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• Grem Kim's site login

  Hi, Has anyone tryed to login to Kim's site ( www.identityblog.com ) useing a InfoCard I have but get no confomation, should I get some On login to the sandbox I get an error, why is this Thanks Luke ok, that must be it then, only downloaded everything last week, is there any site I can log into Or do I just have to wait No, IE doesn't have a PHP engine in it :) You would need to download the PHP engine, and install it into IIS for testing PHP. Have Fun G Which version of Cardspace are you using If you are using the June CTP - I dont think you can login to either. Hi, I am trying to get a simple web site to use CardSpace, html and ja ...Show All

• Terry B npptools.dll missing from Vista - can't port app...

  I'm working on porting a network monitoring app to Vista/Longhorn and I've run into a problem. There doesn't appear to be support for the Network Monitoring API in the Platform SDK. Has this been replaced by some new lib or ... -Robert. Netmon and npptools.dll are no longer part of Windows Vista. You can get Netmon 3.0 as a standalone from http://connect.microsoft.com . For more info, their blog is at http://blogs.technet.com/netmon/ . I am running into a similar issue. Is NPPTools.dll available on Vista ...Show All

• MeZKaL custom sql persistence

  What I'm basically doing is deriving from the SqlWorkflowPersistenceService: public class SqlWorkflowStepPersistenceService : SqlWorkflowPersistenceService { protected override System.Workflow.ComponentModel.Activity LoadWorkflowInstanceState(Guid id)         {             Guid StepID;             byte[] State;             if (RetreiveNextStepData(id, out StepID, out State))                 return WorkflowPersistenceService.RestoreFromDefaultSerializedForm(State, null); ...Show All

• wywy XAMLPad

  Hi, is there any tool where I can use XML (XAML) syntax to write objects and see it in a preview window Michael I saw a XAMLPad type app using WPF/E screenshot but it HASN'T been released as a demo (might be a bit unstable or using non-public parts). Would be cool tho....... I'd recommend XAMLPad. You can even use the Cider designer for Visual Studio 2005. However, remember that both tools were designed for WPF XAML and not WPF/E, so you may want to have a copy of the SDK documentation for WPF/E on hand while using them, to make sure that your XAML is correct when running it in WPF/E. You might also want to try this online WPF/E XAMLPad: http://www.simplegeek.com/mharsh/wpfepad/ HTH /Billy ...Show All

• chongqing why OpenSCManager fails for remote service control manager?

  OpenSCManager fails by returning NULL and GetLastError() returns ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED. I am getting admin right on dest Vista machine by WNetAddConnection2 as follows and then calling OpenSCmanager  NETRESOURCE nr;  memset(&nr,0,sizeof(NETRESOURCE ));  nr.dwType = RESOURCETYPE_ANY;         nr.lpRemoteName = " \\\\vistaA\\ADMIN$ "; // vistaA is destination machine name   DWORD dError  = WNetAddConnection2( &nr, "password", "User", FALSE );//User is Administrator on destination machine   SC_HANDLE hSCM = ::OpenSCManager((LPCTSTR)strServerName, NULL, SC_MANAGER_ALL_ACCESS);  This successful with source machine as XP and Fails with Vista. ...Show All

• DongMT FlowDocument coming to WPF/E?

  Will the FlowDocument and rich typography features of WPF also be available on WPF/E I can image a lot of great applications of this. Karl Microsoft has stated that the document aspects of WPF/E and the clear type typography that supports it will not be included in WPF/E because of the targeted download size. Apparently the typography includes a lot of data for things like kerning, ligatures, and word breaks that would add several megs to the size of the download. That's a real shame. It's one of the best bits of WPF. ...Show All

• adorer Setting return value for List<string> or string[]

  I'm very new to workflow as this question will probably show. I'm attempting to return a List<string> or string[] from my ExternalDataExchange interface. I'd prefer the List<string> but will take either at this point. I'm able to pass in two regular string parameters succesfully. I have also defined a property of List<string> (and string[] separtely) on my workflow to hopefully bind to. As far as I can understand, I need to bind this return value (CallExternalMethod activity) to something inside my workflow so I can reason on it in the next step (I am able to do this if a return a simple string type). When I click on (ReturnValue) in the UI, I get a "String Collection Editor". I don't get the "Bind to ...Show All

• CodeSweatAndBeers how to force the interactive user to logoff

  is there a way for a service to force the interactive user to logoff the ExitWindowsEx API applies to caller's desktop, so i don't think this works from a service to shut down another user. i'm trying to write a program that is similar to cybercafe software -once a user has used up their allotted time (to be monitored by the service), i want to force that user's desktop to lock or logoff. if i have a timer program running within the user's session that initiates the logoff, then the user could (in theory) cancel that process. ExitWindowsEx indeed applies to the session of the caller. If you want a forced logoff from the service, you don't need CPAU + ExitWindowsEx. Consider WTSLogoffSession. These WTS ...Show All

