I am running a localhost instance (so domains are not my issue!) on my laptop utilizing Win7 and IIS7. I am getting authentication errors on my website and my one virtual directory. default website - localhost:80 c:\mydirectory\localhost virtual directory - c:\mydirectory\weborb30 Please notice these are not under c:\inetpub\wwwroot...
Hello Microsoft has introduced cryptography next generation (CNG) from Vista and server 2008 onwards. But my question is to know whether microsoft supports the old cryptoAPI(say for eg. in windows 2003 and windows xp, - crypt32.dll) in windows 7 and server 2008. Thanks Raj ...
hey guys! i try to debug a windows gadget. Just-In-Time debugging fires up and i can see an VS2010IDE attached to the sidebar process. But there is no source code to debug! Only a blank file with the yellow debug pointer. What is my problem? Configuration of my system is based on this article: Gadgets for Windows Sidebar Debugging (ht...
Hello, I have been trying really hard to install Sql Server 2008 sp1 along with VS 2008 sp1 on my Windows 7 machine. I tried every possible combination: install vs 2008 upgrade to sp1 then install sqlserver 2008 upgrade to sp1 using offline packet/upgrade automatically using windows update. However, I have nothing listed under Sql Ser...
Hi Every time I checkout my site from my repository. I notice most of my files that I have are excluded. So I have to go hunt down every file and include it in the project. This is very annoying. I am using Subversion and tortiseSVN for windows. What do I need to do to stop this? ...
I have a program that works fine on VS2008 and Vista, but I'm trying it on Windows 7 and VS2010 / .NET Framework 4.0 and it's not working. Ultimately the problem is that System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterCategory.GetCategories() (and other PerformanceCounterCategory methods) is not working. I'm getting a System.InvalidOperationExcepti...
Hello, I am having a problem with the program I am currently working on. It is caused by the increased security in vista/Windows 7, specifically the UIPI which prevents a window with a lower integrity level 'talking' to a higher one. In my case, i am wanting to tell the window with a high Integrity level to move into our application, It...
Hello as showed in the last pdc, we as developers can take advantage of SO capabilities and add instrumentation to our code (based on best practices). So in that session they introduce the new Windows PowerShell-based troubleshooting platform, and how it enables you to easily monitor multiple data sources to empower the end user and IT...
I am trying to write a app and service which monitor a given set of services and a) makes sure they are running and b) based on certain criteria, restart them as needed. I keep running into an access denied error. If I simply iterate through the processes on the system, find the one I want like so: foreach (ServiceController sc in Ser...
I need to save a setting which is then available to all users of the application on the given machine. It needs to work on Vista/Win 7, and the application won’t be started as administrator. Can’t Save to program directory as the Program Files folder is protected on Vista Can’t save to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE as that’s protected too Can’t s...
Hello, I am currently using the Windows 7 API Code pack for an application I am coding in C#. Currently, I understand how to draw part of the Window region or a control into the thumbnail preview: TaskbarManager.Instance.TabbedThumbnail.SetThumbnailClip((new WindowInteropHelper(this)).Handle, new System.Drawing.Rectangle((int)v.X, (in...
Hi, I'm trying to install a DMO which requires me to write to HKCR\DirectShow\MediaObjects\Categories\57f2db8b-e6bb-4513-9d43-dcd2a6593125, this registry path is protected by TrustedInstaller and it seems that this protection is new in Windows 7 (it work on previous platforms). How am I suppose to install DMOs? There are plenty of p...
How do I set an application's taskbar icon in PyQt4? I have tried setWindowIcon, and it successfully sets the icon in the top-left of the main window, but it does not affect the icon shown in the Windows 7 taskbar -- the taskbar icon remains the default Python pyw icon. Here is my code: from PyQt4 import QtGui app = QtGui.QApplication...
How can I programatically change the default audio device on a vista / win 7 system? Using C# or a Win API call? ...
Where should I save data related to my application? Where should I save configuration files? Where should I save temporary files? Should I do it in "Documents" ? "AppData" ? etc.... What is the best practice for saving data to the disk (I guess, best practice for special folders?!) Thanks! ...
I had to delve into this because the code that worked fine on Windows 2003/XP doesn't on Windows 7. Application launched by the use of CreateProcessAsUser fails with 0xc0000142 error code. The difference between my old code and one available from MSDN at Starting an Interactive Client Process in C++ is that I didn't set up privileges and...
I'm just doing some stat collection on multiple servers, and as a test I'm working with my machine (Machine A) and another machine (Machine B) on the local network. My Machine (A) is collecting all the information in the staging table from the other Machine (B). I have a sp that runs and dynamically creates something like this: exec (...
I'm trying to to the most basic of things .... write a file in C++, but the file is not being written. I don't get any errors either. Maybe I'm missing something obvious ... or what? I thought there was something wrong with my code, but I also tried a sample I found on the net and still no file is created. This is the code: ofstream...
I've got problem with connecting to MySQL database on my freshly installed Windows 7 machine. I'm getting this error when I try to migrate my database. !!! The bundled mysql.rb driver has been removed from Rails 2.2. Please install the mysql gem and try again: gem install mysql. rake aborted! 193: %1 is not valid Win32 application - C:...
When dragging a file from Windows Explorer into other apps, I now get a nice icon of the files I drag. I cannot remember this from previous Windows versions so I was hoping that they finally implemented the equivalent of the Translucent Drag Manager where you can associate a transparent image with the drag contents. Does anyone know anyt...