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  • Outlook 2003 email settings problem with Vista
    by Pickers
    1 Replies
    Last post by Bruce N. Baker - MSFT
      • Hi, I have upgraded my PC to Vista Home Premium and most things are working great. I have a small problem with Outlook 2003. Every so often I get a send/receive error. When I check my email account I find that the incoming mail server name has been changed from mail.btopenworld.com to mail.btopenworld.com/mail.btopenworld.com. Once I reset to the proper name it works fine again for a while. Any
  • How to use Oracle 9i with TransactionScope in .Net 2.0
    by filii_neo
    14 Replies
    Last post by Jim Johnson
      • Hi, I want to use TransactionScope with Oracle 9i. What is difference to MS SQL Server Oracle does not promote the distributed transaction.
  • How to issue a card
    by Matthew Dalton
    5 Replies
    Last post by Daniel Bartholomew
      • I have a web application that i would like to use cardspace with. I am sorted on how to consume a card that is presented to the website, where i am lost is how to issue the card. What i would like to do is once a user has authenticated on my website with a username and password, have a page that will issue a card so next time they can login with that. Is is possible to do this without STS. It does
  • Invalid Object Name dbo.InstanceState
    by PatrickCBrown
    2 Replies
    Last post by ElifOn - MSFT
      • Hello I am working on one of my first projects with Windows Workflow and SqlWorkflowPersistenceService, I ran the two scripts that are supposed to configure my database for me, actually many times while verifying that I am following the steps properly. In all cases the InstanceState table is not created. It appears all the other objects ( Stored Procedures, Tables, etc ) are. Any ideas wha
  • How to load package from stream? (XpsPackagingException)
    by _Michael_
    7 Replies
    Last post by sbprasad
      • I'm using WCF to return XPS documents to the client. I'm just using File.ReadAllBytes() to open the package on the server and return it as a Byte array. On the client I'm doing the following:- public IDocumentPaginatorSource LoadViewableFixedContent(Byte[] byteBuffer) { using (Package package = Package .Open(new MemoryStream(byteBuffer), FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)) { XpsDocume
  • How to bind a dependency property of a custom type (defined in external assembly)?
    by Rahul Agarwal
    8 Replies
    Last post by Matt Milner - Pluralsight
      • Hi All I need help creating and binding a dependency property of a custom type which has been defined in an external assembly. Basically I created a dependency property in workflow of this custom type (IMessage) and also added a similar property in one of my activities. After I drop this activity in the workflow I want to bind them together but I get the following error. Error: Pl
  • Filter States
    by lathajee
    14 Replies
    Last post by lathajee
      • Could somebody help me in understanding ,How the filter state transition done I read filter state transitions done in upstream order. Starting from renderer to source filter. Initially graph will be in which state Paused i have Source filter->Transform Filter-> Renderer In graphedit when we run the graph, the filter graph manager will dispatch Run to all filters in the graph sim
  • Slightly lame question - how long should the instance ownership duration be on the SqlWorkflowPersistenceService
    by Nigel_A
    5 Replies
    Last post by Anonymous
      • Hi All Is there a best practice for the length of time a workflow should be considered owned I do know that it's the length of time that a non-idle workflow should be locked to a particular workflow runtime instance. If my workflow has very short periods of activity followed by very long idle periods (up to several days / weeks), should I set the ownership duration to the maximum length of
  • Edit Controls
    by Kewley
    2 Replies
    Last post by Kewley
      • Hi, I think I'm in the right forum.. I'm using the following code to display two edit controls on a window. Code Block case WM_CREATE: { HFONT hfDefault; HWND hEditShow; HWND hInput; hEditShow = CreateWindowEx(WS_EX_STATICEDGE, "EDIT", "aaaa", WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, 0, 0, 0, 0, hwnd, (HMENU)main_instance, NULL, NULL); hInput = Creat
  • sound and samples(SampleGrabber,DShow)
    by Torsar2
    4 Replies
    Last post by Torsar2
      • Need with help SampleGrabber make snaps of sound. Graph was built. hr=SampleGrabber4Audio->GetConnectedMediaType(&mt); wf->wFormatTag==1; wf->nChannels==2; wf->nSamplesPerSec=44100; wf->nAvgBytesPerSec==176400; wf->wBitsPerSample==16; wf->nBlockAlign==4; hr = SampleGrabber4Audio->GetCurrentBuffer(&cbBuffer, NULL); For same videofile return different size of b
  • DLL registration fails on Windows vista
    by Shilpa_nad
    14 Replies
    Last post by James Hugard
      • Hi, i am in process of upgrading a DLL application from VS 2003(Windows 2003) to VS 2005 on Windows vista platform. There is a post build event for registering the DLL. This fails with error code "0x80070005". When i try to register this DLL through command prompt, it fails with the same error code. With reference to all forum discussions, i disabled UAC on vista and tried regis
  • Vista Compatibility for .net application
    by Mukhpreet
    7 Replies
    Last post by Mukhpreet
      • My application was build in .NET framework 2.0 on win2000. Although i have tested application in Vista Home Edition and its working fine apart from elevation process in setup. Will it be compatible with other edition of Vista how can I know that
  • Cant start service on Vista
    by Globus000
    7 Replies
    Last post by Bruce N. Baker - MSFT
      • Hello I'm facing problems starting win32 service on Windows Vista. The problem occures when i call StartService() method. accroding to values this function returns the service starts and then stops. I've traced it and found that metyhods like ServiceStart,ServiceStop etc are not called. On WinXp everything is ok. Could anyone describe how this problemcan be solved Thanks!
