I've created an MSI that installs our application. It installs fine if you run it locally on a machine with Windows XP SP2 or SP3. If you run it through SMS to a machine that has Windows XP SP2 it installs fine. But, if you try to run it through SMS to a machine that has Windows XP SP3 it seems to stall and take hours. (It only takes a c...
What is the version of DirectX that is installed by default with Windows XP SP3? Google did not yield convincing results on this. ...
I have done a WPF appliction using VS 2008 SP1 in Windows XP SP3. I copy the exe and dlls to my Windows 7 RC build 7100 machine. But the exe is not working. When I doubleclick on the exe, a message comes like 'Application stop working. windows is gathering the information'. Why this happends? I am overriding the OnStartup function in Ap...
I compile my application on a windows XP SP3 machine. When it compiles, I try to lauch it, and windows replies me back with : Unable to start program 'xx'. This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reviex the manifest file for possible errors. Reinstalling the application may f...
Hi All, I have a console application that communicates with a web service. Both of them are on the same machine. When I am accessing the web service with the LAN disabled, it connects without a problem. But if the LAN is enabled and connected to our office network, I receive this error: "HTTP 407 Proxy Authentication required - The IS...
On a Windows XP Professional SP3 with Internet Explorer 8 box, when I run Dependency Walker on an executable of mine it reports that: IESHIMS.DLL and WER.DLL can't be found. Do I need these DLL's? Where can I get them? I believe they are supposed to located in C:\Windows\System32\Wer.dll and C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Iesh...
I have an application I have been working on and it can be slow to start when my ISP is down because of DNS. My ISP was down for 3 hours yesterday, so I didn't think much about this piece of code I had added, until I found that it is always slow to start. This code is supposed to return your IP address and my reading of the link suggests...
WPF Windows-XP SP3 I'm having a problem with a simple WPF animation. I use the following Xaml code (in XamlPad and also in a WPF project): <Page xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:sys="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" > <Border Nam...
I am attempting to author a merge module for use by multiple application installers to install a Win32 Shared SxS Assembly and its associated Policy. I'm using WiX 3.0 to generate the MSM and test MSIs. So far it works fine on XP-SP3/Vista-SP2/Win7 for the first app installer that runs … but on XP-SP3 the second app installer fails bec...
My company recently upgraded our PCs to XP service pack 3. We still have some vb6 apps that connect to an EJB server via a JCOM bridge. These apps still work as compiled exes but i noticed that during debugging the IDE hangs when it tries to create a JCOM object. I suspected it was as a result of the XP upgrade and was able to confirm t...
Has someone seen this version number of Internet Explorer before: 7.0.5730.13.xpsp_sp3_gdr.090804-1435 ? I have some problems with this version (running in VMWare) and I would like to know: When does a Windows XP user get this version? Is there a possibility to download exactly this version? ...
Guys im having some trouble with some inconsistency of running a piece of code on Windows XP and Windows 7. Basically im trying to send a UDP packet by doing, DatagramSocket sendSocket = new DatagramSocket(); DatagramPacket dummyPacket = new DatagramPacket(new byte[ 1 ], 1, configuration.remoteAddress, DUMMY_PORT); try { ...
Installed VS2010 Ultimate on my desktop workstation - Dell Precision T3500 (Windows 7 64bit OS), and on my IBM ThinkPad R51 (Windows XP Sp3 32bit). I am having problems building solutions on the StinkPad, and cannot figure out why. As listed below, the build output for a compiler built ADO library lists the following errors: c:\wpds\de...
I've had MySQL running as a service on my Windows XP SP3 development desktop, but I can't start it now. I'm trying to get Python's MySQLdb module working. When I got a "no module named _mysql" message, I found out that I didn't install the MySQL C header files, so I downloaded the MySQL 5.1 .msi and ran it to add the C header files to ...