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Logging out of your passport account doesnt let you sign back in [Logging out of your passport account doesnt let you sign back in]

mig — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:20:55 GMT

From Firefox 3 RC2, when I logged out of Hotmail (it couldn't successfully log me out of C9 btw); and when I attempted to go to the C9 main website, it went into a loop of "Please sign in" prompts.

I can reproduce, and so can you if you're on that browser, haven't tested with IE.

In the meantime, I will sign in with my C9 account so that I dont have to use a Live ID and go through this bug again.

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Someone playing with C9? [Someone playing with C9?]

mig — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:45:33 GMT

Got some application errors earlier, and now whenever I go to access a page it's like its components are being recompiled on the fly (takes ages to load).

You guys playing with the source?

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Save Link As... doesn't work for downloading a video (in Firefox2) [Save Link As... doesn't work for downloading a video (in Firefox2)]

mig — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:21:12 GMT

I have the WMP Firefox Plugin installed and one of the things the plugin does is allow the browser plugin to handle WMV files inside the browser when a WMV stream is typed directly in the browser address bar or (as is happening now) the server returns a WMV movie to the browser the plugin kicks in and starts playing the movie. The problem is that from http://beta.channel9.msdn.com/Media/Introduction-to-the-Windows-Workflow-Foundation-Pageflow-sample/ this page for example, when clicking "Save Link As..." on the download link provided I can't download the WMV file because (I can only assume ) of the way the new way you are serving links with no filenames themselves in the link instead pointing to a page that then sends the file to the browser.

Is this being addressed already?

Also, I can only assume that if the WMP Browser Plugin wasn't installed the user would be prompted to Save the file (the way it is by default with files that the browser isn't configured to handle automatically).

I will note that this works the way it is supposed to work with IE7 on my system, I am running Windows XP SP2.

On a somewhat related note: are there plans for the in-web player that shows up with IE7 now on Firefox? I have the Silverlight plug-in installed on Firefox and nothing shows up so I can only assume it hasn't been implemented yet. But what I saw in IE7 in retrospect was a WMP player, nice interface but a WMP player nonetheless. Are you guys waiting on the Silverlight player to add that same experience to the Firefox users or are there other plans in the mix in terms of the WMP player for Firefox?

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Main page with Safari (for Windows) [Main page with Safari (for Windows)]

mig — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:31:10 GMT

I just downloaded Safari for Windows and while visiting the homepage of the beta, I noticed that the popups for the posters (in the content that's on the right-side of the page) shows up without you hovering over the author's name. In fact that popup is there for each poster (ie. Charles, UltraGuy ). So that might be something to look at when fixing the next batch of bugs.

Also, as a sidenote, why does the 'HOME' link show me a cursor on firefox in the menu. I think you guys should do something about that (maybe a CSS style) for us firefox users, haven't tried browsing the site in IE7 so I don't know if it shows up that way in IE7. The cursor only shows up for the HOME link, the other links like FORUMS and ABOUT show the hand cursor.

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Separation of layers in n-tier ASP.NET application [Separation of layers in n-tier ASP.NET application]

mig — Wed, 30 May 2007 06:24:31 GMT

Nevermind... can be deleted.

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MSN Messenger version for Vista? [MSN Messenger version for Vista?]

mig — Tue, 22 May 2007 08:13:31 GMT

So just out of curiosity is there a version of MSN Messenger in the works that would incorporate Glass (like the new Yahoo Messenger does)?

In my opinion it's one of the only things left at least in my desktop that could do without it's own "skins", I would rather prefer a Glass-ified (possibly?) version 9....

Wonder if it's in the works, can anyone elaborate?

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Major Annoyance with the System tray [Major Annoyance with the System tray]

mig — Thu, 10 May 2007 04:16:32 GMT

So it's 2007 and we're at another Windows release with Vista. Why is it that an Explorer crash still wipes the icons in the system tray?
Obviously since the taskbar lives within Explorer, but what I am asking is why hasn't there been a "middle man" established to house the tray icons and display them? And possibly have the system tray "plug into" this middle man (whatever its implementation may be) to display an 'unchanged' system tray in the event of an Explorer crash.

Also, as a sidenote I think at one point in time before the "Reset" the system tray icons were living in the sidebar (or did my memory completely miss on that?) If that was the case, I suspect that the sidebar taking on a slightly different role had something to do with deciding to keep the system tray in the taskbar, but why wasn't what I suggested above implemented?

