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• iansbrainstorm Is there a possibility to run the SendEmail Activity with Lotus mail server?

  Hello, Is there a possibility to run the SendEmail Activity with Lotus mail server if it's how would I proceed I assume that you're referring to the SendEmailActivity in WSS v3. If I remember correctly, it just uses whatever SMTP server you have configured in SharePoint (i.e., the same one that's used to send out alerts). You may not be able to use your Lotus mail server directly, because SharePoint doesn't let you authenticate to the SMTP server; it needs an open SMTP server. You pretty much have two options: Set up a local SMTP service, and have it relay to your Lotus mail server. Write your own custom SendMailActivity that uses System.Net.Mail to authenticate to your Lotus mail server. ...Show All

• AlexHaan [BUG] Vista doesn't start application called "install" w/o being elevated.

  Hi, I just encountered this really strange behaviour, which is definitely a bug in Vista. Consider the following situation. You're logged in as an administrator account. Start a CLI shell of your choice, start it normally, so that it's running non-elevated. Now consider a console application called install.exe. It's neither a GUI application, nor is it an installer application in the Windows sense. It's just called install.exe. In my case it's part of GNU coreutils and it's called install because it's usual task is to install software on the system. However, it's perfectly valid to call install as normal user and use it to install stuff into a subdirectory on which you have permissions. This is what happens when running under Cygwin (proce ...Show All

• stonejc QueryusingSqlTrackingService

  Hi , I need some clarifications on running the QueryusingSqlTrackingService sample.While i run the sample i get an error message as given below. A version already exists that is greater than or equal to the new version The tracking profile was not inserted. If you wish to add a new tracking profile , please increase the tracking profile's version number. Executing the workflow Instance Level Events: EventDescription : Created DateTime : 7/11/2006 4:54:03 AM EventDescription : Started DateTime : 7/11/2006 4:54:03 AM EventDescription : Completed DateTime : 7/11/2006 4:54:03 AM Activity Tracking Events: StatusDescription : Executing DateTime : 7/11/2006 4:54:03 AM Activity Qualifie d ID : SimpleWorkflow StatusDescription ...Show All

• Echo Storyboard BeginTime property confusion

  There is a general workaround for being able to fire events on EventTriggers that are not "Canvas.Loaded" that involves setting the BeginTime to a large number so it doesn't get run immediately (then you can fire it with JScript whenever you like). Here is my issue: The docs seem to imply that I can use "Forever" instead of an artibirary large number to make the Storyboard wait a number of days. WHat is the recommended way of suggesting how this workaround should be implemented Setting the BeginTime of a Storyboard to a large value is a temporary workaround to enable, on the Dec CTP bits, animations that don't start on page load. The main scenario are interactive animations that happen in response to some ...Show All

• Mumper Printer Drivers for XPS Documents On XP and Server 2003

  Will there be printer drivers that operate on XP/Server 2003 for XPS documents I am familiar with the MXDW writer. Can I make an assumption that to take full advantage of XPS, one has to use Vista as this OS will have the full compliment of printer drivers I have searched but either this is a dumb question or have not framed the search query right. Thanks Thanks for your answer. I downloaded the essential pack from http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/viewxps.mspx which will let one view/print to a XP OS printer. Let us assume one has installed everything like .Net 3.0 on an XP/2003 system. On Vista OS, one can specify PrintTicket to allow one to print to a specific Laser printer output bin on a page by page basis. ...Show All

• TroyDT About WindowsXP drivers!

  Hi, I am not sure if it is proper to start a thread in this Forum. I have serveral question about PCI driver and I am in need of your help. These days, the stability of my program is not so good so I took at the arthecture of my program. 1.The PCI driver in use was built a long time ago in C++6.0 enviroment, where as my program is working on WindowsXP. Will this bring about any possible problem. 2.The number of the same type PCI boards is more than 1, each thread has a wrapper thread to monitor the access(read/write) to each board. If this necessary I think too many thread resources are wasted this way 3.What should the priority of a driver class be The above monitoring threads were running at the Highest priority Wil ...Show All

• Rashar Getting the transaction context

  I have a CompensatableTransactionScope activity and inside that I have a Code activity. In the executecode method of this activity, I am going to be calling a stored procedure. How can I get the transaction context of the transaction that is created by the CTS activity I plan to have 3 of these code activities that commit or rollback based on the same transaction context. Thanks. Use the following: Transaction trans = Transaction .Current; What I plan to do is have a couple of activities (most of them code) in my transactionalscope. I just want to make sure that if somewhere within these code activities, I get an exception, I can rollback the rest of the inserts/updates etc. In ...Show All

• Esqueleto Physical Screen Orientation

  Hi everyone. I was hoping you would be able to help me with a problem. I bought a Toshiba Tablet PC a few weeks ago (loving it) and included with it are little programs made by Toshiba that help with things such as hardware specific features (ie. the Fn key which lets me change brightness or volume with a key combination, etc.). This was quite handy but there is a couple of problems. First, these little programs are only installed when I use my Toshiba OEM Windows XP Installation CD. And now that I've sworn off XP and moved to Vista, these programs are no longer available. And secondly, I don't know about you guys but I find the evasiveness and user experiences of these little applets annoying. They have their own notification icons whi ...Show All

• Sudheer Palyam Using wimgapi.dll with VB6 - WimApplyImage causes VB6 IDE to freeze?

