October, 2008

My latest screencast in the Windows WF developer screencast series has been loaded up as of this morning. In this session, I discuss the basics of add persistence services into the workflow runtime using code or configuration. Additionally, to show off...

I’m continuing my series of interviews where I chat with a different expert in the Connected Systems space and find out their thoughts on technology. This month, we’re having a powwow with Matt Milner.  Matt’s a Microsoft MVP, blogger...

We’re within a month of this year’s Professional Developer’s Conference, and like a lot of folks, I’ve bought my ticket and booked my hotel. We’ll unveil a lot of new technology there, but I’d like to provide an early look today at a couple things. You...

Welcome to the fourth week of WF screencasts. This is the last screencast in the WF mini-series; next week, we return to the WCF technology, starting to look at consuming WCF services on your client. This week, CSD Matt Milner from PluralSight guides you through how to add the standard WF persistence service into a WF program . The persistence service is typically used by .NET developers to allow applications to persist application state (if the application were to crash or be shut down, the state...

Microsoft announced today the details of upcoming features that will be added to Windows Server 2008 to provide a rich host for WCF Services and WF workflows. In addition, the announcement provides some information about upcoming features in the .NET...

I've been re-awarded my BizTalk MVP - so a big thanks for allowing me to be part of the program for another year (at least :) A focus of mine is the community - sharing and bettering information sources around the technologies we work and play with...

This announcement came sooner then I expected, I'd assumed PDC was going to be the first time Dublin was mentioned in public! The most detailed information before the PDC can be found here . A number of internal people in the field (myself included...

For me, this year's PDC in LA will totally be about the " Cloud ". Sure topics that interest me are Mesh and Sql Server Data Services (SSDS) , but I'm sure there's more to come, about things like Oslo and other European cities ,...

I mostly stay clear of platform choice debates, not entering very much in “Open Source vs Microsoft” debates, but this one is too hilarious to miss. There’s a (great) platform game for the Xbox360 called “ Braid ”, which is the only Xbox Live Arcade game...

Microsoft's Anders Hejlsberg reveals the history behind one of the most common programming languages, C#, and what the future holds for C#4.0. http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1149786074;pp;1 Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network...

Post on Slashdot on Microsoft's plan to release an OS intended for developers writing cloud-computing applications. Read more here: http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/10/01/1816208.shtml Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks...

As we head towards the PDC later this month, Microsoft today pre-announced some of the things you can expect to see there. To meet the evolving needs of service-oriented applications, Microsoft is extending the capabilities of Windows Server, by adding...

A question which has popped up quite a few times over the last couple of weeks – “For an outbound contract, I see RFC, TRFC, IDOC and BAPI nodes in the UI. However, for an inbound contract, the BAPI node is missing. Why?” Firstly, I’m going to explain...

The below is a sample of retrieving a Manager / ReportsTo DirectoryEntry from Active Directory for a specified account. 1: using System.DirectoryServices; 2: using System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory; 1: private DirectoryEntry GetDirectoryObject...

“Within a month, Microsoft will unveil what Ballmer called "Windows Cloud." The operating system, which will likely have a different name, is intended for developers writing cloud-computing applications, said Ballmer, who spoke to an auditorium...

Here is the latest in my link-listing series .  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Amazon EC2 Support for Windows and ASP...

As promised in my last posting let's take a look at the new "Workflow in the cloud" functionality offered in the July drop of the BizTalk Services This cloud based workflow system leverages Windows Workflow and is hosted in our datacenter...

Ever found it challenging to uninstall a schema or an orchestration? This tool was designed to find all referencing assemblies and related BizTalk artifacts such as Ports, Locations and Orchestrations. Installing the tool: The zip-file includes both source...

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Antti Somersalo brought to my attention that there was a bug in my R2 version of the /dev/null adapter. The bug manifested itself when you tried to export the bindings of any BizTalk Application that used the adapter in one of its send ports, failing...