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• Kaniri Security Roles in WWF

  Hi I am investigating WWF for a system design. The topic of user roles came up in todays discussion. A quick look at my SAMS WWF yellow beta book reveals no reference to User access roles appart from tracking in the SqlTrackingService. Has any work been done regarding assigning user roles to the workflow designer, or is this the hard work that is left to the developers Is there a timeframe on the roadmap for when user roles would be inc ...Show All

• Eder F. Dias MSDTC problems

  Hi everyone, I am having some trouble with the DTC on a client machine and need help to get it working. The problem started while doing some experimenting with the new WCF stuff, but has evolved into a simple client side dtc problem. In a nutshell, I can't get dtctester utility to work. Some interesting points: * I am running winxp sp2 on both client and server * server is running SqlServer 2000 * both computers are in same domain * several oth ...Show All

• wesclark ID3 tags

  Hello, I have mp3 files which have a ID3V2 header at the beginning, in the header there is a lot of stuff (pictures, lyrics). If I play this file with Windows MediaPlayer all is ok, if I try it with graphedit the file starts with a few seconds of silence at the beginning. What can I do that it is correctly played Who is responsible for skipping the ID3 tag (I think it's the splitter) Thanks for your help Reiner ...Show All

• Tynman Looking for sample: Business Rule Web Service

  Has anyone seen or created a Web service that instantiates and calls a WWF business rule (using WF Policy/RuleSet/Rule) Any advice Michael Herman Parallelspace Corporation Hi Michael, This should be trivial to do in Beta 2 where you just create a sequential workflow and add three activities.  1) A WebServiceInput activity, 2) a Policy activity and 3) A WebServiceOutput activity.  After this right click on the project and choose ...Show All

• Neil Weller .NET Framework 2.0 Install fails on Vista Beta 1

  Just done a clean install of windows vista beta1. Attempting to install .NET Framework 2.0 either directly or as pre-requisite from VS 2005 or SQL Server 2005 gives fatal install errors. Other similar posts indicate a compatibility problem with the .Net Framework 2.0 provided in Vista beta 1 and the release versions of these tools. Anyone know if there is actually a work around for this hi Alex, I also fac ...Show All

• Demonite WF and Office 2007 beta2

  Is it possible to create a workflow in visual studio and utilize it in SharePoint If yes, how to I depoyit to SharePoint Do I need to use a SharePoint activity library Mikael Please use the newsgroups at http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/community/newsgroups.mspx for questions about Office 2007 Beta 2. ...Show All

• LealTing Custom ActivityValidator crashes VS.NET

  Hello, I have Jan CTP and I am building a new activity validator for my custom activity. According to several articles I write the following code: public override ValidationErrorCollection ValidateProperties(ValidationManager manager, object obj) { MyActivity activity = obj as MyActivity; if (activity == null) { throw new InvalidOperationException("the parameter obj is not of type MyActivity"); } ValidationErr ...Show All

• lingo302 State Machine and AutoResetEvent

  Hello, I am implementing a State Machine workflow, that workflow is quite simple, Starts in a WaitForRequest state something comes from the network , it changes to a ProcessRequest state, after processing it changes to WaitFor Request. Basically it is used for a Server Side. To make the thread synchronisation in the Wait For Request activity, I used an AutoResetEvent. But When I 've tried to run that workflow, it does not start and send a Termin ...Show All

• Josh Brown - MSFT problems with vista graphics drivers

  ive been having problems with the last 2 builds of vista beta. i have an ati radeon x1300 pci express card with 256mb of memory. it is vista ready, but even the basic drivers that vista offers for it wont work. the only way i can use media center, view pictures and play games in when im in safe mode or when i load the standard graphics drivers. even the 5308 beta drivers from ati wont work right. can anybody give me any insight as to whats wrong ...Show All

• Nojjy Determine correct activity instance during Activity Tracking

  I have written a custom persistence and tracking service. When I track that a new activity instance has been initialized, I write a new record a database. What I want to do is add the record ID as User Data to the activity so it can be used during processing. I know the root activity, the context guid and the qualified name for the current activity. But how do I use this information to get the correct activity instance Any help would be gr ...Show All

• Didier Frund using WWF with SOA

  I need to take some advice from the Architectural community out there, as much of the discussion to date appears to focus on an application hosting the WWF engine and exchanging events in a fairly self contained fashion. Scenario Consider...   Many instances of a windows forms client application communicate with a server application via web services. Traditionally the server side business logic contains set workflo ...Show All

• Marius T. Sample XPS documents

  Does anyone know where I can find sample XPS documents to view I've downloaded the WinFX runtime, so I should be able to view documents through Internet Explorer, I think. Now I just need some XPS to look at. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The XPS spec and the Open Packaging Convention spec packages include the spec in XPS .container format and the files can be viewed with the XPS viewer. You can dowload the spec packages at ...Show All

• Twindagger Problem with running Workflow Monitor on Beta 2.2

  Sorry for my english... I could not run Workflow Monitor from SDK Example on Beta 2.2. I recived an error (error converting IList to List). I downloaded the official document ( Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 2 to Beta 2.2 Key Changes ). In this document I founded: 8.5 Various tracking types will use IList<> instead of List<>. As i understood, i need to rewrite all List to IList st ...Show All

• dspace 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

• Allan.ex Does anybody use System.Speech? I get an error when use it.

  Here is my code: SpeechSynthesizer synth = new SpeechSynthesizer(); synth.SpeakText("hello"); quite simple,right but when I run the application, I get an InvalidOperationException shows that "No voice installed on the system or none available with the current security setting." what does this mean ...Show All