I know VS2012 has the ability to start the Windows Simulator right out of the editor.
What I want/need is to be able to 'tell the simulator' to start a specific app. So let's say I have a previously compiled (Metro) app, it could be C# or HTML, and I want to tell the Simulator to Start and run my specific app. Is that possible?
Let's say I'm also in a Windows 7 box, and I want to try it out. I know I can't do that on the Win7 box so I thought I would connect to a Windows8 VM via Remote Destop and either start the simulator there to see how my app works, or as mentioned before, start the simulator with my app.
So is that all possible? How would I do it? Does anybody can think of a better idea to achieve that? Say powershell to send my app to the Win8 machine?
You can find the Simulator executable at ...
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Simulator\11.0
Looking at Windows.Simulator.exe with ILSpy, however, it appears that the only startup command it looks for is /Minimized. If you check out OnStartup, it contains the code ...
if (App.ParseStartAsMinimized(e.Args))
{
window.WindowState = WindowState.Minimized;
}
That's the only one I could find. I also didn't find a place where it tried to access its configuration file. It does reference System.Configuration, however, so maybe some additional detective work is warranted.
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I make sure all of processes of VS Code have exited, but I can’t delete the bin directory.
I tried many tools to find which process is using the directory, but none of them reported.
The problem occurs on all of my Windows devices and I need to manually update each time.
This link suggests a workaround might be to stop Skype for Business:
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60697
Notes:
Different users had to close Skype for Business, SkypeBridge, or even f.lux (?)
Per the link, you can use Windows Process Explorer to determine which apps are holding "bin" open
In my case it was Teams, and found that by searching for Skype in Windows Process Explorer. Killed it and the update went smoothly.
Recently forced upgraded to windows 10 by microsoft. Windows Start and cortana froze. Searched google and from powershell ran
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach
{Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}
Now lot of my windows application have disappeared. They show up with #{AppPackageName} in taskmanager or when searched using cortana for example #{Microsoft.ZuneMusic_2019.6.15131.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe}. I can not remove these app using any command like
Tried to install store app manually and get error Merge Failure : error 0x80070003 : Cannot register the Microsoft.WindowsStore_2015.21.25.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe package because there was a merge failure with the following file: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsStore_2015.21.25.0_neutral_split.scale-100_8wekyb3d8bbwe\resources.pri
Full log below:
Now I understand that store app is not getting add because add process is causing error or merge failure with another package (?). The problem is get/Add-AppxPackage are resolving dependency of application with package-version: Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_10.1510.13020.0_neutral_split.scale-100_8wekyb3d8bbwe
AND/OR
Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_10.1510.13020.0_neutral_split.language-hi_8wekyb3d8bbwe
My laptop c:\program files\windowsapp only has Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_10.1510.9020.0_neutral_split.scale-100_8wekyb3d8bbwe (not diff in version 13020 and 9020). Note: The version no on app is 13020 but dependent package on drive is 9020.
Second package is missing from drive (Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_10.1510.13020.0_neutral_split.language-hi_8wekyb3d8bbwe).
How to get my calculator and windows store application back.
<1>Create a new user account and Log into the new account
<2>You can also try
Running the System File Checker by running
sfc /scannow
Download files from Windows Update to replace the corrupt ones by running
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
You may try the following, at your own risk.
I had the same issue after trying to reinstall the apps via that powershell thingy. Fixed it and returned the apps to their out-of-box state by first wiping everything from C:\Program Files\WindowsApps and C:\Users*\AppData\Local\Packages and then reinstalling Windows over itself from the tech bench ISO (from under Windows and keeping "traditional" apps and files in place, of course). I had to use the ISO because the media creation tool wasn't cooperative at all, throwing some error at me. Just in case, the aforesaid wiping didn't cripple the vitals like the immersive control panel or something else, just the typical no start menu/dead modern apps/no right click on the taskbar items.
By the way, the whole problem started after the 1511 update. Modern apps would refuse to remember their settings, and windows shell experience host would freeze for no reason, taking the start menu and things like volume control with it. I've had this Windows installation for a couple of years now, and the system has gone pretty smoothly through the 8.0-8.1-10 update process over that time, but that 1511 screwed something big time.
I am new to citrix env.
When i run a PB application on Citrix environment, for a particular screen PB appl gets crashed without any error for the particulat screen. If I check the same in PB spource it is working fine. I dont know why it is happening.
Can you help me?
The multi-monitor hooks are the most common cause of unexpected behaviour on Citrix servers. So try adding an exception into the registry for your application to disable Citrix multi-monitor hooking to see if that helps. The following article describes how to do this:
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX129712
Edit: for further ideas.
If disabling the MM hooks doesn't help, the only other thing I can think of is to check what DLLs are loaded in the process when it crashes. Check the stack dump you get from your crash and look at all the loaded DLLs, e.g. using Windbg to inspect your dump you can use the following commands:
http://windbg.info/doc/1-common-cmds.html#10_modules
Look for any Citrix DLLs loaded in the process space. You can then look for those files in the file system and temporarily rename them to hide them (so they won't get loaded into your process). Note: most Citrix DLLs live in C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\system32.
If that doesn't help all I can suggest is putting debugging tools on a Citrix server and debugging the app.
I've been writing up a script that runs some server functions using a web-browser interface. I coded up the script on Windows 7 with Internet explorer 8 and it works fine.
As soon as I move it to the production server running Windows 2008 with Internet Explorer 9, it breaks. Finally traced it the point of failure, but I'm a bit stumped how to fix it.
Here's the code that will cause an issue:
$ie = new-object -com "InternetExplorer.Application"
$ie.navigate("http://www.google.com")
$ie.visible = $True
$doc = $ie.document
$Object1 = $doc.getElementByID("pocs")
This pops up an IE windows, and it should be able to search elements by ID. Trouble is, now I get the error
"Cannot find an overload for "getElementById" and the argument count:
"1"."
