Orchestration / Workflow

1 of 1492 | Azure Services Platform's Pricing, Availability - The top questions I get about the Azure Services Platform are about pricing and availability. While exact details have not been announced, there are some guidelines that can help ISVs in early decision making about adopting the new cloud platform. The details are provided on the Azure Services Platform Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page. ISVs can develop on the platform. Users purchase an ISV application and pays you through your own licensing and pricing model. For you to get an idea of how that will work, the site describes Azure Services Pricing. Pricing The site explains: Subject to certain limits, Azure Services will be available without charge during our Community Technology ......

2 of 1492 | Events last week - Last week I attended a couple of events. On Wednesday Microsoft held a SOA/BPM day at the offices in Reading and a number of speakers talked about SOA, the Microsoft platform now and in the future and how to deliver the SOA promise using those technologies. It was a mix of stuff I already new or had seen before and some other perspectives. Darren Jefford gave a good demo on the new wave of cloud technologies. One interesting comment relayed something Don Box had said – that we are only 15 years into a 30 year journey on where Microsoft would like to be in terms of modelling and tools. The jump to the cloud platform is the next step but the current suite of technologies we have seen are ver......

3 of 1492 | Healthcare Reform in China - Last week I reported on my informative trip to visit customers and partners in Japan.  After returning home to Seattle, I thoroughly enjoyed having a few days off to spend with my family over the long Thanksgiving weekend.  This week, my attention is drawn to China; not for a personal visit but rather to share some information from one of my colleagues.  It has been more than a decade since my last visit to China.  Much has changed since then.  But one of my team members, Ben Flock, with our US Health and Life Sciences group, wrote to me during the tail end of my recent visit to Japan.  He asked if I could share some of his observations on how healthcare is ......

4 of 1492 | Cloud-Distributed Computing - [Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman] The combination of .NET Services and SQL Services in the cloud provide a very simple model for implementing massively distributed processing. It's an appealing idea – enterprises of any size have hundreds or thousands of workstations which can be idle for the majority of their time. Assuming a generous average 10% resource utilisation during working hours, workstations which are not powered down are averaging 3.3% utilisation over the working week. Co-ordinating the available processing power of the workstation landscape becomes a lot simpler in the cloud. Work packages are published to the cloud, and workstations retrieve and process t......

5 of 1492 | Living in Outlook: Automatically Categorize With Rules - The Living in Outlook series is about sharing tips and workflows around real-world scenarios. We’ll start the conversation with a topic – you can add to it by posting your tips and workflows in the comments! Because I am usually juggling several projects at once, my Inbox tends to become cluttered with e-mail and meeting requests related to the different things I’m working on. The Color Categories feature has been incredibly useful for organizing and triaging my incoming mail. I have Color Categories defined for each project that I am working on, this way I can quickly tag meetings or mail. Not only is the color of the item now a visual cue, but the categories are anoth......

6 of 1492 | Microsoft Health and Life Sciences Industry Council - China Healthcare Perspectives Thursday, December 11, 2008 2:00pm – 6:00pm, Microsoft Office – 74 Batterson Park Road Farmington, CT 06032 -     Recently, I had an opportunity to do a 2 month work rotation in China.  My primary work assignment was to experience China Healthcare first hand, exchanging best practices and industry experiences with the local Microsoft teams.  It was definitely an eye opening experience.  Prior to the engagement, I assumed that China operated under a pure socialized Healthcare model.  What I learned is that there actually operating under an emerging hybrid model that includes employer based insurance, tiered procedure based pricing, social service supplements, and incomplete population coverage models…very much like ours.  Every US based Healthcare &......

