windows-vista

It's easy for a WPF application to make parts of a window transparent or semi-transparent. But how to I apply the current Vista theme (colors, opacity) to these transparent parts? When I have a green glass border how will I get a green glass background of the same style? Is it even possible to do this without calls to the Windows API? I am thinking of something like this Stefan Here's a nice example: CodeProject: Adding Glass Effect to WPF using Attached Properties Take a look at this link, look for the section titled "IE7 – Extending the glass frame": http://blogs.msdn.com/wpfsdk/archive/2008

I have a set of Win32 applications that share information using a shared memory segment created with CreateFileMapping() and MapViewOfFile() . One of the applications is a system service; the remainder are started by the logged-in user. On Windows XP, there was no problem. We named our segments “Global\Something” and all was well. The additional security in Vista (and assumedly Windows 7) appears to prevent this architecture from working. Normal users are not allowed to create (Win32 error 5) objects in the global namespace. The MSDN indicates that if the account has the “create global”

Running this code as a regular user throws HttpListenerException (access denied). Snippet runs ok as an administator class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { HttpListener listener = new HttpListener(); listener.Prefixes.Add("http://myip:8080/app/"); listener.Start(); //.... and so on } } i went ahead and added the uri using netsh (netsh http show lists the uri) netsh http add urlacl url=http://+:8080/app user=domain\user still getting the same error. Adding ACLs did work for other projects (they didn't use HttpListener though). I tried multiple port/application name combinations,

I found this question on StackOverflow . Basically, the user wanted to draw custom buttons on the titlebar. I tried the code and realised it works in vista/7 only when Aero is disabled. My question is, is there any way to draw custom buttons on the titlebar while aero is enabled? Also, is there any way of reading information from the current theme so I can style my buttons to match the already existing ones. Update Here is a screenshot from my computer demonstrating the above concept. I got the additional titlebar buttons after installing DisplayFusion. And I know DisplayFusion is a .NET

We are currently using the NetBios method , and it works ok under XP. Preliminary tests under Vista show that it also works, but there are caveats - NetBIOS has to be present, for instance, and from what I've been reading, the order of the adapters is bound to change. Our alternative method - with SNMPExtensionQuery - seems to be broken under Vista. The question is: do you know of a reliable way to get a list of the local MAC addresses on a Vista machine? Backwards compatibility with XP is a plus (I'd rather have one single method than lots of ugly #ifdef's). Thanks! Could you use the

I want to increase the I/O priority of a process. Answers for both .NET and Windows Vista would be nice. processexplorer is ok as well. The relevant information seems to be a bit scattered compared to the usual MS documentation. There is this white paper that discusses I/O Prioritization in windows . This doc seems to have beta flags all over it but I guess it's probably mostly pretty accurate. Two important things to note: You can only reduce the priority of IO requests below normal. The driver can ignore any such request and treat it as normal anyway. The useful APIs for client applications

I have a batch file which is in a directory and must be run from there as well because it updates files within this directory. This works perfectly fine, except when the user runs the batch file as administrator (required on Vista). Then the starting directory is C:\Windows\System32. Is there any way to still be able to know from which directory the batch file was run? I dont want the user to enter the directory manually. Try to access the batch files path like this: echo %~dp0 For more information see the following quote from the command for /? that describes how the above command works: You

I'm not talking about the vista glass feature, I already know how to accomplish that. The feature that I'm talking about is add controls to the titlebar, like office 2007 does with the logo and toolbar. You need to do some Win32 interop to achieve that effect. Depending on whether you are using Winforms or WPF, the way you hook to the message processing differs (I don't remember Winforms, so I'll give all examples for WPF). But in both cases, you need to: Intercept the creation of the window and modify the window styles and extended styles. In WPF you need to inherit from HwndSource and modify