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• thefnordling Printing workflows

  Hey Now when some company chooses to use Windows Workflow as foundation for thiere business procress modeling what are the thoughts about documentation and printing the workflows There can be no doubt that one needs to print / insert into report the workflows modeled. But the build-in printing support in VS 2005 / WWF is somewhat minimalistic (useless). Is this because when i company chooses to use WWF they would actually not use Visual St ...Show All

• andizzle Tracking and Monitoring of dynamically updated workflows

  I am working on an application that dynamically updates a workflow and adds activities at runtime. Now I tried to track those workflows and wanted to view them with the Workflow Monitor. The bad thing about that is, that the sqlTrackingWorkflowInstance.WorkflowDefinition throws as NullReferenceException as it is not able to build the dynamic workflow. All activity events of the added activities have been tracked correctly, but I can't build ...Show All

• Umesh Kalia Could you tell me how should I do to enable the work flow foundation can be used?:

  I have installed vs.net 2005 in my computer just now and there is no something which indicates the work flow foundation is available. So I downloaded the file of " Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 2_2(EN).exe" from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=5C080096-F3A0-4CE4-8830-1489D0215877&displaylang=en. But the product code is required to install it. could you tell me the produ ...Show All

• Gecko2648 Some Workflow classes use wrong casing of Id

  For example the Activity class uses ID as name of the property. According to the framework design guidelines the abbrevation ID should be spelled Id. From http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=186266&SiteID=1  I was redirected to http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/Default.aspx  where I tried to file a bug but found no corresponding product. Mike, Thanks for t ...Show All

• MPRamkumar Accessing the form in the FormLib

  Hello I'm trying to access the form which the Workflow is attached to. The formlib is a SharePoint v3 FormLib. For example: If the user changes some data in the form i want to make a decision for the next step in the workflow. Is there a way to access the form Or what is the best way to do so Cheers Reto Seiz I already got an answer in a other place: This is just a code snippet from the SDK: ...Show All

• Cross ParameterBinding loses Value in EventSinkActivity-derived classes.

  I have a workflow with one activity. The activity class is derived from EventSinkActivity. If I pass a value via ParameterBinding to this activity, I can get the ParameterBinding object by the string indexer in the Invoked event handler, but the Value property of the object is null. If I use EventSinkActivity -- instead of the class derived from EventSinkActivity -- it works fine. Is there anything I need to do in the EventSinkActivity-deri ...Show All

• Benne Getting Return Data from a sub Workflow

  Hello. I am calling a sub workflow from a work flow via the "invokeWorkflow" shape. Here is my problem. The sub workflow returns a value that is displayed via a web service. How can I retrieve that value from the sub workflow in the main workflow The master web service passes a value into the main workflow, and that value is in turn passed in the sub workflow so that it can perform its work. Now I need to get the return value back. ...Show All

• cinstress Setup CTP 5231 in Virtual Server?

  Can anyone help with trying to setup the CTP 5231 in Virtual Server   Not sure of the problem but after the initial setup screen, a window pops up with Windows Installation and Setup has stopped working.  It says it can check online for a solution which just takes you back to the initial setup screen or Close the program. The details button shows  Problem Event Name: Stopped working Status code:      c0000 ...Show All

• Phil Vaira Error Message in VS RTM and WWF Beta2: DataExchangeServiceAttribute.

  I just completed upgrading my original Beta 1.2 to Beta2. I uninstalled both the Original WWF Extentions and WWF from my system, than installed the new Beta2. After installing, I tried editing my old project, but realized quickly, I needed to make a new project to use Beta2. Done. After creating a new project, I dropped a CallExternalMethod activity in the new workflow and clicked on InterfaceType. I received the following error: Could ...Show All

• Script Spider OTP: i have downoloaded the pirated version

  i have downoloaded pirated version of windows vista but i have downoloaded 3 viruses . the serial number was not valid and i can't activate the product. then i formatted my hdd and install XP i found the pirated version on www.2torrents.com but if you like your PC don't downoload it Sounds like a lesson well learned. However, this forum is only for programming questions. I think it's a good idea for you to ...Show All

• ken handzik How to make a StateMachine which show the terminal user to see the status of Squence workflow

  In my case, the second step is from a main table to entry a sub table, however, the main table page does not close. The system can keep this page and reentry into sub table by different option. (It means that, my workflow can go back last state). I think the we should use StateWorkflow to achieve the functionality. However, there a problem. I wish the follow a simple order processing which always from main table to entry the sub table, to show ...Show All

• DigDig Beta 2 SqlWorkflowPersistenceService hands on lab

  hi all, I'm just testing the hands on lab with the beta 2 and I have a few questions : 1°in lab3 task 3 point 15 : workflowRuntime.AddService(new SqlWorkflowPersistenceService(connectionString, true, new TimeSpan(0, 0, 0, 10, 0), new TimeSpan(0, 0, 0, 10, 0))); What is the role of the 2 timespan here the doc is not very clear on this matter. 2°point 17 : static void workflowRuntime_WorkflowIdled(object sender, Workflo ...Show All

• norax IServiceProvider.GetService(Type) in Activity.Initialize(IServiceProvider)

  hi, When I impl some custom activities, I noticed that in Initialize method I can't call provider.GetService(Type) or I will get a NullReferenceException at GetService(Activity, Type), but in Execute method there is no problem, Is this a bug or something I missed Sorry for my poor english. Thanks cool-net Thanks, Iza Should I re-download the WWF BETA2 and re-install it or where I can find the &q ...Show All

• Pilot_cir Obscure Error: EventDeliveryFailedException

  I am new to wwf and in working with callExternalMethod I am continuously getting a EventDeliveryFailedException error, which I am unable to solve. I have seen several messages about this error in this forum, but none of them matches my situation and has pointed me to the proper solution. My code is based on the examples in lab5, but it is slightly different. Here is a description of my case and problem: I use a sequential workflow with a c ...Show All

• rajguru Where can I obtain A Copy Of Windows VISTA One of the betas

  Where can I obtain a beta copy of windows vista I have an MSDN Subscription but I still cant get a copy please relpy to tight_fox@yahoo.com Judy Booth wrote: If you have the correct level of MSDN subscription you can get Vista from Subscriber downloads. What I don't know is exactly what level you need - I have what was a "Universal" subscription. You will find various builds in Operating ...Show All