Software Development for Windows Vista

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  • help vista home premium upgrade
    by renegadechickenhead
    1 Replies
    Last post by Bruce N. Baker - MSFT
      • i have checked the compatability and it is fine, i have the right amount of space on my hd. i have 1gb or ram, however, when i try to upgrade, the windows files load it then moves to 'gathering files' and at 68% it encounters an error and ends..........no error message, no error code...it just ends all i have is the option to 'ok' the end..........what is going on
  • legacy ATL com component compatibility with Vista
    by Francis Ballares
    1 Replies
    Last post by Bruce N. Baker - MSFT
      • We have a conferencing system developed in Visual C++ 6.0 that includes client and server components. The conference system is analogous to Webex conferencing system. We are having issues trying to make our client component compatible with Windows Vista (UAC enabled). The issue occurs when we try to perform screen sharing (desktop, another application) from the client to another participant
  • Working with vista's Boot manager (solution, not problem)
    by lordgreggreg
    1 Replies
    Last post by maxima
      • Ok, i know that everyone does not like how there is no boot.ini file anymore. But its probably all for the best, you can use the cmd line tool even beter. So, here was my (resolved) problem. I installed vista beta 2. I completly wiped out windows xp (on purpose), so my only drive had only 1 partition with only windows vista on it. I ran into a few compatability issues when conecting to my universi
  • Adding a button to the Windows Explorer toolbar
    by yvz
    8 Replies
    Last post by AcrossThePond
      • Hi all, Does anyone know how to add a button to the new Explorer toolbar (Views, Organize...) Thanks in advance.
  • Filter States
    by lathajee
    14 Replies
    Last post by lathajee
      • Could somebody help me in understanding ,How the filter state transition done I read filter state transitions done in upstream order. Starting from renderer to source filter. Initially graph will be in which state Paused i have Source filter->Transform Filter-> Renderer In graphedit when we run the graph, the filter graph manager will dispatch Run to all filters in the graph sim
  • Looping Video in FilterGraph / Adding markers to video
    by amirb
    3 Replies
    Last post by Bowljoman
      • Hi, I am quite new to directshow, and would be very grateful if you could help. I have 2 questions 1- I am using a 3rd party video overlay filter to overlay one video over another video. The video file running in the background is approximately 1 minute long, and the video in the forground can be arbitrary length (its from a green screen session). Is there any passibility to have the
  • Test Case 20 - uuidtemporarydata registry error
    by jfmwrxsc
    4 Replies
    Last post by Mo Nail - MFST
      • Our application is using SQL OleDB to access a SQL Server 2005 database. Everything works fine with virtualization on. With virtualization turned off the connection fails. Application Verifier v3.2 LuaPriv test and Application Compatibility v5.0 Standard User Anaylizer both report a registry problem. There is not a direct request in our application to create this key. Any suggestions of how to
  • Test Case 32: Sign up for windows error reporting via winqual.microsoft.com
    by haiying
    11 Replies
    Last post by haiying
      • Hello, My application failed the very last logo test case. I guess the reason is that we haven't sighed up for the windows error reporting. Here is the question: 1. Do I have to sign up a company account to pass this test even if we don't want to get error reporting from online services (our user may warry about the security issue such as stealing user info via online error repor
  • computer does not see "E" drive (my DVD)
    by Jezebel3705
    14 Replies
    Last post by l80n
      • After installing about 11 updates last evening (MS auto updates for Vista and Office), all of a sudden today, my drive "E" is missing. It's a combo CD/DVD burner. The drive DOES open and close, and lights up at first. The driver IS SEEN, and when I try to UPDATE it online, I get a message that my driver is CURRENT. However, my computer will not recognize drive E, it's totally missing, an
  • error C2039: 'GetCurrentDirectoryW' : is not a member of 'System::IO::Directory
    by stn
    2 Replies
    Last post by stn
      • This error if only #include <windows.h> windows.h is included. The code works well on windows form application from visual c++ .net 2005. Until that line is included, the compiler says error on strCurrPath = Directory::GetCurrentDirectory(); which was previously OK. However, "windows.h" is needed to be included in order to read ini file "getprivate
  • AccessCheck on an impersonated user inside a service
    by nzgeek
    6 Replies
    Last post by Eric Perlin - MSFT
      • I've run across a problem using the AccessCheck function in Vista with impersonated users. The AccessCheck function is being called from inside a service that accepts connections via RPC or .NET remoting. The connections include authentication information, and the user is successfully being impersonated. Everything works fine when the services is running on Windows 2000, XP or 2003. The AccessChec
  • Adding shield icon to button?
