Which function does OpenAs_RunDLL finally calls under Windows 8? - function

I'm trying to use OpenAs_RunDLLW to let the user select application he wants to open specific file with. But I don't want to really launch anything, just to let the user select and remember his choise so I can then open the file with this program later. In Windows XP, Vista and 7 OpenAs_RunDLLW finally used to call ShellExecuteExW, so I could temporary put the int 3 opcode at the beginning of this function, catch the exception and get all parameters passed to ShellExecuteExW. This was good and really worked.
But under Windows 8/8.1 it seems that OpenAs_RunDLLW does not call ShellExecuteExW, since the breakpoint is never hit. The selected app is launched instead. So, my question is - which API function does OpenAs_RunDLLW finally call to execute the program under Windows 8?

I believe that the shell now uses IAssocHandler::Invoke to open the item. However, you probably don't really care about that; what you want is a way to find out how to get the invocation handler.
For that, you want ShAssocEnumHandlers, which takes a file name extension and returns an association enumerator (that is, a function that will enumerate all the various applications that can open that extension).

On Windows Vista and later, use SHOpenWithDialog() instead of calling OpenAs_RunDLL(), and then use SHAssocEnumHandlers() to find out which handlers are registered and to invoke a particular handler when needed, instead of using ShellExecute().

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Google Data Studio - When is resetAuth() being called?

I am having troubles with the resetAuth() function. I implemented it roughly like this example, but I have no idea when it is being called. Adding a console output and observing the Stackdriver Log tells me that this function is never being called during what I would call a normal workflow.
The documentation is weirdly brief and is missing this part about why I need to implement it and when it is being called. Do I need to call resetAuth() manually on some point? Is there a button somewhere that calls this function?
I'm using the AuthType USER_PASS by the way and everything else seems to work just fine after some investigation and debugging.
I found this document called Community Connectors Developer Launch where, among other things, the following it listed (as of 2018-07-30):
What's next: Upcoming changes and improvements
Some of the features and improvements we'll be working on in the
coming months include:
Configuration and Authentication
Capability to execute the resetAuth function of community connectors from within Data Studio.
Does this mean that calling resetAuth() is currently not yet implemented?
resetAuth is called when the user revokes access to the connector via the https://datastudio.google.com/datasources/create endpoint.
There was a bug that caused this function to not be called for certain auth types, but it has been resolved.

Windows Phone Custom URI

in my windows phone 8 application i am using custom uri association to launch another application through my phone.
i.e
await Windows.System.Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(new Uri("sixtag:"));
but my app is not able to get certified for store because of this. the testing team tells that you app terminates unexpectedly while executing this.
now, i don't know how to deal with this.
is there any way to throw exception if the app which i am launching is not installed on phone ?
or i should try something else so my task gets accomplished and app gets certified for store as well.
You do not need to wrap your launch in try/catch or check for success as described in the other answers. As soon as you call LaunchUriAsync, the platform takes over and will automatically handle the possibility of no app being installed by asking the user if she wishes to search in the store.
A couple of things to double-check:
1) Ensure that you can successfully back into your app following the navigation to sixtag.
2) Ensure that your call to LaunchUriAsync is the direct result of a user action (eg. tapping a button)
try
{
await Windows.System.Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(new Uri("sixtag:"));
}
catch
{
MessageBox.Show("please install Sixtag from the app store","AppMissing", MessageBoxButton.OK);
}
you can perhaps display another button and on clicking directly navigate to the app store. See if this solves your problem. Do vote it up if it does :)
You are needed to handle that as shown here . Also Read out Remarks given there.

