Orchestration / Workflow

1201 of 1492 | Even More Prizes - Yes, the prize list for the Daily Grind 1000 contest is still getting longer. We got a few more donations this past week, and it's edging up towards $25,000 in total value. Meanwhile, your peers have been entering. When I publish The Daily Grind #1000 in late October, some lucky folks are going to win big. Thanks for all your support over the years, and I hope you'll take a few minutes to check out the contest sponsors as well.. There's still plenty of time to get your name in the running. If you're a software vendor, feel free to contact me for information on how you can add to the festivities. Contest Rules There are two ways that you can e......

1202 of 1492 | Typed XML programmer -- What are your pains today? - This post continues the series on “Typed XML programmer -- Where do you want to go tomorrow?”. This time, let’s ponder about ‘the 1st generation of typed XML programming’. What are the imperfections of the 1st generation? (Thanks for your feedback so far. In particular, I loved Bill's thoughts on ‘XML as a true first-class citizen’ and the behavior that is to be associated with such ‘XML in objects’. Bill, do not spoil my story any further; I am getting there!)   Definitions of typed XML programming   Let me recall my simple definition of typed XML programming that I offered previously: “Typed XML programming is XML programming in mainstream OO languages like C#, Java and VB ......

1203 of 1492 | Typed XML programmer -- What are your pains today? - This post continues the “Typed XML programmer” series of blog posts. This time, let’s ponder about ‘the 1st generation of typed XML programming’. What are the imperfections of the 1st generation? (Thanks for your feedback so far. In particular, I loved Bill's thoughts on ‘XML as a true first-class citizen’ and the behavior that is to be associated with such ‘XML in objects’. Bill, do not spoil my story any further; I am getting there!)   Definitions of typed XML programming   Let me recall my simple definition of typed XML programming that I offered previously: “Typed XML programming is XML programming in mainstream OO languages like C#, Java and VB while leveraging XML ......

1204 of 1492 | The Daily Grind 938 - Bringing up a new server from scratch is always such fun. SandCastle Helper is updated with new GUI -Mikael Söderström is charging right along in his effort to make SandCastle more usable.  XSuperTooltip - Office 2007 Super Tooltip class - C++ implementation for those who want to keep up with the user interface Joneses. CaptainHook Is On SourceForge - Phil Haack's Subversion hooks in .NET are ready for you to work on. Paint.NET v2.70 Beta 1 now available via auto-updater - If you're running Paint.NET, you can get the latest spiffy special effects. Fiddler 1.2 - This HTTP debugging tool for IE is......

1205 of 1492 | Party Time at Larkware - That's the basic idea behind the Larkware 1000 contest. I'm still on track to publish The Daily Grind #1000 in late October. To celebrate this milestone, I'm having a little contest, whose purpose is to give stuff away to you loyal readers. Thanks for all your support over the years, and I hope you'll take a few minutes to check out the contest sponsors as well.. Entries are starting to come in, of course, but there's still plenty of time to get your name in the running. Prizes are still trickling in, too - if you're a software vendor, feel free to contact me for information on how you can get in on the fun. Contest Rules There are ......

1206 of 1492 | OSCON 2006: Web Heresies: The Seaside Framework - This week, Kevin Yank is reporting from OSCON 2006 in Portland, OR. Avi Bryant has the dubious distinction of being one of the few web geeks with an avid interest in Smalltalk, and has created a web application development framework that suits his particular fancy. That framework is Seaside. As it turns out, Seaside also breaks a lot of the conventional wisdom that is embraced by many other web frameworks, and those “heresies” are what Bryant focused on in this talk. The first of the rules broken by Seaside is that web designers are responsible for producing HTML code. Many other frameworks go to great lengths to provide sophisticated template systems that allow developers and designers ......

1207 of 1492 | New WF Rules Sample - Demonstration of custom action types c/o my favorite rules PM. http://wf.netfx3.com/files/folders/rules_samples/default.aspx ...

1208 of 1492 | New WF Rules Sample - Demonstration of custom action types c/o my favorite rules PM. http://wf.netfx3.com/files/folders/rules_samples/default.aspx ...

1209 of 1492 | The Daily Grind 933 - OK, I'm ready to ship this project and move on to the next one. Fixing the last few bugs is never any fun. Hello World in C# on Java - Yes, now you can compile your C# code into JARs. Well, for some subset of the language, anyhow. (via Jeroen Frijters) Exchange Server 2007 Beta 2 and Forefront Security for Exchange Beta - Assuming you've got a spare 64-bit server hanging around, you can start playing with the next generation of Exchange. You can also download the matching SDK or read the press release. CRN had the first review out that I saw.......

1210 of 1492 | Review: xSQL Compare Bundle - 0.2 Review: xSQL Compare Bundle xSQL Compare Bundle 2.0, $399 xSQL Software Atlanta, Georgia (800) 658-7604 http://www.x-sql.com/default.aspx The xSQL Compare Bundle includes two separate applications (which are also available separately): xSQL Object 2 for comparing SQL Server schemas, and xSQL Data Compare 2 for comparing the data stored in SQL Server databases. Both applications have been completely rewritten from their 1.0 versions, and now support buffed-up user interfaces with a SQL Server look and feel, full support for all SQL S......

