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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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My latest screencast in the Windows WF developer screencast series has been loaded up as of this morning. In this session, I discuss the basics of add persistence services into the workflow runtime using code or configuration. Additionally, to show off the power of this feature in Windows WF, I use two...
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My latest screencast is up on the Endpoint.tv show on Channel 9. In this screencast I cover the basic steps to host workflows in your applications. I cover the basic hosting steps in a console application, then jump in and run a workflow in an ASP.NET application. Screencasts: Running Workflows in your...
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In the latest screencast in the ongoing series, I cover the basics of creating a state machine workflow. I show you the various activities to use, how to transition between states and handle events including time based events. Screencast: Creating Your First State Machine Workflow Previous screencasts...
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As Aaron pointed out a while back , Pluralsight has joined up with the WCF / WF folks at Microsoft to create a series of screencasts to give developers an introduction to these technologies. My first contribution to this effort is all about creating a your first sequential workflow. The screencasts shows...
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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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For those of you who attended my webcast today on workflow communications, the demo code is attached to this post. It includes the base activities used for communication activities (more on these in a later post) and it provides simple example of local communications and web services. The two-way communication...
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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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Microsoft has rolled out the beta of SP1 for .NET Framework version 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Now don't get confused, this is not just a simple set of bug fixes, this thing is big! Entity Framework and LINQ to entities ADO.NET Data Services (formerly project "Astoria") Dynamic data web sites (highly...
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I got a chance a few weeks ago to sit down with Jeff Brand at the local Microsoft office and talk about something I love - Connected Systems. We discussed Workflow and Biztalk, WCF and web services and how it all fits together. Jeff is fun to talk to and does a good job of asking questions that developers...
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Updated 11/29 - see below I recently created a retry activity that I've been wanting to write for some time now, and had a few features that I wanted to add. I was teaching a class a couple of weeks ago and took the opportunity to add a retry interval to the activity. The activity is designed as a composite...
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Hot off the presses, you can get it now from MSDN subscriber downloads or the trial version . See Soma's blog for more details on the new features, etc. Surprisingly, being a WF and BizTalk guy, I'm least excited about the WF/WCF integration. I'll talk more about what I dislike later, but this is a happy...
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If you attended my talk at the SOA conference on building composite activities, then you'll find the demos here . I really liked doing this talk and it gave me a reason to work on a composite activity that I wanted to write for a while: the RetryActivity. I started wanting to build this activity because...
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I attended the Microsoft SOA and BP conference this week in Redmond where they announced their plans for future of connected systems (the division responsible for BizTalk, WCF, WF, AD, and much more). You can read more about the announcement and what impacted products are on the Microsoft SOA site ....
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My MSDN article on communications in workflow has been posted. In this article, I really wanted to try and focus on the low level communication so that people would understand what was going on under the covers. I don't both with the "local communications" pieces as they provide a simple abstraction...
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