Windows Runtime activatable class in Windows 10 - c++

I'm getting an error when I try to register an activatable class for WinRT. This is in a C# universal app (UAP) in Visual Studio 2015, on Windows 10.
Previously, you could register activatable classes in your Package.appxmanifest file like this:
<Extension Category="windows.activatableClass.inProcessServer">
<InProcessServer>
<Path>myCode.dll</Path>
<ActivatableClass ActivatableClassId="myNS.MyNativeClass" ThreadingModel="both" />
</InProcessServer>
</Extension>
But Visual Studio doesn't like this. It's violating the schema for a UAP project's appxmanifest file:
Validation error. error C00CE169: App manifest validation error: The app manifest must be valid as per schema: Line 42, Column 20, Reason: 'windows.activatableClass.inProcessServer' violates enumeration constraint of 'windows.backgroundTasks windows.preInstalledConfigTask windows.updateTask windows.restrictedLaunch'. The attribute 'Category' with value 'windows.activatableClass.inProcessServer' failed to parse. TextSecure C:\Users\123\Documents\GitHubVisualStudio\MyProj\MyProj\bin\x86\Debug\AppxManifest.xml
So how do you use Windows Runtime components from a UAP project? Without registering it, you get a TypeLoadException.

Where did you put the Extensions element, in the Application element or Package Element?
If you put it in Application element, this error is expected. You should put in in the Package element.
For example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Package
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/appx/manifest/foundation/windows10"
xmlns:mp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/appx/2014/phone/manifest"
xmlns:uap="http://schemas.microsoft.com/appx/manifest/uap/windows10"
IgnorableNamespaces="uap mp">
<Capabilities>
<Capability Name="internetClient" />
</Capabilities>
<Extensions>
<Extension Category="windows.activatableClass.inProcessServer">
<InProcessServer>
<Path>yourdll.dll</Path>
</InProcessServer>
</Extension>
</Extensions>
</Package>

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java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:An invalid character [34] was present in the Cookie value

This is how my tomcat-users file looks like:
<tomcat-users>
<role rolename="admin"/>
<role rolename="analyst"/>
<role rolename="user"/>
<role rolename="kie-server"/>
<role rolename="developer"/>
<role rolename="manager"/>
<user username="w" password="w" roles="admin"/>
<user username="k" password="k" roles="kie-server"/>
<user username="u" password="u" roles="user,developer,analyst"/>
</tomcat-users>
After entering correct credentials in the KIE IDE WORKBENCH, I get the following exception:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: An invalid character [34] was present in the Cookie value
org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Rfc6265CookieProcessor.validateCookieValue(Rfc6265CookieProcessor.java:182)
org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Rfc6265CookieProcessor.generateHeader(Rfc6265CookieProcessor.java:115)
org.apache.catalina.connector.Response.generateCookieString(Response.java:1019)
org.apache.catalina.connector.Response.addCookie(Response.java:967)
org.apache.catalina.connector.ResponseFacade.addCookie(ResponseFacade.java:386)
org.uberfire.ext.security.server.SecurityIntegrationFilter.doFilter(SecurityIntegrationFilter.java:61)
CookieProcessor is a new configuration element, introduced in Tomcat 8.0.15.
The CookieProcessor element allows different cookie parsing configuration in each web application, or globally in the default conf/context.xml file.
According to official docs at Apache Tomcat 8 Configuration Reference
Version 8.0.47 :
The standard implementation of CookieProcessor is: org.apache.tomcat.util.http.LegacyCookieProcessor. Note that it is anticipated that this will change to org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Rfc6265CookieProcessor in a future Tomcat 8 release.
Later..
According to official docs at Apache Tomcat 8 Configuration Reference
Version 8.5.23
The standard implementation of CookieProcessor is org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Rfc6265CookieProcessor
To resolve this issue: add this line in conf/context.xml at location %CATALINA_HOME% (i.e. C:\apache-tomcat-8.5.20\conf\context.xml in my case):
<CookieProcessor className="org.apache.tomcat.util.http.LegacyCookieProcessor" />
This is how it looks like after adding:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context reloadable="true">
<WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource>
<WatchedResource>${catalina.base}/conf/web.xml</WatchedResource>
<Transaction factory="bitronix.tm.BitronixUserTransactionObjectFactory"/>
<CookieProcessor className="org.apache.tomcat.util.http.LegacyCookieProcessor" />
</Context>

