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The AppFabric team hit another milestone today with the public availability of AppFabric Beta 2. Congrats team!!! Now, because I know there must be some confusion out there, AppFabric is a brand, as I blogged about here . I’ve been doing some posts here lately about extending BizTalk ESB to Windows Azure AppFabric, but that’s not the AppFabric this is about, this is Windows Server AppFabric. It brings together what was formerly codename “Dublin” and codename “Velocity”, and provides a host for WF...

Hot on the heels of my previous talk on AppFabric at SBUG, I will be reprising the talk, but with more of a Workflow Services slant at VBUG in Bracknell on Feb 15th 2010. A big thanks to all who attended the SBUG talk and cool to see the large Avanade...

I’m really chuffed to have not one but 3 new team members on board the MockingBird project. Welcome to Shen Chauhan, my MCS colleague and WPF whizz-kid, Bram Veldhoen and Cormac O’Brien. So, whats cooking for MockingBird in 2010 ? I have a...

Tonight’s meeting of the San Diego .NET user group’s Connected Systems SIG will be all about Windows Workflow 4.0. If you’re in San Diego and not on the mailing list for the Connected Systems SIG, you should head over to http://www.SanDiegoDotNet.com and sign up in order to ensure you get these notifications. Meeting will be at Microsoft La Jolla office, pizza at 6:00, meeting starts at 6:30. Hope to see you there!   ---------------------------------------------------------------------  ...

Prior to joining Microsoft, I can’t tell you how many times I heard “will there be a convergence between BizTalk orchestrations and Windows Workflow Foundation? When do I use what? Are BizTalk Orchestrations going away?”. Since joining Microsoft, I’ve heard it even more. In fact, it has got to be the number one question I hear, and I’m sure that’s also true for many of you. Last week at PDC 2009, Sriram did two things, he announced BizTalk Server 2009 (as I blogged about here ), but also, he demonstrated...

If you have been wondering why we have been quiet for so long – well we have been busy lately… and for a good reason - within a week from now we are going to present some very exciting sessions and demos at the Professional Developers Conference in LA...

I recently downloaded and installed Dev10 Beta-1 and created some images for my team. The Channel-9 video guiding us step by step through the whole process was invaluable. One thing that had me in trouble was the installation of Full Text Search in SQL...

Microsoft has released WCF Champ which not only contains all information for beginners, intermediate and experts on WCF, WCF Services, etc but also contains information about REST, Azure .Net Services, WCF and WF in .Net 4.0 and more… Check out...

Zoiner and I are both travelling this week, but rather than cancel our meetings, we have rejiggered them (I’ve always wanted to use that word in a sentence). So, San Diego .NET User Group Connected Systems and Architecture SIGs are doing a joint meeting...

My latest WCF/WF article was recently published in the January issue of MSDN Magazine . It focuses on the new features found in WCF/WF 4.0 with a special focus on the changes to the WF programming model, XAML-based declarative workflows/services, and...