Hi all,I hope that this is right place to ask. Sorry if not.Suppose you are going to make a SideShow compatible device. Further, your device should use 2.4GHz Radio to connect to Vista. I am working on a hardware/firmware project to support that.The idea is to create a USB dongle that has built ...

Hi there,I have a problem running the games from EA Sports - FIFA 07 and NHL 07 on Vista RC2 (build 5744). The games seem to be OK until I try to start a match (on both games) ... the game is a lot faster than it should be so it is nearly impossible to play it... In NHL 07 I can not even set ...

Hi folks,I'm at DIDW in Santa Clara right now, and I've been so busy some things haven't got answered. I'll catch back up on Friday, and catch up on the outstanding threads.Additionally, I've got a new demo/sample that has end-to-end functionality in with account recovery, just-in-time ...

Using the imapi2sample, I get an E_FAIL from IDiscFormat2Data::Write() when trying to burn some files to a DVD+R DL (e.g. imapi2sample.exe -write c:\users\raptor2lavbb8\AppData\Roaming\temp\burn )It works ok with other media types and works ok to DL on other drives. So, how can I further ...

Hi We were excited by the potential of TransactionScope to simplify our data access code, eliminating the need to pass around a database transaction.After playing around with .NET 2.0 for a while we were very disappointed to find that unless you used the exact same connection object and kept it ...

HiThere is one excel sheet where some values are in cells and some controls present on sheet like button, checkbox, datafilter button. I want to click the button that is on excel sheet from another application may be C# based code application. I tried but unable to click on button. I can access ...

Hi,I have write a class wrapper to Vista API audio functions to control the master volume (level and mute).All functions of IAudioEndpointVolume Interface apper to work ok except the SetMute function.The problem apper to be the parameter pguidEventContext of type Guid.If I set the following ...

I've just downloaded directx9 SDK, and directShow isn't there. Did they move it?

I'm new to the PT/PC world, I'm facing a problem and needed your help. We have made MSPlot application to use PT/PC. The problem is that PTGetPrintCapabilities call is failing. The error code returned from PrintCapabilities is “0x80040004: There is no connection for this connection ID”, ...

Hi group members Couple of days back i am showing WWF to some of my friends who happen to be software engineers , well one of them ask is it possible (or in future ) to host a wwf in Linux ?. Well i guess we dont have that support right now .

Hi,I installed Dec CTP on win XP SP2 and I tried to look at the following pages but they seem to be blank. http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sdkintro/html/9a2db508-5b77-43f8-afa4-1ca82d24bb83.aspCan someone point to some basic documentation on how to use ...

The mapping of kernel streaming WDM audio devices to waveOut, waveIn and mixer devices appears to be quite different to previous versions of Windows, and is causing problems with multichannel sound cards. Each output pin seems to map to a waveOut device named only by the pin type (for example ...

If a person dosnt want images and text documents to show in a thumbnail preview mode can you switch to icons?I think it be neat to switch from Text Mode which is just text iconscaled to 0x0px preview mode shows the images and text documents andicon mode is icons and you can set the scale of the ...

Basically foo.vshost.exe doesn't honor the requestedExecutionLevel for the application. Making debugging virtualization issues, uh, difficult to say the least. I set my app to "requireAdministrator" but the VSHOST.exe process is getting virtualization enabled. Argh! Yes I know about ...

Hello, this is my first post to a developer forum, so go easy on me. :) I'm a little confused about all the SDK's available and hope someone can makes sense of it all to me. I am new to developing software, but am very interested in developing Tablet PC applications. I would like to develop ...

Hi!I am fascinated by the way in which Microsoft plans to change the nature of operating systems radically. Vista promises a better future -- lots of new data exchange solutions, better information organization and an easier GUI. It looks very exciting to me.However, there is still some doubt ...

HiWhat installation method is recommended for a sideshow driver?I tried DPInst.exe shipped with the DDK but it doesn't works (installs something because second time it sees that already was installed but the device does not appears in the device list so most probably it does only a ...

The exact error is: The operating system is not adequate for running ATT Natural Voices 1_4 Engine and Crystal16.Tried the compatibility modes but to no ...

HII have locally installed infocardbrowswer sample appln. and while trying to login using infocard it is causing following exception. Server Error in '/' Application. The handle is invalid.Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please ...

<P>Hi, How do i write multiple disks using IMAPIV2 . i.e. data (ISO) to be wirtten is bigger than the dvd size. when the DVD gets full user should be asked to insert another disk ?</P> <P> </P> <P>Thanks in Advance</P>

Ahhhhh Microsoft, the most important feature in 2.0 “Transactions” is poorly documented, and almost working, as it looks like the people who developed it got it to work under one scenario, and released it immediately, never tested completely.It is like, hey, does windows xp connected to a ...

Almost all downlevel components and APIs from Vista are now available on Windows XP SP2. When will UI Automation be available? Or is it installed with the Windows SDK?

Were seeing several Vista machines, with widely varying sound hardware (onboard such as Sigmatel, Realtek, plus add-in like SB X-fi, Audigy etc) that are all exhibiting some odd behavior with our application -- a pegged CPU core. All have the latest driver updates from the OEMs, for whatever ...