WiX Heat.exe generates different output after VS2008 -> VS2015 upgrade

We execute the following command line with heat (3.0.5210.0):
heat.exe -srd -suid file OurLib.dll -out bin_OurLib.tmp
OurLib.dll is a VC++ 2008 dll file, it's a COM component.
Output (bin_OurLib.tmp)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi">
<Fragment>
<DirectoryRef Id="TARGETDIR">
<Component Id="OurLib.dll" Guid="PUT-GUID-HERE">
<File Id="OurLib.dll" KeyPath="yes" Source="SourceDir\OurLib.dll">
<Class Id="{B1AB297C-1BC6-65E1-A7C1-A1833DFAED6A}" Context="InprocServer32" Description="OurProduct.OurLib">
<ProgId Id="OurProduct.OurLib" Description="OurProduct.OurLib" />
</Class>
</File>
</Component>
</DirectoryRef>
</Fragment>
</Wix>
This works fine.
Now we updated the VS to 2015, and compiled OurLib with it.
Running the same heat command now results in different output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi">
<Fragment>
<DirectoryRef Id="TARGETDIR">
<Component Id="OurLib.dll" Guid="PUT-GUID-HERE">
<Class Id="{B1AB297C-1BC6-65E1-A7C1-A1833DFAED6A}" Context="InprocServer32" Description="OurProduct.OurLib">
<ProgId Id="OurProduct.OurLib" Description="OurProduct.OurLib" />
</Class>
<File Id="OurLib.dll" KeyPath="yes" Source="SourceDir\OurLib.dll" />
<RegistryValue Root="HKCR" Key="CLSID\{B1AB297C-1BC6-65E1-A7C1-A1833DFAED6A}\InProcServer32" Value=""[#OurLib.dll]"" Type="string" Action="write" />
</Component>
</DirectoryRef>
</Fragment>
</Wix>
And when wix is linking, it gives error:
error LGHT0130 : The primary key 'reg51A1FC16367511AF81E9B18CA009A1C6' is duplicated in table 'Registry'. Please remove one of the entries or rename a part of the primary key to avoid the collision.
Checking the wixobj file, reg51A1FC16367511AF81E9B18CA009A1C6 is related to line
<Class Id="{B1AB297C-1BC6-65E1-A7C1-A1833DFAED6A}...." and <RegistryValue Root="HKCR" Key="CLSID\{B1AB.... - obviously.
Anwyay, this is obviously due to the generated wix output files are different.
Why is that if compiling a dll with a newer C++ compiler will cause WIX HEAT to generate different output, while running the same options, etc.
And how can I have back the same "old" output, which we need.
Tried with -scom and -sreg, none of them gave back the "old" output.
Well primary key duplicated means you've got that same RegistryValue in two different places in your wix source code somehow.
Or maybe the newer DLL is self-registering differently? It's putting the InProcServer32 value in quotes. I don't think that's normal.
Or have you checked that your 2008 and 2015 DLL source and project files are identical? The VS project upgrade process changes things...

