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• preps Random Vista crashes

  OK, I'm pissed now. The following is a brief history of my experience with Windows Vista. 1. 6 months ago I set up a dual boot start up on my system between XP Home, and Vista Beta 2. I installed a 2nd. hard drive for Vista, since I didn't want to screw up my system. Beta 2 looked nice, but was very bloated, and a bit unstable. I would get the "Black screen on death" now and then saying I had a USB driver causing the problem. 2. 3 Months ago I installed Windows Vista RC1 over the Beta 2 version. It was more unstable. Actually, it was hardly useable due to the frequent random crashes. For this version, it was just a black screen - then shutdown. It would always happen when either playing a simple game ...Show All

• xtw How do i implement this workflow ?

  Hi All, I am trying to make a simple workflow that has 4 parallel activities each getting input from different users (say it takes interger as it's input) and then adds the inputs (integer values). I was thinking of creating a custom activity that takes input from the user and run 4 instances of it parallely so i will get 4 different inputs and then at the end of the parallel activity i have a cusum activity that adds the 4 input. Is this the right approach. Do parallel activities end seperately and can't be merged into another activity Or if they could then in my case how do i send data from the parallel activities into the activity that does addition. Thanks, Sonali A parallel activity w ...Show All

• Sunila16 web services

  Hello, am I correct to understand that there is no .NET framework integration yet I am wondering what support for calling web services there will be in v1 release. The usage I am thinking for WPF/E is to have XAML+C# as a complete front-end, using no javascript, and talking to backend web services. Does this sound like a reasonable usage that will be well-supported and is a goal for the WPF/E initiative To me it does not look like the December CTP supports this. Thanks, Brad Williams Did you see http://www.nikhilk.net/WPFEAndScriptSharp.aspx Thanks for your responses. I am not trying to build something right now, I am trying to think ahead for late 2007 projects, a ...Show All

• ManishSingh July CTP breakpoint on state machine workflow can't open the workflow designer

  Dear all, I am trying to debug a state machine workflow in the July CTP of WF. I have set a breakpoint on the state machine workflow, but when I debug and the breakpoint is hit, I get: If the custom activity project has not been built you will receive the error you are getting when opening a workflow containing the custom activity. Dear SonaliC, I have already upgraded to the final release. So far, I have not experienced any trouble opening the workflow designer when a breakpoint is hit. However, I still get the problem I described when I open a project in VS2005, then try to open a state machine workflow in the workflow designer. As before, it goes away if I rebuild the solution. I get this with both XOML and c ...Show All

• BobP - BIM installutil.exe installing windows service

  I'm tring to install a windows service and keep getting the following message, can anyone help with this TIA C:\Program Files\My Application>installUtil.exe MyApp.exe Microsoft (R) .NET Framework Installation utility Version 2.0.50727.42 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved. Running a transacted installation. Beginning the Install phase of the installation. See the contents of the log file for the C:\Program Files\My Application\MyApp.exe assembly's progress. The file is located at C:\Program Files\My Application\MyApp.InstallLog. Installing assembly 'C:\Program Files\My Application\MyApp.exe'. Affected parameters are:    logtoconsole =    assemblyMyApph = C:\Program Files\My Appli ...Show All

• Mel V Workflow Queuing breaks with SqlWorkflowPersistenceService

  Hi fellas, The Question Why can't I get SQL persistence and queueing working together The Context I have a custom activity ReviewActivity that breaks its execution into two parts. The execute method creates a workflow queue using WorkflowQueuingService . CreateWorkflowQueue . The queue is identified using TaskID , which is a Guid and generated in the activity's constructor. The execute method also adds an event handler for the WorkflowQueue.QueueItemAvailable event. (see activity code below) The second part handles the QueueItemAvailable event. It deletes the queue. The queue item is enqueued as follows: WorkflowInstance instance = runtime.GetWorkflow(task.TaskId); instance.Enqu ...Show All

• Robert Gregory Garfinkle Support for Federated Workflow

  Hi, I have a reqt where the activites of my workflow should be executed in one or more systems i.e. similar to a federated workflow. Is there a support in WF to realize this. There is no native support for this scenario in V1. You could execute the same instance on different machines throughout the lifetime of the workflow as long as all the machines have their own workflow runtimes and share the same persistence database. You can't really control which machine runs the workflow when. ...Show All

• Nihilists .icl files not supported by build 5308?

