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• mrmckeb Vista in virtual PC

  I'm trying to install Vista Beta 2 in Virtual PC. The system starts to load, but after entering my product key, I receive the message "Setup failed to open the Windows image file". After clicking OK, the system hangs up and doesn't install. I've also tried to install Virtual Machine additions, but they do not run automatically. How does one "open the CD-ROM drive inside the virtual machine to run the setup program" I have successfully installed Vista Beta 2 in VPC 2004. To get it to work, I had to set up the VPC with 1 GB RAM and a 16 GB VHD. The host machine is a 3 GHz Dell with 2 GB RAM and 160 GB disk. The performance is as slow as itch, but I don't know what portion is due to t ...Show All

• Raul Rodriguez Unsupported media state while drive becoming ready

  I have consistently seen  IDiscFormat2Data::get_CurrentMediaStatus return a state of IMAPI_FORMAT2_DATA_MEDIA_STATE_UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA after I insert a blank recordable disc, after the drive becomes ready.  There seems to be a transient state that exists immediately after the drive becomes ready.  Prior to this state, while the drive is becoming ready, the get_CurrentMediaStatus method correctly returns an HRESULT of E_IMAPI_RECORDER_MEDIA_BECOMING_READY; then, immediately after becoming ready, it returns S_OK but reports a media state of unsupported.  If you call it subsequently, it will return S_OK and correctly report the state as IMAPI_FORMAT2_DATA_MEDIA_STATE_BLANK. It appears that this proble ...Show All

• RSHORE Endless state workflow, performance problem, Very common problem in real system

  We use state WF to handle our order processing. Usually an order has 5 states: (1)Script (2)Approved (3)shipping (4)Closed (5)Canceled The following actions move the state transforming between the above states. Approve (1) a (2); undo approve (2) a (1);Cancel (1),(2) a (5); close (2),(3) a closed; undo close (4) a (3) Let’s have a look at action “undo close”. It exists in a real world system. Because user some time still need undo-close an closed order to ship again. (Maybe because he just regret). My question is: which one is completed state of this workflow (4) Closed or (5) Canceled It seems there are no completed state of this workflow. If so ,when can I delete the persistence state If I set closed-state( ...Show All

• Paresh Rathod AutoCAD 2007 and 2005 compatibility with Windows Vista

  My bussness revloves around the use of AutoCAD. I recently installed Windows Vista Ultimit on my computer. After i tried to install AutoCAD 2005 on it to discover it would not work. Is there any patches in order to make it compatible. If not Is AutoCAD 2007 Compatible before i go and buy it. thank you Thank you a lot for sharing your experience, I'm really glad to know that so I don't have to run AutoCad 2007 from Virtual OS! Thank you I installed vista premium and Autocad 2007 would not start. I set the program to run in xp compatibility mode and to run as administrator and it worked. You can do this by right clicking the icon and selecting properties. When it starts you will be prom ...Show All

• djshades2004 Retrieving the filesystem name of each partition not mounted

  Hi everyone. What I'm trying to do is that detecting all disks and all partitions (mounted or not) in system and then mounting (and assigning a drive letter) the partition if it's ext2 filesystem. So I try to write the APPLICATION program, which loads the ext2 filesystem driver for windows. In order to do this, I tried to use a few DDK functions (Nt*** functions) but it's failed. So now I'm trying to use GetVolumeInformation but it's not good too. I have no idea what to do. Is there any good idea Anyway, I'm considering as follow: 1. Retrieving currently assigned drive letters (including CD-ROM drive). Q: Is it possible for "QueryDosDevice" to detect CD-ROM drive If not, other way ...Show All

• JCJCJC Loading PolicyActivity Rules At Runtime

  I'm looking for a way to load an XML ruleset for a workflow for a policy activity at runtime rather than compiling it into the assembly as a resource. Are there examples that show how this can be done The scenario I'm looking at is one where a Workflow has to read in arbitrary user defined rules (which may possibly pass through a filter first to format it for WF). Or perhaps I'm thinking about this in the wrong way Have you taken a look at the External Ruleset example found here Not yet, but this looks like just what I was looking for. Thanks! ...Show All

• Kunal Sharma Problem with rmtool.exe

  Hi, I'm using rmtool.exe to test my applications compatibility with vista restart manager. Unfortunatly it doesn't work as expected: most of the time the application (Project1) is shut down but not restarted (only on some very rare cases it is restarted). According to rmtools output it should have been restarted. Any ideas what can cause this System: Vista RTM Ultimate (Language: DE) best regards, Ulrich here the output: c:\users\admin\downloads>RMTool.exe -p 676 -w 15 -R Waiting 15 seconds. Starting Session StartSession() returned 0 SUCCESS: StartSession() Session Key: c5881e295ce5af40bae9020480ef03c2q Registering file RegisterResources() returned 0 SUCCESS: Allocating RM_PROCESS_INFO array SUCCESS: GetAffectedApps() My PID: 4012, Aff ...Show All

• xRuntime Bug? InvokeWorkFlow activity used with Sequential Workflow hosted in Console App

