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Expert Days is an annual software development conference held by E4D in Israel. This year, for the first time, some of CodeValue’s experts have joined forces with E4D and are participating in order to give you, the attendee, the best possible value. If you are a software developer, software architect, team leader or somehow interested in the hottest available Microsoft technologies – this is definitely the conference you want to be at. The conference is held on 10/07/2011-14/07/2011, and there are...
Kushal Shah , from the WF designer team at Microsoft, has recently posted a series of posts on WF 3.0/3.5 design time performance. As some of you might know, the WF 3.0/3.5 designer’s performance decreases drastically as the number of activities in the WF rises and Kushal addresses this exact issue with some tips & tricks ( Part I & Part II ). Tips & tricks are nice, but part III of Kushal’s posts really got me going. Besides the fact that work has been done to improve WF 3.0/3.5 designer...
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...
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...
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 this PDC session, Anil Nori, Distinguished Engineer in Microsoft’s server application group, presented an overview of the upcoming server technologies coming from Microsoft. 2010 Wave Initially, Anil spoke of the application serer technologies which are due to be released during 2010. .NET 4.0 – WCF & WF .NET 4.0 contains many WCF productivity enhancements, dramatic improvements in WF and deeper integration between WCF and WF. These improvements and modifications are shipped with Visual-Studio...