Comments for Midnite Blog http://www.midniteblog.com Ruminations and ramblings about the world of coding for a living Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:58:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Comment on NXCOMPAT? by admin http://www.midniteblog.com/?p=47&cpage=1#comment-40 admin Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:58:01 +0000 http://www.midniteblog.com/?p=47#comment-40 As a followup, apparently even if the NXCOMPAT compiler switch is off, Vista will refuse to load legacy controls while DEP is set to "AlwaysOn". You must disable DEP to get it to work: To disable DEP in Vista: 1. Click Start 2. Click All Programs 3. Click Accessories 4. Right Click on Command Prompt 5. Left click on Run as Administrator 6. Click the Allow button if it asks you for permission 7. Type or copy and paste this into the command prompt window: bcdedit.exe /set {current} nx AlwaysOff 8. Hit enter and you should see the confirmation: Operation Completed Successfully 9. Reboot and DEP should be off. Also, according to Steven Cheng, Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead: As for the DEP setting, I think whether you mark the flag in your exe image will not quite concerns to future compatibility(at least from the OS DEP configuration's perspective). Because the DEP behavior is still mainly controlled by the OS's DEP policy. If the system admin always turn on DEP, even if you set it off in your exe, the application will still fail. midniteblogger As a followup, apparently even if the NXCOMPAT compiler switch is off, Vista will refuse to load legacy controls while DEP is set to “AlwaysOn”.
You must disable DEP to get it to work:

To disable DEP in Vista:

1. Click Start
2. Click All Programs
3. Click Accessories
4. Right Click on Command Prompt
5. Left click on Run as Administrator
6. Click the Allow button if it asks you for permission
7. Type or copy and paste this into the command prompt window:

bcdedit.exe /set {current} nx AlwaysOff

8. Hit enter and you should see the confirmation: Operation Completed Successfully
9. Reboot and DEP should be off.

Also, according to Steven Cheng, Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead:
As for the DEP setting, I think whether you mark the flag in your exe
image will not quite concerns to future compatibility(at least from the OS
DEP configuration’s perspective). Because the DEP behavior is still mainly
controlled by the OS’s DEP policy. If the system admin always turn on DEP,
even if you set it off in your exe, the application will still fail.

midniteblogger

]]> Comment on Why is Visual Studio 2008 so darn slow? by admin http://www.midniteblog.com/?p=40&cpage=1#comment-32 admin Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:53:51 +0000 http://www.midniteblog.com/?p=40#comment-32 So as a follow up: I found an update for Visual Studio 2008 at: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=10826 that is also referenced here: http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/02/09/downloadable-hotfix-performance-and-editor-fixes-for-microsoft-visual-studio-2008-and-visual-web-developer-express-2008.aspx The bottom line is that it didn't seem to help at all. I loaded a small .xslt file 7 minutes ago and VS is still unresponsive and "whited out" in Vista. I like .NET, but Microsoft really needs to address the slowness of their tool set. -midniteblogger So as a follow up: I found an update for Visual Studio 2008 at:

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=10826

that is also referenced here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/02/09/downloadable-hotfix-performance-and-editor-fixes-for-microsoft-visual-studio-2008-and-visual-web-developer-express-2008.aspx

The bottom line is that it didn’t seem to help at all. I loaded a small .xslt file 7 minutes ago and VS is still unresponsive and “whited out” in Vista. I like .NET, but Microsoft really needs to address the slowness of their tool set.

-midniteblogger

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]]> Comment on Writing an Outlook Add-in with C# (Part 1) by Hosting an Active-X Control on an Outlook Inspector page with C# « Midnite Blog http://www.midniteblog.com/?p=6&cpage=1#comment-15 Hosting an Active-X Control on an Outlook Inspector page with C# « Midnite Blog Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:17:50 +0000 http://www.midniteblog.com/2007/04/12/writing-an-outlook-add-in/#comment-15 [...] This article is going to carry on some ideas from earlier posts. Those posts dealt with how to customize an Outlook Contact by adding a custom tab. If you missed the earlier information, you can catch up on it here: http://www.midniteblog.com/?p=6. [...] [...] This article is going to carry on some ideas from earlier posts. Those posts dealt with how to customize an Outlook Contact by adding a custom tab. If you missed the earlier information, you can catch up on it here: http://www.midniteblog.com/?p=6. [...]

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]]> Comment on Hosting an Active-X Control on an Outlook Inspector page with C# by dewet@cyberdawn.co.za http://www.midniteblog.com/?p=13&cpage=1#comment-9 dewet@cyberdawn.co.za Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:02:58 +0000 http://www.midniteblog.com/2007/05/05/hosting-an-activex-control-on-an-outlook-inspector-page/#comment-9 Will it be possible to add a WebBrowser control to the blank tab Page ? I have tried to do this, but I always get the Invalid Argument error on the Controls.Add Method. Will it be possible to add a WebBrowser control to the blank tab Page ?
I have tried to do this, but I always get the Invalid Argument error on the Controls.Add Method.

]]> Comment on Hosting an Active-X Control on an Outlook Inspector page with C# by dewet@cyberdawn.co.za http://www.midniteblog.com/?p=13&cpage=1#comment-10 dewet@cyberdawn.co.za Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:45:17 +0000 http://www.midniteblog.com/2007/05/05/hosting-an-activex-control-on-an-outlook-inspector-page/#comment-10 Great post Anyway you can give a short example of hosting a WebBrowser ActiveX control on the blank tab ? Thanks Great post

Anyway you can give a short example of hosting a WebBrowser ActiveX control on the blank tab ?

Thanks

]]> Comment on You Tube videos distributing malware? by MidniteBlogger http://www.midniteblog.com/?p=26&cpage=1#comment-12 MidniteBlogger Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:59:26 +0000 http://www.midniteblog.com/2008/08/05/you-tube-videos-distributing-malware/#comment-12 OK. So as a follow up and in fairness to Google, they did lift the malware warning on my other site, but it took 5 days for them to review and clear it. In the meantime, my traffic took a big hit. Thanks for lifting it, Google folks, but how about looking into the malware the bad guys are stuffing into You Tube videos your publishers are putting on their sites? midniteblogger OK. So as a follow up and in fairness to Google, they did lift the malware warning on my other site, but it took 5 days for them to review and clear it. In the meantime, my traffic took a big hit.
Thanks for lifting it, Google folks, but how about looking into the malware the bad guys are stuffing into You Tube videos your publishers are putting on their sites?

midniteblogger

]]> Comment on You Tube videos distributing malware? by dgoshorn http://www.midniteblog.com/?p=26&cpage=1#comment-13 dgoshorn Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:04:03 +0000 http://www.midniteblog.com/2008/08/05/you-tube-videos-distributing-malware/#comment-13 I experienced the same thing on my blog at dgoshorn.com, and do indeed have a YouTube video embedded on the frontpage. Thx for the post! I experienced the same thing on my blog at dgoshorn.com, and do indeed have a YouTube video embedded on the frontpage. Thx for the post!

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