Category Archives: Visual Studio

Getting around “Strong name signature not valid for assembly” for a ClickOnce application

Posted on 10/01/2017 by

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) … Continue reading →

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What part of Windows is written in .Net/WPF/Silverlight?

Posted on 16/05/2016 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Flash Player: Loading from memory

Posted on 26/11/2015 by

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 … Continue reading →

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What’s new in Visual Studio Tools for Windows 10 Preview

Posted on 24/03/2015 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Book review: Mastering Windows 8 C++ App Development

Posted on 07/08/2013 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Another breaking change related to 64 bit compatibility, this time in TAPISRV w/Windows 8

Posted on 29/07/2013 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Howto: Ignoring web browser certificate errors in a webbrowser host

Posted on 17/07/2013 by

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, … Continue reading →

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When you get a System.BadImageFormatException. maybe you indeed have a bad system image.

Posted on 08/02/2013 by

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, … Continue reading →

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How to restart Windows Explorer programmatically using Restart manager

Posted on 22/01/2013 by

For shell extension programmers, restart Windows Explorer is one of steps in their setup programs. A programmer may also want to force some shell setting changes that would only be read by Explorer on start up. For example, this posts … Continue reading →

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How to: Migrating a CLR console Visual C++ project to Windows Forms

Posted on 17/12/2012 by

Note: Windows Forms programming in new development is discouraged by Microsoft at this point as Microsoft wants to make full use of hardware accelerated drawing instead of using the CPU-intensive GDI. But maintaining old Windows Forms code in Visual C++ 2012 is … Continue reading →

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