For every device in the device manager, there are scores of properties listed (see the following image, some of the properties are also highlighted in green). I am unable to find any source which details the meaning of each property. In absence of such a resource one could only guess the meaning from the names.
I am trying to get status of each device programatically to get a list of devices which have been explicitly disabled (from device manages, or otherwise), and some details about them. This lead me to exploring the details page of device manager.
To answer the question you could do either of the following.
Refer a link, which explains the meaning of some of the properties.
Describe some of the properties which you yourself know.
In either case, I will be creating a list compiled from all answers here, which would have property name, along with its description.
(partial) documentation for Windows 2000 and later:
SetupDiGetDeviceRegistryProperty function
newer documentation
Device Property Reference > System-Defined Device Properties > Device Instance Properties
For example, you circled the "Status" property, which is defined as follows:
The DEVPKEY_Device_DevNodeStatus device property represents the status of a device node (devnode).
Property key DEVPKEY_Device_DevNodeStatus
Property-data-type identifier DEVPROP_TYPE_INT32
Property access Read-only access by installation applications and installers
Localized? No
Remarks
The value of DEVPKEY_Device_DevNodeStatus is a bitwise OR of the DN_ Xxx bit flags that are defined in Cfg.h
source: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff542414(v=vs.85).aspx
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Say I use the DebugUtils object to set the name of a logical device, i.e. a vk::Device. How can I trigger a validation message involving the object to test that the name matches my expectation?
You need to forcefully do something that the validation layers pickup. E.g. creating a buffer with a wrong alignment or flags.
Another (better) option is to run your application through RenderDoc. It'll display debug names in the trace, so you can easily see if naming of e.g. the device worked properly. You can find all Vulkan resources in the "Resource Inspector":
I'm creating an installation with instalshield.
In the "Installation Interview", (which is part of the "Project Assistant") I set the option "to prompt users to enter their Company Name".
My question is: how can I interact with the value they entered? I mean how can I get it? I need to take this value and insert it to my app config file , during the installation process.
In a more general way, I would love to know how can I add text fields of my own and interact with the values the customers insert?
Thank you,
Noam
Look at the installation Wizard Noam. Anywhere you see an edit control, you will notice that it has a property associated with it. The property is a 'variable' that will have a value assigned to it. You can use the property to populate a registry, an XML file, etc.
I would look through the help documentation for InstallShield relating to Properties.
http://helpnet.flexerasoftware.com/isxhelp19/helplibrary/IHelpISXPropertiesUse.htm
The link above goes over the difference between Public and Private properties and how you can use them.
Ok, so I sort of solved it, I didn't use any built in dialog boxes, but simply created my own public property and dialog, then added an event to dialog and finally read the property value with powershell script, in more details (for future noobies) :
Create new property in Property Manager (under "Behavior and Logic"), give it a name and default value.
Create new dialog (under "User Interface").
At the behavior section of your dialog go to "Next" control (for example).
Add event (by pressing the tiny green plus sign at the line of the "Events")
Choose "SetProperty"
At the SetProperty line you can specify a condition, for example ApplicationUsers = "AllUsers"
At the "Property" field enter the property name (from first instruction)
At the "Value" field enter the value you wish for.
For getting the property value from powershell, create powershell script with the following: $value = Get-Property -Name PROPERTY_NAME
That's it.
This is not exactly what I asked for in the question but I believe this answer is more general and so also contains the answer to my original question.
Is it possible to customize/configure the Capture features in HP UFT Repository manager (Tools: "Navigate and Learn", "Spy" and "Add").
When capturing the object I would like to define what HP automatically sets as the name and test object properties.
For instance if property Help Text if available for an object, set this to the name.
The way UFT determines what name to give an object is controlled by the tag query name in the registry.
The default value is logical name but you can change it to any other property supported by the object's GetROProperty.
In order to configure open regedit and go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mercury Interactive\QuickTest Professional\MicTest\TestObjects.
Then under the object you want (e.g. Edit) change tag query name from logical name to the property you want (e.g. placeholder).
If the object in question is web-based and the property you want isn't supported by UFT you can use the attribute/ notation
UFT has a 'Tools' > 'Object Identification'. Choose the object to modify, then add the property to the 'assistive' list.
The header file CoreAudio/AudioHardware.h refers to a class "AudioBox" and indicates that it is distinct from but related to the class "AudioDevice". Searching developer.apple.com yields no hits for AudioBox. There is, unfortunately, a commercial product called AudioBox™, which makes googling for the term painfully low-yield.
Here are the comments containing the references:
kAudioHardwarePropertyBoxList
An array of AudioObjectIDs that represent all the AudioBox
objects currently provided by the system.
kAudioHardwarePropertyTranslateUIDToBox
This property fetches the AudioObjectID that corresponds to the
AudioBox that has the given UID. The UID is passed in via the qualifier as a CFString while the AudioObjectID for the AudioBox is
returned to the caller as the property's data. Note that an error
is not returned if the UID doesn't refer to any AudioBoxes.
Rather, this property will return kAudioObjectUnknown as the value of the property.
The header file: AudioHardwareBase.h contains numerous references to AudioBox, but does not define or explain it, although it associates it with AudioDevice.
Searching the docs via XCode just takes me back to AudioHardwareBase.h.
I can infer that perhaps an "AudioBox" is an audio device that is accessed via a plugin. But this does not appear to be stated anywhere.
So What Is An AudioBox?
An AudioBox is a container of (usually) AudioDevices
I need to retrieve a list of Active Directory users and their attributes using Delphi 2010.
I've seen a few similar questions on SO (e.g. Delphi - Find primary email address for an Active Directory user), but they all seem to require the user name before any additional information can be retrieved.
I had written an article for [The Delphi Magazine] way back when..... if you have access to a backlog of those magazines, it's in issue no. 62 (October 2000) - unfortunately, it seems those back issues aren't available for purchase anymore :-(
It's too long of an article and a code sample to post here.... basically it's about wrapping the IDirectorySearch interface in a nicer Delphi-like shell. You pass in a base container where to search, you define an LDAP filter, and you define a set of attributes you're interested in - then you search and get back basically an enumerator for the results, which you can get one by one.
In the end, I discovered TJvObjectPickerDialog, part of JVCL. It wraps the Windows Select Object dialog and does everything I need with very little coding. Just set the required properties and call execute. The selected user objects are returned along with the attributes that you set in the 'Attributes' property.