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• Steve Kemnitzer How to iterate over the states in a WWF state-transition diagram and dump out the positions of the activities?

  How can someone programmatically iterate over the states in a WWF state-transition diagram and dump out the positions of the activities  (relative to the top-level of the designer, for example) Is some sample code available that illustrates this Re: the designer surface is serialized into the VS SUO file  This is only true when the designer is hosted in VS 2005.   In our case, we're hosting the state-tr ...Show All

• Sachin Sinha MSFT VISTA Install Failed But BOOTMGR took over.

  I tried to install Vista on a machine with 2 SATA drives, XP on the first, nothing on the second. The install process got to the first reboot, then failed. When I reboot, I have to quickly hit the up arrow to pick a boot menu entry called Older Version Windows. If I don't get the up arrow hit in time, Vista tries to boot but fails. boot.ini is still in my c: folder as is ntldr. bootmgr is also there, but, since the Vista install failed, I do no ...Show All

• hga.mx Order of events during persisting

  I have a statemachine workflow with a custom persistence service attached (service set to unload on idle). When the workflow goes idle (waiting for an external event) I get the following sequence (writing to Debug out): 1. Workflow serialized: 30d157dd-60d1-444d-a86e-8b1b86119f18 / 13 2. Workflow idled / 13 3. Workflow persisted / 13 4. Workflow unloaded / 13 (13 = ManagedThreadId) My question is: Why is the workflow persisted (pt. 1) be ...Show All

• michael.e.obrien Hosting designer on an asp.net application

  Hello, We have an asp.net product that we are planning to redesign using the MS Workflow Foundation. So, far I have seen in the documentation that WF designer can be hosted on a Windows application. Is this also true for web-based application For example, can the workflow designer be hosted and run via a browser by the end user. I understand we probably have to do some programming to do this. But my question is if this is at all possible. ...Show All

• PrashG Raising events to State Machine workflow activities.

  Hello, Let's say we have State Machine workflow with two states: A and B. A has event driven activity A1, B has event driven activity B1 on it. Current workflow state is A. Is it possible somehow to raise event to B1 event sink activity Keeping in mind that it is positioned on "inactive" state. Thanks in advance Edmundas If B is inactive - you cannot raise an event that will acti ...Show All

• Good-man How do I get the context of the workflow instance?

  Hi, I have a client sending an xml message to a SequentialWorkflow through a remoted service. The service exposes some methods which each triggers an event. The workflow has several Eventsink activities each “listening” to a specific event.   When the event is triggered from the service, the xml message is sent to the workflow through the eventargs and is also stored in a local service variable (System.Collection.Generic.List). ...Show All

• Duke Ames WorkflowWebRequestContext in Beta 2.2

  I just installed Beta 2.2 and ASP.NET sample code, but ASP.NET sample failed to compile. It says WorkflowWebRequestContext is not available in the default.aspx.cs. When I looked at the help file, I can see that WorkflowWebRequestContext class should belong to System.Workflow.Runtime.Hosting, but when I look at the classes in that namespace, I can't find it. I can see other classes in that namespace such as WorkflowWebHostingModule. Anyone ...Show All

• TammyDj Has DXSDK February 2006 missed GraphEdit component ?

  I installed DXSDK February 2006 and I can`t find GraphEdit in it. Has DXSDK February 2006 missed GraphEdit component DirectShow has been moved to the Platform SDK, so you will find GraphEdit there as well. ...Show All

• Ahmed Kaouri the WorkFlow project wizard is gone!where she be?

  hello all. i installed VS2005RTM special language version (pagecode is 2052), but WFF beta installed 1033 dir.so on the new projects wizard dialog, WFF project was disappeared,. now ,what can i do makes WFF project item recur thanks. Hi Devinder i did remove English VS before installing Chinese VS  :) you said that is a bug which to WFF beta and, can i rename all  dir relate to WFF from "1033"   ...Show All

• BigTuna99 Invoking a HandleExternalEventActivity from an Asp.Net Host

  Trying to get a HandleExternalEventActivity invoked from an Asp.Net Host. To make things simple I reused the sample SDK Sample Application “OrderingStateMachine” we all know so well. Problem Microsoft.Samples.Workflow.OrderApplication . OrderService . RaiseOrderCreatedEvent is Fired ok BUT Microsoft.Samples.Workflow.OrderApplication . Workflow1 . ProcessOrder method is ne ...Show All

• ngc Where can I obtain A Copy Of Windows VISTA One of the betas

  Where can I obtain a beta copy of windows vista I have an MSDN Subscription but I still cant get a copy please relpy to tight_fox@yahoo.com MSDN Subscriptions has a "concierge" service by which they can connect subscribers with the content they need. Log in to MSDN Subscriptions and look for that button. Oh, and for I think the 20th time in this group, the Beta 2 has not been released yet, and the Beta 1 is ...Show All

• Daisy34001 Installing VISTA on a USB Hard Drive

  No matter what I try I cannot get VISTA to reconize a partition on an external USB drive.  The partition is always displayed as UNAVAILABLE.  Even, though I can hit F10 and use DISKPART to create and format it still will not reconize the partition.  Do I need a special driver   Scott Pfaf How would you go about doing that. i have a laptop that was running vista ultimate before it crashed and tore up the internal dr ...Show All

• dave.dolan GdiPlusEffects.h missing in February 2006 SDK

  I downloaded the new Feb CTP Windows SDK and the compiler complains about missing GdiPlusEffects.h. This file is included conditionaly when GDI+ version at least 1.1 is detected. Where can this file be found The workaround is to edit GdiPlus.h and change the GDIPVER from 0x0110 to 0x0100: // Define the Current GDIPlus Version #ifndef GDIPVER #define GDIPVER 0x0100 #endif Hi Benny. Thanks for the ping. ...Show All

• haizetara WorkflowWebHostingModule - drawbacks

  Using the WorkflowWebHostingModule seems to have some drawbacks. For example, in order to add say SqlTrackingService in code, you have to first stop the runtime, add the serive, then restart it... Thoughts JB WorkflowRuntime workflowRuntime = WorkflowWebRequestContext .Current.WorkflowRuntime; workflowRuntime. StopRuntime (); workflowRuntime.AddService( new SqlTrackingService (connect ...Show All

• Healthcare Network Admin Jerry Synchronizing Activities

  What is the preferred way to create sync-events between Activities in different branches of a ParallelActivity Like a singleton added to the ParallelActivity itself or am I missing the obvious Will be used to build: "Okay, you could work on this in parallel, but this Activity in branch B has to wait, until this Activity in branch A is finished." Okay, I could close the first ParallelActivity and open a new one, but in the long ru ...Show All