  Hi there, build 5308 does not recognize .icl (Icon Libraries) as files storing icons ... whenever I open an .icl file I get a message saying that the files does not contain any icons. I am pretty sure that it was working fine with the December CTP ... I tried it with several .icl files which are all working fine on XP. No luck on Vista, though ... Can someone confirm having the same problem with build 5308 Or can someone of MS confirm this to be a bug Thanks! Steve .icl files are not a Windows file type. (My Windows XP machine doesn't recognize them either.) On your XP machine it's probably being handled by some non-Windows program that you forgot you had installed. ...Show All

• Lechal Windows workflow in ASP.Net

  Hi, I am using a workflow created by me in my ASP .net application. When I create a WorkflowRuntime object, sometime I was getting an error "Can not create more then one WorkflowRuntime object in same AppDomain". So I put the WorkflowRuntime object in Application State and before creating the new object, I am checking the Application State. Here is the code. WFRuntime = ( WorkflowRuntime )System.Web. HttpContext .Current.Application[ Constants .WPRuntimeId]; if (WFRuntime == null ) { WFRuntime = new WorkflowRuntime (); WFRuntime.AddService( new SqlTrackingService (connectionString)); WFRuntime.AddService( new SqlWorkflowPersistenceService (connectionString, true , new TimeSpan (0, 0, 0, 10, 0), new Ti ...Show All

• tonn Have I been living under a rock?

  I got excited about Media Center for the first time when I got my Vista Ultimate running. I got into my head to build this great Media Center entertainment system with Vista at its center. Of course, the first issue I found was the lack availability for extenders. Using a Xbox as an extender seems like overkill. Having an engineering background and enjoying building hardware projects I thought I could just try my hand at building one. At the very least, research what is involved in building one. This is where things began to get interesting. I expected that Microsoft would be bursting at the seems with information but what I found was a landscape of any useful information and no one willing to discuss or help in this matter. Fo ...Show All

• Mitch84095 socket bind fails under vista

  ive got a program im trying to get working under vista, which works fine under XP. In particular its part of the enet network library heres the code snippet: ENetSocket enet_socket_create (ENetSocketType type, const ENetAddress * address) { ENetSocket newSocket = socket (PF_INET, type == ENET_SOCKET_TYPE_DATAGRAM SOCK_DGRAM : SOCK_STREAM, 0); int nonBlocking = 1, receiveBufferSize = ENET_HOST_RECEIVE_BUFFER_SIZE; struct sockaddr_in sin; int bindResult = 0; memset(&sin, 0, sizeof(struct sockaddr_in)); if (newSocket == ENET_SOCKET_NULL) return ENET_SOCKET_NULL; if (type == ENET_SOCKET_TYPE_DATAGRAM) { ioctlsocket (newSocket, FIONBIO, & nonBlocking); setsockopt (newSocket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVBUF, (char *) ...Show All

• Carl Daniel Installation of Windows SDK for .NET 3.0 fails

  Hello! I need help. I tried to install the "Microsoft Windows SDK for .NET 3.0 framework". But the installation fails. I did not change anything (no options or path) while installing. Here is the end of the log file (I changed the domain and user name): 18:05:23 Dienstag, 5. Dezember 2006: [SDKSetup:Info] File succesfully downloaded - source:http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/7/7/a7767f09-0136-4a96-a1f8-276bf0ee31fa/WinSDK-WinSDK_BIN_VC8_Runtime_X86_CRT-common.0.cab target:file:///C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/username.DOMAIN/Lokale Einstellungen/Temp/SDKSetup/WinSDK/WinSDK-WinSDK_BIN_VC8_Runtime_X86_CRT-common.0.cab size:555366 18:05:23 Dienstag, 5. Dezember 2006: [SDKSetup:Info] Beginning download of file http:/ ...Show All

• Gabriel_M Trouble with SMS Administration Console in Vista RC1 Build 5600

  Hi, I'm having trouble accessing certain areas on the SMS Server through the SMS Admin Console in Vista. I can connect to the server then browse System Status but when I try to access my collections or Site Hierarchy nothing happens. I have disabled all firewalls and configured dcom to allow anonymous remote access. Please help. ...Show All

• HaroldW Expense Example - Missing SQL Scripts?

  Hi, Just downloaded and ran the Expense Reporting sample, and created the DBs using the Workflow Tracking and Workflow Persistence scripts. However, after building and running ExpenseHost.exe I discovered that the SQL script files to create the required tables and stored procs are missing. Are they available from anywhere Regards, Michael The sql script needed for the tracking and persistence databases comes with the product. Their location is dependent on which version you have installed. With Beta 2.2 and prior builds they are found under %windir%\WinFX\v3.0\Windows Workflow Foundation\SQL\EN and for any of the RC build they can be found under %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.0\Windows W ...Show All

• Ayooya Vista Logo compatible version for Microsoft Merge Modules

  We're designing our application's installer (using InstallShield 12) to be compatible with Window Vista. Our application requires some Microsoft merge modules to be installed on the target PC and one of these is the 'oleaut32.msm'. We're getting errors with this file when we validate it against Vista requirements, so I'm just wondering whether Microsoft has any plan to release a Vista Logo compatible version of their merge modules, particularly for 'oleaut32.msm' Thanks! I am exactly in the same situation getting the same error while including the merge module for vista. Could you please explain in detail how did you solve this issue. I have tried to include the .dll/.ocx file f ...Show All