7 of 1492 | Microsoft Health and Life Sciences Industry Council - China Healthcare Perspectives Thursday, December 11, 2008 2:00pm – 6:00pm, Microsoft Office – 74 Batterson Park Road Farmington, CT 06032 -     Recently, I had an opportunity to do a 2 month work rotation in China.  My primary work assignment was to experience China Healthcare first hand, exchanging best practices and industry experiences with the local Microsoft teams.  It was definitely an eye opening experience.  Prior to the engagement, I assumed that China operated under a pure socialized Healthcare model.  What I learned is that there actually operating under an emerging hybrid model that includes employer based insurance, tiered procedure based pricing, social service supplements, and incomplete population coverage models…very much like ours.  Every US based Healthcare &......

8 of 1492 | New Virtual Lab - Using Test First Development with WF 3.5 - I'm very pleased to announce the publication of a new WF 3.5 hands-on lab to the MSDN Virtual Labs site: Using Test-First Development with WF . The new lab covers doing test-first development in the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) technology. The lab explains [at a high level] the concepts of test-first development, and walks the user through how to unit test both custom activities and full WF workflows. Unit testing and test-first development seems to become a very popular topic in the last...(read more)...

9 of 1492 | Are designers and developers really that different? - I’m still figuring out this space and caught this great article over on Think Vitamin posing 10 unanswered questions from the FOWD event in New York. The interesting part of the article is reading people’s responses in the comments section (46 at time of posting). Some of my favourites: Would I be a better designer to work with if I knew coding myself? Yes. Do developers appreciate knowledgeable designers? Yes. That was easy. And This could be huge, or very short. In short the above should meld away when designers and developers get the chance to go for a beer / go bowling / etc. chat briefly about what they are doing and realise that they are all on the same tea......

10 of 1492 | Post PDC Event Slides and Materials - DevelopMentor UK ran a one day post PDC event on Friday at the Microsoft Offices in London. Myself and Dominick covered WF 4.0, Dublin, Geneva, Azure and Oslo You can find the materials and demos here ...

11 of 1492 | SharePoint and CRM, which tool to use? - When I moved from my previous role into this one, I had to get up to speed on Dynamics CRM having never really looked at it before – and to be honest I had no real desire, it was a CRM tool.  Coming from a classic Microsoft architecture background to say I was pleasantly surprised is a wild understatement.  Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a fantastic product, however the name does it no justice at all. We should be looking to rename it Microsoft Business Application Platform or something along those lines.  It offers you the ability to build dynamic xRM applications; a bunch of entities with various attributes attached to them with relationships between them.  Nice, but not g......

12 of 1492 | The A-second-or-so Problem - One of the most important lessons I have learned from making web experiences, is that the little things are much more important than the big stuff. It is the little things that kill you. The big stuff is never really a problem. It is easy to see if you make a big mistake, or if some big part of your web application isn't working. The big problems are easily identified and solved. But what about the little things? What if you have a tiny problem? What about a problem that is so tiny that it seems insignificant. The kind of problem where you say: "Oh, that isn't a problem because you will rarely use it, and it only takes about 8 seconds longer to do. In fact, it would take much longer t......

13 of 1492 | Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint - For the next version of Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2010, new tools for SharePoint development have been announced. The Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint will contain the following features: Server Explorer for SharePoint viewing Lists and other artifacts in SharePoint directly inside of Visual Studio Windows SharePoint Services Project (WSP file) Import to create a new solution Added a new web part project item and showed the Visual web part designer which loads a user control as a web part for SharePoint Showed adding an event receiver for SharePoint and using the wizard to choose the event receiver and to just create a source file with that event receiver. Added an A......

14 of 1492 | ?????? TechDays ??????? ? ?????????? ??? Sharepoint - ? ??????? ? ??????? ??????, ??????? ????? ? ??????, ???????, ?????????????, ?????? ????????? ? ??????????. ? ??????? ??????????? PPTX ? ????? ????????????. ???? ???? ??????? ??? ??????????? – ???? ??? ????????. ????????? ??????? ?? ???? Silverlight+Sharepoint, ?????????????? ? Web, WorkFlow ? ?.?....

