List of published Knowledge Base (KB) and Solution Object (SO) articles

This is the summary of articles I have written in the past. These articles were published at Microsoft (internal and external).

Ujjwal Kumar contributions to content in FY09 (2008 – 2009):

 

SL No.

Content

Type

Article No.

Language

Topic

Technologies

           

1

 KB article

969282

      EN-US

  DirectShow renderer that resists screen capture (published Externally)

Multimedia Dev

2

KB article

969191

EN-US

  C++ compiler generates code that reads beyond top of stack (published Externally)

C++ Compiler, Visual Studio

3

KB article

961932

EN-US

  The HTML tag may become distorted when you edit a segment of relative HTML text that is big and complex, or random Web code corruption occurs when you work on an ASP Web page in the Design view in Visual Studio 2008 (published Externally)

Visual Studio IDE

4

KB article

961931

EN-US

- VBS: Exec: Deadlock on large output to stdout - stderr handles in Exec is broken

(published internally under the process – going to be published Externally)

Platdev – Win32 APIs

5

KB article

961934

EN-US

  - Problems with work items when OM culture does not match Server culture using VS2008 TFS(published internally under the process – going to be published Externally)

TFS, Visual Studio

6

KB article

961924

EN-US

- Voice Capture DSP does not work on Windows XP

(published internally under the process – going to be published Externally)

Multimedia Dev

7

KB article

959228

EN-US

  - Invalidate() fails to run the format converter again - Issues with WPF InteropBitmap using Imaging.CreateBitmapSourceFromMemorySection()

(published internally under the process – going to be published Externally)

WPF

8

KB article

961932

EN-US

  - Randomly appearing code (web-code) corruption while working on an ASP webpage in design view

(published internally under the process – going to be published Externally)

Visual Studio IDE, Visual Studio

           

9

KSI

KAM article

009744

EN-US

MBR Video bitrates streams is not displayed correctly on WPF MediaElement & Windows Media Player 

Multimedia Dev + WPF Media

10

KSI

KAM article

009329

EN-US

Direct3D Acceleration not available

Multimedia Dev

11

KSI

KAM article

009265

EN-US

How to communicate from device using C++, C#, VB.Net, etc with the Intel Chipset 82801 SMBus

Platdev – Device Driver

12

KSI

KAM article

009064

EN-US

DirectShow renderer that resists screen capture 

Multimedia Dev

13

KSI

KAM article

008792

EN-US

Win Vista SP1 Aero interface effects behavior of SetSysColors

Platdev – Win32 APIs

14

KSI

KAM article

008575

EN-US

Extending windows for 2 monitors programmatically with windows explorer of 2nd Monitor on RHS and 90degrees 

Platdev – Win32 APIs

15

KSI

KAM article

009045

EN-US

File filter driver issue under Windows Vista x64 – Content Maintenance - 110538  

Platdev – Device Driver

16

KSI

KAM article

008575

EN-US

Extending windows for 2 monitors programmatically with windows explorer of 2nd Monitor on RHS and 90degrees

Platdev – Win32 APIs

17

Rapid KB

008792

EN-US

Win Vista SP1 Aero interface effects behavior of SetSysColors

Platdev – Win32 APIs

18

KSI

KAM article

009265

EN-US

How to communicate from device using C++, C#, VB.Net, etc with the Intel Chipset 82801 SMBus.

Platdev – Device Driver

19

KSI

KAM article

009329

EN-US

Direct3D Acceleration on Windows 2000 Workstation with SP4

Multimedia Dev

20

KSI

KAM article

010517

EN-US

Programmatically closing of the TCP sockets takes long time

Platdev – Networking

 

 

 

   

21

SO

103727

EN-US

Vista Audio Capture with DSPs issue (Content Maintenance 103727)

Multimedia Dev

22

SO

99640

EN-US

WPF Direct3D issue on Windows 2003 Server WPF application goes into endless loop

Content Maintenance 99640

Multimedia Dev + WPF Media

23

SO

110192

EN-US

How to programmatically determine if user is a member of domain admin group

Platdev - Win32 APIs

24

SO

110538

EN-US

File filter driver issue under Windows Vista x64

Platdev - Win32 APIs

 

       

25

Reviewed/Assisted KB Article 969206 - Information about tools to create AVI files with all possible indexes - 969206 (published Externally) Multimedia Dev

26

Reviewed/Assisted KSI – KSI 008874 - Problem running a video file on two screens simultaneously on Windows XP Multimedia Dev

27

Reviewed/Assisted KSI - Content Id : 008810 - Profile information for M0a and M0b using Windows Media Encoder Multimedia Dev

28

Reviewed/Assisted KSI - Content Id : 008978 - Video freezes on Win 2003 in IE integrated media player Multimedia Dev