I hope I am not the only one that shares this frustration.

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CD Burning in Vista as a standard user [CD Burning in Vista as a standard user]

mig — Wed, 02 May 2007 07:50:39 GMT

I am writing an application that plays nice in Vista when it comes to UAC and running as a standard user, however the application needs to be able to record CDs. When testing as local admin (with UAC on), this isn't an issue, but when testing as local user (the machine is running Windows Vista and is part of a Windows 2003 domain) IMAPI is denying access to the CDRW drive. The same thing happens in Windows Explorer; now I've read about a group policy that you can set and I've already tried it. The group policy I'm referring to can be found in: User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Explorer\ with the name "Remove CD Burning Features", the default is "Not Configured" and I've set this to enabled and logged off and back on (I haven't restarted the machine as I'm connecting to it via Terminal Services but I guess I will give restaring a try tomorrow). Does anyone know of a definitive way to get CD burning in Vista as a standard user, or is this a pipe dream and not possible? Maybe the restart while setting the setting to "Disabled" will fix it, but I will have to wait until tomorrow to find out. Otherwise if you know what I'm missing I'd appreciate it.

Edit: A restart didn't help, so I take it that policy is only for denying the use of the CD Burning ability, not granting it (by disabling). So far my only option seems to elevate for this, but it's almost crucial that this be avoided.

Thanks.

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Vista's Reliability and Performance Console [Vista's Reliability and Performance Console]

mig — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:11:17 GMT

I think this is a great idea and I've been using it every couple of weeks to keep track of my system.

The problem? Explorer.exe is not letting my score come up past 5! I think if there was an option to just exclude certain executables from this report it would (at least make me feel better) make sense in certain situations when you want to see how well your system is faring over time.

I guess we have to wait until SP1 comes out to (hopefully?) see some improvement in Explorer.exe's stability.

In all fairness, this isn't a trivial app that you can just get "right" the first couple of beta releases around :D, and looking at system logs it seems Explorer is just the scapegoat, SHELL32.DLL is what's crashing most of the time. But why does Explorer have to crash along with it? Let's hope it isn't two service packs that make Vista's Explorer rock solid.

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SQL Server Management Studio Express [SQL Server Management Studio Express]

mig — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:19:07 GMT

Anyone else have any issues with SSMSE ? My issue (I'm running Vista 32bit) is that the program just crashes:

[Window Title]
Microsoft Windows

[Main Instruction]
SQLWB - SQL Server Management Studio has stopped working

[Content]
A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.

[Debug] [Close program]

when I go to File -> Open -> File...

This happens everytime, even when running the application with elevated privileges. Ideas?

Also, there is an unhandled exception on program load, below is the dump:

See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.IO.IOException: Cannot create a stable subkey under a volatile parent key.

   at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.Win32Error(Int32 errorCode, String str)
   at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.CreateSubKey(String subkey, RegistryKeyPermissionCheck permissionCheck, RegistrySecurity registrySecurity)
   at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.CreateSubKey(String subkey)
   at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.ConnectionDlg.RegisteredServersUtils.CreateKeyValueIfNotExist(String regPath, String keyName)
   at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.ConnectionDlg.RegisteredServersUtils.RegisterLocalInstancesIfFirstTimeUser()
   at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.ConnectionDlg.ConnectionDialog.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnCreateControl()
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl()
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

************** Loaded Assemblies **************
<snip />

************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.

For example:

<configuration>
    <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.

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Recommended database layout in ASP.NET 2.0 (for roles/membership and application data) [Recommended database layout in ASP.NET 2.0 (for roles/membership and application data)]

mig — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:14:36 GMT

I am starting a website up and I want to use the integrated .NET 2.0 membership & roles, my question is wether it is best to keep the asp.net 2.0 information in its own database file next to a database file for the site data, or if I can just use a single database file for everything.

I would prefer to have a single file, I can't seem to find anything specifically referring to this, so I'm asking here.

Edit: Regarding above, I started watching an episode of DNR-TV which I came across while searching C9 for information on this, the episode had to do with membership and what I was talking about and he just answered my question above, but the question below still stands. For those interested the DNR-TV episode is here.

Also, what steps would I need to take to export my database schema when I move this project to where it'll be hosted and I need to setup the new SQL Server 2005 database there... I am thinking export a SQL script to create/initialize/populate the DB on the webhost's machine, or is there another (perhaps more straightforward) way?

