Software Development for Windows Vista

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  • (State Machine/Sequential) workflow notations vs. BPMN
    by Anon.
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    Last post by Vishal Kalra - MSFT
      • As I understood, MS has invented two new BPM notations: sequential and state machine WF. Do you have any idea about relations of these new notations and BPMN Which of new notations is closer to BPMN TIA, Nikolay.
  • Unidentified publisher message still comes up!
    by sudhech
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    Last post by Luke Skywalker
      • Hi, I have followed the setup procedure provided at the following link by alexk59: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1181949&SiteID=1 and digitally signed just my setup.exe (wanted to see if this would relieve me of the first "Unidentified Publisher" message) and not digitally signing the program exe . I have right clicked th exe file and could
  • Storing WF-Data into ORACLE DB
    by glasgow1
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    Last post by glasgow1
      • hi, can anybody tell me how it works to store data from a workflow into an ORACLE DB-tables Is it as easy as storing in MS SQL Server thanks, bg
  • Upgrading DShow: What is the best version of DirectShow to use?
    by lorax
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    Last post by lorax
      • Hi all, Am I the only one confused about what to do about upgrading dshow libraries I see that the PSDK is now (for Vista's sake) the Windows SDK. Is directshow in there I'm not really doing Vista development, but would like to use it. I do have VS2005, but I have done my dshow development in the past with VS2003 and VS6. Can I move seamlessly up to using VS2005 Should I download this ne
  • XAML only workflows
    by chakravarthy_b
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    Last post by chakravarthy_b
      • Hi, It is very difficult to convert type specific worklows to xaml only workflows. Is there any help material available for XAML syntax. For example, I am writing a xaml only workflow. xaml file looks like this: <ns0:SampleWorkflow x:Name="SampleWorkflow1" xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/workflow " xmlns:x=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/win
  • WWF , BPEL , BP workflows
    by Maaloul
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    Last post by NaveenB
      • Hello, Does WWF support the BPEL Standard dor workflow. My point of view is that it 's difficult or complex to build Business Process with WWF. It's not adpted for this issue. I think it's more generic than BP workflows. Can You help me by some some explainations about this issue. Thanks in advance
  • Windows CardSpace has encountered an error and is shutting down
    by Don Isenor
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    Last post by Don Isenor
      • Whenever I click on the "save" button in CardSpace, to save a new or edited card I get this message: Windows CardSpace has encountered an error and is shutting down and CardSpace shuts down. Nothing at all is logged to the Event Viewer. This happens with the latest (December 12 2006) .NET 3.0 running on XP. Uninstalling and reinstalling .NET has no effect. Deleting all the cards ha
  • Question about custom State Activity
    by robertkwapiszewski
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    Last post by ElifOn - MSFT
      • I have a custom activity which inherits from StateActivity. It contains EventDriven activity with HandleExternalEvent and SetState child activities. I implemented my own FreeFormActivityDesigner and overrode the OnPaint and IsVisible methods. In design mode, when I put two of my created actyvities into StateMachineWorkflowActivity, and link one to another by using TargetStateActivity property
  • Creating WF Rules From CodeDom
    by THE RAZI
    14 Replies
    Last post by Jas98004
      • Hi everone We have a situation where will be using Windows Workflow Foundation Rule Engine along with our custom application. Now the main point of foucs is to create rules on basis of some external application (say Microsoft Analysis Services Dataminig generates rules and they will be used ) , now as we gather WF uses CodeDom to save rules , now we need to write a convertor that takes rules f
  • How/where to install a configuration file for a service
    by Colin Caughie
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    Last post by Colin Caughie
      • Hi, I'm writing a Windows Installer package (using WiX) which installs a service, whose configuration is stored in a configuration file. My understanding is that the correct location for the configuration file for a service is not in its Program Files directory but in the system profile folder under C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local (or its equivalent on XP). Windows Installer
  • DirectShow video to render problem?
    by GeorgeOu
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    Last post by Chris P.
      • I am checking Texture3D9 sample in DirectShow, when it runs, an error happens with the following message: Protection Error: Dubugger detected,-please close it down and restart! Windows NT user: Please note that having the WinIce/SoftIce service installed means that you are running a dubugger! What's wrong with the sample , can anyone helps, urgent!! Th
  • A problem about serialization when using Castle.Facilities.NHibernateIntegration
    by NickNi
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    Last post by ElifOn - MSFT
      • I have many components using Castle.Facilities.NHibernateIntegration. Now i want to reflector to work on wf. But Castle's class is not serializable, what shall i do Then, is there more information about WF and Castle, please send me.
