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• THERAOT Write text to desktop

  Hello everyone, Could someone show me how I might go about placing text on the actual windows desktop in my form project using c++ and make it stay there and not be covered up by any other windows that might get opened. As an example I've tried using code like this HDC hdcScreen; HDC hdcCompatible; HBITMAP hbmScreen; hdcScreen = CreateDC(TEXT("DISPLAY"), NULL, NULL, NULL); hdcCompatible = CreateCompatibleDC(hdcScreen ...Show All

• mysticmart Platform SDK install error

  Error 1329. A file that is required cannot be installed because the cabinet file C:\Windows\Installer\MSI504.tmp is not digitally signed. This may indicate that the cabinet file is corrupt. I believe this was the march 06 x686 build. Running xp sp2. error was thrown while installing this file... C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\src\atl\atl.cpp On dial-up so if there is any way to fix this locally, or just down ...Show All

• codeChaos How to store application specific data using WF SqlTracking Services

  Hi, Can anybody tell me how to store application specific data like userId, etc., using WF SqlTracking Services If any sample available, please share with me. Thanks in advance. Chandru. Chandru - what you need to do is put a tracking profile for your workflow type into the SqlTrackingServices' table. The easiest way to do this I've found is to use the Tracking Profile Editor sample which give ...Show All

• jlgrau Looking for CleanupSharedWinFXFiles.exe

  Hello Forum, I had a prerelease of WinFX on my machine and I am looking for CleanupSharedWinFXFiles.exe which shall care for cleanup of the gac. I had the reference from a MS Page http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=AAE7FC63-D405-4E13-909F-E85AA9E66146&displaylang=en but the regarding Link to this file is broken. Does anybody have this file or a working link to that download Best regards Ralf I ran ...Show All

• ashg657 Workflow Validaition Failed - Interface Type not set

  Hi to all, I'm putting this into separate thread, because many can find it interesting. My original question is: "I've created a xoml based state machine workflow. I'm using HandleExternalEventActivities in it. Everything is ok, but when I try to create the workflow, it's validation failed. The reason is property InterfaceType of every HandleExternalEventActivity is not set (is null), but in the xoml they are set to the correct type. ...Show All

• romeo123 Windows Workflow Foundation from a business perspective

  As a developer I am really enthousiastic about the new Windows Vista related technologies, and especially Windows Workflow Foundation. Being a developer, I have lots of stuff to read about this subject. There are many good-quality articles, whitepapers, webcasts and forums such as this one to help me get started. The problem is, however, that if I want to convince the management team of my company that WWF and WCF are the way to go (which ...Show All

• chengG WinFX RTC December 2005 Not working with December Vista SDK

  There's a problem with the WinFx RTC download for December 2005.   The links on the page http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=BD3BA2D5-6ADB-4FB2-A3AA-E16A9EA5603F&displaylang=en There's a link to download the entire WinFx RTC package instead of the "smart" installer. http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/4/9/949EEA41-364A-45DC-8F4E-47E7AC147D25/winfxrc.exe I checked the time/date stamp in the downloa ...Show All

• Menko Conexant Audio Drivers for x64b2

  Anyone have a generic that'll work with the failed conexant audio driver Microsoft, I know you guys can take 10 minutes and code one. ;p When you boot up your computer press f8. Select load unsigned drivers and enter. Your sound should work. You will need to do this every time you boot up. It's the only way I have found to make the sound work on my HP dv8213cl laptop with Vista beta 2 build 5384. I hope this will help you. ...Show All

• Xuefeng Cao Drawing over fullscreen video from AudioVideoPlayback

  I've spent some time trying to render text or even a control on top of video being played at fullscreen using the AudioVideoPlayback namespace without any luck.  Originally I was aiming to have a transparent control on top of the video, but if I can get text on top, or any control (transparent or not) I'd be happy... Can someone point me in the right direction   Perhaps provide an example of something similar ...Show All

• shiggsy Latest build for Vista

  I am using build 5112, can someone confirm what number the latest build is   And how did you get your copy of it   I don't remember getting anything later than 5112 from Technet.  Thanks.   Oeps, mistake it's 5231 now... Not to pile on, but I loaded 5112 on VPC and then tried to load VS 2005 and had the same issue (croaked loading .NET 2.0). Surely someone ...Show All

• FC-Shiro Statemachine not Stable !!!!

  I checked in several constellations. Rasing Events works between 1 - 20 times than I get by random Event can not be deliverd. By seeing the unanswerd request here in the Forum I think it's not working. If yes some good Ideas are always well come. Wolfram Are you using EnqueueItemOnIdle to submit the messages first of thanks to all answering me and trying to help. Ok I'm ...Show All

• kankudai sql services

  I seem to have some trouble with the SQL services. SqlPersistenceService, SqlTrackingService and so forth seem to work fine. At least the events are fired that the workflow instance gets persisted on idle and so on. Event the samples like Lab3/Ex2 run fine. But there is never something in the database visible. Also the WorkflowMonitor does not see anything. I suspect that the sql services never commit their changes to the database, so ever ...Show All

• MS440 Synchronization of Workflow instances?

  I would like to know if there is a possibility to synchronize after asynchronously workflow calls. Consider the following situation: I have an invoke workflow activity inside a while activity. The workflow is invoked n times, until the condition of the while activity evaluates to false. From the view inside the while activity the asynchronous workflow call is required, but from the view outside I would like to know the point of time, when all of ...Show All

• Ira Berkowitz K2 captaris Vs Windows workflow

  Can somebody let me know what are the outof box activities,roles realted to activities , versioning of workflows which differentiates K2 & captaris from WF. what are those additional features provided by workflow products like k2 whne they are going to create their new products from WF itself. It is very much necessary for me as WF is not going to cost anything while other workflow management softwares cost very much. I know that ...Show All

• K.Rohit Main colors in the Vista File Folder 16x16 icon.

  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 The Windows Vista icons are copyrighted. If you want to see them, you'll have to get your own copy of Windows Vista. can anyone from the design team at MS responsiable for the icons tell me the main xp ...Show All