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One of the really important new features in Windows Workflow Foundation 4.5 is the capability to version workflows and workflow instances. You get to choose what you want to do, either keep running existing instances with their original workflow definition or upgrade them to the latest workflow definition...

One of the really important new features in Windows Workflow Foundation 4.5 is the capability to version workflows and workflow instances. You get to choose what you want to do, either keep running existing instances with their original workflow definition or upgrade them to the latest workflow definition...

In deze podcast spreekt Maurice de Beijer met Matt Milner over zijn TechDays presentaties. Ze hebben het onder meer over REST service en waarom je die wil gebruiken ipv SOAP services. Daarnaast komt Windows Workflow Foundation aan bod en wat daar allemaal nieuw is. Verder spreken ze over Windows Azure...

One thing that many web sites do is to verify email addresses by sending you an email to complete registration.  I decided to build a Registration system for ASP.NET MVC using Windows Workflow Foundation. When you create a new ASP.NET MVC web site, the site comes with a simple account controller...

People have been wondering for a while what the future of WF3 was since the release of WF4. So far both workflow stacks have coexisted in .NET 4 and there has been no official statement about the future of the older WF3 stack.   That has just changed! The workflow team at Microsoft has just announced...

This is the 3rd post about what is new with Windows Workflow Foundation in .NET 4.5 as announced at the //build/ conference. See also part 1 about the designer enhancements and part 2 about the other runtime enhancements.   This 3rd post is about one of the biggest missing pieces which is versioning...

During the last //build/ conference a number of new WF4.5 features where announced. In part 1 I took a look at the designer improvements, in this blog post I am going to take a look at some of the runtime enhancements.   New activities. As part of WF 4.5 we will see some new activities in the box...

During the last //build/ conference a number of new WF4, or should I now say WF4.5, features where announced. While the list of new features isn’t earth shattering long some of the most annoying shortcomings where addressed.   Designer enhancements As a developer I spend a lot of time in the designer...

In my previous posts I’ve been arguing that you can implement Task Parallelism with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4).  Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4) Activities and Threads The Workflow Parallel Activity and Task Parallelism Windows Workflow (WF4) Task Parallelism with Sequences One of the most...

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...

“ Task parallelism (also known as function parallelism and control parallelism ) is a form of parallelization of computer code across multiple processors in parallel computing environments. Task parallelism focuses on distributing execution processes (threads) across different parallel computing nodes...

Most of the time in software when we say “Parallel” we mean that multiple threads are being used to do work concurrently.  Because of this, many customers ask if the Parallel activity works this way in Windows Workflow Foundation.  I know there is a great deal of confusion about activities...

With Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4) you can author activities in Code or XAML.  Each has advantages and disadvantages Visibility Advantage – XAML You can author them in the Workflow Designer.  Here is a activity I’ve been working with today.  You can easily see what this activity does...

Recently I was contacted by a customer who had read my posts on Versioning and was investigating some interesting behavior of activity designers (more on this in a future post).  But this discussion got me to thinking.  As I pointed out in my WF4 Activity Versioning Solution , with compiled...

In my previous post on WorkflowServices, CanCreateInstance and Silverlight I shared with you some of the pain that I went through in building my first Silverlight / Workflow Services app.  Much of this pain was just because I have not done a great deal of work with Silverlight and WCF.  In...

While working on signing assemblies you may run into a problem I encountered this morning so here goes… Problem XamlBuildTask fails when referencing a Delay Signed assembly To see this in action try the following Create a Workflow Console Application (WorkflowConsoleApp1) Create an Activity Library ...

If you are using .NET 4 Platform Update 1 to do unit testing you may encounter this dialog box when you try to change the target framework of your test project Tip: You can press Ctrl+C on a message box to copy the text to the clipboard.  If you want to go to the link mentioned in the message box...

For those that attended the Guerrilla Enterprise .NET course last week in Copenhagen and didn't get a change to download all the sample you can download all the demos Richard Blewett, Dominick Baier and I wrote from here . And thanks for being there, it was a fun event :) Blog Post by: Maurice

tempuri.org is the default namespace applied to WCF Services and Workflow Services.  You can and should specify your service namespace. It is recommended that you explicitly specify a name and namespace for the service contract, and an action for each operation to avoid using " http://tempuri...

Humans Go to Control Panel / Programs / Programs and Features / View Installed Updates Use the Search Box to search the updates for KB2495593 KB2478063 Or if you prefer, search the list your self Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Platform Update 1 - Runtime Update Look for .NET Framework 4 Extended Look for...

Some time ago I blogged about how to get the SqlWorkflowInstanceStore working with SQL Azure. In order for this to work we had to make a few changes to the SqlWorkflowInstanceStoreSchema.sql script and as a result we ended up in a working but officially not supported scenario. And while this worked just...

Lots of people like to use the state machine model workflow as this is a very flexible way of working that often fits in with how real work processes work. With WF3 we had a state machine workflow but with WF4 this was not ready in time and as a result we didn’t get to use this model. There where a few...

A question on StackOverflow about scheduling child activities with some additional input parameters made me remember that this is kind on not obvious to figure out and even though I new the answer I had to think hard before I could code up a demo. So I figured I might as well post it on my blog for future...

I don’t remember anyone ever actually asking me this, but I found myself wondering the question while rustling up a quick rehosting app. Foreach<> activity lets you change the TypeArgument dynamically via the property grid. But FlowSwitch<>...( read more ) Blog Post by: The .NET Endpoint...

If you are a C# developer using Workflow you might not know how VB does type conversion. Imagine this simple example.  I’ve got some classes which use inheritance 1: public abstract class Shape 2: { 3: public int Top { get; set; } 4:   5: public int Left { get; set; } 6: } 7:   8: public...