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Workflow 4 and Visual Basic expressions
When using Windows Workflow Foundation 4 you often need to enter expression in some activity property. The new thing is these expressions are all in the Visual Basic dialect regardless of what language you project is in. So when developing a project in...

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Nederlandse CodeCamp 2009
Op 21 november 2009 organiseren de SDN , Stichting dotNed en VBcentral samen het derde Nederlandse Code Camp . Dit is een dag lang met code, code sharing, freaking en gezellig samenzijn. Een evenement door ontwikkelaars, voor ontwikkelaars. De regie ligt...

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Nationale Office Dag files
Looking for the slides and samples from my two presentations at the Nationale Office Dag in Ede? You can download them from here . Enjoy!   www.TheProblemSolver.nl Wiki.WindowsWorkflowFoundation.eu

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Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET (MVC)
I am working on a new ASP.NET MVC app and like so many other applications out there I need to log any errors should they occur. recently I heard about ELMAH Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET through this blog post of Scott Hanselman. So as...

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Getting started with the .NET RIA Services
A recent article I wrote for the MSDN website just went live. Read is here .

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Passing data into a Windows Workflow Foundation 4 workflow
Passing parameters into a workflow is similar in WF4 as it was in WF3. In both case a Dictionary<string, object> is passed in when creating the workflow instance object. Alternatively when using the WF4 WorkflowInvoker you can pass it into the Invoke...

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Paging with the Silverlight RIA services DomainDataSource
Using the declarative DomainDataSource that is part of the upcoming Silverlight 3 RIA services makes it quite easy to work with data. All you need to do is add a DomainDataSource control to the the XAML, point it to the generated DomainContext class ...

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Adding a custom machineKey section to the web.config
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.NET RIA Services and data communication
I was working on an article about the .NET RIA Services and decided to fire up Fiddler to take a close look at the data actually passed around. I was sort of expecting to see a WCF REST based approach with XML messages. Turns out I was wrong, though I...

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Want to download all MIX sessions?
Then you should check Mike Swanson’s blog post here . He has two batch files, the first downloads all MIX session recordings with in the format you like, the second renames them so it is easier to make sense of all the media file names. If you just want...

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Visual Basic QuickStarts and How-to Topics for the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight
The P&P team have just release a VB version of the Prism quick starts. You can download the goods here . Enjoy!

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Software Development Event march 30th
Just one week to go to the next Software Development Event. The schedule with all the sessions is looking good. But this time there is even more! We will have a Microsoft Surface machine somewhere in the common area for people to try our. And if you have...

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Samples and PowerPoint from my WCF talk
Attached is are the samples and slides I used for my intro into WCF talk yesterday at the VB Central meeting in the Netherlands. Download samples Enjoy! www.TheProblemSolver.nl Wiki.WindowsWorkflowFoundation.eu Now also on twitter at http://twitter.com...

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Using a TransactionScopeActivity with a WCF ReceiveActivity revisited
Last year Marcel and I worked on a problem using a TransactionScopeActivity inside a WCF ReceiveActivity. I blogged a number of time about our finding, for example here . Last week I heard from Marcel that a hotfix was finally available that solves this...

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Looking back at the MVP Summit
Last week lots of MVP, myself included, where in Redmond visiting Microsoft on our yearly MVP pilgrimage. The MVP Summit is always a great event. Not only do we get to talk to the MS team members who actually design and build all the software we love...

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Presenting at VB Central
Next week, on march 10th, I will be doing a presentation on getting started with WCF at the VB Central user group in the Netherlands. Its a free event so if you are in the neighborhood feel free to drop by. They do ask you register beforehand. Besides...

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SilverUnit - Unit testing framework for Silverlight
Roy Osherove has just released SilverUnit, a unit testing framework for Silverlight code. I haven't tried this yet but it certainly looks really interesting as you can start running your Silverlight unit tests inside of MS Test or NUnit. And kind...

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WrapPanel in ListBox revisited
Last week logged about using a WrapPanel in a listBox and demonstrated how to get the content to wrap around, read about it here . Turns out the XAML can be even easier. In the previous post I used a ControlTemplate with a Grid to stop the WrapPanel from...

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Unit testing in Silverlight part 2
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 In my previous post I described the basic setup of unit testing in Silverlight, you can read all about it here . The basics where very nice but lots of code we write in Silverlight has to do with networking and in Silverlight...

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Unit testing and Windows Workflow Foundation
A while a go I wrote some posts about unit testing Windows Workflow foundation Activities, you can find the posts here and here . Fortunately I am not the only one who thinks unit testing is important as you can find various other blog posts about it...

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