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• Mike! passing param to custom activity in Designer

  Hi there, I've created a custom activity within Visual Studio, which I've imported into SharePoint Designer and used in a workflow. My activity requires one input parameter, which I've set within Designer to the 'Encoded Absolute Url' (of the item the workflow instance is running on). I write the value of Encoded Absolute Url out in a 'log to history list' action, which I can see is correct. However, my activity is erroring because that value doesn't get set in my code (confirmed through debug) - the property isn't null, it's a string value 'EncodedAbsUrl'.Which is a bit odd, no So it seems to sort of be mapping, but not to the value. I followed the 'Importing Custom Actions Into SharePoint Designer' white ...Show All

• RichardM_UK Active Directory , Exporting xml as users

  We have an application that churns out xml a collection of user details and credentials.We have decided to have a central repositry as Active directory.I want to test it using windows xp without a windows 2000 or 2003 server.Is it possible , if so, How Adam can coexist happily with AD as long as the port is set to something other than 389 (default LDAP port). How are you planning to load the users into Active Directory as ADAM has a slighly different API and I have had issues with it before. You might want to try using ADAM (Active Directory Application Mode) which is a cut down version of AD. There are some differences between AD and ADAM but it might allow you to test ...Show All

• Senkwe Chanda Workflow condtions don't work with SharePoint Designer 2007 RTM

  After developing my workflows with SharePoint Designer 2007 B2TR, I upgraded to SharePoint Designer 2007 RTM. After that and on more than one installation, workflow conditions would not propogate. That is the drop down would appear, but the selected condition would not appear on the workflow designer. Repair install of all components, Asp.Net 2.0, 3.0, and SPD didnot fix it. And to make matters worse, attempts to roll back to B2TR failed with "Cannot install over pre-release version" error, even though I unistalled RTM both with the installer, and manually deleting from the drive and registry. Has anyone else seen this problem I am stuck in the middle of a project using an old laptop with the B2TR bits to complete the ...Show All

• Mr Jason Smith Could not find the CSF-Administration-OU Organizational Unit in Active Directory

  I am trying to install CSF 3.0 on a machine joined to my domain. I choose Complete install, and leave the Optional Top Level OU box unchecked. I've also tried manually creating the CSF-Administration-OU in AD, but I get the same error. Am I supposed to have SSL Certs pre-installed before running CSF install This is from the MSI log: Property(C): SetCertificateList = SESSIONWEBSITECERTIFICATE,IDMWEBSITECERTIFICATE,PMWEBSITECERTIFICATE,PIWEBSITECERTIFICATE,SCWEBSITECERTIFICATE,NPWEBSITECERTIFICATE Property(C): DEBUG3a34 = 34 Property(C): DEBUG1a34 = 34 Property(C): SetSqlComboBoxSet = 1 Property(C): ORGDESC = CSFHOSTINGORGANIZATIONDESC Property(C): ERROR = No SSL Certificates in Certificate Store! Property(C): ERRORTRACE = &nbs ...Show All

• QCH User Rights

  Hi, Can I create a user who can add new users to sharepoint site but can not edit the web parts... I'm very new to sharepoint - I tried this by user to Full control but this allowed user to edit the web part.....I'm using the List View WebPart. Thanks Manu Hi I mean to ask you whether you did default installation( domain A/c Mode) or went for Active directory account creation mode installation......... AD account creation mode includes an AD server and kerbores( if needed) Hai What type of mode u u sed ( domin a/c mode or AD account creation mode)......also whats the method for creating users Formbased authentication or SQl based or Basic aut ...Show All

• sathish_indian New features/enhancements in next version of CSF

  Hi, Please let me know what new features will be available in next version of CSF – especially the enhancements to the existing features and from developer productivity point of view Thanks, Ashish Malhotra Hi,   When do you plan the next release of CSF  Will it happen this year   Thank you We are in the planning stage of next CSF release. ...Show All

• DaveKStl OOP Design Question - Need an opinion...

  I know there is no "100% correct" way to design the following but any suggestions or shared opinions would be appreciated: I want to create a Customer business entity. Should this Customer class only contain properties and simple validation or should it also contain all the business logic and CRUD functions Should I create a separate class called CustomerService that handles logic by passing around and working with the Customer entity Example: How to add a new Customer 1) All domain logic in one Customer object . Customer.Name = "Bla" Customer.Save OR 2) Customer object to hold properties and Service object to perform business logic. Customer.Name = "Bla" CustomerFactory.AddCu ...Show All

• Option Pre-Upgrade Report Error

  When I run my pre-upgrade report I get the following error in the log: 01/23/2007 20:01:47 Error: Cannot get virtual server from URL:preupgradescanconfig.xml 01/23/2007 20:01:47 System.UriFormatException: Invalid URI: The format of the URI could not be determined. at System.Uri.Parse() at System.Uri..ctor(String uriString, Boolean dontEscape) at System.Uri..ctor(String uriString) at Microsoft.SharePoint.PreupgradeReport.Scan.GetVirtualServer(String url) 01/23/2007 20:01:57 Error: Cannot get virtual server from URL:preupgradescanconfig.xml 01/23/2007 20:01:57 System.UriFormatException: Invalid URI: The format of the URI could not be determined. Everything else checks out fine. I'm doing an in-place single server upgrade. Then ...Show All

• Kevin Riley How to call HelloWorld service with parameters ?