Team Foundation Server 2015 Test Results

When i build my project in TFS 2015, I have set up to run all Unit tests/code coverage. The tests run and all of them pass. The issue i am having is that the results don't show up at the summary of the build or any where. Any reason why not showing up?
I looked at the logs and i am getting this warning:
Results File:
C:\BuildAgent_work\1\TestResults\serverName$_serverName 2015-12-03
15_56_33.trx
Total tests: 533. Passed: 533.
Failed: 0. Skipped: 0.
Test Run Successful.
Test execution time: 29.5985 Seconds
Publishing Test Results...
##[warning]Invalid results file.
Please make sure the Test Result Format field in the task matches the
result format of the file:
C:\BuildAgent_work\1\TestResults\serverName$_serverName 2015-12-03
15_56_33.trx
I looked at the file
serverName$_serverName 2015-12-03 15_56_33.trx`
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<TestRun id="730b84f3-e06c-4d30-8994-15aa6ff385df" name="serverName$#serverName 2015-12-03 15:56:33" runUser="NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE" xmlns="http://microsoft.com/schemas/VisualStudio/TeamTest/2010">
<Times creation="2015-12-03T15:56:33.2204061-05:00" queuing="2015-12-03T15:56:33.2204061-05:00" start="2015-12-03T15:56:33.2204061-05:00" finish="2015-12-03T15:57:01.4723683-05:00" />
<TestSettings name="default" id="d53ac855-fee0-4c64-9372-227e08990a04">
<Execution>
<TestTypeSpecific />
</Execution>
<Deployment runDeploymentRoot="serverName$_serverName 2015-12-03 15_56_33" />
<Properties />
</TestSettings>
<TestLists>
<TestList name="Results Not in a List" id="8c84fa94-04c1-424b-9868-57a2d4851a1d" />
<TestList name="All Loaded Results" id="19431567-8539-422a-85d7-44ee4e166bda" />
</TestLists>
<ResultSummary outcome="Completed">
<Counters total="0" executed="0" passed="0" failed="0" error="0" timeout="0" aborted="0" inconclusive="0" passedButRunAborted="0" notRunnable="0" notExecuted="0" disconnected="0" warning="0" completed="0" inProgress="0" pending="0" />
<Output>
<StdOut>NUnit 1.2.0.0 executing tests is startedLoading tests from C:\BuildAgent\_work\1\a\App.Tests.dllRun started: C:\BuildAgent\_work\1\a\App.Tests.dllLoading tests from C:\BuildAgent\_work\1\a\Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework.dllRun started: C:\BuildAgent\_work\1\a\Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework.dllNUnit 1.2.0.0 executing tests is finished</StdOut>
</Output>
<RunInfos>
<RunInfo computerName="serverName" outcome="Warning" timestamp="2015-12-03T15:56:31.8163881-05:00">
<Text>Diagnostic data adapter message: Could not find diagnostic data adapter of type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Coverage.DynamicCoverageDataCollector' and Uri 'datacollector://microsoft/CodeCoverage/2.0'.</Text>
</RunInfo>
<RunInfo computerName="serverName" outcome="Warning" timestamp="2015-12-03T15:56:32.8460013-05:00">
<Text>Unable to create DiaSession for C:\BuildAgent\_work\1\a\App.Tests.dll
No source location data will be available for this assembly.</Text>
</RunInfo>
<RunInfo computerName="serverName" outcome="Warning" timestamp="2015-12-03T15:57:01.1759645-05:00">
<Text>System.AppDomainUnloadedException: Attempted to access an unloaded AppDomain. This can happen if the test(s) started a thread but did not stop it. Make sure that all the threads started by the test(s) are stopped before completion.</Text>
</RunInfo>
</RunInfos>
</ResultSummary>
</TestRun>
My issue was with the Visual Studio in the build server. Once i updated Visual Studio from 2013 to 2015 in the build server everything worked fine.

Is there a way to get build status as a property?

I have a ugly Teamcity build configuration using MSBuild. It executes custom application (test runner), which is using custom messaging to report test results to teamcity.
##teamcity[testStarted name='test1']
##teamcity[testFailed name='test1' message='failure message' details='message and stack trace']
Which show in teamcity in build overview and tests tab.
Teamcity recognizes failed tests and if any test fails, it marks the build as failed:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/Qz9UT.png
Later in the MSBuild target I would like to label cvs based on the test results.
Is there a way to get the build status (if it is failed, hanging, warning) as a property? something like %build.status%? The format does not matter - if its a string or number.
PS: I know that best solution to my problem would be to modify the application to return non-zero exit code if test fail.
TeamCty does not seem to expose this directly, but the status can be acquired using the REST api. Here is an example using curl; but you could also uwe PowserShell's Invoke-RestMethod for instance.
Here's the msbuild script that casues test failure I used for testing:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<Target Name="Test">
<Message Importance="high" Text="##teamcity[testStarted name='test1']" />
<Message Importance="high" Text="##teamcity[testFailed name='test1' message='failure message' details='message and stack trace']" />
</Target>
</Project>
Then the script that gets the current build's status, dumps it to a file, reads the file into an msbuild item and then uses regex to get the status out of it. You just have it to supply the tc_user and tc_password properties (or allow guest access) and change the url to match your server.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" DefaultTargets="GetBuildStatus">
<Target Name="RunCurl">
<PropertyGroup>
<MyTempFile>curl_out</MyTempFile>
</PropertyGroup>
<Exec Command="curl http://localhost/httpAuth/app/rest/builds/id:$(teamcity_build_id) -basic -u $(tc_user):$(tc_password) > $(MyTempFile)"/>
<ReadLinesFromFile File="$(MyTempFile)">
<Output TaskParameter="Lines" ItemName="CurlOutput"/>
</ReadLinesFromFile>
<Delete Files="$(MyTempFile)"/>
</Target>
<Target Name="GetBuildStatus" DependsOnTargets="RunCurl">
<PropertyGroup>
<CurlOutputFull>#(CurlOutput)</CurlOutputFull>
<BuildStatus>$([System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex]::Match($(CurlOutputFull), `status="(\w*)"`).Groups[ 1 ].Value)</BuildStatus>
</PropertyGroup>
<Message Text="BuildStatus = $(BuildStatus)"/>
</Target>
</Project>
This prints:
BuildStatus = FAILURE