  I've been experimenting with InvokeWorkFlow activity and found what I think might be a bug with the logic in hosting code for the console app.  In the Main method, the WF runtime is instantiated and the started passing in the type for WorkFlow1.  Before it starts the workflow however it wires up a handler for the WorkflowCompleted event that when called sets a AutoResetEvent which the main thread uses to terminate the WF runtime and end the app.  So here's the problem.  I have a workflow that uses InvokeWorkflow activities to invoke 3 separate workflows that I want to run asynchronously.  However, after calling the InvokeWorkflow activities, the Workflow1 sequence ends firing the WorkflowCompleted event.  Thi ...Show All

• skuehner Firing a custom event in a workflow

  How can I fire I custom event in a workflow. What I need to achieve is that, at some point in the workflow, I need to fire an event that has to be captured by the presentation layer. I have tried definig an event but I cannot subscribe to it. I would like to do somethink like the following: workflowRuntime.InvalidTokenDetected += delegate ( object s, InvalidTokenDetected EventArgs ex) Any idea how I can achieve this, or where I could find some sample or documentation.... Thanks, Marko Vuksanovic. You can't add an event to the runtime class itself, but you can create your own service which raises events and add that to the runtime. It would go something like this: Create an interface ...Show All

• sctwest How to tell what processes are running with elevated privileges?

  Is there any process list display in Vista that will show processes are running with elevated (admin) vs. standard privileges I was hoping to find a column that can be added to the the task manager processes view, but none exists. Any help is appreciated. This is not a real answer, but it seems that processes running with admin privileges have virtualization "Not Allowed", as opposed to either "Enabled" or "Disabled". This is visible in Task Manager. Hi, You can check the integrity level. If the integrity level is High, that means it is running in administrative privilage. If it is Medium, it is running is protected mode. Here is the ...Show All

• walsher SSL certificate rejected

  Hi, when I run my Identity selector on the same machine where the STS (and RP site) is running I can connect to the STS. But when I try to connect from a different client and I select a managed card to login, I get a error message saying that the SSL certificate is not valid. 1) the site name and the CN in the cert are matching 2) the CRL is accessible 3) the chain up to the CA is valid and trusted here's the log Thanks for support, Claudio Event Type: Error Event Source: CardSpace 3.0.0.0 Event Category: General Event ID: 273 Date: 2/15/2007 Time: 11:42:42 User: Computer: Description: There was a failure making a WS-Trust exchange with an external application. The Identity provider end point was not found. ...Show All

• Mohan1 ADOX

  We are currently developing an application which requires the use of some ADOX functions. Most of our developers are on Windows XP and I am developing using Vista [we are targeting both platforms]. ADOX on Vista is version 6.0 and on XP is 2.8. I have attempted to register the 2.8 DLL on vista, which did not work. Is there some way that we can utilize EITHER of them, depending on which platform is in use Any suggestions as to how to go about this Also, we have the same problem with Office -- Office 2003 is installed on most workstations, and I have Office 2007 [and we are targeting either, for export to excel ability]. Thank you for any pointers! ...Show All

• lingga Powershell -- where is grep?

  I want to look for regexp matches in all the files in a directory tree. In Unix I'd use 'grep --recursive'. Is there an equivalent command in powershell Or a different paradigm I'm missing --Andy Select-String should help you as of Powershell help itself: -------------------------- EXAMPLE 4 -------------------------- C:\PS>get-childitem c:\windows\system32\* -include *.txt -recurse | select-string -pattern "Microsoft" -casesensitive This command examines all files in the subdirectories of C:\Windows\System32 with the .txt file extension, for the string "Microsoft". The CaseSensitive parameter indicates that the 'M' in 'Microsoft' must be capitalized and the rest of the characters must be lowercase for a m ...Show All

• BradO Unexpected shutdowns of Vista Build 6000

  OS Name MicrosoftR Windows Vista Ultimate Version 6.0.6000 Build 6000 Other OS Description Not Available OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name XPS System Manufacturer Dell Inc. System Model Dell DXG061 System Type x64-based PC Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz, 3192 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s) BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. 1.1.3, 7/31/2006 SMBIOS Version 2.3 Windows Directory C:\Windows System Directory C:\Windows\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2 Locale United States Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6000.16386" User Name HOME\steve Time Zone Eastern Standard Time Total Physical Memory 2,044.92 MB Available Physical Memory 914.10 MB Total Virtual Memory 4.21 GB Available Virtual ...Show All

• Tyrael Tong Override StateMachineWorkflowDesigner

  Hi, I'm inheriting a StateMachineWorkflowActivity as base for multiple state machine workflows in a WinForm application. To support the creation of our own States in the workflow by using the designer in VS.NET I like to add a verb to the designer of the workflow. For this I like to override the StateMachineWorkflowDesigner to add the command in the propertygrid. But the StateMachineWorkflowDesigner is internal. Somebody an idee how to add this verb to the designer so that it is displayed in the VS designer Thanks in advance, Tim Cools Hi, StateMachineWorkflowDesigner is currently sealed but there are some other things you can use to have more control over custom state activities in ...Show All