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• Jonathan Kotthoff Workflow Persistence & Event Arguments

  I'm developing a State Machine workflow that passes parameters through events. The Workflow will have to persist its state in a SQL database. My understanding is that the persistence services will persist the current state of the Workflow (e.g. which state the Workflow is in). The workflow is rather useless without also persisting the parameters passed in the event arguments. Will the Workflow Persistence Services automatically persist the value ...Show All

• Farpetrad WinFX RTC December 2005 Not working with December Vista SDK

  There's a problem with the WinFx RTC download for December 2005.   The links on the page http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=BD3BA2D5-6ADB-4FB2-A3AA-E16A9EA5603F&displaylang=en There's a link to download the entire WinFx RTC package instead of the "smart" installer. http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/4/9/949EEA41-364A-45DC-8F4E-47E7AC147D25/winfxrc.exe I checked the time/date stamp in the downloa ...Show All

• Neelima Is it possible to hook WWF with Monad shell, basically call cmdlets in monad from WWF?

  Hi I am currently building/automating one of our internal process using Monad and it would be really really really cool if I can use WWF along with it so basically call cmdlets/cmd in monad via WWF, basically control the cmd to be executed in MSH via WWF. I haven't seen any e.g. of these and first of all if it is possible to do something like this. Please advice rahul Monad does allow its runtime to be hosted ...Show All

• ScorpEagle build for strmbasd.lib dshow 9.0

  having problems with the lib build for strmbasd.lib, --------------------Configuration: BaseClasses - Win32 Debug-------------------- Compiling... dllentry.cpp ..\..\..\..\include\strmif.h(1024) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'HSEMAPHORE' ..\..\..\..\include\strmif.h(1024) : fatal error C1004: unexpected end of file found Error executing cl.exe. strmbasd.lib - 2 error(s), 0 warning(s) It's right out of the b ...Show All

• Zalkalway Activity Property values not available at runtime

  I am currently experimenting with a custom activity. We have a number of business rule objects which implement various, relatively complex data validation rules. The custom activity allows these business rule objects to be assigned to the activity and for parameters to be assigned as part of a workflow that links together a number of these business rule classes into a sequential [potentially brancing] workflow. So I basically have: BRActivity ...Show All

• angstela Sequential workflow 'caches' event

  Hi all, We created a sequential workflow containing the the following sequence: eventSink1 - methodInvoke - eventSink2 - code Following the normal sequence of the workflow everything works fine. However when not following the normal sequence, the workflow behaves slightly different then I would expect. When the workflow is waiting for eventsink1 and an event is fired that corresponds to eventsink2 the workflow does not continue, as expected ...Show All

• StevetTW Event Queue operation failed with MessageQueueErrorCode QueueNotFound for queue

  Hi I have workflows that are persisted in sqlpersistenceservice database in state 1 that has eventdrivenactivity with handleexternaleventactivity that listens to ISeller interface event. I changed the code activity inside workflow class that is inside state 5(I have more that 30 states inside workflow, which means that workflows that are persisted didn't execute code activity that was changed). I deployed new version of workflow, and tried to ex ...Show All

• Mister_Vee How to Capture Vista Event Viewer Logs in XML format using VB.NET

  Guys, Really need your help. Rite now I'm working on an application that can capture all the event viewer logs in the local machine (the logs should be in XML format) and send it to server. How can I achieved this objective using VB.NET Is it possible Thanx! ...Show All

• Spacer release-candidate?

  Are there a date for release-candidate and release version Does the release version to be slow like Windows Vista We have plans for at least one more release before the RTM of Windows Workflow Foundation. Dates for have not been annouced yet. Windows Workflow Foundation ships as part of the WinFX API's in Windows Vista. The business availability of Windows Vista was recently announced in this release as ...Show All

• silver23 No of States

  How many No. of states that we can put in a state machine workflow Ravi, There isn't a hardcoded limit to the number of states you can use. That said, using an extremely large number of states might make your workflow hard to manage and design. Is there any particular scenario you were looking to implement with a large number of states Arjun ...Show All

• RichaV Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component

  I am recreating step-by-step the samples of the book Presenting Windows Workflow Foundation. By trying to recreate the windows form example from chapter 2 I find the following situation: - I defined the classes and delegates in the workflow library project. Saved project. OK. - Then, I dropped all activities that should be built in the workflow: 1 waitForData, 3 Code activities, 2 delays and 3 updateData. - I clicked the 'DataSource' proper ...Show All

• Damodar Periwal FileWatchService and State Machine Workflows

  I have a question in regard to the FileWatcherService activity available for download and how to incorporate it with a statemachine workflow. I am developing a state machine that will react to files being dropped into a FTP store. Based on the file extension and name of the file, a new workflow instance will be started or a persisted one with be reloaded. In either event the appropriate state activity will run. The FileWatchService will need ...Show All

• I System How does one design a loop back to an upstream activity?

  I tried to design a simple workflow but I got stuck. Assume the following sequential workflow of 4 activities: A01->A02->A03->A04 Now assume that there is a conditional evaluation after A03, if it is false, a loop back should occur to A01, if it is true, the workflow proceeds to A04. How does one design this in the WF designer I can't find anyway to connect back to an upstream activity. Roel RVLe ...Show All

• TheGeoff Long run business process

  My question is re: how to resume the flow after a queued step. In a simple case, user goto web to create a PO request, since the transaction also need to sent to a legacy system for processing which is queued thru MSMQ. after this is done, then we need to resume back to next step ,say for shipping or mail a invoice to user. How to implement this using WWF. Appreciate any inspiriting thought. ...Show All

• Keith Farmer How to store more information using persistence/tracking service

  Hi, I downloaded the examples of using Persistence and Tracking in ASP.NET from Tom Lake's blog and tested it. it works fine, but my question is where the eventOrder (int value) come from in UserEvent table it always is among of 5,18,31. One more question, how to store more information using persistence/tracking service for example, I want to save the user info, userID, so i need to add one more column to the table. I have to create my ow ...Show All