Thanks.

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IMAPI in Vista without elevation? [IMAPI in Vista without elevation?]

mig — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:26:17 GMT

I've got an application that uses IMAPI to burn data discs and in XP it works fine as a limited user however in Vista if I don't run the application elevated IMAPI initialization fails. Is there a way to use IMAPI without having to elevate?

Edit: apparently that's no longer the case, I wonder wth happened, it must've been some other code that also didn't let the IMAPI code initialize.. weird but works now after telling the UAC manifest to request "asInvoker" privileges there are no more complaints.

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Windows Live OneCare Backup users [Windows Live OneCare Backup users]

mig — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:52:56 GMT

I wonder how many people here use WLOC Backup? Since running Vista I shelled out the $50 for the software, and I haven't looked back, it's good stuff!

The only issue I have with it (the same goes for Vista's built-in backup) is that once you backup you can't modify the backup archive and selectively remove what you want. In my situation I have 50GB or so of music and 15% of free space left on the drive, since then I've freed up maybe 20GB of data that exist on the backup but I no longer need.

Since I run a nightly backup any files I move around and/or delete on my main hard drive aren't removed from the backup (for reasons I can understand, a backup should never DELETE files automatically, unless you choose to synchronize files). However, the lack of an interface to manage my backed up files is something that I can't help but miss.

Does anyone else out there feel this way?

There are some files that I'd rather manually remove from the backup when I no longer have any use for them (it won't help to add these folders to my exclude list because when they go into my backup I actually want them there).

Do any of you know any program that works with Vista and uses Volume Shadow Copies that can do what I want?

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Sleep mode in Windows Vista and power outages [Sleep mode in Windows Vista and power outages]

mig — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 07:05:47 GMT

The biggest question I have about "Sleep" in windows Vista is how it will react to a power outage. Will it lose the recovery data, or will it already have the recovery data saved to the hard drive (like Hibernate) and in case of power loss give the user the option to resume the previous session or boot fresh?

If not, I have a UPS that I'd configure to automatically Hibernate my PC should the battery become too low, would Windows Vista follow these instructions while in Sleep if the UPS tells it the battery is in a critical state?

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You ever dream about what you're coding? [You ever dream about what you're coding?]

mig — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:57:32 GMT

So last night I was writing a DirectShow video capture class and I easily put in 6 hours into it since I decided to scrap my old code and start building from scratch again, and when I finally go to bed (late) I find myself waking up to a dream of connecting pins, querying interfaces and calling methods on DirectShow interfaces. Literally, it was as if I was connecting the pins to continue sleeping and rendering my sleep's outcome! I would move around in bed (half awake) and would imagine calling methods and then fall back into sleep again, all while dreaming.

Does this ever happen to you?

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What happened to minimizing the Sidebar? [What happened to minimizing the Sidebar?]

mig — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:00:32 GMT

I noticed (at least in Beta2) the Sidebar could be minimized, which is helpful (at least for me) when I am remoting into my machine. However, I recently saw that in RTM the ability to remove the Sidebar is no longer there. Why was this removed?

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Blue border on right and bottom edge of a window frame in Vista [Blue border on right and bottom edge of a window frame in Vista]

mig — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:24:25 GMT

Has anyone else noticed a blue 'border' on the right and bottom edge of a Windows Vista window frame using Aero Glass?

It is starting to bother me a little as it is inconsistent...

http://blippy.net/albums/index.php?path=misc&img=blueborder.png

That's the link to the screenshot, I couldn't find a way to embed an image into a post so I just posted a link to the screenshot.

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Run an application elevated without using "Run as Administrator" [Run an application elevated without using "Run as Administrator"]

mig — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:40:34 GMT

I'd like to run an application elevated when I run it from the "Run" dialog box, or the "Run" sidebar gadget that I have installed, or the command prompt.

What I want to do is have something like: runelevated <exename>, where <exename> would be looked for in %PATH% like the regular "Run" dialog would do, but it would ask me for credentials (or to elevate) to run the application elevated.

The reason for this is that there are some applications that while they will run fine as a regular user they attempt to write to the registry or change some setting and silently fail because they are lacking the permissions but they don't make vista ask me to run them as administrator and I don't want to ALWAYS run them as administrator as that would be 1) contradicting the whole purpose of UAC and 2) very annoying whenever I want to run the application.

Anyone know if I can do this?, well.... if it's out there already because I suspect I can write something to do this there isn't.