15 of 1492 | Adding the SitePoint References to Coda - The following is reprinted from the SitePoint Design View, Issue #52 Mac users will no doubt be aware of Coda, the popular text editor for building web pages from scratch. One reason Coda is so popular is because it brings the workflow for building a web page into a single window — you can browse, edit, preview, upload and change permissions on your files, all from the one application. For designers who get frustrated at having five different applications open to perform all of these tasks, Coda is a godsend. There’s one other task that you can perform from within Coda, and that’s look up reference information. By default, the collection of reference books available is minimal, but you can ......

16 of 1492 | Welcome back - First post in nine months, and very little to report. BizTalk has gone from 2004 to 2006, Windows Workflow Foundation is nearly upon us, and everyone's talking about Web 2.0, whatever that may be. All of which has passed me by, as I've spent most of the last nine months in meetings, fighting fires, and generally trying to keep on top of my undiminishing workload. I'm hoping to restart posting ...

17 of 1492 | ???????Windows Workflow Foundation? -     ??10??????????MVP??????????.NET Framework 4.0??Workflow??????????????????????????Windows Workflow Foundation??????,???MVP???:“????????,??????????????????????????”     ???,??????????????????2006?????.NET 3.0??,???????,??????WPF?????????,WCF???????????,???Workflow????????????????????????????,????????Workflow?????????????????????????,??????????????????,???????????????,???????????Workflow???????????,???????????????????????????????????????????????????     ????????,?????????Workflow?     ??????????????(Workflow Foundation)?3?????: Activity(??),Runtime(???)?Tooling(????)?????????,?????A.R.T——??? Activity???????????,????Activity?????......

18 of 1492 | Enjoying Vista Image Features - If you have followed my blog for a while you know that there were a number of graphic issues I had to begin with.  In a change of event I am noticing lately that there are features of the Windows Explorer that are coming in handy. The first thing was the rating system for images.  Many times I have heard the Lightroom experience described and its star rating system.  From the day I started using Vista I noticed that it had similar capabilities, but it wasn’t clear how to use it beyond a single file.  Honestly, I didn’t think it was that useful and didn’t spend the time to dig deeper. Last week I had a large number of images I wanted to process and I was having a hard time narrowing down t......

19 of 1492 | LINQ and WF Based Custom Profile Provider for ASP.NET 3.5 - A new implementation of the Custom Profile Provider for ASP.NET 3.5, using LINQ, Workflow Foundation and Responsibility-Centric-Singleton DataContexts pattern...

20 of 1492 | Novidades do CRM 5.0 - Antes que alguém me acuse por relevar segredos da Microsoft, este conteúdo foi desenvolvido com informações que já estão públicas na internet! Gostaria de agradecer ao meu colega Simon Hutson, responsável pelo contéudo em inglês. Para aqueles que não puderam participar do Microsoft Professional Developers' Conference (PDC) em Los Angeles  algumas semanas atrás, é possível assistir às sessões através do site do evento:  www.microsoftpdc.com. O evento teve algumas sessões da próxima versão do Microsoft Dynamics CRM ("v.Next"), as quais ainda não tiveram um conteúdo muito profundo mas com demonstrações do build atual do CRM5 , e também informações detalhadas sobre as novas funciona......

21 of 1492 | SharePoint: Blog, Emails, Workflow… - ...ou um formulário do Outlook customizado? Contexto: Você trabalha em uma unidade onde, para padronizar o meio de comunicação, foi criado um modelo de email, divido em áreas onde os autores desses emails deverão obedecer a esse modelo para enviar comunicados para sua área. Você tem instalado em sua base um Windows SharePoint Server 3.0, um servidor de Exchange e um Active Directory, obviamente, distribuído.  //A solução: Que esse autor pudesse enviar um email para um “lugar”, onde esse email ficasse armazenado para futuras consultas e que, a partir desse “lugar”, usuários da sua área pudessem receber esse email. Pois bem, a primeira solução que me veio em mente foi criar um......