Log4Net "Could not find schema information" messages

I decided to use log4net as a logger for a new webservice project. Everything is working fine, but I get a lot of messages like the one below, for every log4net tag I am using in my web.config:
Could not find schema information for
the element 'log4net'...
Below are the relevant parts of my web.config:
<configSections>
<section name="log4net"
type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net" />
</configSections>
<log4net>
<appender name="RollingFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
<file value="C:\log.txt" />
<appendToFile value="true" />
<rollingStyle value="Size" />
<maxSizeRollBackups value="10" />
<maximumFileSize value="100KB" />
<staticLogFileName value="true" />
<layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
<conversionPattern value="%date [%thread] %-5level: %message%newline" />
</layout>
</appender>
<logger name="TIMServerLog">
<level value="DEBUG" />
<appender-ref ref="RollingFileAppender" />
</logger>
</log4net>
Solved:
Copy every log4net specific tag to a separate xml-file. Make sure to use .xml as file extension.
Add the following line to AssemblyInfo.cs:
[assembly: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator(ConfigFile = "xmlFile.xml", Watch = true)]
nemo added:
Just a word of warning to anyone
follow the advice of the answers in
this thread. There is a possible
security risk by having the log4net
configuration in an xml off the root
of the web service, as it will be
accessible to anyone by default. Just
be advised if your configuration
contains sensitive data, you may want
to put it else where.
#wcm: I tried using a separate file. I added the following line to AssemblyInfo.cs
[assembly: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator(ConfigFile = "log4net.config", Watch = true)]
and put everything dealing with log4net in that file, but I still get the same messages.
You can bind in a schema to the log4net element. There are a few floating around, most do not fully provide for the various options available. I created the following xsd to provide as much verification as possible:
http://csharptest.net/downloads/schema/log4net.xsd
You can bind it into the xml easily by modifying the log4net element:
<log4net
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://csharptest.net/downloads/schema/log4net.xsd"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
I had a different take, and needed the following syntax:
[assembly: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator(ConfigFile = "log4net.xml", Watch = true)]
which differs from xsl's last post, but made a difference for me. Check out this blog post, it helped me out.
Just a word of warning to anyone follow the advice of the answers in this thread. There is a possible security risk by having the log4net configuration in an xml off the root of the web service, as it will be accessible to anyone by default. Just be advised if your configuration contains sensitive data, you may want to put it else where.
I believe you are seeing the message because Visual Studio doesn't know how to validate the log4net section of the config file. You should be able to fix this by copying the log4net XSD into C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\XML\Schemas (or wherever your Visual Studio is installed). As an added bonus you should now get intellisense support for log4net
In Roger's answer, where he provided a schema, this worked very well for me except where a commenter mentioned
This XSD is complaining about the use of custom appenders. It only allows for an appender from the default set (defined as an enum) instead of simply making this a string field
I modified the original schema which had a xs:simpletype named log4netAppenderTypes and removed the enumerations. I instead restricted it to a basic .NET typing pattern (I say basic because it just supports typename only, or typename, assembly -- however someone can extend it.
Simply replace the log4netAppenderTypes definition with the following in the XSD:
<xs:simpleType name="log4netAppenderTypes">
<xs:restriction base="xs:string">
<xs:pattern value="[A-Za-z_]\w*(\.[A-Za-z_]\w*)+(\s*,\s*[A-Za-z_]\w*(\.[A-Za-z_]\w*)+)?"/>
</xs:restriction>
</xs:simpleType>
I'm passing this back on to the original author if he wants to include it in his official version. Until then you'd have to download and modify the xsd and reference it in a relative manner, for example:
<log4net
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../../Dependencies/log4net/log4net.xsd">
<!-- ... -->
</log4net>
Actually you don't need to stick to the .xml extension. You can specify any other extension in the ConfigFileExtension attribute:
[assembly: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator(ConfigFile = "log4net.config", ConfigFileExtension=".config", Watch = true)]
#steve_mtl: Changing the file extensions from .config to .xml solved the problem. Thank you.
#Wheelie: I couldn't try your suggestion, because I needed a solution which works with an unmodified Visual Studio installation.