29

Reviewed/Assisted KSI - Content Id : 009078 - Windows 2000 WMS Admin active X controls no longer works after applying Windows KB 960715 Security Patch Multimedia Dev

30

Reviewed/Assisted KSI - Content Id : 011014, How to change the NIC binding order programmatically - Platdev

31

Reviewed/Assisted KSI - Content Id : 010806, Caching does not work on Windows Media proxy servers with authentication enabled Multimedia Dev

32

Reviewed/Assisted KSI - Content Id : 010409, Gracefully terminating application remotely, which doesn’t have any visible windows - Platdev

33

Reviewed/Assisted KSI - Content Id : 010402, QueueUserAPC fail in MFC application In Vista – MFC/C++ Visual Studio

34

Reviewed/Assisted KSI - Content Id : 010403, RegisterHotKey to intercept Alt+Tab fails in Vista Aero - Platdev

35

Reviewed/Assisted KSI - Content Id : 010405, Visual Studio 2008 SP1 crashes when deleting the GroupBox derived control - Visual Studio

36

Reviewed/Assisted KSI - Content Id : 010407, Non English character set in .rc wont display correctly on Windows - Visual Studio and Platdev mixed

37

Reviewed/Assisted KSI - Content Id : 010408, RichEdit control wont display Unicode Chars correctly in an MFC application – MFC/C++ Visual Studio

 

 

Ujjwal Kumar contributions to content in FY08 (2007 – 2008):

SL No.

Content

Type

Article No.

Language

Topic

Technologies

           

1

 KB article

943823

     EN-US

A WPF application that uses a VisualBrush object in a RichTextBox control encounters a memory leak when you try to clean up the RichTextBox control (published Externally)

WPF, Visual Studio

2

KB article

942234

EN-US

An MFC application that uses the GetUserName function may crash on a computer that is running Windows Vista (published Externally)

MFC/C++, Visual Studio

3

KB article

944315

EN-US

Error message when try to add a new form to a Visual C# project in Visual Studio 2005: "The code within the method 'InitializeComponent' is generated by the designer and should not be manually modified" (published Externally)

C#, Visual Studio

4

KB article

947348

EN-US

Generic exception in GDI+ with System.Drawing.Graphics.Clear while logging remotely using Terminal Services (published Externally)

GDI+, Platdev

5

KB article

947394

EN-US

ListView/CListCtrl fixed limit to display items is 100000000

MFC/C++, Visual Studio

6

KB article

948507

EN-US

Thread.CurrentPrincipal does not return correct value

.Net Framework, Visual Studio

7

KB article

944196

EN-US

WPF Cleartype font rendered text is blurry with smaller font size

WPF, Visual Studio

8

KB article

943328

EN-US

Some events do not expire in the correct order when you close a hidden MDI child form in a Windows Form application

C#, Visual Studio

9

KB article

944311

EN-US

You cannot change the color of a check box or a group box if you enable a Windows XP theme in a Visual Studio .NET 2003 project

Win Forms, Visual Studio

10

KB article

942719

EN-US

You cannot set a button control to use the "Windows XP Theme, Color Scheme, Silver" style in a WPF application

WPF, Visual Studio

11

KB article

942443

EN-US

You may encounter a memory leak, and a System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception exception may occur if you create several hundred XML Paper Specifications (XPS) in a Windows Presentation Foundation application

XPS (WPF), Visual Studio

           

12

SO

SOX071226700005

EN-US

XAML listbox bound to a .xml file cannot update/refresh its data and highlight its first element

WPF, Visual Studio

13

SO

SOX071228700006

EN-US

C++ - UI hangs in Release Version while migrating from Windows XP SP1 to Windows XP SP2

C++, Visual Studio

14

SO

SOX071227700053

EN-US

Restrict the allowed input characters of a non-UNICODE application

Platdev - Win32 APIs

15

SO

SOX071224700016

EN-US

Multiple versions of the icon in the icon file, and picking up an unwanted one in VC++ 2005 application

C++, Visual Studio

16

SO

SOX071226700004

EN-US

Intellisense not working for MAKEFILE projects Visual C++ 2005

C++, Visual Studio

17

SO

SOX071214700055

EN-US

Image converter for images created with WinForms and the .NET Framework 2.0 to WPF

WPF, Visual Studio

18

SO

SOX071227700001

EN-US

Dragging windows is very slow and causes unresponsive movement in WPF

WPF, Visual Studio

19

SO

SOX071228700030

EN-US

80bit floating point on VC++ without assembly code

C++, Visual Studio

20

SO

SOX071224700001

EN-US

C#, Forms losing focus and flickers on showDialog()

C#, Visual Studio

21

SO

SOX080123700001

EN-US

.Net Framework - rectifying unhandled exceptions in memory

.Net Framework, Visual Studio