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• Matt Connolly Seeking Suggestions on DirectX - A simple Measuring tool

    Hi there, You don't have any idea how much courage this requires.  I'm very experienced programmer. I'm not the least bit interested in games or shading most of the things that directX does so well (Although Gold wave uses directx in their displays and I think they are superlative and would love to know how to do that.) My needs are very simple and fairly easily stated. I'm updating a beloved Eyedropper program originall ...Show All

• BMoore Bad PAL-DV Encoder/Decoder Quality in DirectShow

  Hi all, for testing the quality of DirectShow DV Encoder & -Decoder, I made a filter graph with 8 consecutive Decode->Encode stages (simply in GraphEdit). Input was a a normal PAL-DV file, output of the eight deocde/encode stages was to the video renderer. The quality of the displayed image is very bad, with darkened stripes every 8 pixel horizontally and vertically. Also color steps appear in diagonal borders between certain c ...Show All

• sadaniel Root Namespace for VB Project

  It seems that I am required to have a Root Namespace specified in the project options for my Workflow Assembly. If I do not have a root namespace specified I receive the following error: option 'rootnamespace' requires ':<string>' I have currently only tried this in VB.NET and not C#, so I don't know if this happens in both languages. Is this some sort of a bug I like to expicitly declare my namespace for each class and remove th ...Show All

• Hussein Khalifeh Sequence vs. CompositeActivity Guidance

  Hello, Could anyone please provide some guidance as to when to create a custom activity that is based on Sequence and when to base it on CompositeActivity   I see some of the same WWF activities are based on Sequence while other derive from CompositeActivity.  I'm not clear on how to decide what to use in which situations. Thanks, Notre Thank Arjun.  So, would it be correct to say tha ...Show All

• nbl problems with vista graphics drivers

  ive been having problems with the last 2 builds of vista beta. i have an ati radeon x1300 pci express card with 256mb of memory. it is vista ready, but even the basic drivers that vista offers for it wont work. the only way i can use media center, view pictures and play games in when im in safe mode or when i load the standard graphics drivers. even the 5308 beta drivers from ati wont work right. can anybody give me any insight as to whats wrong ...Show All

• RLewkovich ICredentialProvider

  Did anybody make a successful user logon using the new ICredentialProvider interface My credentials are displayed, but I can't make them to logon. And what worse - after 20 or 30 seconds, the winlogon crashes completely with no recovery possible excepting hardware reset. I thought I basically did something wrong and decided to wait for more detailed documentation or some sample code. But MS doesn't seem to put too much effor ...Show All

• PParisot Events exposed through Activity class

  Hi, I was wondering if it's possible to wire up with event exposed on Activity class (more specifically EventDriveActivity class) obtained through tracking instance on a host </snippet> Code in a Runtime Host Activity currentActivity = memoryTrackingInstance.CurrentState.GetActivityByName("ActionName", true ); if (currentActivity is EventDrivenActivity ) { EventDrivenActivity evtActivity = ( Event ...Show All

• imdqa Questions That Strike An Enteerprise Regading WWF

  Hi Group Members Being a .NET Developer and a MS Server Faimly Product Consultant i am really excited about the new Work Flow (WWF ) believe me the ppl that had work on SPS 2003 and CMS 2002 will feel a lot more comfartable by seeing a Uniform Platfrom for a WorkFlow Solution , now I got some questions in my mind these are actually reflection of an Enterprise , client and other individual that at some point of time looking forward to implement t ...Show All

• dlypka How to load conditions from a .rules file in a designer hosting application?

  I want to let my designer hosting application be able to read conditions from a .rules file after it reads a workflow from a .xoml file. What can I do Yes, I am using your code. But it seems doesn't work.  :( Here is my code. Maybe you can find something wrong. public override TextReader GetFileReader( string filePath) { String string_rules = this ._temp_rules_stream.ToString(); if (! Str ...Show All

• zhuyanjun get XOML dynamically

  How do we get XOML content of a Workflow file say "Workflow1" Scenario: i opened a new project (Sequential Console application). then "Workflow1" will automatically added to our project. take a host Application and display the xoml content of that "Workflow1" file. To show the XOML xml use the following steps: Start with a workflow project Right click ...Show All

• Maarten Zaagman query regarding displaying errors

  hai i was going through the sample posted in the following address http://www.windowsworkflow.net/default.aspx tabindex=4&tabid=41 and the sample name is Workflow Designer Control Example posted by    Aditya Bhandarkar  in this i was able to show the ellipse which indicates the errors in the activity, but i am unable to show the actual errors. could some one help me out......  thanks regards AshokKuma ...Show All

• zebbo Does Office Release Delay Equate to WF Release Delay?

  Now that Office 12 is shipping next year, does this also mean that WF will ship next year as well Hi S2, Your information is incorrect. Office 2007 has not slipped and there is a press release about this here . Office 2007 is planned to be available in October 2006. Regards, Paul ...Show All

• lucindrea custom activities property values

  If I have a custom activity with a public property that is set during the execution of the activity, how can I access the value of this property after the activity has completed Anyone Have you looked into tracking. There are several that can be found under Technologies\Tracking in the Samples.zip file that can be found at %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Workflow Foundation. Another option might b ...Show All

• Mandzuka Using XPS on non-Vista platforms

  Hi I was reading the MSDN article about XPS, and I'm quite intrigued. I'd like to have a go at using XPS for a document creation system on our internal Intranet. I suppose there are 2 main questions.. 1) I've got VS2005 - can I write XPS documents now Or do I need some other SDKs (eg WPF). Would I be able to view/print them ! 2) When does v1.0 come out, or a go-live license ! Cheers   Dan ...Show All

• Ole Gulbrandsen considerations when designing a new custom Activity

  what additional considerations should we have when creating a new "custom" activity for use in both a Sequential AND State driven workflow asked another way: Do we need to create two different Activities one for Sequential and another for State driven -OR- can we have a single Activity that supports both workflow types LaVinci. In general the same activity should work for both types of workflows. However, St ...Show All