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Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 is Available On Monday, March 1st, we announced on the Window Server blog that Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 is available for download . First publicized at PDC 2009, Windows Server AppFabric is a set of application services focused on improving the speed, scale, and management of Web, Composite, and Enterprise applications. Note that this Beta is compatible with Visual Studio 2010 RC . Developers and IT pros can expect the following benefits from Windows Server...
WF/WCF using Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit The Microsoft WF/WCF using Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2010 features and a variety of WF and WCF new features. Learn basic workflow creation , hosting and running , and test-drive workflow development. Get an introduction to workflow services, communication between workflows...
WF 4.0: Long Running Custom Activities with Bookmarks and NativeActivity This is another post in my WF 4.0: Custom Activities series . In a previous post I have talked about creating a code only custom activity that performs a simple task. In this post I’ll talk about creating a more complex activities that takes inputs from the calling program during their execution. In the previous post WF 4.0: Code Only Custom Activities for Atomic Actions | CodeActivity, CodeActivity<T> I implemented the...
WF 4.0: Code Only Custom Activities for Atomic Actions | CodeActivity, CodeActivity<T> This is another post in my WF 4.0: Custom Activities series . In this post I’ll talk about creating a code only custom activity that performs a simple task. I’ll also use input and output parameters and talk about activities that returns a single value. A Simple Code Activity Lets start by building a simple activity that outputs a certain string to the console. To to that, lets add a new item of type Workflow...
WF 4.0: Custom Activities There are several ways to build custom activities in WF 4.0 : Xaml Based, Composite Activities Code Based Composite Activities Code Only Activities for Atomic Actions Code Only Activities for Long Running Operations In the following posts I’ll talks about each of those approaches and update the above links. Enjoy!
WF 4.0: Building a Hello World Sequential Workflow Note : This post is based on Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 which is the latest version available in the time of writing this post, so by the time this technology ships, there are probably things that will be slight different. Start Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and create a new Sequential Workflow Console Application. After you click OK, visual studio creates the new projects and creates a new WF project, in which there are some things you should know about...
XAML in .Net 4.0: Serialization and Deserialization using XamlServices Note : This post is based on Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 which is the latest version available in the time of writing this post, so by the time this technology ships, there are probably things that will be slight different. In order to serialize and deserialize using XAML in .Net Framework 4.0 we have to reference a new assembly called System.Xaml.dll . Since XAML was originally used only in WPF, some features are dependent on classes...
Download PDC 2008 Sessions and Watch Offline personally prefer watching sessions regardless of my Internet connection status, so I decided to download PDC08 sessions and watch offline . I collected the list of available sessions from PDC 08 , and they are easy to download. I personally use Free Download Manager for simultaneous efficient downloads - you can try it yourself. Just select all the text in this post, right click and select “Download Selected with Free Download Manager”. For a full list...
Finally Released: DinnerNow.Net for Visual Studio 2008 RTM After being requested so many times in the forums and discussion lists, it is Finally Released: DinnerNow.Net for Visual Studio 2008 RTM. If you're not familiar with the DinnerNow.Net sample application, this is a fully open-source application that demonstrates the core concepts and enhancement in the .Net Framework 3.5 such as: LINQ to SQL WF/WCF integration IIS7 & Windows Activation Services (WAS) hosting for WCF services WCF 3...
Test Yourself: Are you a Windows Workflow Foundation Expert? K. Scott Allen has posted 10 "hard core" WF questions to ask a job candidate . I haven't done a job interview with someone and asked him about WF, but it was nice to evaluate my knowledge of the technology. If you're using WF on a regular basis, I suggest that you take this "test" and catch up where you are missing some information. The list of answers can help. Enjoy!
See what's in the Training Kit for Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5, and get the links for downloading....
Commonly Used Types and Namespaces in .Net Framework 3.5 If you want to make sure you've read enough articles and blog posts about .Net Framework 3.5, or you just happen to have an empty wall in your office, download the Commonly Used Types and Namespaces in .Net Framework 3.5 poster. Enjoy!
Oslo - Future Direction of Microsoft BPM Platform During the keynote of the SOA & Business Process Conference , Microsoft has announced the future directions in its BPM strategy with Oslo - a multi-release set of technology investments across Application Platform for building service oriented and model driven applications. There are five primary areas of investment targeted by “Oslo”: Server. Microsoft BizTalk Server “6” will continue to provide a core foundation for distributed and highly scalable...
Influence the Roadmap of Windows Workflow Foundation vNext The Windows Workflow Foundation Team is conducting a survey about your current and future usage of the technology in order to get feedback needed to prioritize the features and directions of Windows Workflow Foundation vNext . So, If you're using Windows Workflow Foundation, and you can allow the time to participate in this survey, you can influence then next version of the technology. Enjoy!
WF, WCF and WCS Samples for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 A refresh of the samples for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows CardSpace (WCS) is available for download here . These samples are based on the .Net Framework 3.5 and were recently updated to work with Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2. Enjoy!
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