• Murtasma WPF/e real time video streaming

  Hey gang. I know WPF/e supports video (Windows Media) but one big advantage we use Flash Communication Server for is because its video/audio streaming is very low buffer and very real time. In our testing of Windows Media Server we were very unpleased with all the buffering. Of course we can understand why it is there for movie streaming but very unusable for real time streams in communication type applications. We could not get the Windows Media Player component to embed on a page and stream real time, it always buffered even if we set the player & server to 1 second buffer it was always 7-10 seconds even at low low bitrates. I would assume the answer to this question is no but does WPF/e change any of this We love WPF/e and WMV ...Show All

• Speeding Target how to bulid WorkflowMonitor?

  there are some errors. in the method internal List<SqlTrackingWorkflowInstance> GetWorkflows(string workflowEvent, DateTime from, DateTime until, TrackingDataItemValue trackingDataItemValue) if ("created" == workflowEvent.ToLower()) { sqlTrackingQueryOptions.WorkflowStatus = WorkflowStatus.Created; queriedWorkflows =sqlTrackingQuery.GetWorkflows(sqlTrackingQueryOptions); }//there is error. context: Error Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Collections.Generic.IList<System.Workflow.Runtime.Tracking.SqlTrackingWorkflowInstance>' to 'System.Collections.Generic.List<System.Workflow.Runtime.Tracking.SqlTrackingWorkflowInstance>'. An explicit conversion exists (are ...Show All

• Paule_XE Filter graph can't find any filter combination

  Dear all I'm trying to connect 2 Netshow filter, the Bitcontrol digital TV link filter that has 2 pins that supply a video and audio stream fetched by an Ethernet connected DVB-S decoder (Dreambox) and the bit control MPEG2 decoder filter both registered in the windows registry I can connect these 2 filter manually (using filter graph), but If a try to auto-connect the pins of the of the digital TV link filter, again via filter graph, the following error message occurs. "Filter Graph No combination of filters could be found to render the stream Return Code 0x80040218 " I'm working on Windows 2003 server. Of course also the Microsoft Media Player is not able to find out the right combination of filter so it is i ...Show All

• ititrx How can I access the xml document which my workflow start with?

  Hi My workflow will be associated with infopath form documents,and I want to access some data in that form inside my workflow activties in runtime. please tell me which object or api should I use to accomplish this. thanks in advance Hi, I have the same problem: I need to access data on my document. I think access to the data given the document is not a problem (I guess it would be just like with associationData: deserialization with a class generated by xs given the infopath form source). But I don't know how to access to the document itself. With the association form, it's this.workflowProperties.associationData, what is it for the document on which the workflow is used Thanks for any help! ...Show All

• MarcoViY TransactionScope committing without being told to!

  I ran into a huge problem using TransactionScope. I've been using it inside some classes that manage persistence to a database. I intended to use System.Transactions so that calling classes can wrap my persistence manager classes in a transaction scope and thereby control whenther or not a transaction commits or not. The persistence manager is blissfully unaware that the transaction it uses internally is being controlled by an external transaction scope. Here's an example of my problem: public void Test() { string conString = "Data Source=localhost;" ; SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection (conString); con.Open(); this .DoDatabaseStuff(con); con.Close(); } public void DoDatabaseStuff( SqlConnection con) ...Show All

• John Hennesey So where are we Indigo (WCF) and Workflow (WWF) integration ?

  Since we are at Beta 2 I was hoping for a tighter degree of integration between WWF and WCF by now, Indigo( WCF) has been out for more than a Year now, and yet we still seem to be stuck with ASMX based Activities. Maybe I come back in another 6 months to check if there has been any progress on WCF integration. Michael, see this thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=694023&SiteID=1 Thanks Roman   I just posted my new article for Workflow Connectivity: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/CustomRemotingForWorkflow.asp The article describes design and implementation of the Workflow Adapter/Connector pair for a Business-To-Business Logical Connectivity based on ...Show All

• FHolcomb Side by Side Error

  When i run an application in Vista OS which was compiled in Visual Studio 2005 / WinXP , it is getting the following error: "The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more detail" What is a recommended procedure to fix it In WinXP or Win2000/ Visual Studio 6, we had VCRedist/ VBRedist which would fix this problem. is there anything available to make my app compatible with Vista OS so that proper files are copied to WinSXS folder in C:\Windows. Regards, RKM. yea.. in fact u can try.. I was trying to install Fitnesse Test Automation tool. The same is available for download at Fitnesse.org. Th ...Show All