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• xplosiv_1 Rasing an event on HandleExternalEvent activity using Web Services

  Hi, I'm experiencing scenarios on WWF and I designed a Workfflow like this. First Activity : WebServiceActivityInput Second Activity : HandleExternalEvent Third Activity : WebServiceActivityOutput So I can access my workflow from a Web Service but I couldnt find a solution to raise an Event from my UI through a web service, is to possible to do that thanks in advance What you have to do - it have the Web Service set as the startup project - and you can have multiple startup project (right click on the solution and select "startup projects"). Because of the way C# and VB.NET projects work - they can't add the workflow debugging as an option - you have to alway ...Show All

• William Lowers how to change the text shown when dragging activities from the toolbox

  Can someone please explain, how I can programmatically change the text, that is shown, when I drag activities onto the designer surface By default, the class name is shown (for example in the designer rehosting example). The default ActivityDesigner for an activity will display the text for the Name property. If the Name property is blank, it will display the activity type name. If you want to customize it more than that, create a class that inherits from ActivityDesigner, override the OnPaint method and add a Designer attribute to your custom activity and pass in the type of your custom ActivityDesigner. hi . in fact , i had not rehost the designer . but the sample demo above is run well ...Show All

• Masoud Farahani CorrelationToken & CorrelationParameter

  I understand the use of a CorrelationToken in case you have an OwnerActivityName that has multiple correlations inside of it. I would think however that with this unique name (correlationtoken+owneractivityname) I would not need to have a unique CorrelationParameter. How is the correlationparameter related to the CorrelationToken Thanks! So, what you are saying then is that I might have multiple CallExternalMethods/HEE that are calling into the same method/expect a message back from the same event within a workflow and that the CorrelationToken identifies which one of these callers it goes back to Like: Token1 ->Owner1->param1->CEM Token1->Owner1->param1->HEE Token2->Owne ...Show All

• Pwint Finding subitems within an expanded MenuItem control.

  I have a MenuItem control that is expandable. I can find the main MenuItem control and expand it, but I can't seem to find any of the sub items after expansion. When using UISpy I can see them after only if I directly highlight one of them, but not when I highlight the main MenuItem itself. To me this implies that the sub-items aren't existing controls until the main MenuItem is expanded, but my call to find doesn't seem to find the newly added list of subitems. Is there a way to force an update of what controls are looked at by the FindFirst, FindAll calls, etc. Below is my basic FindElement method where rootElement is set to the main application window. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Jared private AutomationElement FindElement(s ...Show All

• NSJenkins How do I get an AutomationElement directly from a WPF control?

  We used the UI Automation framework to do some unit testing of a windows forms application on my last project. We have some code that can do some basic asserting and some manipulations of AutomationElements. Now we have started a WPF application and we would like to reuse the same code. For a windows forms control I can do the following Button button = new Button (); AutomationElement element = AutomationElement .FromHandle(button.Handle); In WPF I can't figure out the equivalent. I know I can get a ButtonAutomationPeer from the Button but I don't know how to get the AutomationElement. I'm trying to avoid using TreeWalker or AutomationElement.FindFirst(...). Those aren't as efficient as direct access in a unit testing sce ...Show All

• tokie how to restart workflow runtime after IIS restart

  My question is for workflow exposed as web service through webserviceinputactivty/webserviceoutputactivity. My impression is that workflow runtime is only started after the first web service call. My test workflow has 3 activities: webserviceinput, webserviceoutput, delay. SqlPersistence service is enabled. The workflow is activitied through a web call. When executing the delay activity, it's persisted to the database. Then I shut down the web server (ASP .NET development server). When the web server restarted, the timer already expired but the workflow was not resumed. Only after I made another call to the web service, the timer fired. I did an experiment in a winform application. When the application starts next time, the timer fir ...Show All

• Jim Ward Workflow classes not showing up to add to project

  hello everyone, I am very new to WF and am having problems just finding the classes to add to my project. So i have a simple windows application with a form on it. Now i right click to add a sequential workflow to my project and the class files are not there. How can I add a workflow - .Net 3.0 is installed and so are the extensions. I have a sample open with the workflow class in it I am just trying to create one on my own now. Thanks, Erin Hi Shelly, Thanks so much for responding. So I started a new workflow project but I add a windows form to it and it won't run, I get an error saying "unable to run ..." without any explaination. I know this is a bit of a silly question and i feel really stupid about not b ...Show All

• tom_7 Audio problem with CTP Samples

  If I play back one of the wmv files that came with the CTP sample the audio is fine However when played back in WPF/E the audio is incredibly loud and alot of buzzing noises Anyone else experience this I updated to the newest drivers for N-Force 4 motherboards and still have the same problem, using version 6.86 (6.86_nforce_win2kxp_international_whql.exe) Anyone else still get this problem Description: NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio Default Sound Playback: Yes Default Voice Playback: Yes Hardware ID: NFORCE_VAD Manufacturer ID: 1 Product ID: 100 Type: WDM Driver Name: nvapu.sys Driver Version: 6.14.0465.0000 (English) Driver Attributes: Final Retail WHQL Log ...Show All

• Generic123 Design pattern for enlisting a "plain old API call" in a transaction?

