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• ksona why doesnt override void InitializeProperties() get called?

  Context: I'm rehosting the designer in a winforms application. I've created a custom activity that inherits from Activity. My activity will be used in a sequential workflow. I would like to initialize some of my activity dependancy properties with default values when it's added to the designer. The default values are not known at development time and must be determined at runtime (so i cant use the PropertyMetaData class to set default values). Question: Why doesnt my override of InitializedProperties() get called by the workflow runtime Is InitializeProperties() the appropriate method for initalizing values Is see that I can also override Initialize() and OnActivityExecutionContextLoad(), neither of which appear to be ca ...Show All

• Demonslayer How to start process in session before user logs on?

  I have a need to start a process in a session before the user logons on. On XP I used a Windows Logon Notification Package to do this. When a new session was created, Winlogon.exe in that new session called my WLNP and it was able to start the process before the user logged on. The process is used to support smart card logons for that session. I'm trying to find out how to do something similar on Vista. I know logon notification packages are no longer supported. I know how to write a service to get session creation notification, but I don't know how to start a process in the new session before the user logs on. Is there a function I can use to start a process in another session If so, I could have my session tracking sevice start th ...Show All

• dustinto Submitting bugs on RC1 CardSpace bits?

  I've got a card that's crashing infocard.exe. I'm sure it's a problem with the cardfile I'm generating, but infocard should catch it. I've looked at the readme for RC1, the download page, and elsewhere but I can't find where I should send bug reports. Anyone got an email address Send it to me: garretts@microsoft.com if you can provde the details: - repro steps - exact problem - any special files/configuration it would be very useful. g Garrett Serack | Program Manager |Federated Identity Team | Microsoft Corporation blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/garretts ...Show All

• R Raghu Location of contact.h/icontact.idl?

  Are contact.h and/or icontact.idl present in Windows SDK I need to use Windows Contacts and to access IContact interface I need contact.h or icontact.idl. It's icontact.h now. -- //Pekka Timonen Thanks for the inquiry. Icontact.idl and IContact.h are not in the current version of the SDK. They will be included in the September CTP release of the SDK. Mike Hi Pekka, I'm Tom Archer - the Program Manager for the Windows SDK Tools and Build Environment. I just added the files to the SDK so you'll see them on the next public build (currently scheduled to be the September CTP) Thanks, Pekka, that was very helpful. Cheers, Jacob ...Show All

• Raulsassaa WOW64 redirection seems broken for HelpPaneProxy.dll

  Hi All, My app launches the Vista help pane by accessing the HelpPaneProxy COM object using the hxhelppaneproxy.tlb from the Vista SDK. If I compile my app in 32 bit, my app successfully launches the help pane on Vista32, but not on Vista64. If I compile my app in 64 bit, my app successfully launches the help pane on Vista64, but obviously does not run in Vista32. I looked at the registry, and the WOW64 key associated with the HelpPaneProxy COM object is pointing to \windows\system32\HelpPaneProxy.dll, shouldnt this key point to \windows\SysWow64\HelpPaneProxy.dll is this a vista bug, or am I doing something wrong ...Show All

• kageg Worked on one computer now SqlWorkflowPersistenceService fails to persist on new computer.

  I transferred a state machine ASP.NET project from one machine to another. I created the persistence database from the “C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.0\Windows Workflow Foundation\SQL\EN” SQL files. I changed the connection strings. Every time I run the web application nothing is persisted to the DB. No errors either. It has been running for months on the one machine with no problems. No code change. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Stan Another Update – I finally accomplished starting persistence on the stubborn machine. The last thing I did was add ASPNET in IIS. I thought in debug we did not have to set up a virtual directory but in the end I did set up a virtual directory and in the Directory Security I add ...Show All

• GROTH pass paramters to InvokeWorkflow Activity

  I am invoking a workflow from within a workflow. How can i pass in parameters this is exactly how InvokeWorkflowActivity is built...we probably use the same source (with the same tool ) Serge Michael, a) even without using InvokeWorkflowActivity, you can invoke a workflow from, let's say a Custom activity: public partial class MyActivity: Activity { public MyActivity() { InitializeComponent(); } protected override ActivityExecutionStatus Execute(ActivityExecutionContext executionContext) { IStartWorkflow aWorkflow = executionContext.GetService(typeof(IStartWorkflow)) as IStartWorkflow; aWorkflow.StartWorkflow(typeof(<yourWorkflowtypehere>),<yourParamet ...Show All

• cipcip error handling?

