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.NET Reflector, by Lutz Roeder, must be one of the most useful tools I have when developing .NET code. Usually it is the first thing I install right after Visual Studio not even waiting until I need it because I know I will. So the big news is that Red...
Having worked with Python in the past I find IronPython an interesting language to work with. However the story becomes really interesting if you can combine IronPython with regular strong typed code into one. So I decided to take a look at what it would...
Windows Workflow Foundation, WF for short, is one of the technologies I work a lot with and as a consequence I own several books about WF. Comparing this book with the others I can only say it is one of the best books you can get on the subject. It has...
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In a previous blog post I write about what happens when you place a TransactionScopeActivity within a ReceiveActivity and an exception occurs that is supposed to roll back the transaction. In short the story was very bad and we could come up with only...
I got an email from a friend last week asking about using a ReceiveActivity and, while receiving, using a TransactionScopeActivity to transitionally save some data in a database. Seems like a common enough scenario right? Well he was having some problems...
Afgelopen jaar hebben we het eerste CodeCamp in Nederland georganiseerd en dat was een groot succes. De meeste deelnemers vroegen om meer, sommige zelfs om een CodeCamp per kwartaal of een heel weekend lang. Nou hebben we dat laatste nog niet gedaan maar...
I have just updated the SQL Server Compact Workflow Persistence Service to better handle deserialization issues when loading a workflow. The service now makes sure the WorkflowRuntime ServicesExceptionNotHandled is raised, something it should have done...
In a previous blog post I demonstrated how TypeMock allowed us to mock out the workflow runtime infrastructure and create true unit tests for a workflow activity. Now this may not seems like a big deal but because most of the classes in the workflow runtime...
Using an ActivityDesignerTheme is a quick way to customize the appearance of an activity in the workflow designer. But there is a gotcha Because once you applied the theme and have a workflow with the custom activity open in the designer no matter what...
When working with state machine workflow's the SetStateActivity is one of the more important activities to use. The main reason is that is the one used to transition from one state to another. You can actually transition state in a different way as...
I just heard about a pretty nasty "bug" with ClickOnce. Well it isn't an actual bug but still a nasty problem to run into. The problem is actually with the certificate used to sign a ClickOnce installer. When you create a new ClickOnce installer...
One of the nice new features in Visual Basic 9 are lambda expressions. They where actually added as one of the underlying pieces for LINQ. But besides enabling LINQ you can use them in all sorts of places. One of the places they really help me is in places...
Last week was pretty interesting and busy First we had the DevDays on Thursday and Friday. I was there to answer questions from the audience. I didn't get too many questions so I could take my time and actually spend around 90 minutes answering questions...
As I mentioned in my previous blog post adding a custom ActivityValidator class to an activity validates it at runtime as well as at design time. So when is this runtime validation done and what happens when it fails? The when part is when the WorkflowInstance...
The current version of SQL Server Compact has no support for 64 bits computing. While this may seem a problem if you want to deploy you application on a 64 bits version of Windows it really isn't most of the time. In fact if you change your assembly...
VS2008 SP1 Beta is quite a package. By default the installation downloads the packages as needed and when needed. Now that is just fine if you only need to install a single machine. But when you need to install multiple, possibly virtual, machines like...
The Dutch Microsoft office has posted the first of the Community DevCast we recorded. The host is Alex Thissen who actually does most of the work as he also edits the screencasts so don't forget to thank him next week when you run into him at the...
By default every custom workflow activity shows the same icon. And using an icon that help understand what the activity actually does makes life so much easier for the user of your activity. And remember he is a developer so some day he might just return...
When I tried I received the following very helpful System.ServiceModel.ProtocolException with Message="The remote server returned an unexpected response: (407) Proxy Authentication Required ( The ISA Server requires authorization to fulfill the request...
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