  Hi, we are trying to extend the HelloWorld sample. The webservice currently has one function HelloWorld, which returns back a string value. But, what if we modify this HelloWorld service, to accept some parameters also, as below: [WebMethod] public string HelloWorld ( string parameter ) { return parameter; } while making a call, we would write < Route > < Criteria > (ACTION EQ 'http://tempuri.org/HelloWorld') </ Criteria > < Destination > HelloWorldParticipant[http://tempuri.org/HelloWorld parameter="Hello World"] </ Destination > </ Route > But this does not work. Any idea on how to call webservice from ...Show All

• simon burgess Issues With Delay Activity

  Has anybody had any success using the Delay activity within Visual Studio authored workflows Whenever I include a Delay activity in my workflows the workflow goes to sleep and never wakes up. If I listen for a Delay activity along with other events inside a Listen activity, I find that the other events (for example, OnTaskChanged) cause the workflow to be rehydrated as expected but the Delay activity does not. It doesn't seem to make any difference what the TimeoutDuration is set to or whether it's set statically in the designer or dynamically inside an InitiializeTimeoutDuration method. Does anyone have some sample code with Delay activities working correctly The QFE is released by Microsoft and we're ...Show All

• John Hind Reference materials

  hi all, I am trying to explore CSF in detail. Have installed the Dev Lite Edition on my Windows 2003 Server machine ( with .Net Framework 2.0 ) and am trying my hand at the HelloWorld sample application. However, it seems there is very little technical reference available online. Can someone please suggest any appropriate resource(s) where one can get an excellent understanding on how to proceed with CSF based developments from the scratch Any help would be appreciated. Thanks - hiren Hi Tilak, I have the following URI's in my App.Config file ( of my WinForm project ). Now, I've Ctrl+clicked on the the SessionManagerUri and the ParticipantUri and both seem to be working. Also, ...Show All

• Armin Prosch OOP Design Question - Need an opinion...

  I know there is no "100% correct" way to design the following but any suggestions or shared opinions would be appreciated: I want to create a Customer business entity. Should this Customer class only contain properties and simple validation or should it also contain all the business logic and CRUD functions Should I create a separate class called CustomerService that handles logic by passing around and working with the Customer entity Example: How to add a new Customer 1) All domain logic in one Customer object . Customer.Name = "Bla" Customer.Save OR 2) Customer object to hold properties and Service object to perform business logic. Customer.Name = "Bla" CustomerFactory.AddCu ...Show All

• Rocky79 Data Access layer generation tool query

  Hi Everybody, I am evaluating on various optimistic locking mechanisms for implementation in a DAL code generating software. First Approach : All column based locking .I see following demerits: 1.Can't compare CLOB and BLOB columns 2. Every column of the database entity(table) should have a value set. 3.We have to preserve the old values so extra memory overhead. Second Approach: Timestamp column based locking : I see following demerits: 1.If we go for timestamp based locking ,then we have to create an extra column or an extra table for timestamp of all tables.I think by introduction of rowversion in sql server, the problem of extra column is solved now atleast for oracle and sqlserver.Not sure about access a ...Show All

• WXS123 Evaluating CSF

  I have a heterogeneous environment: Windows and Linux. My web services on Windows use .asmx, and I'm currently upgrading those to WCF. The other web services are just XML-RPC services on Linux systems. Some in my organization want to port all those to web services on J2EE. My question is, with which J2EE systems is CSF competitive, and how can the Linux side of the house create well-enabled services that are CSF-compatible You don't have to wrap your services with WSE if your JAVA services follow the WS-* spec. Thanks WCF messages are wire level compatible with WSE3.0. And CSF3.0 is built on WSE3.0. WCF supports vast range of bindings. By using appropriate bindings on WCF we should able to get ...Show All

• cb3431 Urgent!!! Dropdown list load event handler not firing in a connected web part

  This is driving me nuts. I have a web part A which provides a person code to web part B to show the schedule of the person. Both web parts are using drop down lists. Connection between two web parts and sending the person code is done ,np in that. If I move the code inside of  the drpDownSchedule_Load to RenderContents event  everything works fine except the fact when I choose something from the drop down list in web part B and page gets post back, I lose the view state (which I think is another issue). so I put everything in the load event with the hope to check for the post back myself,but now dropdown list in web part B is showing nothing. I guess there is a timing issue from when I invoke the person code from w ...Show All