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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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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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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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Windows Communication Foundation Activities for Windows Workflow Foundation are released.
I actually missed the release or the WCF activities for windows workflow a few weeks back but Marcel de Vries did a demo yesterday as part of his presentation at the SDE meeting. And I must say its an impressive piece of work that includes the whole enchilada...
Posted 02 June 2007 03:09 PM by Maurice | with no comments
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Software Developers Conference 2007
Talking about conferences we pretty much finalized the session schedule for the SDC this year as well. And the session schedule is even more impressive as last year. We are holding back on publishing it for a bit longer until we have confirmation from...
Posted 19 May 2007 04:06 PM by Maurice | with no comments
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1st Dutch Code Camp
The first Dutch Code Camp was held yesterday in Barneveld. With lots of people showing up there was a real nice vibe and all I can say is it was a smashing success. Lots of people wanted to know when we would organize the next one; someone even went so...
Posted 13 May 2007 02:05 PM by Maurice | with no comments
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Code Camp update
Het is al bijna zover, nog minder dan twee weken en het eerste Nederlandse Code Camp is een feit. Alles tot nu toe wijst erop dat het een groot succes gaat worden. Zo was er een fors overschot aan potentiele sprekers en hebben we een mooi en divers programma...
Posted 30 April 2007 07:49 PM by Maurice | with no comments
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Live From Redmond Webcast Series
Beth Massi, a former VB MVP who has joined the form , just blogged about a serie of blog casts the VB team is putting together. These web casts are all about VB9 and Visual Studio Orcas with stuff like LINQ, Offline data and SOA. Some interesting stuff...
Posted 11 April 2007 07:38 PM by Maurice | with no comments
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Sander has just been re-awarded as an MVP and a fellow Code Camp organizer
Sander Gerz just posted here that he has been re-awarded as an MVP for another year. Good to here because he is certainly part of the active crowed over here. In fact he is one of the people helping to organize the 1st Dutch .NET Code Camp, see here ...
Posted 02 April 2007 09:00 AM by Maurice | with no comments
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