Hello, I have a Windows 7 RC on a boot camped MacBook Air. Everything works great except that VS 2008 won't instal on the system. It complains that the Setup.exe is not valid. Strangely enough, Visual Studio Express Edition SP1 installs ok. I used to have Win7 Beta on Parallels and there it installed ok. Any ideas? Pom ...
If my program primarily uses the win32 API, are my API calls being emulated in Windows XP/Vista/7? ...
Is it possible to reserve a screen area near an edge of the screen for your app in Windows 7? It would behave similar to the Windows taskbar (i.e. maximized windows would not overlap with it). I'm writing a taskbar app with proper support for multiple monitors. The primary purpose is to show a taskbar on each screen containing only the ...
How can I detect if a system supports hardware virtualization via code? (Preferably in C# or C++). I tried using WMI and ManagementObjectSearcher, and could not find a property that seemed to represent if virtualization support was present or not in the machine. Bonus question: Is it possible to tell if the CPU supports HW virtualizati...
I've just installed the windows7 RC in a VM and I'm attempting to build our existing projects on the new OS. The projects are c/c++ based and I'm using visual studio 2008. In order to build these projects I need to register several tlb files that are referenced within the code base. However, I've just discovered, that regtlib.exe appea...
As a dev I normally group my explorer detail view by file type. This way all the config files, assemblies, executables etc are grouped and ready to be copied, just by clicking its group header to select all related files. In beta build 7000 one could hold Ctrl and select many groups to select all the related files. IMO since RC build 7...
In Windows 7, the Connect To dialog opens over the taskbar tray. When you go to any other application or the desktop, the window disappears. I would like to be able to do this in C#. Right now, I am capturing the Leaving event of the form, but this doesn't work in every case (i.e. switching from my application directly to the desktop)...
The Windows 7 RC x86 symbol pack doesn't seem to include symbols for user32.dll or KernelBase.dll. I've tried downloading the symbols from the microsoft symbol server (using symchk) with no luck. Has anyone been able to get debugging symbols for user32.dll or KernelBase.dll for the Windows 7 release candidate? I really miss having a c...
I am running Windows 7 RC Build 7100 in VMWare 6.5. The host OS is Vista x64 Home Premium running on a Dell Studio 1535 laptop. I have a Dell monitor attached as a secondary monitor, and I am attempting to share the desktop across both monitors. While I can do that, Windows 7 insists on using the external monitor as the main display, a...
Hello, I have WPF application. After testing my app on Windows7 and realized that opening help does not work. Basically to open chm help file I call: Process.Start("help.chm"); And nothing happens. I have also tried my app on Vista SP1, same result. I'm admin in both OS'es I have googled this problem, but have not found solution ...
I'm picking up some experimental code I was messing with in the Windows 7 Beta now that I've installed the RC. Basically, I'm trying to get IAudioSessionManager2 & IAudioSessionNotification working together to inform my little app of every new audio session created. Punchline code in AudioListener ( : public IAudioSessionNotification):...
hey guys I came across the Dell Studio One 19 on the web the other day, and wondered what the Dev environment for the Multi-Touch was? Anyone out there developing for this, or know what the environment is? I know that to develop for the HP TouchSmart you need HP's own SDK....and it doesn't sound too good to me (check out this .NET Roc...
I installed Windows 7 RC build 7100 64 bit, When I try to boot the installer of Debian Lenny or Squeeze inside VirtualBox it stucks on analizing the cd, or installing packages. The Cds are working perfect, with them I was able to install directly on the computer, and previously with Windows build 7000 I didn't have this issue. I'm on a...
Yes, I know... I could set up a virtual machine running XP. Unfortunately our build environment is such that we need to be running VC2003, 2005 and 2008 concurrently and it would be much more convenient if I could run 2003 natively on Windows 7 for the few projects we have that require it. I realize some things may not be available in ...
Are there any new DWM APIs in Windows 7? If so, where can I find documentation on them? ...
I've noticed that if the path parameter to the CreateFile function targets \Windows\System32\ the call is failing with the following error code ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND. The file path is correct, I'm the owner of the folder, so the question is why is the call failing? Did MS add special policy forbidding the folder from being accessed? Sam...
I get the following error when going through the WCF tutorial. HTTP could not register URL http://+:8000/ServiceModelSamples/Service/. Your process does not have access rights to this namespace (see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70353 for details). Is this something caused by a restriction on Windows 7? ...
Hello, I tried installing substage in Vista and Windows 7, but it always crashes when I try to start the programm. Is there a fix for this? ...
I noticed that in Windows 7, unlike XP, if a program crashes that I am debugging in Visual Studio 2008, I don't get the option to Debug the program. Rather, it just says that the program crashed and Microsoft is looking for a solution. Right now, if my program throws an exception, I can't return back to the debugging session in VS 2008...
Dear All, I've download Windows 7 SDK which was downloaded at the time of the beta release. Now I upgraded to RC and trying with some Direct2D samples. But I can't create the factory pointer using D2D1CreateFactory API. It's always returns NULL. Even the samples downloaded from MSDN is also not working well. There are some changes fro...