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• JonL. ProblemWithWindows Vista Beta

  I downloaded windows vista beta last night,all went well except when my PC restarted,a screen comes up C:users \Admistrator , and a blinking cursor,what am I supposed to type in there ,will some one please respond to this problem i'm having,right now my PC's useless, thank you, Mike ROCKER761@aol.com sounds like you need ...Show All

• Tony Bierman Is the Task Dialog modal within its parent window or systemwide?

  Long story short: Currently there is no way to make a dialog modal with respect to only one window. IE: I want to be able to minimize MSWord even if it has a modal dialog popped up. Currently this is not possible. Every program when popping up a modal dialog completely hijacks the screen. The only way around this is the: 'Show Desktop' button. Mac OS X already does this. It has modal windows attached to parent windows only. In windows Vist ...Show All

• MP0401 ASP.NET & Vista

  Hey gang. I am trying to use ASP.NET on Vista and I'm having some difficulty. I created a default.aspx that just says "hello" and it won't even serve the page with IIS 7. Could someone please help me out I'm getting this error: Server Error in 'Default Web Site' Application. Hi Friend, Do the following workaround, Start, Settings , Control Panel, Programs and Features, Trun Windows features on o ...Show All

• Ian Fowlds Newbie question about removing the use of MSDTC

  Forgive the lameness of this question. I am part of a team that has developed a Visual Studio 2005 web application that currently uses MSDTC and Microsoft Enterprise Library. The problem is that my hosting team will not run the MSDTC as a service as they say it opens up too many ports to the database server and this could be dangerous for a web application. Where do I start in rectifying this Is it possible to easily remove where MSDTC is ...Show All

• Mark Broaddus CorrelationParameter data types

  Is the CorrelationParameter limited to simple data types or can it handle complex types As an example, could I use e.g. an object[] parameter type to simulate a correlation set Or at a second thought as I just write this... if it uses something like IComparable for the comparision, could I implement an own collection that does a "smart" comparision and that I use as a correlation parameter - Guess the basic question is: What are ...Show All

• Abu S. Md. Ismail tracking when exception occurs

  Okay, so I have asked this question before with no response but since it is really the last thing holding up the completion of version 1.0 of this project I will try again... How can I track (or record somehow) the point at which in a workflow where an exception is thrown I have tried using user track point calls (i.e. TrackData) in the fault handlers but these records don't get written to the tracking database.  I have also tried to ...Show All

• Kamran Sorathia Adding parameters at runtime before instancing

  Is There any way to add parameters to a workflow instance before instancing it I tried with: IRootActivity ra = workflowRuntime.GetWorkflowDefinition(type); WorkflowChanges wc = new WorkflowChanges (ra); ParameterDeclaration pd = new ParameterDeclaration (); pd.Name = "MyParameter" ; pd.Type = typeof ( string ); ra.Parameters.Add(pd); wc.ApplyTo(( Activity )ra); But maybe I'm wrong doing this... Regards, M ...Show All

• Timothy Conix Asp.Net WF - OnIdle Event is stopping my events being handled.

  It seems that the host is receiving an InIdle Event from somewhere ans this is causing the ManualWorkflowSchedulerService to have a state of CanRun=false. Any asp.net workflow experts got any pointers Cheers, aspx code behind: private void InitiateWorkflow()     {     & ...Show All

• DOrsborne Installing Tablet PC Experience and Education Packs on Vista Build 5270

  I am unable to install the Tablet PC Experience or Education packs on Vista 5270. The message I receive tells me to upgrade to Tablet PC 2005 through Windows Update. Is there any way to emulate Tablet PC 2005 to get the application to install Thanks. I would not expect either experience pack to install on Vista as they are targeted specifically to the Tablet PC edition of XP. Hopefully some of the better pa ...Show All

• A. A. How do you make IMemberCreationService available?

  I started a new C# console application, added the System.Workflow references and a Sequential Workflow (code) item. When I tried to open the workflow to add activities and I got this error message "The service 'System.Workflow.ComponentModel.Design.IMemberCreationService' must be installed for this operation to succeed. Ensure that this service is available." Confused, I added a WorkflowConsoleApplication project in the same solution and I ...Show All

• GodzillaMonster Wallpaper in c#

  Tell me how to set a image as wallpaper using c# Willfin David You can either use this code from Console Application, Windows Application or Windows Service, or put it in Class Library to and expose its function to allow some application to call it and see the results. Simple Create a Windows Application, Put a Button and put the above code in Button's Click Event Handler and see what happens. Best Re ...Show All

• ARTsev Bind parameters to dependant properties?

  Curently you can bind dependant properties of one activity to a property of another. But I don't see a way to bind a dependant property to a parameter passed into the workflow. Is there a way to do this Could it be added Jared Hi Can you show this same thing in C# or VB.NET Hi Jared, There is an known bug in Beta1 where the workflow parameters do not show up in the Activity Reference dialog to bind. Thi ...Show All

• Stelben designer and project template support for C# Express Edition 2005.

  Hi, I have installed the SDK package, everything went fine except designer and project template support, there are no templates available when I want to create a new project. Should this be part of the sdk or do I need a separate installer package for this The designer in the C# express edition does not work but the code works fine. I was able to reference the WorkFlow assemblies and get everything to co ...Show All

• wywy Beta2: String-Properties in Custom Activities; Custom themes

  Hi, in Beta 1 it was possible to define 'free text'-input string properties with custom activities which enabled the workflow creator to input any text in the corresponding prop of the activity in the workflow designer. Any DependencyProperty with type(string) enabled this. In Beta2 this definition enforces a total different behaviour in the Workflow Designer - it tries to map it to a Workflow member variable ... How to create props for te ...Show All

• BHAB How to build base Classes in Visual C++?

  well, That is it. I’m a C++ newbie and I don’t know how to build a project from a makefile. Thanks The offical method with the Platform SDK is to 1) select your target build environment option from the Platform SDK program group menu item, 2) change to the BaseClasses directory using the CD command. (Google on usage of the CD command if you are unfamiliar, referring to the directory structure with ...Show All