June, 2010

(An off-topic post) I've been putting up with various programs installing themselves in Japanese, Korean, etc when I really just want English for a few years now. In fact it really seems like it happens every time I install a program which has an InstallShield installer. I like to imagine the world ten or fifteen years ago in some early version of InstallShield was something like this. [Jim, the manager] Hey Dave (the Dev), I keep getting these hard to read emails from foreign addresses complaining...

Here's some really useful information for workflow 4.0. So useful, in fact, that it is covered by numerous other sources already (such as other people's blogs and the WF4 samples) – but! It still seems that this information is hard to find and in particular I have a hard time finding them! So it seems fair to post it just in case. :-) A problem you might often see while designing custom activities is that the obvious ways of passing data to/from a workflow or activity only work when...

[Edit – I had to cut the pictures, they got broken by software update issues.] With two forum posts in two days vaguely related to Literal<T>, suddenly the Literal<T> problem seems interesting again. Shortly prior to the release of Visual Studio 2010 and .net 4.0, there was a list of breaking changes posted on the endpoint blog, with one section that I was mostly too lazy to think about at the time. Reference Types in Literal <T> Expressions Description : Literal expressions are...

I apologize to my reader or so for the lack of updates recently. I have been knee deep in work for our next release and have not had much spare time. I will also be fixing my code segments soon which are now cut off due to the re-theming of our blogs. Patrick Blog Post by: patcarna

…at least when it comes to handling of decimal numbers – and it probably goes for all other non-English locales that doesn’t use period as the decimal delimiter. If you look closely at the screenshots below, you’ll notice that I’ve entered 2500,00 – that is two thousand comma zero zero in Norwegian. 250000 – two [...] Blog Post by: larsw

I’ve compiled a list of bloggers who seem to focus on WF4.0. Please post a comment if you have any blogs I’ve missed. Matt Winkler [MSFT] http://blogs.msdn.com/mwinkle/ Kushal Shah [MSFT] http://blogs.msdn.com/kushals/ Ron Jakobs [MSFT] http://blogs.msdn.com/rjacobs/ The Activity Designer [MSFT] http://blogs.msdn.com/tilovell/ Request/Reply [MSFT] http://blogs.msdn.com/endpoint/ Zafar Mohammed [MSFT] http://blogs.msdn.com/mimran/ The .NET Endpoint [MSFT] http://blogs.msdn.com/endpoint/ Cathy Dumas...

Now, the title is a bit cryptic, so let me elaborate; earlier this week, I noticed that when I tried to add a service reference to a WCF Workflow service in the same ASP.NET Web Application, I didn’t get the expected result; custom activities for the service operations in the toolbox (when designing another WF [...] Blog Post by: larsw