22 of 1492 | Technical Books… Do you read them? - A few weeks ago David Lean asked me if I read technical  books. Without a seconds consideration I said – “No way – I look online for everything I need, when I need it!”, to which he quickly replied – “I guess you wont be wanting this then!” and went to put the Programming Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 book back in his bag… “Wait!” I said – “I’ve heard about that book! Let me look at it!” ** Now true to my word of not reading technical books, I got home, popped it in my bookshelf (which funnily enough in itself contradicts my initial reply and if nothing else shows that I do have a great number of technical books!) and didn't look at it again… Until last night. I was waiting for some VP......

23 of 1492 | Blueprints Diary 2 : Getting Started - The Videos - Mike Lehman has posted a set of screen-casts on Channel 9 that explain the process of authoring and composing blueprints, including how to use the WF process workflow, creating custom extensions, using T4 etc. Here is the list of videos and a short summary...(read more)...

24 of 1492 | Cork User Group: Sharepoint on Dec 1st - And for those of you down in Cork - check out the next user group meeting on December 1st focusing on Sharepoint. You can read more details below and register here.   Date:  01 December 2008 19:00 - 21:00 Summary Here is your chance to learn all about Sharepoint from two experienced professionals. Micheal and Martin will cover the basics of Sharepoint initially explaining what it does and how it works. They will then delve into how you can develop applications with Sharepoint covering such topics as SharePoint Overview & Object Model Extending SharePoint Features and Event Receivers Custom Workflows InfoPath Forms Services Web content managem......

25 of 1492 | Eastman Chemical Employees Engineer Thousands of Process Improvements Using Easy-To-Use Software - People drive the most important business outcomes, and software is one of the best investments you can make to enable your people to drive better outcomes.  Eastman Chemical embodies this philosophy in its information technology strategy and the approach is paying dividends. Last month, we released a case study highlighting Eastman Chemical’s approach to driving business value with IT.  Eastman had to answer the question “How do we support a growing business while continuing to optimize our IT resources?” It’s a challenge many chemical companies face - the business demands more, but you have less IT resources to deliver.  Especially in today’s economic environment. Eastman......

26 of 1492 | Locking Down SharePoint Designer - Hello all, Stephen here again – I’m a writer for SharePoint Designer. As you know, SharePoint Designer 2007 is a powerful tool for editing SharePoint sites — so powerful, in fact, that you likely have scenarios in your organization where you want to control where and how people can use SharePoint Designer 2007. With this post, I’ll try to answer a very common question: “How can I lock down SharePoint Designer in my organization?” And I’ll try to answer the flip side of this question, which arises in an environment where SharePoint Designer has been locked down and the user asks: “Why do I see this message when I attempt to edit a site in SharePoint Designer?” Options for locking down ShareP......

27 of 1492 | New ASP.NET Charting Control: - Microsoft recently released a cool new ASP.NET server control - <asp:chart /> - that can be used for free with ASP.NET 3.5 to enable rich browser-based charting scenarios: Download the free Microsoft Chart Controls Download the VS 2008 Tool Support for the Chart Controls Download the Microsoft Chart Controls Samples Download the Microsoft Chart Controls Documentation Visit the Microsoft Chart Control Forum Once installed the <asp:chart/> control shows up under the "Data" tab on the Toolbox, and can be easily declared on any ASP.NET page as a standard server control: <asp:chart /> supports a rich assortment of char......

28 of 1492 | Best Practices For Windows Workflow Foundation - Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) imposes some restrictions on the developer authoring programs that target it. But in return WF offers a powerful, flexible, and extensible set of runtime services such as support for long-running code. In the December 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Josh Lane provides some best practices to consider when using WF to realize software solutions in the real world. See the MSDN Magazine archives to learn more about Windows Communication Foundation....