What is the story with this new ICameraControl interface? It looks a duplicate of IAMCameraControl, except that instead of using 3 methods, it uses 51. Is there some benefit to using ICameraControl over IAMCameraControl?

Hi,we're trying to replace our OLE compound file based image data storage with XPS documents.One file contains 1-10000 bitmaps with a total size of up to several GBs.. With OLE compound files we got a data write rate of about 30 MB/s (on a reference machine).Using XPS document I can't get ...

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Hi, I'm evaluating WPF for our next product, and I would like to know if Microsoft has commited or even commented on when they expect WPF to be out for Windows XP.

I've been fighting all day with installing the current CTP build (5231) of Vista on my Dell Inspiron 600m. The OS takes forever to install but once it does it boots to the desktop normally until I install the supplemental drivers. On every reboot after that the system blue screens and reboots. ...

Any possibility of still being able to view the Windows 2000 icon style guide?

Better yet, can I build a completely managed component that behaves the same way? Yeah I could build a COM component in .NET but something is wrong here if .NET is getting left out in the cold WRT UAC security.

Dear Microsoft:I have created a Mobile Application in C# using Visual Studio.net 2003.I am sending a WAPPush SMS to users who may request Mobile Services such as (Ringtones, Pictures).I have a problem in downloading ringtone(True Tone of file extension AMR) on WAP Browser, the ringtone name is ...

Ok, I installed vista last night and I can't find any programs from when I had XP. The drive is still full, but I can't see them in program files, help.

Hi All,As I investigate the SideShow, I don't know how to transfer audio/video to SCF structure.I know it has sample SideShow gadget for media player which can playback audio.But does somebody know how to do it?Does it need write a driver for it? Evan ...

I just got windows xp 64 bit edition and Im trying to play movies in it but it isnt letting me. I tried with WMV realplayer and directX I have a ati 9600 radeon pro graphics card if that helps with anything anyone know how I could get dvds running? (Yea i got a dvd drive)

Dear all,I have encountered a problem while running the VB script for installing certificate. I does not have this problem when I try to install it on a laptop. However, this problem comes when I try to create the cardspace environment in a virtual machine using VMware.The error message is "The ...

Is there a way to disable the IMAPI layer in Vista for a particular device?

Hello everyone, We have a 3-tier application, the client, the server and the databaser server. It was developed using C# 2.0 and .Net 2.0, the database server is MS-SQL 2000 and we have some MSMQ in there. All 3 are located on different machines. The client is Windows XP SP-2, the application ...

If I view a Table object (Infragistics) with UI Spy, it lists the rows as expected. However, when I use the Treewalker and navigate down to the Table object, the rows do not exist where they do in the UI Spy. If I use the parent windows AutomationElement and use the Findfirst() method using the ...

Hi, I have installed LMAddinPack(Live meeting) on Vista.when i open Microsoft Outlook, there i should get this live meeting options as plugins.But i am not getting it. However i am getting these plugins on XP. So anyone could help me out and let me know the procedures and i should carry to get ...

hello everyonethanks for taking time to read my post. i have recently been encountering problems using WMP and some error messages about DirectShow. i have tried many solutions but none seem to work. firstly i shall post my system specs:OS: Windows XP Professional Build 2600 SP2 fully ...

Would appreciate if you could help us in solving our problem. PROBLEM: We have a GDI driver, and we want to plugin a IPrintTicketProvider to the config module. But the DllGetClassObject of the Config Module is not getting invoked, when we print from Office 2007 (WinWord) We could not use ...

When is scheduled Beta2?

on 5270 .. iviewers.dll fails to register itself .. has anyone else noticed this?

Hi allwhen i try to register a new Window Class, I get the Errors no 2 and 183 Error 2: The system cannot find the file specified. Error 183 : Cannot create a file when that file already exists. Following is the Code thats creatting these errors: LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND hwnd, UINT iMsg, ...

There is a major bug in Win XP Explorer. WIth a folder highlighted on the left pane [folder list] try Alt-F, to pull down the File Menu or Alt-E to pull down the Edit Menu. The pull-down appears for a fraction of a second and the the highlighted folder is moved down the list and the pull-down ...

Hi I'm working on a diploma thesis, to create a logon in vista with a biometrical card. I'm looking for information about how ICredentialProvider is working. And how is it possible to overwrite the normal logon process. Thanks in advance

Dear Microsoft:I have created a Mobile Application in C# using Visual Studio.net 2003.I am sending a WAPPush SMS to users who may request Mobile Services such as (Ringtones, Pictures).I have a problem in downloading ringtone(True Tone of file extension AMR) on WAP Browser, the ringtone name is ...

Somos un grupo de jóvenes estudiantes de informatica yestamos actualmente probando su producto de futura aparicion, Windows Vista; trabajamoscon la ultima version beta disponible que descargamos desde su servidordisponible para betatesters, llevamos probandolo mas de un mes a fondo, tiempoen el ...

Hi, everyone Now I meet a problem about sending application event in SideShow. Assume we navigate in the Windows Media Player gadget and in the content id of 00007 (Now playing), and when we click the select button, it will navigate to a menu id of 100, then we can choose to click Play Pause ...

Hi all, I have followed everything and things appear to be installed. However when I bring up the management console for VS I get this error message: An error occurred accessing the website application data folder. The virtual machine folders are located in "\\Users\Public\Public ...