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• vgvKarthik Standard User Analyzer causes COM and ActiveX to fail

  We have a legacy application programmed in C++ and MFC that runs on Windows 2000 and XP but has problems with COM and ActiveX when run on VISTA. This app is built with Visual Studio 2003. I remotely debugged this app running on Vista from my development machine and found that the COM and ActiveX problems is the app trying to instantiate the COM components but they return E_ACCESSDENIED. I have checked the following: 1. The COM components on both my development machine (XP) and the test machine (VISTA) have the same ACL’s. 2. The access denied problem occurs if I am logged into the test machine (VISTA) as a local user or an administrator (Admin Approval Mode). 3. I added: HRESULT hr ...Show All

• Michael Ruminer Errors in winnt.h file using visual c++ 2005 express edition and mar. 15 sdk

  Hello. I get the following errors when I try to include winnt.h in my code. I tried using the newest sdk as well as the previous release, and both files seem to generate the same errors. This must be a common problem, but I haven't seen the answer. I'm including stdio.h, xlcall.h, windef.h and winnt.h in my code. Maybe I need to include another header. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Include\winnt.h(3857) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'ContextRecord' C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Include\winnt.h(3857) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-in ...Show All

• Jamie Thomson Access denied errors using events in Vista

  We have an application that runs fine under XP & Win 2K. The application runs at startup and creates a global event (Global\RS_EVENT) and several threads wait for this event. A browser help object (BHO) opens the event and pulses it when it needs something from one of the threads. Using the process analyzer, our application runs at medium integrity. The browser runs at low integrity. We can create the event with no problem but the BHO gets an access denied error (5) when it tries to open the event. If we run IE as an admin, the BHO can open the event even tho it gets a 12006 error (ERROR_INTERNET_UNRECOGNIZED_SCHEME). This error does not make any sense to us. Does anybody know what the 12006 error really means We have tried usin ...Show All

• Nathon Dalton Trouble with the Thumbnail provider sample

  Hey Eric, I ran into the same issues. The SDK sample doesn't work (it's quite buggy too). And your sample didn't work either. Using the release version of Windows Vista Ultimate. I believe it's got to do with some of the header files being outdated. I ended up getting this working, what I ended up doing is I created a new ATL-based COM project and added my own implementation of a thumbnail provider - borrowing from the sample where I could. For some reason, my implementation worked just fine! I hand-checked how I registered my sample and it seems OK, but for whatever reason it just wouldn't work for me. In any case, I put the sample I created based on that platform sdk sample on my blog. Thanks! Eric. ...Show All

• Zero_ Cannnot install VS2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation on WinXP2

  Hi, I cannot install VS2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation (v3.00.4203.2, downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=5D61409E-1FA3-48CF-8023-E8F38E709BA6&displaylang=en ) on my Windows XP2 computer. It always report following error message, although I've installed .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime (full version, ~56MB) successfully before: " Platform Prerequisites Missing. Based on the components you selected to install, you must first install the following prerequisites. - Windows Workflow Foundation version 3.0.4203.2 " What does this error mean How can I resolve it Thanks. Here is a listing of installed MS development softwares on my computer. And there is no install ...Show All

• hye_heena Is it possible to use wpf/e over html?

  I have some html content and i'd like to write wpf/e control over html content. Code like: <div style="position: absolute; left: 10px; top: 10px;">...here some html ...</div> <div id="wpfContainer"></div> But wpf/e content always override html, any ideas If you make the "WFP/E" control windowless you can make the HTML be on top of the "WPF/E" content. To enable windowless, set the eighth parameter (where you call the agHost function) to true.   function agHost(hostElementID, id, width, height, backgroundcolor, sourceelement, source, windowlessmode, framerate, errorhandler)   This is what Mike Harsh does for his "WPF/E" Pad applicatio ...Show All

• Rahul B MiniDumpWriteDump returns incorrect parameter for 3dsmax plugin DLL

  I'm trying to catch a minidump for a plug-in I've written for Autodesk 3dsMax version 8. I've previously done this in other programs; it's pretty easy, and gives you good debugging information. However, this time, the call to MiniDumpWriteDump() fails (returns 0, and getlasterror says incorrect parameter). What could cause MDWD() to return error 0x57, and how can I figure out why it happens in this particular case The code for the code path that contains the crash: HMODULE dbgHelp; BOOL (WINAPI *WriteDumpFunc)(HANDLE, DWORD, HANDLE, MINIDUMP_TYPE, PMINIDUMP_EXCEPTION_INFORMATION, PMINIDUMP_USER_STREAM_INFORMATION, PMINIDUMP_CALLBACK_INFORMATION); if (!dbgHelp) { dbgHelp = ::LoadLibrary("dbghelp.dll"); if (dbgHelp ...Show All

