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• Susan2 How do Microsoft want Vista developers to report suspected OS bugs?

  I am developing some heavy stuff on x64 Vista Ultimate, do Microsoft care about bugs or suspected bugs that I encounter if so please tell me HOW to do this. Regards Hugh Hi Hugh, Once upon a time(hehe), I had the same problem with you, and finally I got to know that normal users are not encouraged to report bugs  manually. Microsoft has their own way to collect bug information (e.g. the bug report prompt window or registered beta test users), and they think that is enough. Of course you can try to contact with any department(including newsgroup&this forum) you can find in Ms' web site, although none is effective as you desired, I think. This was for the Beta version ...Show All

• Martin Johannesson Special treatment of ActiveX controls in Vista high DPI mode?

  I have a wierd problem. Our application, written in MFC, uses an ActiveX control, also written in MFC (VS2005SP1). If I change the DPI to 144 on WinXP our app handles this fine and everything is scaled as expected. If I change the DPI on Vista and also check the "Use Windows XP style DPI scaling" it also works fine. If I change the DPI on Vista and do not check the "Use Windows XP style DPI scaling" our application was initially scaled by Vista and worked as expected. So far so good. Now we would like our application to look nicer and use the real DPI. To accomplish this we call SetProcessDPIAware() when the process starts (first in InitInstance). Then Vista no longer use the automatic scaling for our ...Show All

• Barguast "The owner SID on a per-user subscription doesn't exist"

  I'm trying to convert this one AVI (XVID) to DVD using Windows DVD Maker. Every single time (tried it 4 times), I get this error at 99.0%: The owner SID on a per-user subscription doesn't exist What is this error I tried with multiple DVD, and still get this. I'm using an NEC DVD-/+R burner (don't know the exact model). Hi all... I might be jumping the gun here, but i am rather excited... I recently updated my Graphic Card Drivers to the Vista drivers from the ATI site (I have a ATI Radeon 9600). Don't think that i have changed anything else... Last night i tried to copy a different DVD and it worked. So today i am trying the one that did not work in the past and i will let you know tomorrow. Ho ...Show All

• Natacuin failed to call EnableDHCP on vista

  we use Win32_NetworkAdaptconfiguration to configure the network on vista, EnableDHCP failed and return 81( Unable to config DHCP service ), but EnableStatic on vista and EnableDHCP on xp is ok,so what is wrong ,and what is different with xp about WMi on vista ,where i can find the explain. I have a similar problem. Here is the scenario: Start with a static IP address in my adapter. Then I call EnableDHCP on the Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration object, which works for everything except the Default Gateway IP address. This remains the same as I had before, when the adapter was a static ip address. In my case I am plugging the adapter into a new DHCP serving device, and I am ...Show All

• Thai Nguyen Designer Rehosting - State machine workflow

  Hi, I am hosting designer in my applicaiton, but when it loads state machine workflow, it re-arranges all states on its own. It looks ugly as some time it shows last state first and first state somewhere in middle. Its hard to find flow. I want to keep the state diagram displayed as is when it was designed in design mode. Any idea what should i do to keep the state shapes at its original location instead of re-arranging on new place Thanks, Hiten In your WorkflowDesignerLoader you need to override LoadDesignerLayout and SaveDesignerLayout to save the .layout file that the designer uses to save the layout. Please take a look at the sample posted at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau ...Show All

• gorance Crystal Reports Version 7 and Vista

  16-bit Crystal doesn't appear to work properly using Vista Home Premium. The print job doesn't complete and Customer has related that the only way to get rid of these jobs is to reboot system. Any comments appreciated. ...Show All

• SFM Debug Workflow from Winform App

  I have exposed a workflow as a web service and have added a winform project to the same solution the workflow is in. Within the Winform app, I added a reference to the web service and call the web method provided by the interface. I cannot determine however, how to debug into the workflow. I have seen the following directions for debugging an ASP.Net app: 1. Enable debugging for the ASP.NET application by setting debug = true in the web.config file. 2. Set the workflow library as the startup project, and set breakpoints on the workflow. 3. Enter the URL of the default Web page in the workflow project properties\Debug\ Start browser with external URL text box. 4. In VS, select Debug\Attach to process menu 5. Click "Select" n ...Show All

• ekkapop One qestion about yellow text on top of a graduated fill background, using this mask to modulate the opacity.

