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• jjsan pricing and requirements for WWF

  Hello, I'm a web developer for a company that is using Sharepoint services 2003 on a Windows 2003 server with office 2003. We are interested integrating WWF to our system. I have a few quick questions: -what are the associated requirements for using WWF Do we have to upgrade Sharepoint and office in order to utilize WWF -Is WWF a stand alone product Is there a need to purchase any additional development tools, or can all development be done in Visual Studio .NET (2003) Any insight into these questions would be greatly appreciated. Please use WF as an abbreviation for Windows Workflow Foundation, not WWF . WF is a component of the .NET Framework 3.0, which will come in ...Show All

• DavidThi808 Having a policy call an external method

  Basically here's what I am trying to accomplish: I have a state machine workflow, and after certain events are received, I want to be able to evaluate a rule set. In this rule set, I basically want : if A then CallExternalMethod(...) if B then CallExternalMethod(...) if C then CallExternalMethod(...) I am currently trying to use that in a policy but I can't call external methods from inside the rule set. One other possibility would be to encapsulate all those if statements in a custom activity that just contains a bunch of ifs...but I'm not sure how I would accomplish that... thoughts So you want to execute a CallExternalMethod activity as a rule action There is not an out-of-the-box mechanism for doing this. However, you could ...Show All

• JCakeC Vista file assocoation limitations?

  When installing application using .dps file extention, all Vista versions beta through general release, result in error- "This files does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Set Associations control panel". From what I can see, all the relevant registry entries appear to be in place, but whereas on Windows XP you can run the following command line- explorer.exe /root, {89FDB113-AB43-11D0-A105-400000002464}, "C:\My Documents\Focalpoint PM\DPS Configuration.dps" I tried re-registering the COM dll, which registers OK, but still no joy. Only have about 80,000 copies of this app running on XP around the word, has anyone run into any simallar file associati ...Show All

• hellomahesh SqlPersistenceService and SqlTrackingService

  Does anyone out there have an idea of what the average growth rate is on the database(s) for these services (i.e. it grows by 10% per month, etc.) My DBA is asking this question. There's no fixed answer to this - the SqlTrackingService's db growth depends on how many workflow instances you run and what you're tracking. In general tracking data can get large very quickly. The default tracking profile tracks all events (but no data). You can trim this by changing the default profile to only track events that you're interested in or by creating profiles for specific workflow types. For cleaning up tracking data you can use the built in partitioning feature to enable you to quickly drop large sets of data. See the help docs for D ...Show All

• Jassim Rahma Problem while EXECUTING CUSTOM ACTIVITIES in State Machine XOML WF(URGENT)

  Hi Gurus, Im facing a problem like after putting custom activities inside a Xoml State Machine Workflow,the method in the interface i set to call is not working! The scenario is like,i hav a statemachine Xoml having a StateInitialisation activity which contains a custom activity of base class Callexternalmethod activity which has to call the method LaunchWorkflow in another library LaunchWF having the interface and implementation of that method.This Launchworkflow method wil inturn create another sequential workflow containing other custom activities. But the control is not passing to the method and its directly going to the next eventdriven activity without executing the method set in the stateinitialization activity! I tried ...Show All

• pbairoleto Problem with InfocardBrowser sample hosted locally

  HI I have locally installed infocardbrowswer sample appln. and while trying to login using infocard it is causing following exception. Server Error in '/' Application. thanx for that ... it works for me by giving access to private key. Shaji P.D. Hi Guillaume, i tried to use findprivatekey and cacls but i have always the error "key pair doesn't exist" : alg.Key = (certificate.PrivateKey as RSACryptoServiceProvider).Decrypt(symmetricKeyData, true); . and the sample application "SampleSecurityTokenService.exe" have stoped to work when i have launched calcs.exe. I did this : You need to read the Installation-Instructions.doc in sample\documents and specifica ...Show All

• Steve Jackson VMR9Allocator in fullscreen

  Hello, It seems that the same kind of question has already been asked, but there is no answer yet. I am using the Directshow sample VMR9Allocator, and I need to display my application in fullscreen. First I simply tried to maximize the main window size in popup mode; it works but I still have the common tearing of the windowed mode. So I would like to implement the vmr9 renderless fullscreen mode, but I don't know how to proceed, I can't find any information about that. VMR9Allocator is already in renderless mode. Now when creating my device, I changed my D3DPRESENT_PARAMETERS and put Windowed at false ; however in this case it seems that vmr9 reads my video but nothing is diplayed on the screen. I don't know what I am missing. Could some ...Show All

• Sameer234 Wireless on/off control in Vista's Windows Mobility Center

  Hi all, I want to control Wireless on/off function in the Windows Mobility Center in Vista. Does anyone know which function of which api controls this functionality Regards, Gozde ...Show All

• pogmothoin How to Persist a workflow from an activity??

