app compatibility testing
Hi
I've just installed vista RC1 beta and tried the sofware I develop on it, a file manager called xplorer2 (www.zabkat.com)
To my amazement most of the things work, however there are a few small features that appear broken, especially so for shell integration. E.g. the "New" context menu that creates new text documents and other registered shell file types doesn't work properly.
It's hard to say whether this is a problem with my program or with the "beta-ness" of vista itself, but anyway, my question is, is there any specific forum to report such bugs/compatibility issues regarding windows shell and explorer?
I know from other groups that I frequent (e.g. microsoft.public.platformsdk.shell) that the only way to get official answers and help from microsoft is to have an MSDN subscription. Do you think that would help for my quest here too?
thanks
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nikosz] at [2008-2-2]
Good afternoon! Bill Wesse from Microsoft Critical Problem Resolution (CPR) here - I have just joined this forum, and expect to have an answer for you tomorrow (I am obliged to complete an RC1 install before I can test xplorer2 (which I am currently downloading).
As a first pass, I will run RegMon against the 'New' context menu operation on both Xp & Vista to see what's up.
Regards,
Bill Wesse
thanks Bill!
while you are testing xplorer2 could you also have a look what's going on with NTFS file comments in vista? That's another big problem I have, see this forum post from my support site:
http://netez.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=4453
I am setting comments primarily with IPropertySetStorage obtained through either IShellFolder::BindToStorage or StgOpenStorageEx and then setting things up through FMTID_SummaryInformation. In vista this method will read comments but it will fail writing it, not quite sure where
thanks!
Good morning once again - sorry it took me so long to follow up.
I had some troubles with setting up Vista (RC1, build 6.0.5600) in Virtual Server (R2 SP1 Beta) - caused by me, not Vista (I stupidly forgot to increase the default 128MB memory setting).
Anyway, xplorer2 [v 1.6.0.1 [Unicode]] is running like a champ...the 'New' context menu selections work. I installed and used as Guest as well as Administrator (all UAC settings are at default).
Could you advise me with more detail concerning the troubles you are having? Are the context items gone, or do they fail with a specific message?
BTW - nifty app, that xplorer2; I like the multipane setup - very good for directory maintenance!
Thanks!
Bill Wesse
that's strange, I wonder if we are talking about the same thing?
In xplorer2, right-click "nowhere" in a view pane and you'll get the default background menu. The last 2 items are problematic, "Shell new" which should be the new item creation menu (text files, folders, shortcuts etc), and "Explorer" which has the complete explorer background menu (properties etc)
when i use that in vista, i get sometimes items in, but when i select e.g. "new text file" nothing is created. Other times i get a near empty menu with only "Folder" as the available new item (which doesn't work either). I don't know how these differences come about, it may have to do with folder browsed and even perhaps with the login security level (admin vs normal user).
so did you manage to create new items within x2 this way?
also please note the problem with alternate file streams (comments) that i mentioned above, any thoughts on that?
thanks, nikos
PS. thanks for the thumbs up on xplorer2! I have to say that the vista explorer looks pretty sexy too!
Thanks for the detail - I was indeed on the wrong context item ('new file F7 & new folder F8). I see the problem, and will dig into it [& alt file streams] right away (hopefully, I will have some answers for you today).
Regards,
Bill Wesse
