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• Morten76 regarding installation

  hai when i tried to install winfx runtime 3.0 (january CTP), i couldn't install i got some errors... before i tried to install winfx runtime i unistalled all the previous versions of frame work and SDK. Then i installed the same in the following order Visual Studio 2005 (RTM) windows SDK (january CTP) After this tried installing winfx runtime 3.0(january CTP) but couldn't continue that....i just want to know wheather the order ...Show All

• VinuM Error Afetr installing Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 2_2(EN).exe

  Hi , After installing WWF beta 2.2 , am getting an Error msg like that , Method not found: 'Boolean System.Workflow.ComponentModel.Compiler.IWorkflowCompilerOptionsService.get_CheckTypes()'. Hide at Microsoft.Workflow.VSDesigner.VSWorkflowDesignerLoader.Initialize() at System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.BasicDesignerLoader.BeginLoad(IDesignerLoaderHost host) at System.ComponentModel.Design.DesignerHost.BeginLoad(DesignerLoade ...Show All

• mbutcher Porting own workflow engine to WWF

  Hello, we have implemented our own (end-userfriendly) workflow engine, and now we want to migrate to the WWF. The main workflow elements of our old engine are: 3 different type of Activities: Human activity (with user interactions) Technical activity (without user interaction) Condition activity (if elseif else ....) Each activity can have every activity type as parent(s) and child(s) with following (main) constraints: Human/technic ...Show All

• assssssss Workflow Designer on ASP.NET app

  Everybody know if Workflow Designer can be embebed in ASP.NET applications Meanwhile I found these embeddable workflow .NET controls and workflow engine for ASP.NET at www.skelta.com , that includes a Workflow Process Designer with the possibility to be extended with Custom Activities, using VS.NET as development platform.  They seem cool because they are client plataform independet (no Act ...Show All

• Jeff Agent regarding workflow

  i am trying to add an activity to the workflow which is a xoml file when i try to compile the xoml file i get a error saying "Could not deserialize object" please help me out with it Ashok, Could you share the xoml file you're trying to compile   Are you using any custom activities in the workflow ...Show All

• evalese same

  you know, i am msdn subsc, mcpp, and i think i missed the beta 2 anouncment. can any 1 tel me if vista beta 2 is available still and where to get, in msdn, mcpp areas. can only find subscriber cd, but didnt get it. any 1 got one march version Wow, it sure seems like we're answering this question a lot. Windows Vista Beta 2 has not been released yet. If you are an MSDN subscriber, be patient and you will see it ...Show All

• RLewkovich Workflow-Instance-Id within CallExternalMethodActivity?

  A Custom Activity MyActivityA (based on SequenceActivity) is contained in another Custom Activity MyActivityB. MyActivityA uses a CallExternalMethodActivity. One of the parameters of the called method is the Instance-Id of the hosting workflow. How do I get the Instance-Id of the workflow within the CallExternalMethodActivity I've tried MyActivityA .WorkflowInstanceId (MyActivityA is derived from SequenceActivity) and WorkflowEnvironment.W ...Show All

• Tom Harpel Windowless Render Not Updating Until Window Is Dragged

  I have installed a DirectShow movie into a window using the windowless mode example provided in the msdn documentation. A movie played with my code renders fine as long as the window hosting it has been moved. If it hasn't, the audio is heard, my time display is updated, but the video render is never drawn into the window. Simply grabbing the title bar of the window and moving it causes the video render to suddenly be visible. Other interaction ...Show All

• JorgeRoca Win32Exception installing a windows service for FW1.1

  Hi everybody, I wrote a Windows Service with VS2005, then I compiled it for FW1.1 using MSBee, obtaining no compiler errors. I tried to install it using the "InstallUtil.exe" command in the FW1.1 installation directory but the installation process failed and I got a System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception with an error message: "Some mapping between account names and security IDs was not done." I found it to correspond to 1301 ERROR_SOME_NOT ...Show All

• Kuhan Milroy Workflow temporary persistence: Session?

  Hi Everybody, I have installed the latest version (Beta 2 and 2.2) of the WinFx Runtime Components 3.0 Beta 2 and Visual Studiao 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 2.2 and the Data Activities are missing. I have searched for the dll and it does not exist. I have also tried three different machies and the Data Activities are missing. No other activities are missing. I have created datasources in the hope that they might ap ...Show All

• Jesper Deriving from WhileActivity

  Hi, I would like to construct Activity similar to while and it would be really easy if I could just derive from WhileActivity, which is not possible, because it is sealed. Is there a good reason for that Second question, is there some way to see source code of WhileAtivity, so I do not have to spend hours on implementing something, which is very similar to it It would be great to have source code of it so I could make small changes of ...Show All

• Delox web service - response/fault

  I got a workflow that is activated by a WebServiceInput, calls some other WebServices during it's runtime and responds with a WebServiceOutput to the original caller - I guess a most common scenario for these kind of web services. But how do I handle errors in here The web services invoked can under circumstances return a SOAP exception containing a detailed error description. I do not want to handle these exceptions in my workflow, but just ...Show All

• phankhanhhung Problem with creating custom activities...

  hi again, i am trying to create some custom activities to use them in a sequential workflow. the problem is, that every activity i created is not listed in the toolbox, although it should be...is that a softwareproblem or am i doing something wrong this is how my activity looks like: namespace mySolution { [ToolboxItemAttribute(typeof(ActivityToolboxItem))] public partial class Save_Data_Dialog : System.Workflow.Compone ...Show All

• BerndD problems to un(re-)install WWF, WinFX

  I tried to install WinFX Development Tools (Orcas) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=D1336F3E-E677-426B-925C-C84A54654414&displaylang=en but it failed telling that they cannot be installed without installing first "WinFX runtime". When I try to install WinFX, the installation fails telling that an instance of WinFX is already running. After deleting/cancelling processes  msi.exe, and setup.exe ...Show All

• Evan Lin Casting property value in activity reference

  Hello, I have two activitites. One exposes a DataSet through a property. A second activity takes a string property. I would like to set an activity reference to the first activity, getting the value of a particular row and column in the dataset. I can use the activity reference dialog to drill down on the Dataset property to get to a particular data value but this returns an object of type System.Object. The property that I'm trying to set on ...Show All