29 of 1492 | Meer Meer: Cross browser testing all through your one browser! - The most exciting part of Adobe MAX last week was a service that was announced by Paul Gubbay at the “Sneaks” session that shows cool tech that Adobe folk are working on. His (very early stage) service is called Meer Meer and it is genuinely useful. You can plugin a URL and the system will render that page on a server farm (many browsers, cross OS) and show you the results. It can visually layer these results so you can see the differences. It was awesome. I pinged Paul and had a nice conversation with him about the project: Can you explain what Meer Meer is, and where you got the inspiration? Meer Meer is the code name for a new hosted service that allows Web Pros to view their content on......

30 of 1492 | [SharePoint Designer] CONDITION: If title field contains keywords -   The Condition: If title field contains keywords How is it used? When adding this condition to a workflow, the workflow checks if a specific field is in the specific library / list. If it is, the condition is true and thus, the actions are then implemented. Example:   ...

31 of 1492 | [SharePoint] Out of the box Review and Feedback Collector -   SharePoint has an out of the box, collect feedback Workflow. Although that could be used most of the time, there is an option to create your own feedback workflow through wizards. These are the steps one should follow: Go to your document library you wish to use the customized feedback workflow Click on Settings Choose Document Library Settings Then click on Workflow Settings under Permissions and Management Section Click Add a workflow Choose from the wizard according to what are you after. Below is an example I made: ...

32 of 1492 | Dev Team Management best practices - Goal Ensure your developers build code to meet the spec (the contract of customer requirements) in a timely manner Ensure your developers build code changes that don’t break the spec and that pass functional requirements Ensure your developers build code which is robust (not fragile) and that meets design and code quality guidelines   The Spec Make sure that the technical analyst provides appropriate specs! Keep it deliverable – compile-able. No point building mounds of UML diagrams that don’t stay in synch with the project consists of: Use Case Scenarios, Interfaces, Code Contracts, Unit Tests, pre & post conditions. To plug in Use Case Scena......

33 of 1492 | The twists and turns this industry takes. - It's been an extremely interesting past week. I and a few of my colleagues decided to check out the Adobe MAX 2008 conference to see what the other side has to say about the future of the web (much like their folks come to MIX conferences). I've got a bunch of notes and a lot of what I saw was simply Adobe reacting to Microsoft's position in the market. We've stated workflow and collaboration was the key driver for success, Adobe appears to agree to the point where they've dedicated the bulk of this year to focusing in on our MIX07 style showcase wins, it was almost like watching MIX07 all over again only less sizzle in terms of innovation. Many will comment on what they think has happe......

34 of 1492 | Architecture Meta Frame Cheat Sheet - We posted our Architecture Meta Frame Cheat Sheet to CodePlex as part of our Application Architecture Knowledge Base.   The Architecture Meta Frame (AMF) is a lens to help you quickly navigate the application architecture space.  You can think of it as bringing together some of the important factors that shape applications.  You can also use it as a way to help find hot spots for focusing your architecture efforts. Architecture Meta Frame (AMF) The Architecture Meta Frame integrates context, application types, architecture styles, and an architecture frame to help map out the application architecture space. The Architecture Meta Frame serves as a durable, evolvab......

35 of 1492 | Cloud Computing - Seriously! - Cloud computing is a disruptive force that has the potential to change everything, but how do we take advantage of it? At Microsoft, cloud computing is a major component of our technology strategy and platform, and a rich and massively scalable cloud platform called the Azure Services Platform was just unveiled at PDC by Ray Ozzie (Ray’s keynote). Come for a discussion on how Microsoft’s platform can be leveraged to create a new class of applications that are more connected, dynamic, and can extend existing IT investments towards cloud computing. Facilitated by Microsoft, the premise of this group is to provide an open forum where architects can meet to discuss technologies with their peer......

