Sql Server 2005 enterprise on Windows 7
Is there any possibility to install Sql Server 2005 enterprise on Windows 7? thank you ...
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What should I consider before developing in .NET on Windows 7?
Does anyone use the Windows 7 preview release for .NET development? Do things like SQL Server Express 2005/2008, VS.NET 2005/2008 work on it fine? How about IIS? Any other things I should be taking into consideration? ...
Windows 7 - What to expect from a developer's standpoint?
What features can I look forward to in Windows 7 that will: Make my job easier as a developer. or... Make my job "different"(harder) as a developer. I've been hearing a lot about performance improvements and a few UI effect enhancements, but nothing really about what development on Windows 7 will be like. Thanks. ...
Windows 7: Taking advantage of auto-elevation to elevate my own process?
From a July 2009 Technet article entitled Inside Windows 7 User Account Control, Mark Russinovish describes that it's possible for an application running as standard user to silently elevate and gain administrative rights: ...it's possible for third-party software running in a PA (Protected Administrator) account with standard us...
Using Delphi to creating Win7 Jump list
I'm trying to create Jump list on windows 7 for my application using Delphi. I found this c++ code, but I'm not sure how to translate it to Delphi, any help? void CreateJumpList() { ICustomDestinationList *pcdl; HRESULT hr = CoCreateInstance (CLSID_DestinationList, ...
.NET Windows 7 Jumplist - Checkbox / Radio Jumplist Item
I would like to create a jumplist item that functions with a tick or round checkmark in front of the option. I am using the Windows API Code Pack for the .NET implementation. I have had a look around the SDK documentation but I couldn't find anything that would enable a tick or round checkmark in front of the Jump List Item. I under...
Additional languages in Virtual XP mode under Windows 7
Is there any way to get additional languages in Virtual XP Mode under Windows 7? Thanks, kreb ...
Windows 7 logo testing.
We are using msxml4 as a merge module with our installer. We successfully used it with Windows XP and Vista. However it generates warning in Windows 7 logo tesing. Test case 3, succeeds with a warning "File C:\WINDOWS\SYSWOW64\MSXML4.DLL was written to an incorrect location." any suggestion/idea to avoid this warning? ...
Windows 7 logo testing.
We are currently doing logo testing for Windows 7. We get it successful, however we face some warnings in test case 7. Test case 7 warns "Executable c:\program files (x86)\abc.exe failed to shutdown." Can anybody tell me how does it test ? How can we avoid this? ...
What is Windows 7's Fault Tolerant Heap?
I'd like some technical information on how it works, and how I can disable or enumerate the Fault Tolerant Heap shims that are associated with processes that crash frequently. Is there a heuristic of some sort that Windows 7 uses to decide when to apply an FTH shim? ...
DebugBreak not breaking
I'm writing a class in C++ that I cannot debug by using F5. The code will run from another "service" that will invoke it. In the past I've used __debugbreak() and when I got a window telling me that an exception was thrown selected to debug it. Recently I've updated to windows 7 and it kept working for a while. Today when I've tried t...
ASP.NET MVC on Windows 7 RC and paramterized routes not working
Take a new MVC App, then code: routes.MapRoute("a", "a/{id}", new {controller = "Home", action = "A"}); public ActionResult A(string id) { return Content(id); } Going to http://localhost/a/sdfdgh results in: HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for ...
Visual styles on WTL CreateSimpleToolbar()
I have created WTL 8.1 project with the wizard. Visual styles are applied to menu and about dialog, but toolbar looks ugly. How can I make the toolbar look native in Vista/7? ...
Has Windows 7 Fixed the 255 Character File Path Limit?
As I understand it, the limitation of 255 characters in a file path is a Windows limitation. What is the reasoning for this? If so, has this been resolved in Windows 7? In our continuous integration practices, we often have deeply nested project structures and it would be extremely useful to be able to go beyond 255 characters. Right no...
Domain compatibility: where should shared data be written?
Hi all, We've written an application that works fairly well in XP, but is having serious migration issues to Vista and Windows 7, probably due to where user data is being written. The use case is this: Individual users need to log in to the machine and use it to acquire data. Supervisor users need to be able to look over the shoulder ...
How to read "Contributing Artist" metadata in C++?
Windows 7 has a very nifty way of showing "Contributing Artist" metadata in Windows Explorer. In wonder how can I access that metadata from C++? Maybe you even point to some source code? Greatly appreciate in advance. ...
Changes Required To Meet Windows 7 Logo Requirements
Currently my program, even though it was written for Windows XP, installs and runs perfectly fine under Windows Vista. What will have to change in my program to meet the requirements of the Windows 7 Software Logo Program? For example Vista brought in the UAC (User Account Control) and changed the specific locations you needed to put p...
check whether internet connection is available with C#
What is the easiest way to check whether internet connection is available programatically? EDIT: As suggested I tried using the following method, but it is always returning true. [Flags] enum InternetConnectionState : int { INTERNET_CONNECTION_MODEM = 0x1, INTERNET_CONNECTION_LAN = 0x2, INTERNET_CONNECTION_PROXY = 0x4, ...
Users/Public not writeable in windows 7: where do I put user data?
Hi all, I've started to become a Good Citizen, as per this question here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1066782/domain-compatibility-where-should-shared-data-be-written My user information is now written to the environment variable: Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.CommonApplicationData) and then appending a...
WPF/Windows Forms Host on Windows7
I have a crash that's happening on Windows7 but not on XP, and was hoping for some insight. The application has an OpenGL Windows Form control used to display 16 bit grayscale images. This control works well under XP, and has been wrapped with a WindowsFormHost to run under WPF. When I start the application in Windows 7, the applicati...