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I have solved the problem! See the original post, "A strange problem with modeless dialog boxes", for details. This is a repost, incorporating the latest simplifications of the problem statement, and a minimal reproducible example of the code... I'm having a problem with modeless dialog boxes...

Hello WindowsForum.com members! Exciting news comes from the Windows Insider Blog. Microsoft has released the Windows 11 Insider Preview Builds 22621.1028 and 22623.1028 (KB5021866) to the Beta Channel. This update targets Windows Insiders with some significant changes and bug fixes. Here's what...

This year’s Microsoft Build is packed with news tailored specifically for developers. Our team has been hard at work creating useful tools and improving the developer experience for anyone who develops on Windows, including innovations with Terminal and WSL2. Additionally, we are unifying the...

Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Link Removed (Build 17758 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 17758 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from the Link Removed. For...

With Windows 10, the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) provides a number of improvements to better support sharing data and files across Windows apps. Cross-app communication in Windows 10 Windows 10 introduces some new and improved ways to ease communication between apps on the same device...

We've highlighted the Kinect Studio a number of times... Kinect for Windows v2 and the Kinect Studio Kinect Studio and a Harmonica Player Custom Gestures, Kinect for Windows v2 and the Visual Gesture Builder Bruno shows us how to use the Kinect Studio Kinect Studio 101 ...but it's been over...

Hi I saw this article, if it's true I'm all in to start beta testing it. http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/threshold-be-called-windows-9-ship-april-2015 I can't imagine that they wouldn't want to have a real beta testing, if they are going to make major changes and call it a new OS. I'm...

I would like to Querying the Index Programmatically (Windows) and I found this link that shows several ways to do it. Basically, I have hundreds of ten-digit numbers and about 300 excel documents. I want to know which documents contain which numbers. I don't care if the output goes to a terminal...

Hello everyone and welcome to Windows8Forums.com :) As of September 10th, 2011, there has been two legitimate builds of Windows 8 leaked on the internet. Both builds were leaked by an HP employee who recently lost his job, hence why there have been no builds since July. The two builds leaked...

Thanks to some digging by the team over at Windows8italia we have some interesting details about the proposed Windows Store that we could see when Windows 8 ships. Here are the details they have discovered so far (via Bing Translate): Digging through the file system of Windows 8, we discovered...

Taking user feedback about the application into consideration, it’s time to make some improvements! J Here are some of the reports we got from the users: The application is too slow when exchanging currencies It uses too much data traffic/should cache the exchange rates It doesn’t work for some...

Following hot of the heels of the leak of the Windows 8 Milestone 1 build a few weeks ago, a Milestone 2 build (build 7955) has now been leaked onto the internet. Link Removed

There have been a large amount of leaks in the last couple of weeks of screenshots from an early build of Windows 8, notable from websites such as winreview.ru. These leaks have shown us features such as the log-in with your Live ID, the ribbon in Explorer and some of the metro interface...

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including: [00:32] Charles Torre - Link Removed on Channel 9 [01:44] Expression Web SP1 includes IE9 support including Super Preview, HTML code view support, and CSS 3 [02:34] Duncan Mackenzie - New Link Removed...

Hello, my application has a feature that shows printers details as tree node and I use EnumPrinters API to fill nodes of this tree. i.e., the provider name, domain names and printer names etc. We have used Lazy loading concept in this tree formation. EnumPrinters API is called for any node level...

Actually I'M now in a bit of a quandary Vista SP2 improves Vista by quite a lot (even though it itself is only in RC1 stage). Could be some interesting politics going on at Microsoft between Vista Development and W7 teams. -- Bit of competition always a good idea. Maybe Vist will be going...