36 of 1492 | Data Services - "Can I get a CustomerService with that?" "No." Why do we always gravitate towards the data centric services? I honestly believe its because its just easier to do. Data is always defined, whether its in DDL (CREATE TABLE ( Name char(4));) or in C# (private string _name;) we have solid ways to define data. These names and definitions make it easier for me to work with it. On top of this, it seems to me that the English language is good at describing nouns (really?), but for some reason when it comes to verbs I begin to falter (That is a brown, female, purebreed horse vs that horse can run like the wind, jump 20 feet high and dance the macarena) there is just something different in the f......

37 of 1492 | Developer Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training Resources - Developer Role Training Resources     Course Title Course Type Level MSDN Webcast: Customizing SharePoint Server 2007  Web Seminar 100 MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 and AJAX   Web Seminar 100 MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 and Authentication   Web Seminar 100 MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 and Silverlight  Web Seminar 100 MSDN Webcast: Build Serious Applications Using SharePoint Server 2007   Web Seminar 200 MSDN Webcast: Building High-Grade Applications Using Office SharePoint Server 2007  Web Seminar 200 MSDN Webcast: Collaborative Project Management with SharePoint......

38 of 1492 | El servicio asíncrono da Error 401 cuando ejecutamos un workflow - Últimamente estamos viendo este problema bastantes veces, por tanto no podíamos dejar de añadirlo a nuestro blog. El error ocurre en las siguientes condiciones: Nuestro Crm 4.0 está instalado en un Windows Server 2008. El servicio asíncrono está arrancado con una cuenta de dominio (es decir, ni Local System ni Servicio de Red). Dicha cuenta de dominio no está marcada en Directorio Activo para permitir delegación de credenciales. El síntoma principal es que los los trabajos de workflow no logran ejecutarse correctamente y se quedan en espera. Si cogemos trazas (si no sabéis cómo, mirad los posts anteriores de mi compa......

39 of 1492 | New Melbourne User Group - Silverlight Designer and Developer Network - Got this note from Jordan Knight today. Looks like a great new group staring up with some smart people in Melbourne. The Silverlight Designer and Developer Network Starts Next Week! Launching next week, the SDDN, which is part of Victoria .NET,  is a new special interest group completely and absolutely for Silverlight and surrounding tools and technologies. As the name suggests SDDN is for developers and designers alike! Content will range from the most basic of Silverlight concepts to advanced topics like designer/developer workflow. When and Where? The group’s first meeting is on Thursday November 27 at 5:30 PM for a 6:00 PM start. The venue is Microsoft Th......

40 of 1492 | Reusable Navigation and workflow for both Windows and Web using Microsoft UIP blocks - Reusable Navigation and workflow for both Windows and Web using Microsoft UIP blocks...

41 of 1492 | patterns & practices Performance Engineering Cheat Sheet - We posted our patterns & practices Performance Engineering Cheat Sheet to our Application Architecture Knowledge Base on CodePlex.   It’s a bird’s-eye view of applying our performance techniques to the life cycle.  The techniques and approach shipped with VSTS/MSF Agile starting in 2005. Performance Engineering Overlay Here’s a view that overlays our key performance techniques alongside common software engineering activities:    Key Activities in the Life Cycle The core activities you should consider performing include the following: Performance Objectives. Budgeting. Performance Modeling. Performance Design Guidelines. Performance D......

42 of 1492 | patterns & practices Security Engineering Cheat Sheet - We posted our patterns & practices Security Engineering Cheat Sheet to our Application Architecture Knowledge Base on CodePlex.   It’s a bird’s-eye view of applying our security techniques to the life cycle.  The techniques and approach shipped with VSTS/MSF Agile starting in 2005. Security Engineering Overlay Here’s a view that overlays our key patterns & practices security techniques alongside common software engineering activities: Key Activities in the Life Cycle The core activities you should consider performing include the following: Security Objectives. Threat Modeling. Security Design Guidelines. Security Design Inspection. Securi......

