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• bryanedds TransactionScope authentication / poorly documented!

  Ahhhhh Microsoft, the most important feature in 2.0 “Transactions” is poorly documented, and almost working, as it looks like the people who developed it got it to work under one scenario, and released it immediately, never tested completely. It is like, hey, does windows xp connected to a windows 2003 DTC when bother are under the domain controller, and when we modify the settings to the DTC and remove the security Yes , Ok, releaseeeeee Does it run in other scenarios Hmmm, maybe :-) Ok, here is the problem 1- I am developing under a virtual machine, outside the domain controller. (Win2003). 2- My SQL server is under the domain controller. (Win2003). 3- I am using the SQL server authentication; it works fine if the transactio ...Show All

• ahmedilyas Accessing Windows Services Status

  I have noticed a few things have changed in my ability to access information regarding Windows Services. If anyone has any good tips I would appreciate them. Apparently the security rights just to interrogate or query service information has been increased. When I used to call OpenSCManager and OpenService I used to be able to use a GENERIC_READ and SERVICE_ALL_ACCESS Now, I can only use STANDARD_RIGHTS_READ which is ok but... When I try to call the following I get an Access Denied. bResult = ControlService(scService, SERVICE_CONTROL_INTERROGATE, &lpServiceStatus); I've also tried QueryServiceStatusExe(...) but its denied access. What does a program have to do before it can access this information Anyone have ...Show All

• Tim Tyhurst Test Case 2 and OpenFileDialog control

  Last step of the Test Case 2 is : 10. Attempt to open the file created in step 3 above a. The file can not be opened and the logged on user must be prompted indicating so. My application uses the OpenFileDialog control of the .NET Framework. When browsing to c:\users\logouser1 using the logouser2 account, the UAC consent dialog box is displayed. If I give credentials of an admin user, I am able to open the file in my application. But when trying to modify the file and saving it, my application displays a messagebox saying "access to the path ... is denied". I think this behavior should be OK, but the test case states my application should not be able to open the file in read only mode. And in the "Verification" ...Show All

• andyedw Task Scheduler: How to get the trigger strings from TaskScheduler 2.0 Interfaces

  The Task Scheduler 2.0 Interfaces no longer appear to have the ITask interface. The ITask interface used to have a function called GetTriggerString() that returned a formatted text string of the start time of the task (for example: Every Tuesday at 10:00am starting on Wed, January 14, 2008). I created a dispatch interface in Visual Studio 6 by using Class Wizard to add a new class from typlib, and used the taskschd.dll found on Vista as the input. The generated classes do not contain the ITask interface that used to provide this function, and none of the trigger interfaces seem to provide this. The closest is the trigger's GetStartBoundary() function, but this just returns a date, not a formatted string. Is there a way to get this f ...Show All

• lookup explorer closes every application unexpectedly

  This problem began this morning. I wanted to play .avi files in the media player. It froze alot...when it did play, after 10 minutes it would automatically shrink the screen viewing size. I'd have to double-click to get back to full-screen. Next...now everytime I open an application it will close it. I will get a pop-up...Explorer has experienced a problem...it needs to find out what happened (which goes on endlessly)...then it says Explorer must restart. What can I do to fix this Any help will be appreciated. im afraid these are the incorrect forums for your question.These forums are for software development on Windows Vista and any issues you may be having in this. The best place to a ...Show All

• leonreet [SysTreeView32] How to use TVS_EX_RICHTOOLTIP?

  Hi, I wonder how the new TVS_EX_RICHTOOLTIP style is supposed to be used. Of course you set this style using TVM_SETEXTENDEDSTYLE. But the Windows SDK says "Allow rich tooltips in the tree view (custom drawn with icon and text)" and I'm asking myself how to make the tooltip display an icon. The quoted sentence above sounds like I'd have to handle the NM_CUSTOMDRAW notification that the tooltip sends to the treeview. But the tooltip sends NM_CUSTOMDRAW message also if TVS_EX_RICHTOOLTIP isn't set, so I don't see a reason for the existence of TVS_EX_RICHTOOLTIP. Could anyone please give me some sample code that demonstrates how to use this TVS_EX_RICHTOOLTIP thing Thanks in advance TiKu Nobody knows ...Show All

• tasleemarif Using smartcards in a service - SCardAccessStartedEvent

  Dear all, Migrating our core development platform to Windows Vista, one of our Windows services using smartcards is failing. We have debugged the problem and found that the event provided by the function ScardAccessStartedEvent does not receive notification. This event is supposed to signal when the SmartCard Resource Manager starts. As we have a WaitForSingleObject(event,INFINITE), the service hungs. Testing the same service as an ordinary executable ( registering with -regserver ) I can see it works properly. In XP it works properly both as an executable and service. I have read something about Service Hardening in Vista and I guess it may be caused by privilege reduction. So, I've created some code to enumerate the existing ...Show All

