August, 2010

Last night I saw that Maurice had a few tweets that caught my attention about flowchart, but this is the one that I want to talk about: Come to think of it I also really mis a parallel execution in a flowchart. But other than that flowcharts rock! #wf4 #dm about 13    hours ago via web I thought about replying on twitter, but it’s a bit of a longer topic.   When we were building the flowchart for VS2010, we considered a number of possible capabilities, but ultimately the...

Hi all, I’m back, and apologize for the delay, things have been crazy here and I’ve taken a little time off following shipping VS2010, so I’m getting back into it.  I’d like to talk about one of my favorite late additions to the WF4 designer programming model.  We added this change sometime in the RC/RTM timeframe in response to some feedback that we had gotten about the verbose-ness of programming against ModelItem. If you recall from this post , ModelItem exists to serve as a INotifyPropertyChanged...

(non-WF post) I had a debugging experience which was mildly shocking today. Here is some Assert-like code.                   object castValue = TypeCasting.DynamicCast(propertyValue, expectedType, false);                 if (expectedValue != castValue)                 {...