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• Cedrickb Windows Vista FEB CTP Sata Driver

  HI i have 2 sata drivers on raid 0, when installing windows vissta, the installation is not able to see the drivers i click add drivers, i click on the driver, install but i cannot see my hard drive,any ideas nvidia 4 chipset. The nvidia has already published beta drivers for SATA. I'm using Silicon 3112 SATA controller. I have had problems installing the driver for Vista. Actually i was able to see the driver ...Show All

• Christopher Lord Desktop Lock???

  Is there any way that I can put a lock on changing my desktop Because everytime go on here, some one has changed it and put a crappy picture on. Edit: Can anyone help Just so that you can't right click on a picture and set it as background. I've moved this thread to an alias that may be able to answer you. I don't know of a way to do this. ...Show All

• GaryP Beta 2 question: Why did local services change?

  I have a question as to why the ExternalDataExchangeService class was introduced in Beta 2. What is its function that is a benefit over, or difference from, the way we added local services in Beta 1.2 For example, if I had a local service named Foo, which implements the IFoo interface (the IFoo interface is marked with the DataExchangeService attribute in 1.2) and I wanted to add it to the runtime I just did: Foo myFoo = new Foo(); workflo ...Show All

• bin joy I hope this format starts to leak before the next OS.

  The world longs for a PDF alternative.I hope this format finds a home in lower level and lower cost applications.This is where PDF suffers and makes users suffer.Sure there are low price PDF converters but to actually author a decent document you have to invest hundreds of dollars in Adobe products.If this format started leaking out small apps for the internet to play around with before Vista it would generate buzz and lock in success and reliev ...Show All

• prins gerard About the Role in WWF

  Hi. I want to do the following things: 1)There are two Roles:Role1,Role2 2)A State Machine workflow,there are four states:    OrderCreated->OrderFirstChecking->OrderSecondChecking->OrderFinished 3)Role1 can only do the OrderCreated State,Role2 can do OrderFirstChecking AND OrderSecondChecking states; 4)When Role1 Created a Order instance and set it to OrderFirstChecking state,then Role2 can find the Order instance and beg ...Show All

• perool General questions about WWF

  I've tried the Hand on Labs for the WWF Beta 2, even for Lab-01, not clear/simple enough for me to understand the logics behind as it uses too many external activities and applications (without description). I've a couple of questions in mind after the lab and hope any of you can help. After start a sequential workflow, how to: 1) Check the workflow status (completed or not) 2) How to get a return value from the workflow 3) Can we se ...Show All

• Matheus Von Der Kerkhoff Vista CTP Availability for Tablet

  Greetings, I'm looking on the developer download pages and only see that the Beta 1 release for Vista from back in June.  I know that MS has plans to post later versions of the beta as works in progress.  Where can I go to get these CTP builds or see a schedule when the new builds will be posted for developer download Thanks in advance for your assitance... George Hi George, Unfortunately there isn't a separate CTP right ...Show All

• avrilsim Installing Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 1

  There have been several threads with questions about installing Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 1.  I'm hoping to summarize the installation instructions for anyone else that might be having trouble.   These instructions are also available on the WindowsWorkflow.net community site here .  James Conard Architect Evangelist - Windows Workflow Foundation http://www.WindowsWorkflow.net http://blogs.msdn.com/jamescon ...Show All

• CapitanDotNet Win32/MFC: Ownerdraw MenuItem - Never receives ODS_SELECTED

  Hi, I've run into a serious problem here with Vista Beta 2 build 5308: When using an ownerdraw menu the menuitem never receives the ODS_SELECTED state. All other states work fine though. Neither my own Win32 code nor any MFC sample code ("OfficeXP Style Menu" and so on) from sites like codeproject.com do work on Vista. But all do work on 2K, XP. Now, Is this a (known ) bug in Vista A driver problem What can i do Thanks in advance, ...Show All

• Karretje Workflow instance version issues

  I was wondering what the best practis is for updating workflows in a live enviroment. Now during development I have noticed Serialization errors when building a new version of the workflow while having running workflows. It complains that "indexoutofbounds" when trying to featch the instance from the persistance service becouse there are more activities in the new version. How can i solve this You sh ...Show All

• Ksenia Mukhortova CLSID for shdocvw.dll different on XP and Vista

  shodocvw.dll CLSID is 8856F961-340A-11D0-A96B-00C04FD705A2 on XP ieframe.dll CLSID is 8856F961-340A-11D0-A96B-00C04FD705A2 on Vista build 5442 Shouldn't the CLSID for a particular component be consistent on all Windows OS Thanks, Geoff It's misleading to say "shodocvw.dll CLSID is 8856F961-340A-11D0-A96B-00C04FD705A2 on XP". A better way to phrase this is "the object with CLSID 8 ...Show All

• wwwillem About the solution in "DesignerSerializationManager seems to not work with typeproviders"

  Can anyone confirm that the solution proposed in the topic "DesignerSerializationManager seems to not work with typeproviders" ( http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=420682&SiteID=1 ) does solve the problem Thanks. The code I posted was not correct, but I updated the post. It should be typeof(ITypeProvider) that is added to the service container. Yes - I can confirm that ...Show All

• MRF Scrollbar for Left handed

  Will it be possible to set Scrollbar to the left side for left handed people And this works in all programs Do I need to enable it every time I use it (for example press some button, scroll, unpress button) Yes, this should work for every window that correctly handles key strokes. To give you more detail, you can perform Flick on 8 different directions; Up, Down, Left, Right, ...Show All

• fejesjoco What kind of Host Application to use?

  hi I didn't  really get behind this whole thing of persistence, and host application. Therefore I have following question: We are developing a asp.net web application, where order can be made. After defining the order, the workflow should be triggered, and is used to control certain sla (service level agreement) times, in which certain actions should take place. For example: After 8 hours the order is checked if it was given clearance ...Show All

• Mike Warren How to change input sample size in Direct Show ?

  Hi everybody, I need to create a Transform filter and I need that the sample size that is delivered in the following method to be a power of 2. HRESULT CMyFilter::Transform(IMediaSample *pIn, IMediaSample *pOut){ BYTE *pSampleBuffer; int iSize = pIn->GetActualDataLength(); // the size to be a power of 2 pIn->GetPointer(&pSampleBuffer); BYTE *pSampleBufferO; int iSizeO = pOut->GetActualDataLength(); pOut->GetPointer ...Show All