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Catching up on blog reading…

Mike Taulty's Blog — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:57:46 GMT

It was very warm and humid last night in Manchester, UK and so I sat up late catching up on a whole bunch

re: Screencast: Working with Tracking Profiles in Windows WF

matt-milner — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:12:48 GMT

You might try looking at Jon Flanders AJAX workflow monitor that he built a while back.

www.masteringbiztalk.com/.../Workflow%20Samples.html

It should get you started on how to use the view on the server and then send the image down to the client.

re: Screencast: Working with Tracking Profiles in Windows WF

BenLampson — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:28:53 GMT

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Sam Gentile's Blog (if (DeveloperTask == Communication && OS == Windows) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:14:34 GMT

SOA/WCF/REST/WF Jesus Rodriguez has his slide deck on WOA from SOAWorld 2009 available Also, he has Using WCF 4.0 XAML Services in the real world: Activating WCF Services from a Central Repository SOA Security Testing - XML Gateways WCF Load Test Tool

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Sam Gentile's Blog (if (DeveloperTask == Communication && OS == Windows) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:10:55 GMT

Connected Systems (Azure Services Platform, .NET Services, WCF, WF, BizTalk) Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Links for 6/22/09+ "Joint Venture": New Azure Multi-Business Enterprise Application (MEBA) The Microsoft Application Platform: A Perspective

re: Screencast: Windows Workflow – Creating Custom Context Bindings

matt-milner — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:38:15 GMT

In a workflow service on the server, you can get the context information from the Receive activity if you need it. The workflow instance ID, is available from the WorkflowEnvironment class when you are on the workflow thread.

And, just to be clear, the server always creates the initial context and defines the ids; the client can correctly setup the context to call back to the server.

It sounds like what you might want it more of a conversation which I discussed in another screencast. You may need to send the context information in the message if the "service" is going to need that information to call back to the "client".

re: Screencast: Windows Workflow – Creating Custom Context Bindings

Vagif Abilov — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:50:19 GMT

Thank you for exposing this quite complex infrastructure to support custom context bindings. However, there's something that is not clear to me, and that is if there is a less complicated way of accessing context information on a server side. SendActivity has BeforeSend event hanlder and Context property that can be used to assign the context prior executing a WCF operation. In many cases this context will be sufficient for a WCF server in order to set up context-aware call into a running workflow. But I haven't found a way to access from the server a workflow context that was set up on a client channel. GetProperty<IContextManager> returns null when called from OperationContext.Current.Channel on a server side. Shouldn't the context detail be available for a server? And if so, would this simplify a communication in case WCF server needs to call back into a workflow that has originated a call using SendActivity?

Vagif

re: new cloudApp() developer competition

Michael — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:03:17 GMT

Actually, the contest is now open for non-US citizens also. Check out Azure.com :)

re: Issues with Live Mesh on Windows 7 RC

Richard Blewett — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:22:30 GMT

Hi Matt

I'm running Mesh on Win7 RC x86 (clean install) and I'm not having any problems

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Sam Gentile's Blog (if (DeveloperTask == Communication && OS == Windows) — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:02:36 GMT

Software Design/Architecture Jeremy Miller - The Joys and Pains of a Long Lived Codebase - The Video Jeremy Miller - More Persistence Patterns in MSDN Interviewed by Scott Hanselman on Software Metrics Why Occasional Connectivity Could Affect Scalability

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Sam Gentile's Blog (if (DeveloperTask == Communication && OS == Windows) — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:02:27 GMT

re: How to get workflow data/properties at runtime

matt-milner — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:36:19 GMT

You need to find the file in your application that creates the workflowRuntime object and add a line or two of code to add the SQL tracking service to the runtime using the AddService method.

re: How to get workflow data/properties at runtime

Zubair Syed — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:04:37 GMT

I have default profile sample application to monitor workflow events. How do I configure workflow runtime of my application to SQLtracking service. Which file in the samle do I need to modify to hook tracking service into my application runtime.

Thanks,

re: How to get workflow data/properties at runtime

matt-milner — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:57:21 GMT

Zubair,

You need to create a tracking profile for your workflow type, then you will need to configure your workflow runtime by adding in the SqlTrackingService. The runtime will do the rest.

To create the profile, you might want to try the Tracking Profile Designer sample in the Windows SDK.