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• Kreeben Problem installing from a DVD burned from the ISO image

  When i try to install the "Windows 'Longhorn' Professional x64 Edition Beta 1" on my PC I get an "setup.exe is not a valid Win32" error. When I try to boot from the CD, it wont! Just some specs on my PC which may/may not be relevent: Athlon 64, SATA Raid array, Asus K8V-X motherboard. That's just how I arrived at the forums . The link there points to the page where you can either enter the forums or t ...Show All

• lynn3 Database maintenance

  What are the methods and recommendations re maintenance of the database Mario Hi Moustafa, Thanks for the comprehensive answer, it is much appreciated. It is excellent that we can run the PartitionCompletedWorkflowInstances procedure on our own, that is definitely gonna help, as I'm sure some of our customers will definitely prefer it that way. It's also great that the SqlTrackingQuery stuff will look at t ...Show All

• Scot5691 Hide "Bind to new member" tab in XOML only workflows

  We are hosting the WF designer in our application to create XOML only workflows. We have been largely successful with one exception. We have based our designer on the designer code released last week. To acheive a XOML only designer, I removed the Member Creation Service and EventService as well as the ability to compile and save the Code Behind files. This had the desired effect of hiding the bindable events from the properties and achiev ...Show All

• amirkanan Getting Return Data from a sub Workflow

  Hello. I am calling a sub workflow from a work flow via the "invokeWorkflow" shape. Here is my problem. The sub workflow returns a value that is displayed via a web service. How can I retrieve that value from the sub workflow in the main workflow The master web service passes a value into the main workflow, and that value is in turn passed in the sub workflow so that it can perform its work. Now I need to get the return value back. ...Show All

• GoodGrief VS 2005 RTM Startup Error after Installing WWF Beta 1.2

  After installing the WWF 1.2 Beta with VS 2005 RTM I now get an error message during VS 2005 startup that read as: The Proper Type Library could not be found in the system registry. An attempt to repair this condition failed because you do not have the permissions to write to the system registry or the type library could not be loaded. This can be fixed by a system administrator running the program once, which will cause the proper file t ...Show All

• SimonY Error in VS2005 Workflow Designer after fresh install of Beta 1.2

  I am using VS2005 Pro RTM.  I have installed WinFX SDK and Workflow Beta 1.2 (everything is the current, latest version).  When I try to create a new project, or open an existing sample, I get the error listed below: Warning 1 Method 'ElementRemoved' in type 'TypeProviderHost' from assembly 'Microsoft.Workflow.VSDesigner, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' does not have an implementation. This ...Show All

• daviddavid Purpose of HKCR/Record?

  I couldn't find a more relevant forum. I'm suprised there is no COM Interop forum here. Anyway, can anyone tell me what HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/Record is for Its subkeys are all GUIDs, and their subkeys are (generally): Default, Assembly, Class So each "entry" under Record points out a type/class in a COM Interopted assembly, but why What further confuses me is not all the types defined in my DLL are present in HKCR/Record, it seems ...Show All

• kmcnet SqlWorkflowPersistenceService: Exception thrown while persisting instance: The transaction has already been implicitly or explic

  Hi, I use SqlPersistenceService. I found that SqlPersistenceService has bug, it does not write values to ownerId and ownedUntil colums in instanceState table (SqlPersistenceDatabase). The problem was in constructor, the connection with parameters was broken so I changed the constructor to this NameValueCollection stateServiceSettings = new NameValueCollection (); stateServiceSettings[ "OwnershipTimeoutSeconds" ] = "10&q ...Show All

• Boris Jabes MS Problem serializing base classes on activities.

  Hello. I have an app that embeds the WWF designer on it, and some CustomActivities. One of those activities has a property whose type is a base class, and I set on it a derived type when I'm designing the workflow. But when I'm trying to save the workflow (with the WorkflowMarkupSerializer), I get the following exception: The type "MyType" was not expected.    Use the XmlInclude or SoapInclude attribute to specify t ...Show All

• Ranjit Charles Problems with moving DirectShow code to VS8

  I'm facing some problems in moving my DirectShow code to VS8. It was building and running fine with VS7. I've also migrated to the latest Platform SDK (Windows Server 2003 R2) and DirectX SDK(April 2006) In tchar.h, I get the error "Need to include strsafe.h after tchar.h" even though I've included strsafe.h. I commented the following lines from tchar.h to make it compile. I know it's an ugly solution - what should I do #ifdef _STRSAF ...Show All

• MYMMB WWF - Sequential workflow

  Hello, I have an sequential workflow. Within this I use the while activity.Inside this I have an sequence activity which host 3 own developed activities. The own developed activity has a member that is not serializable and is declared on activity instance level. When the workflow gets initialized each of the activities Initialize method gets called. I detected that when running within the while loop of my while activity and one of my own activit ...Show All

• Beat Vista, Media Center and Xbox 360 Extender

  Hi, I have successfully installed 5308 and want to test out the XBOX as a media extender. When I go through the Add Extender option in WMC it connects and then simply sits there on the "configuring device" bullet (I think this is the 3rd one). I left it running over night but it was still there in the morning ! It's none hung as I can hit cancel. MCE has successfully connected and recognised it as an XBOX (I can see it in the ...Show All

• gotcf.net ASP.NET And a State Machine Workflow

  I recently read the MSDN magazine article, Windows Workflow Foundation, Part 2 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/04/CuttingEdge/), where Dino Esposito demonstrates how to work with workflows in ASP.NET. Dinos' demonstration provides a helpful solution to working with Sequential workflows; however, it left me a little confused with how to work with a State Machine workflow. In the article, Dino demonstrates how to pass parame ...Show All

• ShubertAtEastridge How to draw window system buttons?

  I am trying to draw the standard window system buttons (Minimize, Maximize and Close) but have no luck in drawing them to look like the ones you see in top right corner on Vista. I am creating custom form so I need those. I tried using Theme API but that does not get my anywhere... Question is how to draw Vista style system buttons If you do it in WPF, it's relative simple. Here for example close button: ...Show All

• nsLns Problems with Beta2

  Hi, I have several problems with Beta2: How to set Custom Attributes in Custom Activities The collection used in Beta1 is not shown anymore in Designer view / Properties of the Activity ... Cannot open the Test Workflows of the Actvities download from windowsworkflow.net (ForEachActivity, SqlDatabaseActivity). Error: Error loading workflow. .... Invaild data found while deserializing an object of type 'System.Workflow.Activities.Sequ ...Show All