Re: VS2005 & Vista?
We had problems with a couple of applications that do special preview modes
in the CFileDialog. I didn't have to fix it so I don't know exactly what
was going on, but I was able to narrow down the problem to happening when it
was trying to display thumbnails. I'm glad this was not a problem for you.
I'm also surprised it took so long to copy your files...
I had an interesting one last night. The libary I get from CodeJock (XTreme
Toolkit) installs into the Program Files folder. I went back to try to
compile one of their samples (first time I've done this since going to
Vista) and it wouldn't compile. It turns out that Vista makes eveything in
Program Files read-only (in UAC). I didn't know that so I tried making the
CodeJock folder and everything under it "not" read-only and it took about 10
minutes to pound through the files, said it worked, then left it read-only
anyway. I found out I could get around this by turning off UAC (a simple
user change), but I don't want to do that either. I can move the folder
easily enough, it was just one of those new Vista experiences. I wonder how
many applications try to write log files into their Program Files folder?
Of course it makes sense for Vista to protect this area (it's one of the
most heavily hit by spyware, etc.) so as we learn to work around the new
protections we will build safer software.
Tom
"David Webber" <dave@musical.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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4. Great that it worked. If you do anything special with a CFileDialog
(like preview) you may want to check those out closely under Vista.
I use CFileDialog explicitly (rather than as implemented deep down in the
Application Framework) for opening and saving files of non-native format
(Import and Export). When I went from VC++6 to VC++7 I did encounter
problems with it - some default constructor arguments had changed IIRC.
However I have just checked my VS2005 compilation done under Vista and
there seems to be no futher problem. [With the debug build - I have yet
to check the release.]
BTW copying the project across my 100megabit LAN took much longer then
downloading and installing the VS2005 updates. (I saved them to my own
machine and then ran them). I went away and had my dinner and watched a
film while the project copied over the LAN <g> but next time I'll clean
the solution before I copy anything across: I was a bit surprised that
building is quicker than copying. [And I had to rebuild anyway as the
updated compiler didn't like the old precompiled headers.]
Dave
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