blogs.msdn.com/tom ...Show All

• dlevers Capturing from serial port (RS232) with DirectShow. Help!

  Hi! First of all, sorry if my english is not so good... I need to know if it is possible to capture a video stream with DirectShow from a webcam connected to the serial port of a computer. Maybe it’s important to say that the webcam is not directly connected to the RS232, the webcam is installed in to a microbot, and it sends the data stream via wireless (with radiofrecuency) to a capture card connected to the serial port of the PC... So windows hasn’t the drivers of the webcam. So, what i really need to know it’s if there’s a way to make DirectShow read from the serial port a video stream without previously knowing if there’s a peripheral connected, just reading the data flow and performing it as a video stream. Don’t know ...Show All

• Super_user Custom Designer - IsSupportedActivityType()

  I've extended the SequentialWorkflowRootDesigner class in an attempt to overload IsSupportedActivityType so that I can keep some custom activities from being dropable in the initial sequence but my IsSupportedActivityType method is not being called. I want to make my activity to be only allowed in an inner composite activity. Am I barking up the wrong tree or does anybody have a suggestion I want to make it so that the following is alowed: lt;sequence> <container> <customactivity /> </container> </sequence> while the following is not <sequence> <customactivity /> <container> ... </container> </sequence> Thanks in advance ...Show All

• Mutola WorkflowRuntime drastically slows down application?

  I have these two simple test methods: public void TestRuntime() { this.Cycle(); //takes 30ms WorkflowRuntime wr = new WorkflowRuntime(); wr.StartRuntime(); this.Cycle(); //takes 5500ms } public void Cycle() { for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) { Trace.WriteLine(i); } } When I start TestRuntime(), the first call to Cycle() takes about 30ms, but the second call (after runtime start) takes above 5000ms. Subsequent calls to Cycle() take between 3000 - 8000ms. Is this usual behaviour or I am doing something wrong (There are no running workflow instances.) I find out, that it has connection with workflow debugger. The problem ...Show All

• JeffJohnsonMVPVB Is there a "standard place" to store writeable not plublic shared files to please UAC?

  Our program has two files must be writeable (a database file and a config file) which are shared by all dedicated users of the program on a single system. The automatic redirection to a single users directory path is not helpfull in that case. Before changing our program: Is there a standard place on Vista to store writeable not public shared files (We whant also to pass Vista Logo test...) Thanks in advance Hi PitG, did you find a solution to your above mentioned issue Kind regards Lela Have you tested this on Vista David I ask because I see some really odd irregularities under WinXP. I almost think there is something else at work for this path because I was able to create f ...Show All

• Mel V Undocumented behavior of ICaptureGraphBuilder2::FindInterface() and IPropertyBag::Read()

  Im trying to read frames from a video input, using a couple of directshow filters and interfaces, and at some point im calling ICaptureGraphBuilder2::FindInterface(). Problem is that they dont say anything about what happens to the pointer that is supposed to recive the interface, in the case it fails. And I dont want to make any wrong assumptions that all implementations may behave identically as mine. Sure i could set the pointer to say NULL in the case of not returnig S_OK, but the code is cryptic enough (even when im trying to make it as clean as possible). The page with info about the method is: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/directshow/htm/icapturegraphbuilder2findinterface.asp Another undoc ...Show All

• PanzerDivisionMarkus ValuePattern setvalue on an edit box is not working

  When setvalue is done on an edit box, the value which needs to be set is displayed in the edit box, but the application is not able to recognise the set text, internally it is just seeing the blank field Moreover the Value pattern was supported by the edit box when seen from the UI Spy. At the end I have to fall back on using the SendKeys Application is Visual Studio 2005 and framework is UIA 3.0 for .NET ~JK Thanks for the suggestion This doesn't work even if i set the focus on other controls. The automation code does do other operations after setting the values, so the focus change has happened, and in spite of that the value is not read by the application ~JK ...Show All