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Shell extension only works sometimes in Vista [Shell extension only works sometimes in Vista]

mig — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:56:19 GMT

So I am a big fan of Picaview, however I am still using version 1.3.2 and I don't plan on upgrading. My main issue is that starting with Vista RC1 Picaview won't load! The installer creates the necessary registry entries and I am sure Windows Defender isn't blocking the extension (even though it does register the 'event' when the shell extension is installed) but when I right click on images the context menu is not brought up at all. The weird thing is, it has worked TWICE for me in this version of Vista (RC2) but I have yet to figure out why it gets invoked sometimes and why sometimes it isn't.

Can anyone shed some light into why this might be happening?

Also, what other shell extensions do you guys use on your system? I use Picaview for previewing images (I like the new Windows Photo Gallery when I want to view many files consecutively), WinRAR and TortoiseSVN, that pretty much sums up the shell extensions that show up on my system other than the default Vista shell extensions.

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Vista Start menu slow [Vista Start menu slow]

mig — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:44:01 GMT

So I am on Vista RC2 and I am having issues with the Start menu, it is taking a few seconds (2-4 sometimes more) to open up a program folder.

In start menu options I've removed "Open submenus when I pause over them with the mouse" and the slowdown is still there; I can't help but notice a CPU spike as well when this happens.

As far as I can tell there is no indexing going on, but I have only had the system installed for 2 days maybe this goes away after some time? Either way it is very annoying now as sometimes I can't remember the name of the executable I want and I have to navigate through the start menu to find the program.

Has anybody else experienced this? If so, have you found a fix?

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Telling VS2005 to NOT make a folder in My Documents [Telling VS2005 to NOT make a folder in My Documents]

mig — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 04:41:23 GMT

So I want to get rid of the "Visual Studio 2005" directory that launching VS2005 makes under My Documents, however I haven't been able to find the setting (both in the registry and in the configuration files in the program installation directory), what am I missing? Can this setting even be changed? I want to make it go to another directory where I have a subdir for this directory. It's just one of those anal retentive folder structure things I have, I like to be in control of my folders.

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Exchange 2003 Outlook Web Access issues [Exchange 2003 Outlook Web Access issues]

mig — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:20:12 GMT

I am having a few issues on my Exchange 2003 setup, we have various off-site staff members that use OWA and here are the two problems that are happening:

1) Password changing via IE (6/7) gives me "Error No. 5", but at the same time I can change the password successfully via Firefox (1.5/2.0).

2) A password change was forced on a user, but she couldn't change it in IE7 and when she tried it in Firefox she kept on getting 403/Forbidden replies, when she got into the office she changed her password and got into the system, however OWA is still giving her the 403/Forbidden reply, I went to the Exchange box and saw that OWA was disabled for her (I didn't disable it though), was this done automatically, why? Is this configurable?

If anyone can shed some light on this I'd appreciate it.

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Not a conspiracy theory, but maybe it is?.... [Not a conspiracy theory, but maybe it is?....]

mig — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:43:53 GMT

Now I'm not one for conspiracy theories, however an idea just hit me while reading (one of MANY) [Powerhouse] getting strict about [NewlyAcquired] subsidiary copyright infringements. ie. CNET taking down all copyrighted music from MySpace.com and Google taking down all copyrighted videos from YouTube.com.

Now I have no problem with this because while I believe in making personal backups of media I have purchased, I don't [necessarily] condone ripping off artists.

So back on topic, it just struck me that many technology giants are getting their hands on the smaller POPULAR startups like Facebook, YouTube and MySpace, and at the same time are making the RIAA/MPAA happy while they're at it. I understand that since these companies are larger and more susceptible to lawsuits they are quick to respond to copyright infringement notices and naturally they wanted to get on the bandwagon because alot of these companies make money off advertising and these new acquisitions get millions of hits a day.

However, if you were one to believe in conspiracies wouldn't it seem peculiar that all the popular startups are being bought out and at the same time this is reducing the interweb's copyright infringement trend (if trend is the right word for it :/)?

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Logging in w/out signing in through passport [Logging in w/out signing in through passport]

mig — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:59:45 GMT

So when I registered I associated my passport with a C9 account (in my case 'mig') and I recall putting in a password for this account as well.

I have changed the C9 account password and when I try to log in with that information the site tells me it can't confirm my username/password, should I be doing this any other way?

I currently log in via Passport but that's an extra step that I have to take to log in.

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