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Goodbye XOML, hello XAMLX
In the next version of workflow we are going to leave the XOML extension behind us. Creating workflow's or custom activities using markup will create a XAML file instead of the now familiar XOML file. That doesn't mean we are moving to exactly...
Posted 11 November 2008 08:37 PM by Maurice | with no comments
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PDC session download
Want to download and watch all PDC content? Then there are a couple of ways to get at them. The official way if to go through the session agenda at the conference site. See https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/timeline.aspx . You see all sessions...
Posted 01 November 2008 12:17 PM by Maurice | with no comments
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A bit more about using TransactionScopeActivity within a ReceiveActivity
Part 1 part 2 Part 3 Part 4 You may recall my previous posts about using the TransactionScopeActivity within a ReceiveActivity and all the nasty issues we ran into. Just in case you want to read them again: one , two and three . As it turn out this is...
Posted 16 September 2008 12:06 PM by Maurice | with no comments
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Red Gate to continue development of .NET Reflector
.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...
Posted 20 August 2008 09:04 AM by Maurice | with no comments
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Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 available
It is available from the subscriptions download at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/default.aspx Get it while it is hot Enjoy!
Posted 11 August 2008 05:33 PM by Maurice | 5 comment(s)
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More on using a TransactionScopeActivity within a ReceiveActivity
Part 1 part 2 Part 3 Part 4 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...
Posted 08 August 2008 02:01 PM by Maurice | 6 comment(s)
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Using a TransactionScopeActivity with a WCF ReceiveActivity
Part 1 part 2 Part 3 Part 4 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...
Posted 06 August 2008 10:10 AM by Maurice | 11 comment(s)
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CodeCamp 2008
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...
Posted 02 August 2008 10:39 AM by Maurice | with no comments
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How to Download all of Visual Studio 2008 SP1
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...
Posted 16 May 2008 11:05 AM by Maurice | 11 comment(s)
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Project Mole or visual studio visualizers on steroids
Visual Studio visualizers are pretty cool and can help you quite a bit when debugging but you need to develop them and that just ads to the workload. So how about having someone else do it? Well Microsoft added a few visualizers to VS2008 and VS2008 but...
Posted 17 April 2008 01:49 AM by Maurice | 1 comment(s)
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On the WF ReceiveActivity and WCF bindings
The new ReceiveActivity and SendActivity that marry Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) are really cool . Getting started is easy because a new Sequential Workflow Service Library, found under WCF instead of Workflow...
Posted 26 March 2008 06:46 PM by Maurice | 3 comment(s)
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ReceiveActivity, ContextTokens and conversations
In a previous blog post I showed how to use the ReceiveActivity with long running workflow and how to extract the workflow instanceId from the context using the IContextManager. I also showed how to rebuild this context at a later date when you use a...
Posted 24 March 2008 04:21 PM by Maurice | 8 comment(s)
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Configuring a self hosted ReceiveActivity and its runtime
In my last post I showed how to self host the workflow runtime and still be able to use a Windows Communication Foundation and ReceiveActivity. Hosting the workflow runtime in a WorkflowServiceHost is nice but in all likelihood you will also need to configure...
Posted 20 March 2008 09:49 PM by Maurice | with no comments
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ReceiveActivity and self hosting WCF
One of the new, and pretty cool, Windows Workflow Foundation features is the ReceiveActivity that unleashes the power of Windows Communication Foundation to Windows Workflow Foundation. Getting started with a ReceiveActivity is quite simple as long as...
Posted 19 March 2008 09:48 PM by Maurice | 2 comment(s)
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Software Developer Event on March 28th
Next march 28 we are hosting another SDE event in Ede, the Netherlands. There is an impressive list of speakers and sessions, check it out here . I will be doing a session about the new Workflow Foundation features in the .NET framework 3.5. These new...
Posted 01 March 2008 01:55 PM by Maurice | with no comments
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Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit
Looking for more information about VS2008 and .NET 3.5? I suspect you might just be as there is a ton of new functionality and with the pace of everything coming out it isn't likely that you know it all To help learn the new stuff Microsoft has put...
Posted 11 February 2008 12:53 PM by Maurice | 2 comment(s)
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Long running workflows and the ReceiveActivity
Using a ReceiveActivity is a great way of exposing a workflow via a WCF proxy. Get started by creating a new project based upon "Sequential Workflow Service Library". This is found in the WCF projects node instead of the Worflow projects node...
Posted 06 February 2008 09:04 PM by Maurice | 7 comment(s)
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