windows-7

RadWindow AlwaysOnTop

Does anyone have any experience with the RadWindow wpf control from Telerik? My problem is that when I open a RadWindow and minimize my application then when I maximize the application the RadWindow is not visible. I can use alt+tab to get the RadWindow in front again, but I would really like to avoid having to do this. I'm doing the fo...

Developing for Android on Windows 7 using Eclipse

I have followed all the necessary installation and setup steps for Eclipse 3.4 + ADT + Android SDK on Windows 7. I followed the Hello, Android tutorial in Eclipse and code-completion also works like a charm. No errors shown. unfortunately the emulator never shows up. When I run the project. I have fullfilled the same steps in a virtual ...

Learning Direct2D

I have some experince creating windows controls in GDI and now I'm looking for good resources (APIs, samples & good practices) to start learning about Direct2d. ...

How does Opera 10.50's custom UI work?

For the past two days i have been looking around the net to find how Opera made their pre-alpha build with that UI. I mean its like built with windows shell here are some screenshots any tutorials , books or videos would be helpful P.S. I also saw the win 7 SDK but its all C++ samples and i learn C# ...

Shell extension installation not recognized by Windows 7 64-bit shell

I have a Copy Hook Handler shell extension that I'm trying to install on Windows 7 64-bit. The shell extension DLL is compiled in two separate versions for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows. The DLL implements DLLRegisterServer which adds the necessary registry entries. After adding the registry entries, it calls the following line of code to...

Eclipse is not starting on Windows 7

Our company is making the move to Windows 7. After receiving the upgrade, Eclipse will no longer start on anyones machine. I first tried with 3.4 and I also tried the latest and greatest. I have the latest JDK installed as well, which is 6 update 18. This is a 32 bit machine. Any ideas? Here is the log file that Eclipse is generating: !...

What are good resources to learn about creating a custom WS_CAPTION style for Windows 7?

I want to learn more about creating my own, custom WS_CAPTION style, the end of which would allow me to build a custom CMainFrame for my application that will respond appropriately to Windows 7 drag events. Any books, web sites, etc that people recommend for learning this kind of thing? ...

Tortoise usage pattern no longer works: sort by creation date, nor sort by revision is possible

I have been using Tortoise for years. My standard usage idiom is to have my win explorer view set to my default sort the files in inverse cronological order by modify date. Problem: if you have to do a full checkout, the modify date becomes the create date which is the date of the checkout. So... in that case I sort in inverse revisio...

cwRsync ignores "nontsec" on Windows 7

I use cwRsync to sync up some file from Windows to Ubuntu. This process used to work fine on Vista, but since I upgraded to Windows7, I keep getting permission issues. Some background... I did use to get the same permission issues on Vista, but that was resolved by using the CYGWIN=nontsec environment variable. The premission problem ...

Any tips for installing CVS Server and Tortoise Client on Windows 7?

I'm installing CVS and the Tortoise client on Win 7. Getting a warning "CVSNT Locking Service... failed to start. Verify you have sufficient privileges to start services" I'm running as Admin with UAC off. ...

XP vs Win7 for programming enviroment ::

Is there any difference between the two OS in terms of one being better for a development environment? ...

VM cannot access Windows 7 host website

Im developing a website using VS2008 on Windows 7. I am running a VM with IE6 on it and want to test that the site works ok on IE6. On the VM IE6 browser I type http://192.168.0.100/default.aspx since my router gave the windows host that ip address but the browser errors with : Cannot find server or DNS Error I can ping the host though t...

VC2005 SP1 Redistributable x64 support on Windows 7

Any idea if Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable package (x64) is supported on Windows 7 (64 bit) ? I was able to get to this page : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=EB4EBE2D-33C0-4A47-9DD4-B9A6D7BD44DA&displaylang=en but the supported operating systems does not include Windows 7. Also the same question on 32 bit ...

IE8 won't download a file with a custom mime/type with UAC enabled

I have a .net service running on the local machine (Windows 7 x64, IE8, .net 3.5, C#) that returns a file to the browser in response to a user action. Using firefox or chrome, the file is downloaded properly and our application is launched via a custom mime type and all is well. However, with IE8, I receive a dialog "unable to download ...

Java user.home is being set to %userprofile% and not being resolved

Our company recently upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7 Enterprise. The JDK installation is no longer setting user.home to the full path of the user directory, but instead is setting user.home to %userprofile%. This is causing a lot of issues with applications such as eclipse, maven, etc. I now have to set -Duser.home in the JVM for e...

how do I launch another process in XP compatibility mode?

Our application requires HASP SRM device driver to be installed in order for ours to install and run. At this time, only their 5.50 drivers work consistently on all tested platforms (both their 5.75 (official) and 5.86 (beta) drivers crash on about 1 in 3 computers tested). Hence, their 5.50 drivers are good, anything else currently av...

Security problem with custom search provider for Windows 7

I built a search provider for Windows 7. (using .osdx file and RSS web site) the element in the returned RSS contains local file path. example: <link>c:\windows\win.ini</link> The problem is that the files shown in the search result window with the following message: This item was blocked because of your Internet security settings...

Windows 7 Aero Peek of Tabs in Java Desktop App

I would like to implement Aero Peek of tabs in my desktop application (as per the functionality provided by Internet Explorer and this Firefox extension). I'm coding in Java, but appreciate that I may need to use some native hooks to get this working. Can anyone point me in the right direction? ...

Menu Format is different in Windows 7 vs Windows XP for a Winforms app

I have a Winforms app that was originally created in vs 2005 and that was converted to vs 2008. When running this app in Windows 7, the menus don't look like the standard menus in Windows 7 (i.e., the formatting for the menu items is different than the formatting for other applications). This applies to menus displayed on the menu bar ...

Registry access error when Migrating ASP.NET application to IIS7

I'm running windows 7 64-bit and iis7. I'm trying to setup a web application that was previously in iis6 on XP. It's giving me the error below. I've added the network service user to the Performance Monitor Users group to no avail. Access to the registry key 'Global' is denied. Description: An unhandled exception occurred dur...