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• senior man I don't think this is a Video Driver or Bios Problem.

  I'm having a problem with Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit edtion on my HP laptop, when i close the lid but i have set up what windows does when i close the laptop to do nothing, but when i close the lid, and re open it, the screen is off/black, cant shutdown it properly and must do hard reboot. Laptop is HP Pavillion dv9000nr AMD Turion 64x2 Nvidia GeForce GO 6150 1gb memory Exact same problem with a Sony Vaio VGN-FE590P. How in the world did such a widespread bug make it through Microsoft's 'extensive' testing over the last year I installed Vista and noticed this on day two. Also using new nvidia drivers. I've also noticed if I put the notebook in standby the screen doesn't come back on ...Show All

• ReneeC FreeformActivityDesigner and Connectors question...

  Hi! I am hosting a FreeformActivityDesigner in my app which works really great. I can drag my custom shapes onto the design surface and drag Connectors between them. But i'm unable to find out how I can delete a Connector on a key press (I know how to actually delete it but I can't figure out how to listen for a key press when the Connector is selected)... I tried to override FreeformActivityDesigner.CreateConnector to supply my own connector class derived from Connector but the Connector class doesn't have any events to listen for key presses... If I override FreeformActivityDesigner.OnKeyDown, my override method is only called if the design surface itself is selected and it's not called if a Connector is selected. How can ...Show All

• Roy mm XPS to GDI print path

    Hi  i want to use XPS to GDI conversion path for GDI based printer. From MSDN i came to know that The XPSDrv model also provides a converter for XPS to GDI format so that Win32 applications can print XPS Documents.  How can i use this XPS to GDI conversion path .  Is there any way to get a postscript as an output from an XPS printer  Driver .     Regards Abhishek Why not just print your xps-file on the postscript-printer like... // get a PrinterServer LocalPrintServer ps = new LocalPrintServer(); // get your PrintQueue to desired Printer PrintQueue pq = ps.GetPrintQueue("HP Laserjet 5Si"); // get a XpsDocumentWriter for the PrintQu ...Show All

• Jamie Briant Database Update Concept

  Hi, We often need to query or update data from/to Database within the business processes. If we use WF Workflow to handle those process, which of the following practices is recommended: 1) Use the SQLDatabase Activity to query or update the database by the Workflow engine directly, or 2) Use the CallExternalMethod to ask the Host Application to perform the query or update. For example, in a bank money withdraw workflow, it might involves a Query (for available balance), and Update (latest balance after the withdrawal). Andy Either of these approaches will work, it just depends on where you want to keep your logic and how you want to structure your application. If you already have logic ...Show All

• jt_10 setting up redistritable VS2005 VC.net developing environment

  I plan to study DirectX9.0C. I installed August version SDK. is it enough Shall I install other software such as DX9.0C runtime I would like to develope real applications and I need a real redistritable environment. I already installed redistritable DX9.0C sdk and VS2005. I select VC.net as tools. But I cann't find the graphedit tool which I previously use. Thread moved to DirectShow forum You also need to install the Platform SDK. DirectShow has moved from the DirectX SDK to the Platform SDK and graphedit is a DirectShow utility. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=0BAF2B35-C656-4969-ACE8-E4C0C0716ADB&displaylang=en Although if you want the *absolute* latest, t ...Show All

• jlansing Linksys wireless usb problems with vista

  I have been having problems with the pci and usb Linksys wireless adapters when I installed windows vista RC1 build 5600. It always gives me these errors: Can't load ProcNIC'sdll and Can't load Res_dll Maybe I need to find drivers for windows vista and if they are not there then I guess I will have to wait until they do. The only problem I see with windows vista is the networking problems. I have seen other posts for network problems so I guess I am not alone. Hello Sweettooth, Can you provide more info about the Linksys wireless adapter like version numbers And when exactly do you get the error messages (during install ) Can you provide the exact error message and dll names its failing to lo ...Show All

• dragoncells Local Service Event call from host - left hand side requirement

  I'm obviously missing a step in this process somewhere. I have a local service with an interface that has an event implemented as: public event EventHandler <EmployeeEventArgs > OrderCreated; In the host, I have the services registered: ExternalDataExchangeService dataService = new ExternalDataExchangeService (); workflowRuntime.AddService(dataService); dataService.AddService(svc); //where service is a 'new EmployeeService' type In my OnWorkflowIdled method, I am doing: svc.OrderCreated(); When I try to compile, it tells me: 'EmployeeOrderService.EmployeeOrderService.OrderCreated' can only appear on the left hand side of += or -= I can call this event fine from within the local service by doing: this ...Show All

• Niro Using CardSpace in public places?

