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• Gauguin About persistence, IEventActivity, Transactions and correlations

  Hi, I have a bounch of questions. 1. Persitance The activity can be adorned with the [PersistOnClose] attribute. What happens in the following scenario: - we have a sequential workflow with 2 activities: A1 followed by A2 - activity A1 is adored with the [PersistOnClose] - A1 finishes executing and moves to Closed state - the runtime persists the activity A1 - the computer crashes - after the computer is restarted, the workflow hosts is s ...Show All

• Nathan Jaynes Media Center just gives me a black screen build 5321

  Hey everyone, Media Center just gives me a black screen. I've tried reformatting, changing hard drives. It just simply doesn't want to work. Any ideas Thanks. This seems to be a design feature with this particular build. 5219 would begin to activate bit it appears that the feature was disabled for this build. ive got the same build as you guys. what i have found so far is, the ...Show All

• salvatore Windows Vista Standard (classic) theme. buttons...?

  Can someone send me the File Folder Icon from Windows Vista I wanna see how it looks in 16bit colors. Send it to  windowsdesktopsearch@gmail.com Thanks in advance Michael www.windowsdesktopsearch.com VistaGuy, Could you please stop posting duplicate posts As Raymond stated above you will need to wait until you have got your hands on your own copy of Vista. Anymore duplicates will be removed. Thank-you Hello. Can someone f ...Show All

• DataSort Software Nothing changed in Feb CTP?

  I download the "Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 2(EN).exe". However, it looks like the same as Jan CTP. Do I download the wrong link Or actually there is no change Thanks! Hey Lei, There were some changes... Here is my posting about the latest CTP . Once you click on the link to d/l the CTP, make sure you grab the extensions at the bottom of the d/l page. That posting i ...Show All

• geertdeprez Managing resources within workflows

  I need access to some resources whenever my workflow is active in memory, i.e when it is in the hydrated state. I am using the SqlWorkflowPersistenceService for persisting the state of my workflows. What is the best approach to detect when the workflow is active (because of creation or hydration) and inactive (because of dehydration or completion) I want to use these events to open and close my resources. Windo ...Show All

• Taveira Build 5270 RAID Install Problems

  I'm trying to install Vista Build 5270 and I keep encountering the same error.  After the install finishes and reboots for the first time I see the windows vista loading screen but then I get a BSOD with the error 0x0000007b and the system reboots.  I have tried installing from in win XP and from booting to the DVD.  I was just wondering if anyone else is having this problem.  My system is P4 3.4ghz on a D915PBL Motherboard r ...Show All

• Dustin Walker EventSinkActivity Parameters

  I have a workflow with an event sink activity. When i Raise the event that fires this activity i want to pass a parameter (the id of the user who raise the events). I have added a int in the eventargs class that inherits from WorkflowMessageEventArgs, but i don't know how to catch this parameter in the method that executes in the workflow when the eventsinkActivity is called: private void MethodForEventSinkActivity( object sender, EventAr ...Show All

• WebDunce How is the user interaction represented in the workflow designer ?

  Looking at the workflow designer, I am wondering how can we incorporate an activity where an end user needs to do something before the workflow can proceed further Hi Mark, Approaching this query from a slightly different angle, if the Workflow is being hosted by an ASP.NET application, how would I design the workflow to stop and wait for user input, bearing in mind that the users may not return their input ...Show All

• Nicoleta Cristache MSFT Query regarding CreateFontPackage API used for Font Subsetting

  Hi, This is regarding the CreateFontPackage API which is implemented in the FontSub.dll as part of Windows GDI which we would like to use for Font subsetting: I got the details about this from the URL below: http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/gdi/t2embed_CreateFontPackage.asp 1. I tried out using this API but the API is returning an error code of 1009 for which I was not able to ...Show All

• skapunk60 Custom activity inheritance

  Hello, all my custom activties inherits from a BaseActivity. My custom BaseActivity inherits from Activity. BaseActivity contains several properties and I need to have them bindable. I tryied to add the DependencyProperty into BaseActivity but when I add one of the child activities into to workflow VS freeze. What is the best way to inherit dependency properties Thanks, Pierre The prblem is solved. I have to register the proper ...Show All

• Don Demsak Is WF adequated to build an OLTP middleware tier?

  We are evaluating Workflow Foundation to build our middleware solution which is a multi-channel banking system (Branches, ATMS, Internet, Phone). Basically, this tier exposes services to the channels. Most of the services are synchronous, but we also have asynchronous services. We also have services that are multi-step, which means we pretend to use the persistence functionality of WF. We decided to evaluate WF because most of our services have ...Show All

• James K. Howey - MSFT want to get my hands dirty

  ok so I have Vista build 5253 in a VM , VS2005 Pro, and I want to code up an implementation of the new IPropertyStore interface - plus I also want to play around with all the other new shell interfaces. Q: exactly what PSDK should I be using Q: where can I get it Q: where can I find documentation for all these new shell interfaces TIA You should be able to find documentation for IPropertyStore and other n ...Show All

• msjammu Does anyone know how to get WF working with WSS Event Handlers?

  I am trying to get a workflow instance to run from a Windows Sharepoint Services document library event handler. The problem I am encountering is that you can only run one instance of the WorkflowRuntime per appdomain - WSS events all seem to run in a single appdomain, so if I call the WSS event handler more than once, it crashes out with an error. I haven't been able to figure out a way to locate and re-use the exising insta ...Show All

• amitsinghkohli Release Plans

  Can somebody supply any information that is available re; the planned release dates for WF, in particular with regards to: 1) A version compatible with the Beta 2+ build of Visual Studio 2005 that was provided on the goods disks at the PDC 2005 conference. 2) A version compatible with the VS2005 being released in November. 3) A version with a go-live license. Hi Moustafa, Did you have more news about beta 2 I use VS 2005 ...Show All

• hocki101 Rules Editor Not Loading With Beta 2.2 (XOML only State Workflow)

  Tom, When using a State XOML only workflow, the Rules Editor does not load when I try to create a rule condition for an IfElse activity (in WWF Beta 2.2). Is this a known issue I look forward to your reply. Thanks in advance, John Portnov If the xoml only workflow is in a workflow project there should not be any issues. However, if you try to launch the editor when you are not in a workflow project, like a Console Applica ...Show All