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• JOSE3007 how to play videos inside 3d device?

  hi, as directshow is no longer recommended for game developing, how to play videos inside dx3d ! and how to access stuff like video capturing cards and webcams for playback inside a dx3d! thx & greets natarius People at Microsoft beleive Video is not really a game related matter so they put DirectShow in the Platform SDK...it is still available and supported It's just that it's not game related...Ther ...Show All

• allen_xu WinFS "Identity" Properties and One-to-Many Links

  The WinFS newsgroup seems to have died, so I'll try posting my question here as well. I notice that some of the entities defined in the custom schema samples have properties obviously carried over from the original database schema, like OrderID or ProductID. Is this the way to go if I'm designing a custom schema It seems wrong somehow. Shouldn't I be using Links to associate items, rather than relying on ID properties Which leads on to my s ...Show All

• Ricardo Ibarra Serialization error and SQL persistence service

  Recently, I've been tearing my hair out because of strange serialization errors being reported when I start my workflow which is hosted to use the services of the SQL persistence service. In trying to track down the issue I deleted most of my code but still got the errors - which reported references to deleted code! I tried deleting any cached DLLs, clean rebuilds etc to no avail and then seemed to stumble on the answer - which is unfotuna ...Show All

• Toranoshi22 Setting a parameter to a custom activity

  Hi! I developed a custom activity and I created the following property: public static DependencyProperty StickerProperty = System.Workflow.ComponentModel. DependencyProperty .Register( "Sticker" , typeof ( string ), typeof ( CorrectorActivity )); [ Description ( "This is the description which appears in the Property Browser" )] [ Category ( "This is the category which will be displayed in the P ...Show All

• pwqiang Enabling aero glass?

  Is there something in particular that has to be done to enable this I've installed Avalon and the other pieces with it, updated my gfx driver the the latest version from nvidia, but I'm still getting the plain aero, and I don't see anywhere to enable aero glass. My system is far above the requirements needed for it: Athlon64x2 4400, GF7800GTX, 2GB RAM... Hello i have sony fs315e laptop with 915 express ch ...Show All

• DanielBenito XPS Document Writer on XP

  Is the XPS document writer supposed to work on XP SP2 I installed it on 2 machines and it keeps on crashing. I tried printing to it from notepad, IE, other apps. They all crash. Maybe the printer driver on the WinFX November CTP is Vista only Thanks, Albert Albert,   The Microsoft XPS Document Writer (MXDW) will be compatible with Windows XP.  The version of MXDW that is available in the SD ...Show All

• Welly Why themes needed in workflows?

  Hi! I may be miss something, but why themes needed in workflows What is the reason for it Hi Paul! Thanks for response. I unmarked your post to be answer for now, because I need a little deeper understanding reasons why themes needed. My question is a little provocative. Hope you & other people help me get to answer I see that I can change themes, I can host workflow designer in my app, but who is the user of this feature Other de ...Show All

• Colin Desmond Rule Conditions using activity properties in hosted Designer Control

  I have a modified version of HOL 10 that rehosts the Designer Control but when I attempt to create a Rule Condition I cannot reference any activity properties within the workflow in the Rules Condition Editor. I have no such problem binding activity properties together through <Activity Reference>. Anyone have any idea why this might be Failing to host the rules editor is a known bug in that sample. We're planning an update for ...Show All

• Phil Wherrett Error in running Windows Workflow Monitor

  I just downloaded the SDK for WWF and unpacked the Working Monitor Tool. It compiles and build successfully using VS2005/SQL Express 2005. But when I ran it, an error pop-ups! It seems that it cannot locate a certain 'HostWorkflowRuntime' component or any dependencies files. What am I missing here if you already install the good version of wwf, try to delete and add once again the references to the workflow assembly and run once again. ...Show All

• PareshGheewala How define IDvdControl2 and IDvdInfo2 in C++ ........

  Hi  my friends I have a trouble because I'm trying use the new interface of DVD with IDvdControl2 and  IDvdInfo2, I was reading in MSDN and there say than I must to define in this form IDvdControl2 *pDvdControl2; IDvdInfo2 *pDvdInfo2; but when I declaration these funtions and try to compile my C++ Language no recognize these funtion.... Only my Language can recognize these functions IDvdControl *pDvdControl; IDvdInfo *pDvdInfo; I d ...Show All

• Guglielmo Boot Manager

  I am currently having another issue with my Windows Vista Beta Build 5231. I have had to reinstall Windows Vista because of an issue in XP but after I reinstalled I now have two entries of Windows Vista in my boot menu. Is there some way to reset my boot menu Also I have had some folders appear in my C Partition (XP) which are labeled Windows BT~ and Boot. Any help would be appriciated, thank you. ...Show All

• AmitK Custom ActivityValidator crashes VS.NET

  Hello, I have Jan CTP and I am building a new activity validator for my custom activity. According to several articles I write the following code: public override ValidationErrorCollection ValidateProperties(ValidationManager manager, object obj) { MyActivity activity = obj as MyActivity; if (activity == null) { throw new InvalidOperationException("the parameter obj is not of type MyActivity"); } ValidationErr ...Show All

• imec Microsoft Windows User Experience: Official Guidelines for User Interface Developers and Designers

  How come this book is so so expensive come on a thousand dollars canadian for a book... sooo dissapointed with MS over this... I guess bill is the only one with a copy. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735605661/ref=olp_product_details/104-7637469-6783105 %5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155 Good news, then, that the Windows Vista UX Guidelines are free for download. (At least for the moment. I don't know what will happen a ...Show All

• JessicaM Vista networking

  Not sure if this is the right place to ask, please redirect me if not. I have just installed the Vista beta and can't connect to the LAN or the internet. the adapter is detected and working properly. It is configured for a static IP. I know that those settings are correct. I have turned off the windows firewall and still can't connect to any server resources. I am not trying to connect to a domain, just access a shared server. The server ...Show All

• Paul_ Accessing login information

  I am building an application where i want to do something like this:   " A simulation is running in background when the ccomputer is locked by the user who started the simulation....now as soon as user logs back in, simulation shud stop( basically whenever a user is doing some interactive task,simulation shud stop running)" Now for doing this i need to detect the event when the user logs back into the system so as to end the simula ...Show All