February, 2012

Earlier this week I blogged about the release of the ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta .  ASP.NET MVC 4 is a significant update that brings with it a bunch of great new features and capabilities.  One of the improvements I’m most excited about is the support it brings for creating “Web APIs”.  Today’s blog post is the first of several I’m going to do that talk about this new functionality. Web APIs The last few years have seen the rise of Web APIs - services exposed over plain HTTP rather than through...

A few days ago we released the ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta .  This is a significant release that brings with it a bunch of great new features and capabilities.  The ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta release works with VS 2010 and .NET 4.0, and is side-by-side compatible with prior releases of ASP.NET MVC (meaning you can safely install it and not worry about it impacting your existing apps built with earlier releases).  It supports a “go-live” license that allows you to build and deploy production apps with...

[Edit 2/5/12: fixed spelling of 'ignorable' everywhere]. Or “What is this weird XAML I get from workflow designer that doesn’t look like ‘normal’ XAML?” (No ‘news’ today, just some WF4 olds in article format, and mostly implementation level trivia stuff at that, but I hope it’s interesting. ) Here’s something I whipped up today while trying to do some XAML related testing. One problem with XAML generated by WorkflowDesigner.Save() is that...

Leon Welicki, PM on the Workflow team, has written a great MSDN Magazine article covering the new WF features in .NET 4.5, including: Workflow Designer enhancements C# expressions Contract-first authoring of WCF Workflow Services Workflow versioning Dynamic update Partial trust Performance enhancements Leave us a comment with your feedback. We'd also love to hear about your ideas and priorities for the next release, so please visit our UserVoice site . Blog Post by: Jurgen Willis

In .NET 4 the Workflow Team released an all new Workflow engine in the System.Activities namespace. This new Workflow technology, which we refer to as WF4, responded to key customer feedback by providing significant programming model, runtime, and authoring enhancements. With the release of .NET 4.5 Beta we are marking the types in the “WF3”, System.Workflow, namespace as obsolete. The following assemblies have one or more public types that will be deprecated: System.Workflow.Activities...

Quick Link Post - today Workflow PM Leon Welicki has an article in MSDN Magazine called “What's New in Windows Workflow Foundation 4.5”. Here is the link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh781025.aspx   This article discusses some enhancements found in the .Net 4.5 Developer Preview. It’s not all new information, some of these enhancements you will probably also have seen mentioned previously in the similarly titled MSDN docs for “What’s new in .Net Framework 4.5” and “What’s new...