  Hi, Is it possible to persist a workflow from an activity's execute event If yes, how to do it Thanks No, but you can use the PersistOnCloseAttribute which will cause the workflow to be persisted when the activity completes. See this post as an example. ...Show All

• Tyrael Tong Vista control panel (link and icon)

  Hi, All, I've developed a 3rd party control panel applet for Vista and basically it works fine. But I have two issues about the control panel item: 1. How can I add a custom link under the main description of my control panel item in non-classic view (e.g. the "Adjust system volume" link of "Sound" control) 2. How to provide different size icon in classic view I have a all-size (from 16x16 to 256x256) icon in the resource and use LoadIcon function to return the icon handle as the hIcon member of LPNEWCPLINFO structure. However, it seems like the explorer always use 48x48 one and make the icon looks pretty ugly in "Extra large Icons" view. Any comment will be very appreciated. Thanks, Kevin ...Show All

• Bogdan.B WMI Query Execution Speed In Vista

  hi, Why is the Speed of WMI Query Execution in Vista So Slow.... The Application gets Hang..... ...Show All

• Alex974 WritePrinter doesn't work with "FILE:" Port.

  Hi all!!! I made following code and compiled it with 2003SDKSP1. In order to test in VISTA RC2, I changed the port from USB001 to FILE: in printers properties. But It showed error message like "Error - Printing" after running. Actually, It works well with 9x,2k and XP. Any help would be appreciated Thanks, JMH HANDLE hPrinter = 0; DWORD dwBytesWritten=0; CString strDocName; DWORD dwFileLength = 0; char szData[512]; strcpy(szData,"TEST TEST TEST TEST TEST"); if (OpenPrinter(szPrinterName, &hPrinter, NULL)) { DOC_INFO_1 DocInfo; DocInfo.pDocName = "TEST"; DocInfo.pOutputFile = NULL; DocInfo.pDatatype = _T("RAW"); if (StartDocPrinter(hPrinter, 1, (LPBYTE)&DocI ...Show All

• Michael Herman - Parallelspace Windows SDK RC1 Download

  The Setup fails with an error message "SDKSetup encountered error : Unable to find the file SDKSetup.xml at the installation source. ....". I get the same error message whether I download and then run or open directly. It seems the site is not working as I was able to do this earlier. Thanks I have the same problem running the SDK web setup on Vista RC1. Does anyone know of a solution I'd prefer to not download the entire iso if possible. Thanks, David Hi, I also have the same problem, after downloading and burning it in a DVD when I run the setup it is setup.xml not found, but my dvd size 1.1 GB and i have checked that setup.xml is already there. Please Help ...Show All

• Blader How to access statemachineworkflow instance data directly from Host

  Hi, The statemachineworkflow instance created from the host application doens't reflect the runtime values stored in the workflow instance. new StateMachineWorkflowInstance (AppWorkflowRuntime, instanceId) For example: I have a property named "CurProcessName" in my custom state activity. The value of the "CurProcessName" property was changed in the workflow. When i create an instance of statemachineworkflow, this value is lost in the returned instance. I assume that the statemachineworkflow instance is created based on workflow definition template. Is there any way to create the statemachineworkflow instance from host which will reflect the values stored against the instance Regards, Baskar ...Show All

• Alberto De Marco Error while using Workflows within Sharepoint Site

  Hi, I tried using the sample workflows from the ECM release (ECM sample started kit). Now this is what happens: I can install the workflows and the forms correctly. Once I go into my Sharepoint site, I can connect it to the workflow that I want. But once say I add a new document, open it in thr word client, from there say I click on "Start Workflow" this seems to fail for EVERY WORKFLOW - even those built in default (Approve etc). The initialization and association forms come up and I fill these (workflow has not started yet), once I click on "submit" (or any other button which is supposed to start a workflow) on the document library, I can see "Failed to Start" under the name of the Workflow. On f ...Show All