Code download In yesterday’s post I have explored how to use Service Bus queues as a transport to communicate between a WCF client and a service. In today’s post I will show you WCF pub/sub messaging using the topics and subscriptions. A subscription behaves exactly like a queue for reads while a topic behaves exactly [...] Blog Post by: zamd

In a previous post I explored various options of hosting RavenDB . While using RavenDB as a Windows Service or hosted in IIS is probably the best way to go in most cases there are a number of cases where the embedded option is great. And one of the places where I really like the embedded option of hosting RavenDB is when doing simple standalone websites. And with the new Azure website option that is a great way to host them.   The code is real straightforward and just like before. I am using...

If you’re looking to leverage the Windows Azure Service Management REST API to determine if a hosted service namespace is available, and to subsequently create the hosted service through your own interface and/or tools, then you will want to be … More » Blog Post by: Keith Bauer

Lots of people like to use in inversion of control container, usually shortened to IOC, to inject dependencies into classes. The are lots of reasons for doing so but in the end they mostly boil down to separation of concern which makes thing more modular and thereby easier to reuse and unit test. When you start doing so manually injecting dependencies into a types constructor is easy enough but after a while this tends to become tedious and getting an IOC container to do this for you is a lot easier...

So you want to know how the state machine really works? Take a look at the WF4 State Machine Explorer .  This sample is designed to show you how StateMachine works with activities. There are three transitions from State1. To State 2 which is triggered by a bookmark named “State2” To State 3 which is triggered by a bookmark named “State3” A Countdown transition which will count down from 10 seconds until it reaches zero at which point the condition is enabled and the workflow ends. Now this can...