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• Amit Grover Vista 5308 Media Center Extender issues

  Does anyone know if the extender function in the Media Center module of the February CTP is compatible with the Xbox Media Center Extender (MCX) I have been attempting to set this up on my test system, and will get as far as the programming the device stage of the extender setup, but at this point the setup will sit there for over an hour without completing. Is there an update that will need to be obtained to allow this to function, or is this ...Show All

• AndyCadley Visual Test is blocked from clicking UI

  In the Vista docs, it mentions UIPI and UAP being off by default in Beta1.  Since installing the Dec. CTP, Visual Test gets an error "cannot set playback hook" when attempting to click buttons on other applications.  This is essential functionality for UI scripting via MSAA applications like Visual Test and Silk. What's the solution for enabling a VT to click buttons   Is this a bug of the Dec. CTP or a feature   We can an ...Show All

• Peter S Antal - MSFT Changes between Beta 1 and Beta 2

  Is there a page which says what are the data types that got changed between Beta 1 and Beta 2. Something like <datatype 1> changed to <datatype 2> in Beta 2. I have developed some samples which i dont want to type it from scratch :-) Thanks Arshad Arshad, Here is a topic which discusses about migration. I have provided a link to a video presentation over there. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx Pos ...Show All

• T.C. How can I start instalation a Windows Vista os

  How can i start instalation of Windows Vista OS. I burn a DVD image, but i can not open it. I can read only a README file. What shall I do I am also seeing the same issue's. I burned the ISO file with Nero and also tried to mount the file to a Virtual drive and still am only seeing the Readme file. I figured I'd burn the ISO file to a DVD and do some reasearch at work but was prompted by nero that the disc ...Show All

• EdgarRC Why is Microsoft using a proprietary web forum solution and a proprietary RSS format?

  Why is Microsoft using a proprietary web forum solution instead of Internet standard newsgroups (e.g. microsoft.public.*) Why is Microsoft's propritetary web forums using a proprietary RSS format that doesn't work with Newsgator Michael.  It's interesting to note that Google ranks Microsoft's proprietary web forums as the #2 and #3 hits when searching for "Microsoft proprietary".   Checkout http://www.go ...Show All

• Paramjyot How to finish the Rollback operation?

  Hi. In some business,when someone transact a section,usually there are two results :approve or reject, if he approved, the workflow will continue to the next activity,if he rejected,the workflow will go back to the previous activity,In WWF,how to realize the operation Joysen, In Beta1, you currently have to implement your own tracking service to introspect status for a state machine workflow.  In Beta2 we'll have a set of i ...Show All

• justingrant Workflow state not persisting on Suspending

  I have added Sqlworkflowpersistance service to my windows host. But am not able to persist the state on Suspend() so on Resume() it is not able to fetch the workflow instance. Please generate the workflow execution trace using following app.config. Trace in WFTrace.log file will give you the details of what is happening with the workflow instance. <system.diagnostics> <switches> <add name="WorkflowTr ...Show All

• LoekyH Persisting layout for State workflow in designer control

  Hello, is there a way to persist the layout of a state workflow in the workflow designer control sample I can persist the Xoml to file and re-load it, but when I do all the states are drawn on top of one another in the top left corner of the view. So let's consider this a "workaround" for Beta 2. What is the WWF team's strategic direction for solving the layout serialization/persistence problem   ... ...Show All

• ajAZZ Changing which workflow items are available when modifying at runtime

  I want to host the workflow designer in my appication with some custom made workflow items. However, I want to change which custom items are available at runtime based on the priviledges in a database. For example if someone is an administrator, I want them to have access to certain workflow items that lesser users don't. Is this possible If so what is the best method of approaching this Thanks. Amanda The e ...Show All

• Alan Millington Questions about vista

  I dont have vista beta or anything, but I would just want to know a few things(for those with beta or anyone that can answer), and some comments to make. Comments: 1. I am hoping that windows vista will make it so Sticky keys is off automatically, as I find it annoying(along with everyone else I know) and its a pain to turn off, because when I say turn off following the instructions, its still on until about the 3rd time I turn it off. 2. ...Show All

• SPGMuthu Problems when using While activity

  Hi, I have the following scenario. I have a while activity which contains a sequence activity. The sequence activity contains a listen activity. In one of the branches of the listen activity, I have a custom activity that invokes a second workflow synchronously (a slightly modified version of whats available on the net). The problem I have is this: I cannot define a dependency property that can be bound to an object as an interface. For ex ...Show All

• mushy26 Deploying WWF Beta 2...

  Hi, I've got a problem - my workflows work on the development pc but not on the production server. I'm using WWF Beta 2, both machines are in a very similar hardware configuration. The error message that i'm getting is: "Cannot create more than one WorkflowRuntime per AppDomain". The way that i'm creating WorkflowRuntime object is as follows: public WorkflowRuntime WFRuntime { get { if (_runtime == null ...Show All

• Tonny Petersen No integrated help for November WinFX

  I have upgraded from the WinFX September CTP to the November one, and corresponding versions of .NET and VS2005. Unfortunately the WinFX documentation is no longer accessible in VS2005. Does anyone know it there is a way to force the WinFX help documentation to be visible in VS2005, or indeed visible anywhere else I just noticed, pressing F1 on a WinFX class name in code correctly brings up the help for tha ...Show All

• MrDoomMaster cpu constantly running at 100%!!! and Vista running EXTREMELY slow please help

  i have no idea what to do,  when i go to task manager and click performance it says my cpu is running at 100%, and its doing that 100% of the time, im afraid it may overheat. I am running a Sony Vaio laptop, 3.2 Gz, 1Gig RAM, 64MB video card. vista is also running slow, very very slow... it lags and it doesnt alow me to move large files. (says that i do not have permission) HELP! Ok so if I disable ...Show All

• Marco van der Slot Installation hanging (Dec CTP 5270)

  I'm installing Vista Dec CTP (5270) on a HP Pavilion zd8000 (3.2 ghz, 2gb ram, 7200 rpm drive), and I get a screen that says "completing installation", but then that changes to a screen that says "Installation is taking longer than expected, but should be finishing soon." I left it on all last night (10 hours), and all day today (8 hours - after I started the installation over), and it stays on that screen. Any advice gibbensr@hotmail.com ...Show All