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For a long time, desktop PC users have been able to configure Win32 apps to start at startup or user log-in. This has also been possible for Desktop Bridge apps since the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (v10.0.14393.0). We’ve now extended this feature to allow regular Universal Windows Apps to...

In today’s post, we are covering another step you can take on your journey across the Desktop Bridge: specifically migrating business logic to Windows Runtime Components, aka WinRT Components. Previously, Windows only supported calling OS provided WinRT components from Win32 applications. Any...

As we continue to close the gap between Win32 and Universal Windows Apps, one of the features we’ve recently introduced is the ability to activate a UWA from a command line and pass the app arbitrary command-line arguments. This is available to Insiders from build 16226. This feature builds on...

The Windows 10 Creators Update adds out-of-process (OOP) COM and OLE support for apps on the Desktop Bridge – a.k.a Packaged COM. Historically, Win32 apps would create COM extensions that other applications could use. For example, Microsoft Excel exposes its Excel.Application object so...

With last summer’s release of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update and the announcement of the Windows Store supporting apps built with the Desktop Bridge technology, we want to share more details and sample code on how to further enhance and extend your PC software on Windows 10. In addition to...

Hi, My Windows updated automatically on night of Oct 11th. From the next day, when I started my laptop, most of the applications stopped running and gave me this error: The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log...

Recently my computer has been freezing up frequently. I have made sure it's not a heat issue or a driver issue. I used MTB to determine what the source of the problem was. I found out that the error, Description: Activation context generation failed for...

AllJoyn is a technology that enables IoT devices and applications to discover and interact with each other. Since AllJoyn is built into Windows 10 and the Windows 10 SDK, it's easy to take advantage of AllJoyn using the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). Link Removed This blog post will help...

Today's Visual Studio extension is kind of simple, and the source isn't currently available, but it's one of those that can really have you some time (and hair)... Can Bilgin, building on the work of Link Removed, has released a Visual Studio 2015 extension that makes it click-easy to convert...

Are you build Visual Studio extensions? Will you do me a favor? Please consider your user's DPI. My primary machine runs at 3K (2880x1620) and since my eyes are old, the DPI is at 200%. If you're not running a High DPI machine you may be wondering what's the problem? If you are, like Scott...

Hi I am using windwos7 on my dell laptop inspiron 5010, after starting it function erraticly as sometimes i am able to open I.Explr but most of the time it wont work and keeps on hanging.I am attaching log from evenviewer as follows , can anyone guide me to rectify please; - <Event xmlns="Link...

I am getting this error while installing .NET Framework 3.5 "0x800736cc - a component's file does not match the verification information present in the component manifest" Plz kindly hlp me to fix this out.

Every time I create a program with masm and use the CreateFile api it always fails unless I use read access rights. Even some downloaded programs file when they hit CreateFile on my computer. I can usually get around it by using xp compatibility mode and the CreateFile is redirected to...

I"m not sure if this is a "support" thing or a discussion thing, but: Toshiba Qosmio X505 laptop. Couple weeks old. Has Windows 7 Home on it. Today, I left it, came back a couple hours and it had crashed. I checked the event log and found: Log Name: Application Source...

k so off a fresh format this would happen after trying to activate ashampoo and the gui wont load but it shows the process in explorer... SidebySide Event ID 80 Activation context generation failed for &quot;C:\Program Files (x86)\Ashampoo\Ashampoo Burning Studio 9\burningstudio9.exe&quot;.Error...

I have some programs that -force- windows classic look even though I am running Aero. This really bugs me because I can't stand the classic look and it looks terribly inconsistent and ugly with the rest of the apps I run... I looked around and it turns out that older applications need a...

Basically I can't install most updates (specifically one that says it's critical and allows remote command execution :() and my Windows Features list (where you go to install IIS etc) is blank. The system readiness tool creates the following log: ================================= Checking...

Anyone else have this working? I installed it last time flawlessly but any time I tried to compile anything I got errors (and no it wasn't my code.) Was compiling C++ btw. Heres a update with the error I get. After compiling and trying to debug a hello world program. 1>------ Build...

heya. So my work bought me the Adobe CS4 Master Collection yesterday (I'm a graphic designer and an IT dude) and I simply cannot install it. the installer will open just fine, but as soon as it starts installing from the DVDs, I get this error: "Suite Shared Configuration CS4 Error: Error 1603...

Hey guys, wondering if anyone can help. I know you can add some stuff to the manifest of an exe and it will throw up a UAC prompt as soon as the program is executed, but I was wondering is it possible to run an exe without admin rights (ie without the additions to the manifest file), but then...