I have never programmed a gadget for Vista or Seven, but I would like to try to make one. But where do I start? I have tried to search around on google and msdn, but I haven't managed to find anything useful. Either very, very old stuff (Vista beta stuff), already made gadgets or differences between gadgets in Vista and Seven. But that d...
If a program is executed for the first time in Windows 7, it automatically hides the icon. Is there any manifest setting or option to force Windows 7 to always show the icon by default? ...
I want to trial Windows 7 but wondered if anyone who has done so already ran into any issues specifically related to development? i.e. problems with VS2008, SQL Management Studio and SQL Server, MySQL, PHP etc. etc. Examples from XP -> Vista: in Vista there was a sudden loss of an SMTP server. And there were initially (if I remember co...
Has anyone had any luck in getting an Oracle client to install and work with Windows 7 RC? I went and upgraded from Vista to Windows 7 but having terrible problems getting my Oracle databases to work... ...
I want to take advantage of the new features in Windows 7 using C# (ie. JumpList, Window Shake, etc). Are there any websites/tutorials that can show me what I want to learn. ...
Today I saw that Microsoft announced 0.85 version of: "Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework" This pack is targeted for Windows7 OS, although most features is supposed to work under Vista. One of this pack's features is support for DirectX 11. Knowing that few years ago Microsoft stopped development of Managed DirectX,...
Does anyone know what parameters to pass to dwmapi.dll ordinal #113? (Windows 7) I'm trying to incorporate this method into an application that I'm writing. From what I can tell, this method is responsible for doing the Aero peek thing for windows. If I pass no params to the method it will show the desktop and outlines of all open, non-...
I've installed sql2008 express sp1 on my laptop that's running the beta 1 of windows 7. The problem that I'm experiencing is a combination of dynamic ports/firewall/windows 7. A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify tha...
I'm installing the ASP .net on Win7, and I need give permission to ASP .net to use the project folder. I have tried Network Service and didn't work; Win7 didn't find that user. I know that previously the user was ASPNET and later is Network Service, but now, something changed or I'm doing something wrong. Please help me. Edit: *I lear...
My goal is to be able to get all of the WMC pc's in my house playing the same music playlist at the same time. If I can't do it with the WMC software, I will bypass that and do something with WinAmp and a Shoutcast server running on one of them (or something, haven't gotten that far yet). I see that the new Windows 7 Media Center has a ...
With Windows 7 was just trying to navigate to c:\users\scott.cate\sendto to modify the [send to] context menu and I was getting access denied. With a little search engine work I found this trick. Open Windows Explorer (Win+E Shortcut) and type Shell:sendto into the addres bar and press enter. Windows Explorer opens up to C:\Use...
I wan't to customize the icon displayed within the windows 7 taskbar. When my app is running, I can do it by changing main window icon but, when the app is pinned, the exe's icon is displayed. How can I set the taskbar icon for my app to an icon different from the one embedded within the exe ? Not tried, this solution may work but look...
Hello all, after installing Windows 7 to a VHD, is it possible to move the content to a HD partition? ...
Apparently in Europe, Microsoft plan to ship Windows 7 without IE8 preinstalled. Many of the commercial apps I have been a developer on have made use of IE in some way or other, so I am concerned about whether we need to now install IE8 as part of our application installs. Does this mean that applications making use of... The WindowsF...
As you all know, Windows 7 Beta, RC and sooner RTMs will be released in coming months. When the beta program had released, I happily installed in my laptop and worked with the brand new OS. Tried new APIs, explored new features and all. Recently, I downloaded the RC release and I've taken all pain of backing up files, installation file...
I want to setup a Win7 virtual machine to develop using Visual Studio 2008 and ASP.Net 3.5. I don't know what the best order to install what I need. I will need to install: a) Visual Studio 2008 b) IIS c) Service Packs for Visual Studio and/or .Net Framework My last try was bad, I cannot do my old ASP.Net 3.5 web app to work on Win7 ...
I upgraded my development machine to Windows 7 and my project to .NET 3.5. When I try to run the project, I now get this error: Unable to get the window handle for the 'AxVt' control. Windowless ActiveX controls are not supported. The project is using the Dart Emulation for ActiveX Vt control, which emulates a terminal control. I doub...
Hello, I'm writing a program in c# for Windows7 that works very fine... But now I started to build a setup that copies the program files into "C:\Program Files". Now there are a lot of Problems when the program is in that folder: 1) If I cancel an OpenFileDialog I'll get an exception 2) My program don't write files into the AppData f...
This is what WordPad looks like in Windows 7: The ribbon is also in paint. Which leads me to think that the ribbon is "hidden" somewhere in a dll file that I could import into my C# apps. Is this true? If not how did Microsoft make the ribbon. Yes I'm aware that there are already companies who have made the ribbon for C# but I want ...
I have a set of C# (v2) apps and I am struggling with registry virtualization in Win7 (and to a lesser extent Vista). I have a shared registry configuration area that my applications need to access in HKLM\Software\Company... Prior to Vista, everything was just written to and read from that location as needed. The code appropriately d...