Captured audio buffers are all silent on Windows Phone 8

I'm trying to capture audio using WASAPI. My code is largely based on the ChatterBox VoIP sample app. I'm getting audio buffers, but they are all silent (flagged AUDCLNT_BUFFERFLAGS_SILENT).
I'm using Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Phone. Running on the emulator.
I had the exact same problem and managed to reproduce it in the ChatterBox sample app if I set Visual Studio to native debugging and at any point stepped through the code.
Also, closing the App without going through the "Stop" procedure and stopping the AudioClient will require you to restart the emulator/device before being able to capture audio data again.
It nearly drove me nuts before I figured out the before mentioned problems but I finally got it working.
So..
1. Be sure to NOT do native debugging
2. Always call IAudioClient->Stop(); before terminating the App.
3. Make sure you pass the correct parameters to IAudioClient->Initialize();
I've included a piece of code that works 100% of the time for me. I've left out error checking for clarity..
LPCWSTR pwstrDefaultCaptureDeviceId =
GetDefaultAudioCaptureId(AudioDeviceRole::Communications);
HRESULT hr = ActivateAudioInterface(pwstrDefaultCaptureDeviceId,
__uuidof(IAudioClient2), (void**)&m_pAudioClient);
hr = m_pAudioClient->GetMixFormat(&m_pwfx);
m_frameSizeInBytes = (m_pwfx->wBitsPerSample / 8) * m_pwfx->nChannels;
hr = m_pAudioClient->Initialize(AUDCLNT_SHAREMODE_SHARED,
AUDCLNT_STREAMFLAGS_NOPERSIST | AUDCLNT_STREAMFLAGS_EVENTCALLBACK,
latency * 10000, 0, m_pwfx, NULL);
hr = m_pAudioClient->SetEventHandle(m_hCaptureEvent);
hr = m_pAudioClient->GetService(__uuidof(IAudioCaptureClient),
(void**)&m_pCaptureClient);
And that's it.. Before calling this code I've started a worker thread that will listen to m_hCaptureEvent and call IAudioCaptureClient->GetBuffer(); whenever the capture event is triggered.
Of course using Microsoft.XNA.Audio.Microphone works fine to, but it's not always an option to reference the XNA framework.. :)
It was a really annoying problem which waste about 2 complete days of mine.My problem was solved by setting AudioClientProperties.eCatagory to AudioCategory_Communications instead of AudioCategory_Other.
After this long try and error period I am not sure that the problem won't repeat in the future because the API doesn't act very stable and every run may return a different result.
Edit:Yeah my guess was true.Restarting the wp emulator makes the buffer silent again.But changing the AudioClientProperties.eCatagory back to AudioCategory_Other again solve it.I still don't know what is wrong with it and what is the final solution.
Again I encounter the same problem and this time commenting (removing) the
properties.eCategory = AudioCategory_Communications;
solve the problem.
I can add my piece of advice for Windows Phone 8.1.
I made the following experiment.
Open capture device. Buffers are not silent.
Open render device with AudioDeviceRole::Communications. Buffers immediately go silent.
Close render device. Buffers are not silent.
Then I opened capture device with AudioDeviceRole::Communications and capture device works fine all the time.
For Windows 10 capture device works all the time, no matter if you open it with AudioDeviceRole::Communications or not.
I've had the same problem. It seems like you can either use only AudioCategory_Other or create an instance of VoipPhoneCall and use only AudioCategory_Communications.
So the solution in my case was to use AudioCategory_Communications and create an outgoing VoipPhoneCall. You should implement the background agents as in Chatterbox VoIP sample app for the VoipCallCoordinator to work .

Using App.Current.Terminate() method in Windows phone 8

As windows phone 8 provides us with this method for programmatically terminate an app, will there be any issue while app submission if we use this in app for terminating a page while there is no backentry in the navigation history?
There won't be any issue in certification when using this call, but make sure you have saved all data in your app when calling this, because this call effectively kills your app immediately - ApplicationClosing even handler won't be raised after it!
Why would you call Application.Terminate when navigating back with an empty back stack? Just let the app close itself. Seems a bit pointless to me to overuse Application.Terminate().
I can't say much about the new Terminate method, but I do have an app (NOTE: Not a game) that does the following at certain points
private void Kill()
{
new Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game().Exit();
}
This app passed certification without any problems. This was an app for both WP7 and WP8 so I did not have the ability to use Terminate().

How do BundleActivator, ManagedService, and my application interact on start/stop?

I had a non-OSGi application. To convert it to OSGi, I first bundled it up and gave it a simple BundleActivator. The activator's start() started up a thread of what used to be the main() of my app (and is now a Runnable), and remembered that thread. The activator's stop() interrupted that thread, and waited for it to end (via join()), then returned. This all seemed to be working fine.
As a next step in the OSGiification process, I am now trying to use OSGi configuration management instead of the Properties-based configuration that the application used to use. So I am adding in a ManagedService in addition to the Activator.
But it's no longer clear to me how I am supposed to start and stop my application; examples that I've seen are only serving to confuse me. Specifically, here:
http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-config-admin.html
They no longer seem to do any real starting of the application in BundleActivator.start(). Instead, they just register a ManagedService to receive configuration. So I'm guessing maybe I start up the app's main thread when I receive configuration, in the ManagedService? They don't show it - the ManagedService's updated() just has vague comments saying to "apply configuration from config admin" when it is passed a non-null Dictionary.
So then I look here:
http://blog.osgi.org/2010/06/how-to-use-config-admin.html
In there, it seems like maybe they're doing what I guessed. They seem to have moved the actual app from BundleActivator to ManagedService, and are dealing with starting it when updated() receives non-null configuration, stopping it first if it's already started.
But now what about when the BundleActivator's stop() gets called?
Back on the first example page that I mentioned above, they unregister the ManagedService. On the second example page, they don't show what they do.
So I'm guessing maybe unregistering the ManagedService will cause null configuration to be sent to ManagedService.updated(), at which point I can interrupte the app thread, wait for it to end, and then return?
I suspect that I'm thoroughly incorrect, but I don't know what the "real" way to do this is. Thanks in advance for any help.
BundleActivator (BA) and ManagedService (MS) are callbacks to your bundle. BundleActivator is for the active state of your bundle. BA.start is when you bundle is being started and BA.stop is when it is being stopped. MS is called to provide your bundle a configuration, if there is one, or notify you there is no configuration.
So in BA.start, you register your MS service and return. When MS is called (on some other thread), you will either receive your configuration or be told there is no configuration and you can act accordingly (start app, etc.)
Your MS can also be called at anytime to advice of the modification or deletion of your configuration and you should act accordingly (i.e. adjust your app behavior).
When you are called at BA.stop, you need to stop your app. You can unregister the MS or let the framework do it for you as part of normal bundle stop processing.