  • Vista wont caluclate remaining battery time
    by Lanrat
    14 Replies
    Last post by Andrew.Hilmy
      • Hi, I am running Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit on a HP dv6000t laptop. Vista will tell me what percentage remains on the battery but Vista will not tell me the time remaining. the time remaining is always 0:00. I have re-calibrated the battery several times but it did not seem to help. any help Thanks!
  • Workflow presistance serialization and versioning.
    by mehran farshadmehr
    3 Replies
    Last post by mindy32737
      • Hi friends, My problem is workflow versioning and related problem. Let me to describe more: I'm used WorkflowStateMachine in a ASP.NET application, I activate persistence service and tracking service with default profile, and now I investigate deployment consideration , in my problem environment business workflows ¨Cand business objects (entities) - changes periodically and I as applicatio
  • Custom Activities and Toolbox
    by PerPersson
    5 Replies
    Last post by PerPersson
      • I have a project in my solution containing the workflow and a class library with custom activities. How should I add my custom activities to the workflow toolbox If I select Choose Items, Activities, Browse and select the library with custom activities they are added to the toolbox and I can drag/drop them to the workflow. But if I then make changes to the activity I must delete them from
  • Can I ignore an external event fired to a custom HandleExternalEventActivity based on an event param?
    by DavidR100
    1 Replies
    Last post by Qiang Lin - MSFT
      • I want to have a reasonably generic external event from something, and receive it in a custom HandleExternalEventActivity-derived activity. all pretty standard. BUT I want to only release the workflow containing the custom HandleExternalEventActivity if a parameter of the event is a certain value (which will be a configurable property of the custom HandleExternalEventActivity Basically i
  • SetWindowsHookEx issue in Vista
    by Andromeda73
    9 Replies
    Last post by Shamirza
      • Hi, I am developing an application that uses SetWindowsHookEX() API to set a global hook to monitor some window messages. Strangely when the the application is run and hook is setup up, the volume mixer application has its UI distorted. This happens on Vista OS. Here are the steps to recreate the issue: 1) Run application that set the global hook using the API SetWindowsHookEx() 2
  • Register COM DLL in VISTA by using the RegSvr32 and am getting 0x80004005 error.
    by PeterKostadinov
    14 Replies
    Last post by marcusaralius
      • I'm trying to register COM DLL in VISTA by using the RegSvr32 and am getting the error: The module "c:\...\abcd.dll" was loaded but the call to DllRegisterServer failed with error code 0x80004005. Please help.
  • pass interface pointer to EXE server
    by Pearman
    1 Replies
    Last post by Florin Lazar - MSFT
      • Hi! I am a beginner for ATL/COM programmer. I want to write a Com client and server(local server). I want to do something like Callback mechanism.Client pass interface pointer to server as method parameters. This interface is implemented by Client. Server gets this interface pointer. Now server can call client method. But when client send the interfejs pointer I always get error: (ole32.dll) Acc
  • Versioning local workflow services causes runtime startup error
    by John Newell
    8 Replies
    Last post by John Newell
      • Hello, I am getting the following error when trying to start the work flow runtime hosted in a windows service... Service cannot be started. System.InvalidOperationException: An instance of ExternalDataExchangeService of type TWTC.WF.WFServiceInterfaces.ITaskServiceAbstract already exists in the runtime container. Here is my scenario I need to run different, long running work
  • UsernamePasswordCredential - credential encrypted
    by addddddddddddd
    6 Replies
    Last post by blowdart
      • studying Simple STS. In particular UsernamePasswordCredential as authentication with STS but I have problems to understand how it works. In the sample Infocard Profile V1 the credential are sent in clear text over HTTPS. While in the simple STS they are encrypted somehow and sent via http with Ws-security. Actually the RST sent to STS by CardSpace is something like this. Can some explain
  • using wcf transactions behind a NLB (Load Balancer) without affinity
    by creaturita
    4 Replies
    Last post by creaturita
      • Hello from Spain, That is the problem. We are thinking about a SOA aproach in our huge project, we want to make a transaction with wcf through two systems that each are behind a nlb without affinity. How we could do that Thanks
  • [OraclePersistence service] WF forces me to use transactionscope, instead of letting me decide
    by Ruurd Boeke
    2 Replies
    Last post by Ruurd Boeke
      • I'm building an oracle persistence service and integrating it within our own datalayer. We are migrating a huge project toward proces orchestration with WF. I'm forced to use oracle. The software has it's own transaction management build in, using nesting and all the stuff that nowadays is common. However, we are not really willing to change our current approach, since it has worked well for us fo
  • Approval Sample Project
    by Michael Ihle
    2 Replies
    Last post by Maik Koster
      • I was taking a look at the approval sample starter kit for use with an internal web applicaiton. It looks good with the exception of being tightly tied to the data related to 'work items'. In particular, I am having some difficulty removing the custom tracking employed that depends on this work item data. In our case, I want to keep the overall starter approval system, but have the source table fo