43 of 1492 | Twin Cities .NET User Group - A lap around Microsoft .NET Services - I'm happy to be giving a talk at the upcoming Twin Cities .NET User Group on December 4 at the Microsoft office.  I'll be talking about the Microsoft .NET Services component within the newly announced Azure Services Platform.  I'm going to cover the Service Bus, Workflow Service and Access Control Service.  We'll have several demos and I'll be providing all the code.  Stop by if you want an early look at this emerging technology.  ...

44 of 1492 | eXtreeeeeeeme Project Management - In addition to learning WWF (that's Windows Workflow Foundation, Paul) I'm also reading a book given to me at the client, titled: eXtreme Project Management. I haven't read any PM books before, and I've only just started this one. The intent is for me to read, discuss and learn, so I figure why not open it up to a broader audience and see what you think too... 1) Have any of you read this book?  It's by Doug DeCarlo, published in 2004. 2) If you have, what did you think? 3) Whether you have or not, if you know a thing or two about eXtreme Project Management vs Traditional Project Management... feel free to speak up as well. Thanks! edit: AaronE has a relevant blogpost here......

45 of 1492 | I'm on MSDN's Endpoint.TV - During a recent trip to Redmond, I was interviewed by Ron Jacobs for his Endpoint.TV series. I had just been shown a bunch of new things, was full of excitement, and we had a great chat about models, clouds, workflow... all my current hot-buttons :) http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Endpoint/endpointtv-WCF-and-WF-40-First-Look-with-Brian-Loesgen/   Enjoy!   Technorati Tags: Oslo,Cloud Computing,WF,Workflow ...

46 of 1492 | new gig - I've been pretty quiet the last week and a half (at least in my blog... I'm still twittering plenty.) The reason for this is that I've started a new gig with Magenic and I've been really, really busy. This new gig has me traveling from Minneapolis to a smallish town named Mitchell, SD and back each week. Between work and travel (and spending most of my nights getting up to speed on new stuff and new concepts) I haven't had much time to blog regularly. So, I'm going to try to make a conscious effort to reverse that trend. I still have a few more of my NINE Questions interviews in the can, so I'll be putting those out there, and I'll try to provide some updates on the fun experiences I'......

47 of 1492 | Unit Testing For Workflows - Because Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is based on a runtime that manages the execution of workflows and activities, testing must, in almost all cases, involve the use of the runtime – and this can introduce some interesting challenges. In the November 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Matt Milner presents some techniques for unit testing activities, workflows, and associated components. You can browse the source code online. For more articles on testing, be sure to check out our MSDN Magazine archives....

48 of 1492 | WF 3.5 SendActivity with ChannelManagerService followup - Here's a short video on how to use the WF 3.5 SendActivity with the ChannelManagerService to populate named Endpoints.  It also shows how to "subvert" the SharePoint WF Runtime to add custom services, including the ChannelManagerService....

49 of 1492 | WF 3.5 SendActivity with ChannelManagerService followup - Here's a short video on how to use the WF 3.5 SendActivity with the ChannelManagerService to populate named Endpoints.  It also shows how to "subvert" the SharePoint WF Runtime to add custom services, including the ChannelManagerService. Check out my new book on REST. ...

50 of 1492 | ??Azure????,.Net Services??????????(Access Control) -     10?27???????????Ray Ozzie???????“????????”(PDC)???????????AzureTM????,???????????????????????????”??+??”???,??????????????????,?????????,????????????     ???AzureTM??????????AzureTM???????????????????Windows Azure????????????????????????????????,??,?????????Windows AzureTM??????,?????Live Services,.NET Services,SQL Services,SharePoint Services?Dynamics CRM Services???????,?????????????????        ?????????,???.NET Services???????????????????????????.NET??????????,??????????????(WS-*?REST)???????????????Windows,Linux?????????????,?????.NET,Java,Ruby,????????,?????.NET Services????????,?????????????,???????????????????-????......