• SynergyNT Error Trap

  I'm using vbscript in my asp file to open a pdf document. Everytime when there's a variable in my asp file that does not exist in the pdf document, it crashes and gives me an error with number for instance "890000". what i would like to do is to get this number and then say continue on. B/c i have nenver done error trapping before so could you guys help me with this. How do i get the error number and then say continue on with my code and ignore that error. Thank you very much. This forum is for questions about Windows Workflow Foundation. I don't see how your question has anything to do with that. whatever ...Show All

• ChenWang Custom Sql Persistence

  Hi, I need to store the state of the workflowInstance in sql db. Apart from that, I need to store UserId, taskID, etc., in the database. As per the sql schema that comes with WF [sql scripts] does not support. So, I need use my own custom sql persistence. Kindly let me know, if someone has solution for this, please share with me. Thanks in advance, chandru. Chandru - you want to look at tracking for storing data other than the persisted workflow. Workflow Persistence is really for robustness (saving the last known good state to start the workflow again in case of a exception) and load balanacing (allowing another machine than the one that started the workflow or ran it last to run ...Show All

• Dorisdvu AGHost.js Strategy

  I've been looking into how aghost.js works and I am curious about something. I like the strategy that YouTube and their ilk use for allowing visitors to embed their player in your site and wonder if the Dev Team could explain why this same strategy isn't used in WPF/E. This works with WPF/E: <object id="theHost" width="400" height="400" classid="CLSID:32C73088-76AE-40F7-AC40-81F62CB2C1DA"> <param name="Source" value="plugin.xaml" /> <param name="BackgroundColor" value="White" /> <embed id="theHost" width="400" height="400" pluginspage="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ LinkID=77792& ...Show All

• Pankaj11 Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)

  I installed Daemon Tools on Windows Vista Business. The result was that my CDrom went dead. System Restore hasn't helped. Then CDrom properties reveals this: "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)" If you update driver, you get " Windows has determined that the driver software is up to date" I've tried them all, it says "can not delete: Error while deleteing". Now what   btw, Vista 32-bit Home Premium and I have installed NO 3rd party CD software. Only software on my machine so far(since it is 3 days old) is 2 video games, Avast AV, and the drivers for my keyboard. ...Show All

• tcreevan starting application from setup - not as administrator

  Hello all: When my application is run for the very first time at the end of the installation process, it is running as administrator, because the setup itself was automatically detected and elevated by Vista. Is there any option to run it from setup at usual (medium) privilege level I have tried manifest with requestedExecutionLevel of asInvoker - to no avail. TIA OTNS I'm kind of curious about this install-time service approach. If the user is a 'standard user,' runs the admin app (providing credentials for an admin user) does the service produce an app running as the original user Or the weak version of the admin Does it work correctly in an environment where there are multiple l ...Show All

• plinius NetUserEnum call fails on vista when going across domains

  I have a parent and a child domain. The vista machine is in the parent domain, when i try to get the user accounts on the child domain rfom the vista machine its gives me a access denied (5) even though i am logged in as a enterprise admin. The same code that i have outlined below works on XP\2000 etc. I use NetWkstaGetInfo to get information of the users workstation. The (WKSTA_INFO_100) structure member (wki100_langroup) has the name of the domain (Parent domain in this case as the vista machine is on the parent domain) then i use the NetGetAnyDCName to get any domain controller on the parent domain. I run the NetGetAnyDCName again with the domain controller from the parent as the first argument to get a domain controller from the chi ...Show All

• Elham Sarikhani Adding largeicon to imagelist gives an error

  Hi, I have two imagelist with size 16 * 16 and 32 * 32 respectively. I add an icon to these two image list and it works fine on XP. Under Vista 120 DPI setting, It gives an error when i try to add the icon to the second imagelist. In the normal DPI setting it works fine. The error is, WFCException : cannot add an image smaller than the imagesize property. The code is in vj++. sample code is: smallImageList = new ImageList (new Point (16, 16)); largeImageList = new ImageList (new SIZE (32,32)); Icon icon = (Icon)LImage.getImage.... smallImageList.addImage (icon); largeImageList.addImage (icon); //error occurs on this statement. I appreciate your help on this. Thanks, vaishalli That excepti ...Show All

• rsnewbie Examples by Tom Lake

  Thanks for your examples. I have question about SharedPersistenceAndTracking example when you create new order Order number:5555 the Workflow InstanceId: c036af82-f48a-4931-acef-9307812a1177 Workflow Status: WaitingForOrderState When click to create order button the workflow Status will Changed to OrderOpenStatus. When close the application and run it again in the Default.aspx page the first instanceid equal : c036af82-f48a-4931-acef-9307812a1177 When you click to the instance the order.aspx will present and shown this information Order number:12345 The workflow instanceid: : c036af82-f48a-4931-acef-9307812a1177 Workflow Status: OrderOpenState My que ...Show All