    by david_melb
    2 Replies
    Last post by Kevin J Lam
      • Hi there, I've been modifying my program to work with Vista. Part of this is adding an elevated config dialog box, which the user can click a button in another dialog box to activate. Following the UI requirements, I want to add a shield button to the button in the dialog box. But for the life of me I can't figure out how to do it. I am doing something like this, but it doesn't do anything. Can so
  • State Machine and HandleExternalEventActivity
    by HemantC
    6 Replies
    Last post by Robert Wilczynski
      • hi, Is there any way to start the HandleExternalEventActivity from the workflow itself rather waiting for event from Host. Since its the mandatory activity for a state. After Transition from my current state I want to directly start a while loop in a new state rather waiting for a event from host. Is there a solution for this. thanks Hemant
  • Installation problem w/ PnPX (umb)
    by Zoroyoshi
    7 Replies
    Last post by Teague Mapes - MSFT
      • (Sorry for my poor English.) I compiled a sideshow device sample source "NoDevice", it works fine when I install it from "Add new hardware" control panel. But, when I wrote a PnPX (WS-D) device responder, it returns "WindowsSideShowNoDevice" Hardware Id, it appears in "Networking" control panel, and I select "Install" from its pop-up menu, th
  • HowTO: Create an Event Log Source in code, without the Permission errors
    by tlathrop
    11 Replies
    Last post by AshikWani
      • In the Windows SDK documentation for the EventLog class, there is some sample code that contains the following code snippet: // Create the source, if it does not already exist. if(!EventLog.SourceExists("MySource")){ EventLog.CreateEventSource("MySource", "MyNewLog"); Console.WriteLine("CreatingEventSource"); } However, when I
  • why SetMediaType failed in Transform?(mpeg decode filter)
    by alison572587
    6 Replies
    Last post by alison
      • It is well kown, transformfilter alway process CheckInputType, SetMediaTye,GetMediaType,DecideBufferSize,StartStream,Transform,StopStream in turn. In my mpeg decoder filter, I can not set the right image dimension of output pin. Because the image size(704*576) only which get(parsing sequence header data) from TransForm is correct. and in OTHER FUNCTION, alway get wrong size(720*480). The
  • read only folder on Windows
    by George2
    7 Replies
    Last post by AndyCadley
      • Hello everyone, In my application I need to create a folder and make it read only to test whether my application could work with read only media. I have tried to set the property of a folder to read only (right click the mouse and make Read Only property enabled), but I find I still can create file into this folder. How to make a folder truly read only on Windows (e.g. can not
  • DirectShow 2 input filter
    by DonJames
    3 Replies
    Last post by Bowljoman
      • I have created a Directshow filter that has 1 input, the base class is CTransformFilter. The input is MEDIASUBTYPE_RGB24. The filter does some color correction. Now I would like to add another input and make it a two input video filter for DirectShow. The idea is to use the second input for doing a composite. Both inputs should be both MEDIASUBTYPE_RGB24. Has anyone done this before
  • Webservice returning complex type
    by Maheshvd
    2 Replies
    Last post by Tom Lake - MSFT
      • Hi All, I've a web reference of a web service in sequential workflow console app. The webmethod returns a complex type. I've created public variable of the same type referencing from the webservice and bound the returnvalue. When I run the workflow, the the complex type doesnt get populated. I could get simple types returned from a sample add two numbers webservice. So I was wondering if
  • Vista / MMC 3.0 thread changes?
    by ErikWasAlreadyTaken
    22 Replies
    Last post by ErikWasAlreadyTaken
      • I'm running into some issues getting part of our MMC snapin to work properly with Vista (it works fine with the MMC 3.0 in Windows 2003 R2, as well as in previous versions of Windows / MMC). We're using C++ and Visual Studio 2005. The part of our snapin that's breaking is in a worker thread that offloads some of the population of scope / result node items. When it calls IConsole->UpdateAllViews
  • Major bug in Vista File Sharing (Peer-to-Peer)?
    by jchurch
    14 Replies
    Last post by gonzorr
      • Major bug in Vista File Sharing (Peer-to-Peer) Description: Microsoft Vista will lockup when more than one Vista workstation attempts to access the same file in a shared folder at the same time. Steps to reproduce: 1. Install a new copy of Vista (Does not matter what version) on two different computers. 2. Install a new copy of MS Office 2003 each computer. 3. Share the Public folder on o
  • xpsviewer in vista doesn't work if internet explorer is not default browser ...
    by andreas-fsc
    1 Replies
    Last post by Jo0815
      • xpsviewer can not show xps-files if a other browser (opera,firefox ...) is default browser . xpsviewer should send the files to internet explorer directly !
  • Listview extended tile mode
    by BrerRabbit
    11 Replies
    Last post by TiKu
      • Hi folks, I'm having no luck trying to get the new extended-tile view mode to work. It seems as soon as I call SetTileViewInfo with LVTVIF_EXTENDED flag, the tiles expand to the width of the control, but refuse to show any sub-items. I tried calling SetTileInfo for each item, but the best I could achieve was to show some of the column header titles in the second column of the tile, but no sub-item
  • Time stamping frames in a live video source filter
    by dyonutz
    14 Replies
    Last post by dyonutz
      • Hi all, I have a video source filter with one capture pin that gets JPEG frames from the network, decompress them and outputs them. I have no audio stream, so I don't have to worry about synchronizing video with audio. All works well except for time sampling the frames. I have to say timing in DirectShow is really complicated, and no really explanatory samples/articles can be found. First o
  • USB Driver Based on FX2_Driver Not Working
    by Paul Berland
    3 Replies
    Last post by A guy who really likes to deve
      • I am trying to get my pre-existing USB device to work on Windows Vista. I am starting a new Windows driver from scratch based on the one in \WINDDK\6000\SRC\UMDF\USB\FX2_DRIVER\FINAL. So far I have not made any changes except to the INF file to put the correct vendor and product ID into the fields and add lots of TRACE statements. I use "DPINST /LM" to install my drivers and it always sa