  We have a third-party workflow server process that exposes a plain old managed .NET API with the following the following methods: 1. Connecting to the server 2. Setting datafields within the server 3. Causing the datafields to be updated within server 4. Closing the server We have a business object with a UpdateServer() method that accepts a collection of datafield values and calls the above methods to store them in the workflow server. We want to include the call to UpdateServer() amongst some database update calls. We need to have these calls to execute as a single transactions - i.e. the UpdateServer() and database updates are all executed; or they are all aborted/rolled back. In EnterpriseServices, I p ...Show All

• mscherotter EnqueueItem from within a code activity

  Is it possible to call wfInst.EnqueueItem from within a code activities execute method As I was trying to do this the thought occurred to me that I would need the runtime to get the workflow instance using my instance ID. But, is it permissible to even get the WF runtime from within an activity because of the things the WFruntime allows you to do Thanks! Ok, that makes sense. So, inside of the local service, should I pass the runtime into the constructor as a parameter I know I need to do an add the service to the runtime prior to starting the workflow, but in one example I've seen they pass the runtime into the constructor. I thought there might be another way to grab it. Thanks! ...Show All

• KitWest Manifest/Control Panel applet

  I have a C++ control panel applet which embeds a manifest to use the comctl v6.0 to use the new XP style common controls. When I take the same application and use it on vista, everything is fine except that I do not get the new common controls style. It appears I need to do something different on vista. I am doing what is suggested in the following MSDN article to enable the new visual style for control panel applets ( http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms649781.aspx#control_panel ). Thanks, Al. Activation contexts are cached in Vista so if you are adding/removing/changing you app's manifest, you need to touch the timestamp of the EXE to get it to refresh. In addition, you may wa ...Show All

• Intelliorbit Web based application compliance testing

  I have a web based application and want it to port it on Windows Vista . What are the procedures I must follow to check for its compliance on safe deployment on Vista Hello VikasAgr, Please see the IE Compatibility Evaluator in the Application Compatiblity Toolkit 5.0 which can be found here: https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx SiteID=81 . The documentation can be found here http://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx SiteID=81&DownloadID=1570 Thanks! Matthew Braun ...Show All

• milkshake trouble installing Windows Workflow Foundation, to be used for SharePoint 2007

  I am wanting to set up SharePoint 2007 on a test server in my office. One of the pre-req's is Windows Workflow Foundation. I have gone to MS WWF page ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa663328.aspx ) and downloaded the components listed there Runtime Components WIndows VIsta SDK Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for WWF And have installed them.. When I try to install the Visual Studio 2005 Extensions, I get a message saying that I need to have Windows Workflow Foundation installed first..... Anyone able to tell me what I am leaving out... This is being installed on Windows 2003 Server. Dave Since you appear to have the release version of WF ...Show All

• nc-ghost Problem with Windows Workflow Foundation RC2

  Hi, I installed WF RC2 and tried running the SQLDatabase Activity Example. But i am not able to view the workflow designer.I get the error which i have mentioned below. "Error Loading Workflow An error occured while loading the workflow.Please correct the following error and try reloading the document to view the workflow. Theme properties can only be changed in the theme configuration dialog." I was able to view the same sample using WF Beta 2.2 version.But after installing the RC2 version i get this error.Kindly help me solve this issue. Thanks in advance. Karthick. Karthick, the activities you download from the website were creatd with prior versions of WF (2.0 I th ...Show All

• gpeng Visual Studio 2005 Macros and 5744

  Macros in Visual Studio seems to have stopped working in Vista RC2. When attaching to vsmsvr.exe exceptions are thrown when you try to run a macro from devenv.exe. From debugging the disassebly I think it is a access denied message. I also saw a string "Bad IL format" if that helps. Anyone have an idea how to solve this issue without waiting for RTM or going back to RC1 Ok, then I will have to live without macros. It worked back in 5728 so something has changed in Vista RC2. I get the same symtom as you that the maros does nothing. The exceptions doesn't show up until you attach to vsmsvr.exe that is the external process that executes Visual Studio macros. I h ...Show All