I can find very very little on this error. The actual issue is actually the variable $doc. If I do a "$doc | get-member" on IE 9 I get:
TypeName: System.__ComObject#{c59c6b12-f6c1-11cf-8835-00a0c911e8b2}
But under IE 8 I get:
TypeName: mshtml.HTMLDocumentClass
So, basically, IE 9 / Windows 2008 is failing to load the web document contents when I call $ie.document. I've tried setting IE9 to compatibility mode, but no luck there.
The $ie.document | get-member does actually show the method of : "getElementById Method Variant getElementById () " so it's in there, but there's no document for it to parse.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
I am equally astonished this has not been fixed yet given the longevity of the issue on various technical forums. However I think I have found the solution, though it would be up to the Microsoft IE team to address at some point.
Like all the threads referenced that have looked into this I have suffered the same issue with the getElementById method, which with no other changes to a couple of test machines (one Windows 2008R2 Enterprise 64bit and one Windows 7 32bit), I can get the same script to work.
Workarounds that worked as temp solution that I didn't like:
Using the dev console in IE11, switch the Document Mode to 8 (9,10,11,Edge (default) don't work) - my automation script works instantly. No changes to IE trusted sites, zone security, protected mode, PowerShell session priveleges). So clearly just a component issue of the IE11 installation of some sort
Installing Office 2013, without ever running or licensing it, the same script works instantly without changing the Document Mode of IE11. Clearly Office does install/register something that fixes the problem (as Rhys Edwards says)
So I set about narrowing down what Office does to enable the COM object required for IE automation by:
Preparing a new Virtual Windows 2008R2 Server , no updates. Ran test script under IE8 - no issues.
Upgraded to IE11. Ran test script - failed as usual.
Took a VM snapshot
Used Regshot to do record the registry and file system
Ran the Office 2013 Pro_SP1 installation, no changes to default options
When Office install completes, did not run office once (at all ever)
Ran test script again - everything works, the IE automation with getElementById calls all back in operation
Took a 2nd VM snapshot
Ran 2nd scan with regshot and analysed the differences
Dumped the properties of my $ie object and also noticed there is far more there than before running Office install. References mshtml.dll and HTMLDocument classes throughout - looks as it should
I can see from the RegShot difference file that MSHTML.dll is ADDED and registered in the GAC (version 7.0.3300.0) by the office installation
What I did next may not be completely approved but:
I located the microsoft.mshtml.dll in the "c:\program files(x86)\Microsoft.net\primary interop assemblies" folder and saved it out of the VM to my local machine desktop
reverted to the pre-office 2013 snapshot
copied the microsoft.mshtml.dll into the VM and installed to the GAC (remember this is a 2008R2 server still on .net 2, I didn't update .net prior to or after IE11 install, only office). I installed to the GAC simply by dragging the file into the c:\windows\assembly view in explorer. In later versions of .Net you need to use gacutil /l
Tested the same script and BOOM, it all works fine. No need to change any IE settings or elevate script privileges or install Office
So to sum up. If you install IE11, to get PowerShell to automate the Document Model, I had to (re-)register the mshtml.dll in the GAC. Why the IE11 installation doesn't ensure this happens is beyond me but I think that the IE team need to look into this.
I also think for those where it 'just works' in IE10/11, you must have a product on the machine that has already registered the mshtml.dll in the GAC (perhaps Office, perhaps Visual Studio or some other MS app). Hence why you are not seeing the same problem that definitely exists.
Hope this helps someone - it was driving me crazy!
Andrew
As detailed in the comments on the question, there seems to be three solutions to this problem.
Upgrade to PowerShell 3.0: Version 2.0 is only compatible with up to IE8 when it comes to web-scraping and using IE as an object. However, version 3.0 will work with IE9. You can get it here.
Turn off protected mode in IE: Turning of protected mode for the Internet zone under the Security tab in settings seemed to do the trick for me. There are security implications to this that should be carefully considered.
Run the script in admin mode: Simply run the script in an elevated PowerShell prompt.
The last two solutions come from a different SO answer.
I had similar kind of issue and it got resolved by following below steps:
Check for the Microsoft.mshtml.dll on your machine. It should be available at location C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft.NET\Primary Interop Assemblies. If you don't find it at this location, It might be the case that you don't have this dll and this is the reason you are getting this issue.
Find the dll, and try to load the assembly at run time. You can place the dll at any location on you machine and do it.
Below is the link to a method to load assembly at run time.
https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=21ad54fd70600673&id=21AD54FD70600673%211922
I've got a nant build script (.86 beta) and it is telling me this:
BUILD FAILED
Failed to initialize the 'Microsoft
.Net Framework 2.0' target
framework.
The process cannot access the file
'C:\Users\cconway\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp25E3.tmp'
because it is being used by another
process.
This file does not even exist on my machine. Does anyone know the cause of this? Rebooting seems to allow me to run the script once successfully, but every time after that I get this message (though the name of the tmp file changes per reboot).
Thanks!
Are there any third-party tasks which might leave temp files open or keep running in the background, thus leaving file locked?
Maybe try sysinternals process monitor which will allow you to see the process which has the handle on this file.
Also, make sure that you have all the right versions of .Net installed and they are the correct ones (SDK vs Runtime). If you open the config file for nant you can see where it expects the .net version to be go check to make sure it's there and that you can see hte compiler methods (csc, vbc, etc). So it could have something that is trying to find it but it's not there or the pathing is off.
It is beta so there could even be a typo in the config file.
The answer is my anti-virus. I should have tried disabling that first! Once I disabled it, everything worked like a charm.
Hope this helps someone.