From Damir Dobric ( http://developers.de/blogs/damir_dobric ):   Patch to fix an issue where autostart services start in the wrong application pool: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/983484 This only applies to Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 as IIS 7.5 is the only supported platform for autostart in a service.      Patch to fix issues where the IIS Manager or PowerShell cmdlets fail due to schema issues in IIS configuration files.  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/980423  ...

I have co-authored a whitepaper on the TechNet Wiki based on a customer project. The paper “Implementing end-to-end ordered delivery using Microsoft BizTalk Server and SQL Server Service Broker” is available here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/implementing-end-to-end-ordered-delivery-using-microsoft-biztalk-server-and-sql-server-service-broker.aspx. Check it out on the TechNet … More » Blog Post by: Tim Wieman

Another great announcement on PDC was the Virtual Machine Role feature.  This feature is added to Azure with the primary goal to move existing applications to the cloud.  The feature allows us to upload our own VHD (virtual hard disk) with the Operating System on it (Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise).  This machine could have your application pre-packaged and installed.  After doing this, you are now able to spin up multiple instances of that machine. BizTalk on VM Role? Being a BizTalk...

How should you use WF4 and WCF with ASP.NET?  For this post I’ve created a really simple workflow and WCF service that delay for a specific amount of time and then return a value.  Then I created an ASP.NET page that I can use to invoke the workflow and WCF service to test their behavior The Workflow Definition First off – let’s get one thing straight.  When you create a workflow, you are creating a workflow definition .  The workflow definition still has to be validated, expressions...

In my last post The Workflow Parallel Activity and Task Parallelism I said that you can implement Task Parallelism with Windows Workflow Foundation.  In this post I want to explore some of the differences between the Parallel Activity in System.Workflow.Activities (WF3) and the Parallel Activity in System.Activities.Statements (WF4). Windows Workflow Foundation 3 (WF3) Parallel Activity One of the big changes between System.Workflow (WF3) and System.Activities (WF4) involves how a Parallel with...