• KerryLW State Machine Workflow Fault & Cancel Handling issues

  Dear all, I have written a state machine workflow, hosted by an asp.net 2.0 web site using WinWF Beta 2.2. Having got this up and running successfully, I have been working on fault handlers for it and seem to be having trouble with them: 1) It is a major irritation that I cannot apparently define a fault handler for the whole state machine workflow (which can be done in a sequential workflow). Is there any way to provide such a global fault handler, which can then be overridden by local ones inside the states 2) My workflow has ended up with two types of state, which can be thought of as "doing" states, implemented with a state initialization activity which simply carries out activities then sets the next state, and & ...Show All

• furjaw SQL Support

  Hi! I tried few times to run some basic SQL queries like: "INSERT into...", "SELECT * from...", but I didn't success. Why does it not suppoted in Windows Vista That supported in Windows XP. Thanks, Idan. I see no reason for this to not work in vista. I developed some in vista on earlier releases and didn't experience the problems you describe. can it be that you do not have the proper permission to access the access db Hi, My server is IIS, I'm using Microsoft Access. I am sorry but I am not able to get what actually isn't working. What tools are you using, what kind of server are you using I don't think it is about lac ...Show All

• Omar Fawzi Backward compatibility with win32 API with function within advapi32.dll

  Hi, I need to use the following functions which defined in the advapi32.dll: 1. LsaOpenPolicy 2. LsaAddAccountRights 3. FreeSid 4. LookupAccountName 5. IsValidSid 6. LsaClose 7. LsaNtStatusToWinError I am using these functions in order to add privileges to a user account (privileges in the local security policy). I want to know whether or not Microsoft is committed to keep backward compatibility for the win32 API in their next versions i.e. Vista, etc. Thanks. ...Show All

• MariamCR How to relocate source filter properly?

  The problem is how to relocate my source filter that is created by GraphBuilder to filter I want Brief desc: I have a source filter which registered to some format files. The files of protected format are simply wrappers of standart format files, for instance, wmv, avi, etc. Out pin of source filter delivers streamed data to downstream compartible filters that builds by GraphBuilder. I registered filter for using by Microsoft Media Player. During playback Media Player creates GraphBuilder, it, in its turn, creates source file -> OutPin. OutPin implements IStreamBuilder interface to let me build graph. Method "Render" clears my source filter if the file format is "wmv" (GraphBuilder can't find suitable tranform filte ...Show All

• dpetrek Firefox 1.5 and Pre-RC1

  After installing the Pre-RC1 of Vista (and putting on the WDK and SDK for 5472) and installing Firefox 1.5, opening XPS Documents no longer worked. Internet Explorer could no longer find the .NET 3 Framework when trying to open an XPS Doc. After uninstalling Firefox and setting Internet Explorer back as the regular browser IE still could not find the .NET Framework. Any ideas Jeff have you looked at the following keys HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Microsoft.XPS.Shell.Metadata HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Microsoft.XPS.Shell.Metadata.1 HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Microsoft.XPS.Shell.Thumbnail HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Microsoft.XPS.Shell.Thumbnail.1 HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\Bootstrap Content Type application/vnd.ms-xpsdocument ...Show All

• perrs Removed USB flash drive while in sleep

  I took and turned off the computer for the first time running Windows vista build 5600. Well I guess I thought that I had turned off the computer it was "sleeping". I ripped out my flash drive that was attached to my car keys from the usb port. Came back to the computer later that night and found it locked up. Did a hard reset and found my bios needed to be re-flash. Let me know if you have any more question about the computer it was running on. im afraid this is the wrong forum to post in. The best place to ask would be the appropriate communities: www.microsoft.com/communities Thanks! ...Show All

• Dave Dustin Code Activity context menu questions

  On the code activity context menu, two of the selections are: Promote Bindable Properties and Bind Property 'ExecuteCode' (assuming that I placed a value into the Executecode property and created a handler). I'd like to have a better understanding of what these menu selections do. For example, why would a code activity, from the toolbox, have a bindable property Wouldn't that have to be a custom activity with a dependency property I created And why would I bind my ExecuteCode method to a property Thanks. Just because you can promote a handler doesn't mean that it is appropriate for all situations or even allowed. Event handlers on a root activity can not be set outside of that root acti ...Show All

• suchi banerjee [RuleWrite("somefiled")]

  Hi Can you give me a good example how to use [RuleRead/Write/Invoke] with PolicyActivity I don't get example from manual... I want some pratical real life example how to use and when :) Jedrzej So it's helpful mostly when priorities are different I mean if they all have priority = 0 will be execution order changed If for example there was rule2 reading from field2 and rule3 changed this field but than between them still will be field1. Will be field2 executed after field1 or before Does it work in a loop if something is changed everytime Jedrzej Thanks for links :) But there is slight problem there is database needed for them... Do you know where I can find script to build such database Or some description what it ...Show All