Fastest route from fresh installed Windows 8 to Windows 8.1

Apr 18
2014
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These days, I had to upgrade several XP PCs to Windows 8.1, and since I had several W8 upgrade licences in my office, and since the migwiz tool on Windows 8.1 does not accept data from XP, I had to go through Windows 8.
Unfortunately, a fresh installed Windows 8 does not let you install Windows 8.1 upgrade from the store, you have to install first several Windows updates.
Fortunately, I found that the needed updates are only two, both near to the bottom of the update list.
KB2871389
KB2917499
So you can let search fpr updates, deselect all important updates clicking on the top checkbox near to “Name”, scroll down to thhe bottom of the list and select only these two updates. Let complete the update and reboot. Then enter the store and you can install Windows 8.1 from there.

P.S. there is a nice thing: the fresh installed Windows 8.1 has the recently published update to Windows 8.1 already integrated, so you save a lot of updates.

Written by wriedmann in: Windows Managment and Tools |

Detecting paste operation in Richtext control

Apr 09
2014
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Today, I had the need to intercept the paste of text in a RTF control to remove some formattings (font type and size).

Unfortunately the Richtext control is a special beast, and this is not possible before Windows 8.

On Windows 8, EN_CLIPFORMAT message is sent to the owner window, but unfortunately at this moment there is no way to do this on versions before (I need Windows 7 support). More informations you can find on stackoverflow.com:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5618162/detecting-if-paste-event-occurred-inside-a-rich-text-box

My (not perfect) solution consists in a extra context menu on the control that calls my own Paste method.

Written by wriedmann in: Visual Objects Programming, Vulcan.NET Programming |