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The Sela Developer Practice (SDP) took place this week at the Crown-Plaza hotel in Tel-Aviv with many presentations on various topics, all of which given by Sela’s experts. Sasha and I gave two presentations on Tuesday – one on “Parallel Programming with .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010” and an additional one on “Building Workflow Services with WF 4.0 and WCF 4.0”. Parallel Programming in .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 In this presentation Sasha and I presented the new Parallel Programming paradigms...
I’ve worked a lot with WF 3.0 and WF 3.5 in the past, and I almost always ended up with some mixed feelings. On the one hand, WF is an amazing technology which allows you to do some pretty incredible things when you think about it – easily create a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) and allow domain experts to accurately model the business logic as they see fit in a graphic manner, just dragging-and-dropping some cubes around. Along with accompanying abilities to host the WF and allow it to communicate...
The PDC ended over a week ago with me coming back home this Wednesday after a short vacation. On this blog post, I’ll try to summarize my main thoughts and conclusions from this year’s conference and also give a quick reminder regarding the upcoming SDP. Cloud Computing in Full Thrust In my opinion, the main issue in this year’s PDC was Microsoft’s full thrust motion towards cloud computing with Windows Azure . Ray Ozzie’s vision of “ Three Screens in a Cloud ” and Bob Muglia’s approach to “ Cloud...
Well, the PDC has adjourned yesterday, and what a conference it was. Windows Azure launch, SilverLight 4 announcement and the Windows Server AppFabric application server are just some of the main issues which kept me occupied me the most. If you haven’t been to the PDC (and even if you have), be sure to check-out the Sela Developer Practice (SDP) homepage. Come join our Sela experts as we delve into the many issues which were presented at the PDC. Seventeen of us were here at the PDC, and in my opinion...
In this PDC session, Nicholas Allen, Program Manager at Microsoft Corporation, reviewed various extensibility points in Windows Serer AppFabric workflow hosting . Hosting Workflows AppFabric ships with three out-of-the-box extensible workflow hosts: Workflow Driven Application – A host for workflows which are used as an execution engine and which do not require WCF interaction to drive them. Workflow Service – A host for workflows which require WCF message interactions with the outside world. Scaled...
In this PDC session, Mark Fussel, Program Manager at Microsoft, spoke of creating Workflow Services in .NET 4.0, and hosting and deploying them on Windows Server AppFabric. AppFabric AppFabric provides a set of features for hosting, managing and deploying workflow services: A set of runtime databases for persisting and monitoring the running instances. Persistence services. Hosting of the runtime. Auto-start applications – start the service when the machine starts. Pushing diagnostics information...
In this PDC session, Ed Pinto, Program Manager at Microsoft, reviewed the many new additions to WCF 4.0. REST and WF services were not covered in this session, as they are covered in other sessions. WCF Configuration Default Endpoints – The WCF team took feedback in and decided to prefer “Convention over Configuration”. This means that if an endpoint is not explicitly configured for your service, a default endpoint will be created whose configuration is set by convention. Default Bindings – It is...
Today at the PDC , I attended two sessions on WF 4.0 - “ Spice Up Your Applications with Windows Workflow Foundation 4 ” and “ Windows Workflow Foundation 4 from the Inside Out ”. I didn’t blog live about these sessions as their main punch was delivered via code examples and usage of WF designer which in my opinion are hard to capture with words. If you are new to WF than I recommend watching the videos once they get published as these sessions start from a very basic level without requiring prior...
In the PDC session “Manycore and .NET 4: A Match Made in Visual Studio 2010” by Stephan Toub from Microsoft’s Parallel Computing platform, he reviewed all the work done in the concurrency area for the Visual-Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 release. Parallel LINQ Parallel LINQ was not covered in this session as it is covered in a later one, though the “ AsParallel() ” extension method and “ ParallelEnumerable ” class were demonstrated. .NET 4.0 ThreadPool Many improvements were made to the .NET 4.0 ThreadPool...