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• gigo318 Can I have custom property at stateActivity level?

  When you add a state (for example stateActivity1) in state workflow, By default it has 3 properties- stateActivity1-> (name), Description and Enabled. Is there a way to create custom property (like _userRole) This will help me checking the accessibility of workflow state for a certain role. Thanks in advance. You have to decorate the property with attributes for design ti ...Show All

• Helmut Obertanner Question for Workflow Monitor

  Hi, All, I get a problem to run the Workflow Monitor sample to monitor UserTrackPoints. I know "All workflow and activity types should be gacced or placed in the same directory as the sample executable". For tracking sample UserTrackPoints, there are only two files in the bin/debug directory, UserTrackPoints.exe and UserTrackPoints.pdb. I put both of files into same directory as WorkflowMonitor.exe, but I still get the error messag ...Show All

• gswitz WorkflowDefinition

  In SQlTrackingService - WWF Labs-03. when we run the sample, we are inserting data in "dbo.workflow" "WorkflowDefinition" field in "dbo.workflow" is populated with XML String. How do we get that data by programatically because i am developing Custom Tracking Service for oracle. Note1: user can add Workflow File as Either "Code" or "Code Separation" but the sample is storing the ...Show All

• RogerV Input and Output paramters in WinForm Application in Beta2.0 or Beta 2.2

  Hi I found a good demo for beginners on WorkFlow at BizTalkGurus.com ( www.biztalkgurus.com/windows- workflow -foundation.aspx )which is in Beta1.I have installed Beta 2.2.As previously mentioned the parameters property of WorkFlow is missing.I tried doing the demo in Beta2.2.But the while Loop doesnt terminate.Has someone tried the same thing in Beta 2.2. or Beta 2. The WorkflowCompleted event only fires ...Show All

• jrimpo Problem Using ifElseactivity in an Embedded workflow designer

  I'm trying to use a ifElse activity in an embedded workflow designer ( Workflow Designer Control Example   downloaded from here: http://www.windowsworkflow.net/Downloads/Examples/Workflow%20Designer%20Control%20-%202005-09-24.exe ) I added a IfElse activity and then select one of the branches. In the property window I select a System.Workflow.Activities.Rules.RuleConditionReference Condition and then when I try to edit the Name   prope ...Show All

• Burney Getting audio files' extended attributes

  Hi everyone... I hope I'm posting in the right forum for this question. I origianlly posted this in the VB.NET development forum, as that's the platform I'm using (original post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=230192&SiteID=1). But it's really a Windows API question... I have a couple of applications that find all the .WAV and .MP3 files in a folder (and its subfolders), reads their headers, and repo ...Show All

• Andy in Indy Unable to write to reg key

  I am installing Workstation components for sqlserver 2005. When it gets to the sqlxml4 portion, the following dialog popsup: --------------------------- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Setup --------------------------- Could not delete key \Software\Classes\CLSID\{E3E1D966-0829-48AC-B3AD-C5AE4CA171C4}.   Verify that you have sufficient access to that key, or contact your support personnel. --------------------------- Abort   R ...Show All

• VN Persistence without binaries

  Hi, I would like to write my own PersistenceService but dont wanna use these serialized data in the db. Lets say I write a issue tracker where I want the ticket workflow be handled by workflow foundation and these workflow is a state machine. So I have a table issue where all data about the issue is stored. I normaly implement the state machine on my own and use a int for the current state in this table. Lets say I only handle one kind of Workfl ...Show All

• inspirone simulating workflows

  Hi We are a chemistry research company building solutions with Microsoft technology. We're interested in MS's Workflow framework. My specific question is: If you build a workflow with the workflow designer in VS 2005, can you run or debug the workflow (visually ) In other words, if my workflow is a document that flows from INPROCESS to READYFORSIGNATURE to SIGNED to COUNTERSIGNED to READYFORARCHIVE, will there be a way to "simulate" a real ...Show All

• Tim42 Activity binding to a dynamic property.

  I have seen custom activity examples where dynamic properties can bind to dependancy properties on other activities. Is there any way to create dynamic properties of potentially different types which will show up in the activity reference dialog and can be bound to from other activities If not what alternative might be available Something along these lines would be useful to me. Have you had any success ...Show All

• Niros How to load persisted workflow from another process?

  I am trying to explore loading a persisted, suspended workflow from another process. What I am trying is constructing the workflowinstance with the Guid of the persisted workflow (overload of CreateInstance). Then I call resume on it. Resume executes with no exceptions, but I am not seeing any of the subsequent activities get called after the Suspend that the workflow was on when it was persisted and the app was shut down. The workflow is a s ...Show All

• GManNC I am using Windows Vista 5270 and...

  I am trying to compile a simple program with VS 2005 professional. I set the option x64. It is compiled. but It can't be excuted... It show this message... Unable to start program 'c:\User\Vista\Document\Visual Studio 2005\Projrct\Test2\x64\debug\Test2.exe It is no problem in Windows XP64... Isn't beta version of the vista support x64      I had used Longhorn on someone's other computer (h ...Show All

• xp Will there be a windows mobile app?

  Just wondering if there will be a Windows Mobile 5 application for XPS We're not aware of any beta XPS-enabled mobile applications out there as of yet.  There are some great scenarios with mobile and XPS though.  ...Show All

• Mark Boehlen Custom Actions are hanging on installation on Vista

  Hi, I have an installer project which installs my application and it's dependencies, which used to run fine on XP. This project has some Custom Actions that register a service. I can register the service manually using elevated command line. But the custom action hangs. I have created a sample installer project with some empty custom actions and it hangs as well. My conclusion is that Vista has some issues with Custom Acti ...Show All

• Todd Dawson Installing WWF beta 2 on 64bit Windows XP

  I'm getting the following message when trying to install WWF beta 2 on 64bit Windows. Max only runs on Windows XP Service Pack 2. You can install Service Pack 2 from Windows Update. This version of Windows includes many useful security features (besides Max compatibility). Any ideas Thanks, Phillip Very Interesting. I do not have Max installed but I believe I tried to install it some time ago (it doesn't run ...Show All