  When a XAML element has an attribute that it doesn't support, nothing renders and there's no alert. I also tried specifying my own error handler, instead of the null argument in the new agHost(...) call. That wasn't called either. I hope this isn't the intended behavior, because it sure makes debugging difficult. If that's not the normal behavior, could someone suggest how I can get it to work, or at least allow it to render the whole XAML document ignoring the offending element Actually, I would expect that both the error handler would be called and everything else would be rendered and the offending attribute would be ignored. Perhaps the non-rendering behavior is due to over-zealous validation, but I don't think that is a wise ...Show All

• blsandhya copy user profile

  Is it possible to copy a user profile programmatically (e.g. using WMI) thanx in advance Bernhard Carefull: This suggestion (a simple file copy) will cause problems if your target user is not an administrator. AFAIK the Windows dialog goes further by 'reacling' the registry keys found in HKCU (ntuser.dat). I have done this programmatically before - but it is not as trivial as using a WMI class. I had to mount the ntuser.dat and perform ACL editing on it. Cheers You can do this by copying user directories in the Documents and Settings (Users in Vista) programmatically - exactly like this is done manually using Windows Explorer. This can be done if both sou ...Show All

• raghu_grdr Databinding Support

  WPF is very much based on databinding for the way it interacts with data. It looks like there is no support for the Binding tag in WPF/E. Is this planned when the CLR is incoprorated Will you be able to bind to JScript data XML data islands etc There are no controls, so data binding is mute for now. "WPF/E" does not support data binding per-se. However, when used in conjunction with ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX it can leverage ASP.NET data binding capabilities. Look at the samples at http://msdn.microsoft.com/wpfe thank u very much for ur prompt reply, coming to my situation we are currently developing a page based navigation application in wpf where we are heavily using list bo ...Show All

• Farid_Z Video playback with brightness/contrast ?

  Hi guys. I am writing a C# app ( but C++ answers are fine, I have a C# DShow wrapper, and I can code C++ fine ), and the client has sprung an extra requirement on me, namely video playback ( which is trivial ) on what was before a still image viewer. They want the same controls on video, however, which means they want to rotate the video, and they want to set brightness and contrast on the video during playback. I've googled, and the WMP seems to have an interface, but it doesn't work ( just exposed for skinning ) and I can't see how to do this with DX either. Any help appreciated. Thanks - I've looked at the sample, and like all samples I've found, it seems to work on a video capture device. I want it to work on a mpg file ...Show All

• Madhu Gandhi Help with E_ACCESSDENIED exception

  We are currently trying to troubleshoot an E_ACCESSDENIED exception that gets thrown while executing a Windows Workflow workflow in IIS. See the following post for a full description of our setup: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=895855&SiteID=1 As you will read in the post above, the research that we did in diagnosing this exception led us to the following post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=640816&SiteID=1 which describes our setup and problem almost verbatim. They were able to resolve their problem by changing their security descriptor, apparently something/somebody had messed up the security access for Authenticated Access. I was hoping that someone on your tea ...Show All

• 0to60 What happened to WMI Win32_VideoController?

  Hello, I'm trying to get some information about the current video settings on Vista (release) using Win32_VideoController. The following properties are returning null: CurrentHorizontalResolution CurrentVerticalResolution AdapterRAM CurrentBitsPerPixel (I'm sure there are others, these are the only ones I care about) What happened to this class Have these properties moved thanks, -bp " "lissbpp"@discussions..microsoft.com " < "= UTF-8 B bGlzc2JwcA== ="@discussions.microsoft.com > wrote in message news:3ce4dbce-1027-4a23-922b-327edf63fb18@discussions.microsoft.com ... Hello, I'm trying to get some information about the current vide ...Show All

• Adix How to use SimplePipelineFilter with my Monolithic configuration module

  We have a Monolithic Config Module with IPrintTicketProvider. And this is working fine with our Monolithic GDI-based driver. Now we want to use the same Config Module with the SimplePipelineFilter (which comes with the WDK 5384). Could you please let us know how to integrate our UI with this SimplePipelineFilter. Thanks and regards, Mridu Has anybody tried this since the last post Because I basically see the same problem, but his fix/workaround doesn't work for me using WDK 6000. Thanks. I have been able to fix the problem. Thought should share it. I took the INF file that comes with WDK 5384 and tailored i ...Show All

• briendjf Uninstall of our product pops-up a strange explorer.exe crash dialog

  The product that I work on has a Wise based installer, and when we uninstall the product, you get a pop-up saying that explorer.exe crashed. There is no visual evidence of the main explorer.exe crashing, and the task manager does list a second explorer.exe process running. Our uninstall is removing some file types and mime types, and does an SHChangeNotify(SHCNE_ASSOCCHANGED), but nothing that looks like it should crash anything, let alone explorer.exe. The error is: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: explorer.exe Application Version: 6.0.5744.16384 Application Timestamp: 45234a84 Fault Module Name: StackHash_0c47 Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0 Fault Module Timestamp: ...Show All