Category: Microsoft
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Bypassing Factory Reset Protection Microsoft Lumia 640
The problem: Recently I had to factory reset my Lumia 640 with Windows 10 Build 15063. However the factory reset protection cannot be turned off in settings. It will ask for password then the slider would stay on. I proceeded with a factory reset, then I am greeted with the reset protection notification screen (no…
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Farewell, dsoframer
I know, it is long overdue. Microsoft discontinued it a decade ago. And Office is not meant to be embedded. I even advised people to not use it in new development almost a decade ago. Then why I keep using it for so long? Because customers don’t want changes. I work in the medical field,…
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Getting around “Strong name signature not valid for assembly” for a ClickOnce application
When building a ClickOnce application, I need to redistribute a third party dll. But it failed the strong name validation under sn-vf thus ClickOnce launcher failed with the same error. Microsoft (R) .NET Framework Strong Name Utility Version 4.0.30319.0 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Failed to verify assembly — Strong name validation failed. I…
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What part of Windows is written in .Net/WPF/Silverlight?
user 曹一聪 on zhihu is curious how widely .Net is used within Windows components. Obviously an operating system component cannot depend on something that isn’t in the operating system, so nothing uses Silverlight in the desktop version Windows. And because XP editions mostly did not ship with any .Net framework version, practically nothing from the XP days…
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Flash Player: Loading from memory
user cucao wants to know how to play a flash file from application resource. The user wants to use a dongle to protect unauthorized viewing of the flash file so can’t just put the swf file in plain sight. Adobe’s Flash Player, being an ActiveX with supports for many OLE containers such as Internet Explorer and Microsoft Word, implements many standard OLE…
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What’s new in Visual Studio Tools for Windows 10 Preview
Looks like Windows 10 SDK gets renamed. This post focuses on the Win32 wide of changes. Changes in the WinRT Universal App Platform (UAP) side can be found at https://dev.windows.com/en-us/whats-new-windows-10-dev-preview. Some UAP APIs are available to all desktop apps, for exam DirectX 12 and notification center (should not come as surprise, older version of these APIs are…
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Book review: Mastering Windows 8 C++ App Development
Disclaimer: I am a Microsoft MVP in Visual C++, so is Pavel Yosifovich, the author of the book. Mastering Windows 8 C++ App Development by Pavel Yosifovich is a new addition to the Windows Store development books. It took me a while to read (304 pages) but is well worth the time from the perspective…
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Another breaking change related to 64 bit compatibility, this time in TAPISRV w/Windows 8
The ADO team had to make a breaking change the ADO APIs due to compatibility problem with Microsoft Office. Now it seems to be Tapi’s turn. In the 64 bit editions of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, some TAPI providers would stop getting incoming calls due to implementation changes in the TAPI service (TAPISRV)…
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Howto: Ignoring web browser certificate errors in a webbrowser host
The webbrowser queries host services via IServiceProvider implemented on the ActiveX host. One of the services is IHttpSecurity, which can be used to override the certificate problem dialog. Security warning: ignoring security problems can compromise your application. IHttpSecurity is derived from IWindowForBindingUI, so the host needs to implement it too. In Windows forms, customizing certificate error handling…
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When you get a System.BadImageFormatException. maybe you indeed have a bad system image.
I am getting a StackOverflowException with two functions repeating on the call stack, one is the constructor of System.BadImageFormatException, another is System.Environment.GetResourceStringLocal. Since the call that throws the stack overflow is to a web service proxy defined in the same project as the application, there isn’t a 32bit/64bit mismatch here (32bit machine with every project targeting x86), unlike almost…
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