We have a situation in our product where for a long time some data has been stored in the application's database as SQL string (choice of MS SQL server or sybase SQL anywhere) which was encrypted via the Windows API function CryptEncrypt. (direct and decryptable) The problem is that CryptEncrypt can produce NULL's in the output, meanin...
I have Visual Studio 2008 and the Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 installed. I believe that is the latest platform SDK. I'm trying to build a signed dll to be installed in SxS. All the tutorials explain to use a tool called pktextract.exe which is part of the SDK, but I can't seem to find the tool. All the oth...
Hi, I'm making calls to pdhenumobjects() to get performance stats, which is working fine for me until I launch Aptana Studio. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////////////////// DWORD dwTemp = 0; PDH_STATUS stat; // this is just to ...
What would be the way to retrieve the Windows SDK folder in an MSBuild task? Using the generateBootstrapper task I'm creating a bootstrapper for my setup to be able to install the pre-requisites. This task needs the path to the folder where the pre-requisite packages are located, i.e. the Windows SDK folder "C:\Program Files\Microsoft...
I'm setting up my first build server for .NET 3.5 projects, and found this interesting line in the MSBuild log after a successful build of a simple test application: Could not locate the expected version of the Microsoft Windows SDK. Looked for a location specified in the "InstallationFolder" value of the registry key "HKEY...
Can one get the volume total size being a normal user ? GetDiskFreeSpaceEx does return the Total Number Of Free Bytes but not the Total Bytes. So the only Total Bytes i get are those of the quota using DeviceIoControl with IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO doesn't seem to work with non admin rights. ...
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...
Hi, AMcap is a app for capturing video or to preview from webcam. Its source code comes with Microsoft Windows SDK as sample. I want to (bypass the following process of user interaction in amcap code or say want to) set it as default: Ampcap menu Options Video Capture Pin ... Color Space/Compression: YUY2 Out...
We have an existing (old) codeline that we have recently converted from VC6 to VS2008 (converting to VS2005 along the way). After our conversion, all (or most) of our vcproj files set WINVER to 0x0500 via the Preprocessor Settings. In quite a few of our precompiled headers (typically stdafx.h), WINVER is set to 0x0500 (some still set i...
I'm attempting to build some C++ code that requires the Windows 7.0 SDK header files and libraries. My VC++ Directories is set to: $(VCInstallDir)include $(VCInstallDir)atlmfc\include $(WindowsSdkDir)\include $(WindowsSdkDir)\common\include $(FrameworkSDKDir)include My $(WindowsSdkDir) variable should be set to C:\Program Files\Micros...
The Short Version: I want a single, comprehensive MSDN Library, up-to-date and integrated with F1 help in all Microsoft development tools. The Long Version: There are at least three products that want to install documentation on my workstation: Visual Studio 2008 wants to install MSDN Library. SQL Server 2008 wants to install Books ...
Hi All, I'm looking in to Windows Media Services 2008 development. I've been able to set it up and create a publish point using Server Manager in Win 2008. But what I really want to do is to do this programatically. I'm currently downloading windows 2008 SDK since it should have support for media services programming. What I want to kn...
I'm trying to use mt.exe from the Windows SDK to add a manifest to an executable file that doesn't have one, using the following command line: C:\winsdk61>mt.exe -nologo -manifest "r:\shared\hl.exe.manifest" -updateresource:"r:\shared\hl33m.exe;#1" Unfortunately, when I do, I get this error: mt.exe : general error c101008c: Failed to...
Hello everyone, I am using Windows Server 2003 x64 Enterprise with SP2 and I want to install platform SDK. But all I find is from here, and it is called Windows® Server 2003 SP1 Platform SDK. I am confused about SP1. For my platform, should I use this version of platform SDK or some other later version (I think there should be SP2 plat...
Has anybody encountered problems with camera recording to wmv file format on Vista Business x64 using Windows SDK? I am using a Logitech quickcam 9000 pro webcam and aparently the resulting video is invalid - it can be played with Windows Media Player but while trying to use the "WMVCopy" sample from Microsoft SDK Samples, I've come acro...
Hi, I want to use the VC++ toolset to build programs for XP and Vista, but I do not want to buy the IDE, because I want to use Qt Creator. I would download the Windows SDK and the Windows Debugging Tools, but I'm not sure if this includes everything that I need (i.e: compiler, linker, nmake, debuggers). Has anyone used this approach? H...
When the user selects file(s) or/ and folder(s) , I want to know the names of the selected file(s) or/and folder(s) programmatically. I think that if I send the message lvm_selected to the explorer window, it might return me the selected item. But as this is just a thought, it would be nice if anyone can help me out it in letting me k...
I know there are many 3rd party applications that provide this functionality. I'm wondering how they work. Is it not simply enough to just send the EM_SETPASSWORDCHAR message to the passworded control with a wParam value of 0? This is what the Windows SDK says about the wParam: wParam The character to be displayed in place of ...
Is it possible to build a Visual Studio 2008 Setup project with only the Windows 7 SDK installed? My setup project refuses to build because it can't find "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\", part of the Windows 6 SDK. I would have thought that the 7 SDK would have everything that the setup project needs. A rel...
I seem to be completely unable to install the Windows 7 SDK onto my machine, and the only solution I've found on the web is to make a swathe of registry changes. I've done this - still no success. This is the reported error: A problem occurred while installing selected Windows SDK components. Installation of the "Microsoft Windows SD...