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I had a great time at Dev Days doing the pre-conference session on WF, WCF and Dublin. It’s always fun trying to present on beta technology, and there’s nothing like having the first demo crash Visual Studio to start the day. :) Thanks to all who attended, you can find the demos here .
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I’ll be speaking at Dev Days 09 in a couple of weeks. I’m excited to be doing a pre-conference day on WF and WCF 4 as well as “Dublin”. then I’ve got two WF sessions during the conference, one on building custom activities with WF 4 and another on moving from WF 3.x to WF 4. After the...
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I’ve recently published a free screencast on how to create a custom context channel in workflow services. .NET 3.5 supports managing context in a SOAP header or HTTP cookie, but that may not be where your context information lives. In this screencast I show an example of a custom channel that enables...
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I’ve recently published a free screencast on how to manage conversations in workflow services. Conversations are special cases of context management in workflow services requiring extra information to correctly route messages. In this screencast, I show you when you need to think about conversations...
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I’ve recently published a free screencast on how to manage context information when using workflows, and the Send activity, to interact with workflow services. When using workflows as clients to workflow services, the Send activity is used to manage context on the client. This screencast...
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I’ve recently published a free screencast on how to manage context information when using a .NET client to interact with workflow services. This screencast shows how to manage context in .NET applications to enable multiple calls on the same proxy for different workflow instances, or to...
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I’ve recently published a free screencast on how to create custom context bindings in workflow services. Microsoft ships several bindings that support context management, but they cannot possibly cover all of the scenarios you might need. In this screencast, I'll show you how to build your...
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I’ve recently published a free screencast on the basic ideas around context management with workflow services. This screencast walks through the basic ideas of managing context in workflow services and introduces several concepts that will be used for deeper exploration in other screencasts...
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A little delayed, to be sure, but here are the demos from my three talks at Dev Week this year. Thanks for all who attended. I’ll be giving an updated version of the custom activities talk at DevDays2009 in the Netherlands at the end of May, hopefully with newer bits! Context...
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I'm excited to announce that we have now listed our new "Dublin" course on the website . This will be a three day course where we dive in to taking advantage of the hosting features found in the new application server being developed at Microsoft. If you are interested in finding out how...
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THe business rule engine in Windows Workflow Foundation is an often overlooked feature that provides powerful business logic processing and rich business rule engine execution semantics. Some mistakenly believe this functionality can only be used from within a workflow. I worked with Microsoft recently...
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My latest screencast in the Windows WF developer screencast series has been loaded up as of last week. In this session, I discuss the basics of using the Send activity to consume a service from a workflow using WCF. I extend the workflow created in the previous screencast to consume a service that authorizes...
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Microsoft announced today the details of upcoming features that will be added to Windows Server 2008 to provide a rich host for WCF Services and WF workflows. In addition, the announcement provides some information about upcoming features in the .NET Framework v4.0 including. I'm extremely excited...
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I just found out about a few new resources that Microsoft has put together to help developers locate relevant information for developing applications using WF and WCF. This includes some of the screencasts that Aaron and I have been doing on those technologies. It is nice to have this information in...
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I've got a couple of fun talks coming up this month. First, I'm going to be doing an MSDN webcast on Windows Workflow Foundation - Communication in Depth. I'm going to dive into the core communication architecture, discuss how some of the OOB activities use it, and how you can build your own activities...
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