  Hello, I've been looking at CardSpace for a while and haven't run across anything that explicitly discusses its use in public places. Are there any plans for using these cards at work, school, etc. without having to recreate the card (or copy it via email or a flash drive) And more importantly, will there be a secure way to do this, possibly a one-time usage Thanks, Brian In version 1, there is no explicit support for this. Currently, you can export and import cards in and out of CardSpace, but there is no implicit roaming scenario yet. There are many things in design right now that will address this, as obviously, it's of critical importance. g Garrett Serack | Program Mana ...Show All

• SimonS_ CreateFile fails under Vista

  Hi, I am a Windows developer programming in Visual Studio C++. I have an application that works fine under all recent versions of windows up to and including Windows XP SP2.   Under the latest Vista beta 2 build 5472 the application fails as follows.  The following line of code fails under Windows Vista,  even when executed as administrator.  HANDLE hHandle = CreateFileA("\\\\.\\APPDRV", GENERIC_READ|GENERIC_WRITE, 0, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, 0x80, NULL); The CreateFile fails to open APPDRV,  can anyone shed some light on this,  and the correct code to use for Vista.  regards Nic Wilson   [EDIT] Disregard,  the issue has been solved.   NW ...Show All

• Vaish Sound Problem

  I dont know if this is being posted in the right forum or not...I can't find any Vista Tech Support forums....but I installed Vista brand new on a computer i bought and I installed a Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Sound Card and for a little while everything worked fine...I installed the drivers and everything. Now when I play music in Itunes or Windows Media Player the song plays for a little then starts sounding like its lagging, a skipping quality....I noticed its not just the music, but its all sounds on the computer....and then after a minute it just won't play music anymore....furthermore NO sound will play on the computer...if i restart the computer the sound comes back, but then after a minute or two the problem happens again. Any ideas ...Show All

• XImplosionX state workflow with multiple approve scenario

  I'm working on a scenario where multiple users cann approve or reject tasks. Therefore I've created custom state driven activities inherited from StateActivity and IEventActivity to handle my events. My custom StateActivity contains EventDrivenActivity which subscribes to the event and receiving event data from a WorkflowQueue. My Service enqueues event data to the queue when the event gets to be fired. In detail, my state activity contains two EventDrivenActivities one for the commit event and another for the reject event. Each of the events can be fired by the work of two users (let's assume user A and user B) My plan was not to unsubscribe the event, when user A fires the event Continue. Instead of it, the event listeners should c ...Show All

• JungleMonkeyMike MIDL COMPILER

  Can anybody tell me "MIDL compiler version 3.03.0110" coming with which SDK I need RPC.h, RPCNDR.H file which is coming with this SDK. I would greatly appriciate if anybody can help me in this I think this particular SDK is not supported by Microsoft but I need a solution for this problem anyhow ...Show All

• envi_ria Time Zone problem in Vista

  Hi, For earlier versions of windows (Win NT and 9X) we were using " index " key at " HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones " to maintain a unique (language-independent) identifier. But it seems that in Vista this key has been removed. Why Even if that key is removed do you people have any unique ID (that is language-independent) through which we can positively identify a time zone. Regards Sid   Bruce N. Baker - MSFT wrote: This is an undocumented value and relying on the "index" is not recommended in any case. Can you explain what you are trying to accomplish exactly and maybe I can assist you in an alternate method of achieving your desired results. Have you examined using ...Show All

• Anton__ Problem with Workflow Monitor Sample

  I'm, having problems running the Workflow Monitor sample. It can query the workflows, but I get a big "X" on the rhs where it's supposed to display the workflow, and returns an error that says: "Microsoft Workflow Designer" "Object Reference not set to an instance of an object". I'm using Beta 2.2. Have you been able to determine where hte exception is being thrown If you run in debug mode can you find the exception details. The nice thing about this problem is we all have access to that application, so if you can point out the problem, we can help you find the cause. Matt What I find when I try the VB version is that the tracking inst ...Show All

• Anonymous X Selection on MouseUp instead of MouseDown

  Hi Experts, I would like to change the default selection in my activity designer. The selection should happen after a MouseUp instead of the default MouseDown. I tried to overwrtite ActivityDesigner::OnMouseDown, but it didn't help. Has somebody an idea Thanks: Laszlo This is "By Design" and cannot be altered at the WF activity/custom activity level. Thanks, Kushal This problem can be solved with own selection manager. See http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1115953&SiteID=1 Laszlo ...Show All