  • Problems with Vista
    by PatOvens
    10 Replies
    Last post by DiemMy
      • ive recently installed Vista Home Premium and of course there are problems. my goal here is to list a few of them and hopefully comeone will reply on how to fix them. 1. AVG Free Virus scan will not properly boot up on start-up 2. After PC loads up, a splash screen appears that says "This system is not authorized to run DISCover" (What is DISCover, and how can i make this go away/f
  • Vista & Visual Studio 2005 SP1 build issues
    by MWP_au
    8 Replies
    Last post by skatrdud101201
      • Hi all, The problem im about to describe occours with both the normal "Visual Studio 2005 SP1" and the new "Visual Studio beta Vista SP1 patch". EAC is enabled and Visual Studio is being run as Administrator. When building my C/C++ project i get the following errors: [code] 4>------ Rebuild All started: Project: transition-fade_cont_bri, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ 4&g
  • Product Identification Tool reading the wrong product version
    by Falconne
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    Last post by Mo Nail - MFST
      • Does anyone know where the Microsoft Product Identification Tool reads the version number of an installed product from I am trying to figure out why it is reading the wrong version number for our product (even though it finds the publisher name allright). The version set in the product's msi is correct and the correct version number appears in the "Support Information" for the product i
  • How to show error message in cardspace dialog?
    by kalai
    4 Replies
    Last post by kalai
      • Hi, Can i show custom error message(s) in the cardspace dialog Whenever user selects a card (from windows cardspace), it is sent to STS (Security Token Service) whenever any error occurs (in STS), same needs to be displayed on cardspace dialog. Question is this. 1. How to display error in cardspace dialog Thanks & Regards, kalai
  • Common code execution after each Activity's completion.
    by HemantC
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    Last post by HemantC
      • hi, Is there any way by which i can excute a small piece of code after each Activity's completion thanks hemant
  • Hosting msvidctl ActiveX control
    by Demann
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    Last post by Demann
      • I'm trying to write a DVB-T application using Microsoft TV technology on XP/Visual Studio 2005 using XP. I've managed to create a wrapper class for the MSVidCtl. Now can I host the active X control on a CDialog derived class. I'd added the "MS TV Video Control" ActiveX on a dialog using the resource editor. But when I try to make a void CMediaDlg: oDataExchange(CDataExchange* pDX
  • beginner question
    by JBeem
    4 Replies
    Last post by JBeem
      • I'm working on an application where a user can define a trackable item type (task, defect, call center item, etc.) and then create a workflow for that item type within its respective project (a project in the context of this application is just a grouping of user-defined trackable item types). From what I've read I need a state machine design, as the transition from one state to another will be dr
  • How to install Device fonts (printer resident fonts) in Windows Vista
    by larryheebl
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    Last post by Bruce N. Baker - MSFT
      • My company uses printer resident fonts to encode magnetic stripe data onto a plastic card, We added mag stripe fonts to our printer driver (printer resident fonts) for Windows XP years ago. But now after extensive changes to the printer driver to support Windows Vista, these Device Fonts will not show up in applications such as Word even though the same driver will run on XP and display the
  • Unable to find assembly - when calling from DLL only
    by MiniCraig
    3 Replies
    Last post by MiniCraig
      • I am trying to use the ExternalDataExchangeService to pass parameters into workflow. I am doing this similar to all of the workflow samples by creating an external interface (ExportInterface.cs and IExportInterface.cs) that can pass the information between the calling program and the workflow. The program that I am trying to call from is a DLL that is part of a larger application. When I t
  • Anyone can help for a strange vista UAC releated crash issue.
    by Felixz
    1 Replies
    Last post by Jason Gao
      • We have a MSI installer package for our software setup. It will extract the files and call one of them which is the config wizard. The wizard will launch other one to finish the setup and launch main executable file. MSI---->A.config wizard---->B.Tool for finish setup ----> launches main exec file Our MSI can install our software silent without any interactive step, no confi
  • VB6 and SP5 (or SP6 !) on Vista x64
    by Andrea Antonangeli
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    Last post by guideX
      • Is there a way to install Visual Basic 6's  Service Pack 5 on a Vista x64 machine/OS I've found no way to do it. I'd be happy to know there is a way on Windows XP x64 too   Thanks a lot for your answers/tips/links.
  • How to deliver Exception(fault) to calling application
    by rahulmanasa
    4 Replies
    Last post by Carol He
      • Hi, I have a web application and I am implementing State Machine workflow. I am using FaultHandler to handle any System Exception condition in Workflow, but how my calling application will know about the exception in workflow I am using Mainual Schedular Service. I want to deliver the exception message to my calling application (Web application) Please suggest me some way to do it.
  • WF with WCF
    by Sasirekha
    1 Replies
    Last post by Constantin Mihai - MSFT
      • Hello Guys, How can i integerate the WF into WCF how it useful to us