  Dear all, I had one question about implementing the following scenario. i.e. yellow text on top of a graduated fill background, using this mask to modulate the opacity. The ideal outlook will be like figure 2 on this website . I try to do like this in the window1.xaml. <TextBlock DockPanel.Dock="Top" FontSize="36" Foreground="Red" Style ="{StaticResource LineGra_Textblock}"> Text.... </TextBlock> <DrawingBrush Viewbox="0,0,1,1" ViewboxUnits="Absolute" Viewport="0,0,0.07,0.2" TileMode="Tile"> <DrawingBrush.Drawing> <GeometryDrawing Brush="HorizontalGradient #f000 #0000"> <GeometryDrawing.Geometry&g ...Show All

• nadasurf2 USB Print

  Hello sir, I have one HP DeskJet 3920 USB port printer. When i goes to MsDos prompt and want to print any .TXT file, printer can't print. command like this C:\>COPY TEMP.TXT PRN How to be assign USB port. Kindly help me. Thanks   Our company used small utility DOSPRN ( http://www.dosprn.com ) for printing raw trext files and reports from the native DOS programs. Try it and I suspect you will be satisfied too. Follow these steps (on Windows XP, ...): 1. Make your USB printer a shared network resource, even if it is connected to your own PC; choose a share name (not more than 8.3 characters), e.g. "HPDJ3920". 2. Redirect a free DOS printer device of your PC ( ...Show All

• Aditya Kirloskar In Vista a shared file lock up Applications

  When I share a folder in Windows Vista and open a MS word document in the shared folder on the host system and then attempt to open the same document from another Windows Visa system MS Word locks up until I close the document on the host system. I checked my sharing settings and they all seem to be correct. My Access Jet Database program has the same problem. This is my real problem. Does anybody know what could be the problem I have the exact same problem with an Access database on Vista..... I have the same problem too. To me this is a major bug in Vista and needs to be reported. Does anyone know how to report this type of bug to Microsoft ...Show All

• Chandler Chao Setting custom HandleExternalEventActivity properties on activation/creation

  I have what must be a common and simple requirement in my WF application but I am unable to see how it it can easily be achieved. The application contains a large library of custom activities, many of which subclass from a single "UserActivity" activity, which in turn derives from HandleExternalEventActivity. These are all human activities, which block until a user sends a message to the runtime (hosted in WS) from the client application to notify the WF that the current activity is completed. All of this works fine. However, during creation (not invocation) of each UserActivity for the first time I want to set some properties from internal business rules. For example, UserActivity has a DateTime property called TargetFinishTime. This is s ...Show All

• NumberKruncher Hide the header and footer of SequentialWorkflowRootDesigner

  Hello, I am trying to hide either the header and footer of the SequentialWorkflowDesigner. I inherited my designer from SequentialWorkflowRootDesigner and set the Header property to null: protected override SequentialWorkflowHeaderFooter Header { get { return null; } } Doing that the start icon disappear. It is like the content of the workflow is pushed up to the designer. If I do the same with the Footer protected override SequentialWorkflowHeaderFooter Footer { get { return null; } } I get an "Object not reference exception". How can I hide both header and footer Thanks ah, I see. I think, at minimum, you'll need to override the OnPaint and OnLayoutSize methods to ha ...Show All

• learnerplates VISTA - installing in program files?

  Hello, We have an application which we install an Access 2000 database with. We have always installed this under c:\program files\[applicationName]. I have read up on UAC and virtualization in the new Vista and I have been told that I should not install our database in c:\program files\[applicationName] anymore. This application may be ran by multiple users on the same system and the database may need to be shared with other computer systems on the network. So my quesiton is where should I put the database now Should I do something crazy like just install it at c:\OurDatabase I can't write it to a user specific folder because 3 users on the same system may run it. So should we install our database on VISTA thanks ...Show All

• dashley Any one with ASP.NET Example

  hi guys i am in urgent need of sample showing Workflows initaling and integrated in ASP.NET 2.0 , i happen to read article in MSDN i think DON ESPITO , its focus on basics and issues . Can any one point good source on asp.net 2.0 and WF integration. a complete sample of ASP.NET integration with Workflow: http://wf.netfx3.com/files/folders/control_flow/entry4354.aspx I have a couple example on my blog that can be found here . ...Show All

• Can-Ann where is CEAppMgr.exe? - Unable to Install Windows Mobile Software on Vista

  I purchased some third party software for my Motorla Q Smart Phone. When I try to install the PC portion of it on my Vista RTM Toshiba Tecra M5, I receive an error dialog indicated that the setup program cannot find CEAppMgr.exe. Any ideas how to correct this Thanks, -Howard Hi Howard, Download and install the latest appropriate Windows Mobile Device Center 6 for Windows Vista driver from: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/devicecenter.mspx Regards...Andrew Howard There is an update to the WIndows Mobility Device cenrte which resolves this. You can get the update through Microsoft Update (not windows update which may tell you that there are no updates available). You ...Show All