  I'm writing some code to use the wim imaging api wimgapi.dll with VB6. The code works 100% on capture, with the callback function correctly getting progress information and updating my form with progress bar etc. This works fine when run from within the IDE or from the compiled .exe. The apply image code is a problem though - the WimApplyImage code locks up the IDE part way through. When run from the compiled exe, I get no progress messages to the callback - I do get all the process messages though, and it actually works in that it correctly applies the image, but it stops updating my form until it exits the WIMApplyImage function. Anyone have any ideas I've tried registering the callback both immediately before the WimApplyIma ...Show All

• Jehan Badshah Selection rectangles

  Hi, I have an activity designer based on "Workflow designer rehosting sample", but I can't remove some features, wich I don't want to have. This are the followings: 1. rectangles with dots on the corner around the selected activities 2. dots on the and of the selected connector lines 3. the name of the activity class, wich follows the dragged activities inside the designer 4. "Print preview", "Zoom level" and "Pan" icons under the right toolbar Does sombody know, how to remove these things I tied to ovewrite the OnMouseDown and the OnProcessMessage of the ActivityDesigner in case of point 1., but it didn't help. Best regards : Laszlo Dear WWF developers, I ha ...Show All

• JonEagle Showstopping Bug in WF Persistence?

  We have been struggling through an error for some time and as yet have found no resolution. We would like to persist a workflow that contains activities that have subactivities (like subtasks). The problem is that we get a SerializationException when the app tries to load the persisted workflow (on SqlWorkflowPersistenceService.LoadWorkflowsWithExpiredTimers). The specific message is "The object with ID XXX implements the IObjectReference interface for which all dependencies cannot be resolved. The likely cause is two instances of IObjectReference that have a mutual dependency on each other." If we take out the "subtask" concept, or take out persistence, our code works perfectly. Here is the code with the issue. //The Custom Acti ...Show All

• David - Bitfield Content Type Workflow does't work in MOSS

  Hi All, I have define a content type in MOSS and assign a workflow to that, and start it on the creation and changing of that content type. While creating a content type work flow does't start. Please advice. Thanks. For questions specific to the SharePoint's implementation of Windows Workflow Foundation you should post you questions to the forum found at http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/community/newsgroups.mspx . ...Show All

• LibertySt Load multiple copies of DLL into one process

  Is it possible to load one DLL multiple times into the same process, but under different base addresses We have a DLL that is not multi-threaded safe because it operates on some global data in its .data section. Hence, we would like to load multiple copies of the DLL so we can make multi-thread calls to it. I understand due to the Windows paging mechanism, there would be very physical little memory wasted (only for PTEs or what not). Just the virtual address space will get bloaded, but we don't plan to load it more than 4-5 times. Is this possible ...Show All

• pratap gaikwad Replace text in XPS documents

  I'm trying to replace text in XPS documents and I've got nowhere. What we're trying to do is replace our old word templates that have bookmarks as placeholders; we use vb6 to replace the text where the bookmarks are. This is so users can create generic documents and merge them with our data from our database. We want to replace this as honestly the current solution isn't that good, but does work, so it's not all bad. I've created an XPS document with bookmarks, can't seem to figure out what makes a bookmark a bookmark in XPS. But really all we would need would be a placeholder like <Address> or <Name> or something and then replace that text with data. Can anyone help or at least point me in the right directi ...Show All

• gregaug Do Retail Edge people download the final vista, or will they be mailed it? Thanks.

  Hey, I got the Intel retail edge package that included Windows Vista Ultimate in it. I'm doing a clean install of my operating systems, and I was wondering... Is the Vista RC1 that was sent to me with the Retail Edge deal... will that product key upgrade allow me to download the final version when it's released Or will Intel send me the final version in the mail anyone know Thanks. Heyyo, I'm in the same boat. I got RC1, and I don't see any info on upgrading to RTM. I tried borrowing my friend's Ultimate RTM disks and using my code from the Intel Retail Edge RC1 disks, and it didn't work! said, "your product key is invalid."... um... yeah... oh... just found this in the Intel Retail Edge FAQ.. The 2006 Purchase Program bundle inc ...Show All