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• Neelay S Shah Implications of shutting down workflowruntime..

    I am trying to do the following but dont quite know how to handle some situations here: Say I implement a window service as a host for my workflow runtime (engine). I start the run time when the service starts and then start some workflows based on inputs from other applications (conveyed in whatever manner)..The workflows are running etc. and suddenly someone decides to shutdown the host service. One sure can put some code in the s ...Show All

• Harish Ranganathan errors encountered while loading the designer

  In one of my existing .net projects I want to add workflow classes and use the workflow designer to build them. I've added reference to following libraries: System.Workflow.Activities System.Workflow.ComponentModel System.Workflow.Runtime But I'm having some trouble with adding workflows in VS 2005: I cannot find a workflow class template when I choose "Add Class". I can only find the workflow class templates when I create ...Show All

• Millimina Down Load Vista

  We have a new MSDN license and I can not locate the vista (Lonhorn)  Download could you please give me a link to it.   Thanks Hi, This is a developers forum. Please redirect your question to Microsoft Newsgroups .     cheers, Paul June A. Domag ...Show All

• StarBrand123 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

• Vijaylakshmy New Thread Ordering Service questions

  Hello Im starting to experiment with the new avrt functions and the mcss. (i should have posted this to the Pro Audio forum since thats my main interrest, but i think the question might interrest other people) I see AvRtWaitOnThreadOrderingGroup like a nice timer, but the documentation is currently puzzling me. Both the avrt and the AvSetXX methods are in the same dll (avrt.dll), so i guess they are made to go hand in hand. While we can specif ...Show All

• blahto3 Help!! Custome Activity at StateMachineWorkFlow ,but Execute event didn't run.

  code: [ToolboxBitmap(typeof(MappingActivity), "Resources.MappingActivity.png")] [ToolboxItem(typeof(ActivityToolboxItem))] [DefaultEvent("ExecuteMapping")] public partial class MappingActivity : Activity, IEventActivity, IActivityEventListener<QueueEventArgs> { public static readonly DependencyProperty InitializeTimeoutDurationEvent; public static readonly DependencyProperty TimeoutDurationProperty; ...Show All

• the Wolf Cluster-Aware Timer Service

  I'm curious to see if Microsoft (or other developers out there) can provide guidance on how to best develop a custom Timer Service that is web farm aware.  For example, let's say my middle tier workflow is running on 3 servers.  I have a custom Timer Service running on each server but I obviously don't want the same workflow *instances* to be monitored and executed simultaneously on each server in the cluster. I've seen some tantali ...Show All

• Ankit Mehta Jon, quick question on Workflow Designer/workflowVisibilityControl

  Jon, I've read your blog http://www.masteringbiztalk.com/blogs/jon/CommentView,guid,79f45d4d-6e5a-437b-a230-d7df13ae18e7.aspx and have developed a workflow monitor using your technique. Excellent job, by the way... But, here's my problem. Once I select a workflow instance from the tracking database, I not only display the workflow image ( using the WorkflowDesigner/WorkflowVisibilityControl technique ) I also display the activities ( just ...Show All

• squeakstar [MFC] How to use MNS_AUTODISMISS in a MENUITEM ?

  StdAfx.h #define WINVER 0x0500 // Attribuez la valeur appropriee a cet element pour cibler Windows 98 et Windows 2000 ou version ulterieure. MainFrame.cpp ... MENUINFO menuInfo; menuInfo.cbSize = sizeof (MENUINFO); menuInfo.fMask = MIM_APPLYTOSUBMENUS; menuInfo.dwStyle = MNS_AUTODISMISS; GetMenu()->SetMenuInfo(&menuInfo); ... It doesn't work... ...Show All

• JeanKap Number One Request for Vista TabletPC

  My number one request is that when cloning the display to an external monitor I be able to have the orientation in the external monitor be correct regardless of the orientation of the tablet.  I might want to use the tablet in landscape or inverted landscape depending on whether it has the keyboard exposed or not, but the external monitor should be right side up in either case.  Currently to get the external monitor to show correctly t ...Show All

• Bhushan Patil Running SQLPersistanceService examples on WWF Beta 2

  Fellas, I have installed WWF B2 and its required extensions++. I could run some of the samples fine. There are a couple of demos that didnt work well and I think it was related to the use of SQLPersistanceService. I tried to look for the scripts at %SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50215\Windows Workflow Foundation\SQL but it is not there. The installed framework on my machine happened to be of v2.0.50727. So there I cannot crea ...Show All

• LarsK Final Release date of WINFX

  when microsft planning to release the Winfx. I wanted to know when the actual release of Workflow foundation will be happening. Microsoft has still not declared dates for WinFx We can expect the dates to be announced in one of the big dev conferences liek PDC, TechED, but no facts for now. So far as I know... Hello Lori, Thanks for the useful information you provided about the RTM dates for WinFX. However, I am a bit curi ...Show All

• Glowball Workflow and .NET Remoting

  Hi, Is is possible to host the workflow assembly in a remote object using either windows service or IIS as a host Please advise and some link for pattern or guidance. It is possible to host workflow assembly in remote object in IIS. If you are using out-of-box persistence or tracking services you will need to add them in Web.config file of your remote object. I have uploaded a sample to host a workflow library in IIS hosted remote o ...Show All

• kurtfury RaiseDataChanged and DuplicateInstanceId

  I'm trying to send data to a WaitForData activity. I start a workflow containing the data activity, then I call this method below to do RaiseDataChanged-- public void SendRuleIdToWorkflow( string instanceId, string assemblyName, string typeName, string datasourceName) { WorkItemData data = new WorkItemData (); data.TeamFlowRuleId = new Guid (); WorkflowRuntime wfrt = WorkflowRequestContext .Current.Wo ...Show All

• TurtleWang Filtering persisted instances on state and reviewer

  Hi there, I'm busy with WF and like to ask a question. For example, I've got a document. It needs to be reviewed by multiple people. First the writer needs to upload it, and review if it was uploaded correctly. Then a colleague reviews the document and approves it. Then his boss reviews it and approves it. So we have three states * ReviewOriginalAuthor * ReviewColleague * ReviewBoss But all can be done by multiple people. How do I ...Show All