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• Pavel Brokhman Platform SDK Build Environment Link Errors (Standard C++ Library)

  DirectShow COM Stream Filter DLL's fail to link with #include headers from the Standard C++ Library.  To illustrate this, a very simple example found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vccore/html/vcwlkCreatingACOMServerUsingNotepad.asp will exhibit the problems.  If you follow the steps to create and build this simple COM DLL from the Platform SDK command shell build environment used ...Show All

• sergio_dxi Workflow Startup in transactional way...

  Hello, My WWF usage scenario requires me to startup workflow in a transaction - that is workflow should start, it should be persisted and then my startup procedure completes making completed() vote in bigger transaction. I was thinking about following solution: Let's assume that MyStartWorkflow() should work in transactional way. MyStartWorkflow() starts up workflow using workflow runtime and hangs up on an event (for example AutoRes ...Show All

• KS XPathBind

  Can someone give me a bit more detail on the XPathBind binding type The documentation is a bit light at the moment. My understanding is that it allows us to bind deep into XML properties on activities If so, what type do those properties have to be XPathDocument XmlDocument Cheers Chris Hi Chris, XPathBind is functionally identical to its sibling ActivityBind, except that it has the additional XPath property.  XPathBind allows you ...Show All

• tazbigdog PT/PC Support in Legacy Drivers

  I would like to know in order to enable PT/PC support in Legacy drivers,what are all the API needs to be supported in the Config module. I saw seperate W32 PT/PC API and WinFX PT/PC API. Among the both which one should be implemented.Is it necessary to implement both of them.     For legacy driver use API prefixed with "PT",like PTGetPrintCapabilities(). ...Show All

• Mange How Can I know the Icons that assisted with each Files Type ??

  Hi I have List View control and I use it to load the files But my problem is when I try to add icon for each file .. because I don’t want to add any icon .. but I need to add the icons that assisted with the file in the operating system !!! So How Can I know or Get the Icons that assisted with each Files Type And thanks with my best regarding Fraas It is done by usi ...Show All

• jameskatsuit Problem with sendmail Activity

  Hi, I am trying to test the sendmailAvtivity; so I began to activate the SMTP server in IIS, then I created an outlook account: I set the 2 servers POP3 and SMTP as "localhost".. then I tested the sendmailactivity sample ..but it failed when outlook is trying to synchronize with the server exactly in the dowload operation.. so how to resolve this problem Thanks Hi, You might want to try the .NET ...Show All

• Dylan Ngo missing library uafxcwd.lib

  I'm trying to compile some older example code for an OCX on the latest VC++ EE. After some stumbling around I was told I needed the PSDK, which I installed. Now when I compile this code, the link fails, complaining that it can't find uafxcwd.lib. This file is present in the AMD64 and IA64 folders, but not in the main Lib folder. (The x86 version of the PSDK is what I installed.) I tried linking with the AMD64 version, which not surprisingly didn ...Show All

• HoldenDT Go-Live Runtime

  Hi there Just a short question: Are the WF Designer Controls part of the WWF Go-Live Runtime or are they just part of the Visual Studio Extensions Thanks, Sebastian Hi Devinder Thanks for your help! Regards, Sebastian Hi What I want to do is delivering a workflow routing engine based on the wwf to my customer and enable my customer to design his own workflows ...Show All

• Hal Kilmer SqlTrackingService and Sql Injection

  Looking around the SqlTrackingService, I noticed that it does a lot of dynamic sql generation. The problem is that it makes it (fairly easily) subject to SQL injection attacks because it sometimes does this with tracking information coming from activity data, which possibly might even come from external inputs. For example, it's easy to cause the SqlTrackingService to generate invalid SQL with a simple ' char passed to Activity.TrackData() as pa ...Show All

• Barrie "Tracking workflows which are already tracked" - Problem

  Following screnario: I have business objects of the type Order and OrderItem. For each of these a workflow is started. I use the SqlTrackingService, so running workflows get written to the db, and I am able to track them with the WorkflowMonitor (included in the Windows SDK I think). If such an Order- or OrderItemWofklow gets aborted or canceled the chance of restarting the workflow with the same objects is still present. The only problem ...Show All

• SomaJ Vista build 5308 February CTP and soundmax audio drivers

  I had installed December CTP build 5270 few days ago on Winxp Sp2. But I was not able to install soundmax audio drivers which I used on Xp sp2 in Vista. It said those drivers were not meant for this OS (vista). I looked on internet for solution but all in vain. Now I m going to install February CTP build 5308 and I want a solution at hand before installing vista. I have come across some threads on forums which said they have installed on Dece ...Show All

• ShootingStar UIAutomation support for downlevel OS

  Hi, I am planning to develop tests in MITA. MITA is dependent on UIAutomation framework. But I saw winfx is supported on winxp-sp2, wso3-sp1 and onwards. Is it that UIAutomation is not at all supported on w2k, ws03-rtm Can someone please confirm on this thanks in advance, Shriram the app depends on UIAutomationCore.dll and internaltestuiautomation.dll 2 vista file. u can try copy it to your ...Show All

• Pringy How the Windows Vista (Explorer) View should work.

  This article makes it alot clearer to understand what I mean then my previous ramblings... How the Windows Vista (Explorer) View should work. The View button for icon(s) I think there should be one for Text aswell being able to scale-up and scale-down the text rather then going into  a settings window... I wann be able to set the begin and end for the scale up/down component so If I want the scale-down (icons) to end at 19x19px rather then ...Show All

• ehosca Using rules without WF

  Hello, I'm trying to understand if it is possible to use the Policy functionality without running WF. I looked on the method Execute at RuleSet : public void Execute( Activity activity, ActivityExecutionContext executionContext); It's obviously public. Does it mean i can use it How   Example: public void MyRuleSetExecution() { DiscountPolicy p = new DiscountPolicy (); p.Q ...Show All

• Joe Simmonds what is exact advantage of WF

  Hi, I am new to WF.I am not yet sure what type of applications can be easily designed using WF(windows workflow foundation), though people say that it can be applications like call center application, loan s/w etc. Every control provided in workflow toolbox(VS.net 2005) like "invokewebservice","delay","code",parallel","ifelse" works in same way as we wrote code for these in earlier versions. ...Show All