To sum it up, here is how to solve the problem:
Copy every log4net specific tag to a separate xml-file. Make sure to use .xml as file extension.
Add the following line to AssemblyInfo.cs:
[assembly: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator(ConfigFile = "xmlFile.xml", Watch = true)]
For VS2008 just add the log4net.xsd file to your project; VS looks in the project folder as well as the installation directory that Wheelie mentioned.
Also, using a .config extension instead of .xml avoids the security issue since IIS doesn't serve *.config files by default.
Have you tried using a separate log4net.config file?
I got a test asp project to build by puting the xsd file in the visual studio schemas folder as described above (for me it is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\XML\Schemas) and then making my web.config look like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!--
Note: As an alternative to hand editing this file you can use the
web admin tool to configure settings for your application. Use
the Website->Asp.Net Configuration option in Visual Studio.
A full list of settings and comments can be found in
machine.config.comments usually located in
\Windows\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v2.x\Config
-->
<configuration>
<configSections>
<section name="log4net"
type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net"/>
</configSections>
<appSettings>
</appSettings>
<connectionStrings>
</connectionStrings>
<system.web>
<trace enabled="true" pageOutput="true" />
<!--
Set compilation debug="true" to insert debugging
symbols into the compiled page. Because this
affects performance, set this value to true only
during development.
-->
<compilation debug="true" />
<!--
The <authentication> section enables configuration
of the security authentication mode used by
ASP.NET to identify an incoming user.
-->
<authentication mode="Windows" />
<customErrors mode="Off"/>
<!--
<customErrors mode="Off"/>
The <customErrors> section enables configuration
of what to do if/when an unhandled error occurs
during the execution of a request. Specifically,
it enables developers to configure html error pages
to be displayed in place of a error stack trace.
<customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="GenericErrorPage.htm">
<error statusCode="403" redirect="NoAccess.htm" />
<error statusCode="404" redirect="FileNotFound.htm" />
</customErrors>
-->
</system.web>
<log4net xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://csharptest.net/downloads/schema/log4net.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<appender name="LogFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.FileAppender">
<!-- Please make shure the ..\\Logs directory exists! -->
<param name="File" value="Logs\\Log4Net.log"/>
<!--<param name="AppendToFile" value="true"/>-->
<layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
<param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d [%t] %-5p %c %m%n"/>
</layout>
</appender>
<appender name="SmtpAppender" type="log4net.Appender.SmtpAppender">
<to value="" />
<from value="" />
<subject value="" />
<smtpHost value="" />
<bufferSize value="512" />
<lossy value="true" />
<evaluator type="log4net.Core.LevelEvaluator">
<threshold value="WARN"/>
</evaluator>
<layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
<conversionPattern value="%newline%date [%thread] %-5level %logger [%property] - %message%newline%newline%newline" />
</layout>
</appender>
<logger name="File">
<level value="ALL" />
<appender-ref ref="LogFileAppender" />
</logger>
<logger name="EmailLog">
<level value="ALL" />
<appender-ref ref="SmtpAppender" />
</logger>
</log4net>
</configuration>
Without modifying your Visual Studio installation, and to take into account proper versioning/etc. amongst the rest of your team, add the .xsd file to your solution (as a 'Solution Item'), or if you only want it for a particular project, just embed it there.
I noticed it a bit late, but if you look into the examples log4net furnishes you can see them put all of the configuration data into an app.config, with one difference, the registration of configsection:
<!-- Register a section handler for the log4net section -->
<configSections>
<section name="log4net" type="System.Configuration.IgnoreSectionHandler" />
</configSections>
Could the definition it as type "System.Configuration.IgnoreSectionHandler" be the reason Visual Studio does not show any warning/error messages on the log4net stuff?
I followed Kit's answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/11780781/6139051 and it didn't worked for AppenderType values like "log4net.Appender.TraceAppender, log4net". The log4net.dll assembly has the AssemblyTitle of "log4net", i.e. the assembly name does not have a dot inside, that was why the regex in Kit's answer didn't work. I has to add the question mark after the third parenthetical group in the regexp, and after that it worked flawlessly.
The modified regex looks like the following:
<xs:pattern value="[A-Za-z_]\w*(\.[A-Za-z_]\w*)+(\s*,\s*[A-Za-z_]\w*(\.[A-Za-z_]\w*)?+)?"/>