1211 of 1492 | The Larkware 1000 Contest - The Daily Grind #1000 is due to be published in late October. To celebrate this milestone, I'm having a little contest, whose purpose is to give stuff away to you loyal readers. If you've been paying attention, you'll see that there are a few new sponsors this week, and the prize list has more than doubled in value. So, it's a great time to enter. Thanks for all your support over the years, and I hope you'll take a few minutes to check out the contest sponsors as well.. Entries are starting to come in, of course, but there's still plenty of time to get your name in the running. Prizes are still trickling in, too - if you're a software vendo......

1212 of 1492 | Upcoming Free ASP.NET Team Webcasts -- "Live from Redmond" - Earlier this spring the ASP.NET Team presented several great MSDN web-casts.  The response to those was so great that we've scheduled a bunch of new ASP.NET 2.0 talks over the next two months.  Below is a list of them, along with a registration URL that you can use to sign-up to watch them for free: DateTitleSpeakerRegistration URL25-JulASP.NET: An Overview of ASP.NET and Windows Workflow Foundation IntegrationKashif AlamClick here3-AugASP.NET: Building Real-World Web Application UI with Master Pages, Themes and Site NavigationPete LePageClick here10-AugASP.NET: Creating Web Applications Using Visual Studio 2005 Team SystemJeff KingClick here17-AugASP.NET Atlas: A Develop......

1213 of 1492 | Lightroom beta for Windows is here! - By very popular demand*, Adobe has posted the first publicly available version of Lightroom for Windows on Adobe Labs. Swing by the product page to snag a copy of Adobe's new pro photography workflow application. A few notes: There is no update for the Mac beta program at the moment. The current Mac version is Beta 3, released in June. The Windows beta will be labeled Beta 3 but is not perfectly in sync with the current Mac build (no Web Module, Identity Plates or ability to add music to slideshows just yet). There's also plenty of performance optimization left...

1214 of 1492 | The Daily Grind 928 - They do eventually start sleeping at night, right? TeamCity - JetBrains is getting ready to come out with an integrated team environment that supports automated and continuous builds, code coverage and analysis, IDE integration, and other nifty features. There's an EAP that you can join to get your hands on testing builds. Magic eDeveloper V10 - New release of this platform and framework for building large-scale business applications. Mobile Client Software Factory – July 2006 - Another tool from the patterns & practices people. Microsoft Pre-Release Software Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 - ......

1215 of 1492 | Basics of Working with Custom Types in Workflow - If you have used a custom type for an activity / workflow property you have probably ran into a few issues.  You might have had problems trying to get it serialized correctly or to be able to set the value in the property browser.  With this post I will try and shed some light on some of the basics.  I will be working with the following custom type:   [Serializable()] public class MyType {     string paramOne;     string paramTwo;       public MyType(string paramOne, string paramTwo)     {         ParamOne = paramOne;         P......

1216 of 1492 | The Larkware 1000 Contest - The Daily Grind #1000 is due to be published in late October. To celebrate this milestone, I'm having a little contest, whose purpose is to give stuff away to you loyal readers. If you've been paying attention, you'll see that there are a few new sponsors this week, and the prize list has more than doubled in value. So, it's a great time to enter. Thanks for all your support over the years, and I hope you'll take a few minutes to check out the contest sponsors as well.. Entries are starting to come in, of course, but there's still plenty of time to get your name in the running. Contest Rules There are two ways that you can enter......

1217 of 1492 | Do you need to launch another process from your workflow? - When start another process from your workflow you can’t just not return from the Execute method until the process completes.  This would block the entire workflow from receiving any other events and would hold onto the thread.  Instead you need to use a queue to get notification when the process completes....

1218 of 1492 | Do you want to invoke another workflow but you won't know which one until runtime? - The InvokeWorkflowActivity that ships with WF requires you to set the type of the target workflow at design time.  If you won’t know which workflow to invoke until runtime you need to write a custom activity. To invoke a workflow need to use the IStartWorkflow service that you can get from the ActivityExecutionContext, like the following:   IStartWorkflow startWorkflow = executionContext.GetService(typeof(IStartWorkflow)) as IStartWorkflow;   Guid instanceId = startWorkflow.StartWorkflow(this.TargetWorkflow, this.Parameters);   Since the parameters won’t be known until runtime you can’t use the WorkflowParameterBindingsCollection because you wouldn’t be able to cha......

1219 of 1492 | Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference Request for Session Proposals - Call For SessionsMicrosoft’s SOA & Business Process Conference is the event for our customers and partners to learn about new and updated information on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Management (BPM), and Microsoft’s own Connected Systems infrastructure. Over 4 days, attendees will learn about the strategies and technologies that Microsoft is delivering over the next year, such as BizTalk Server, .NET Framework 3.0, and Office 2007. Three technical tracks will provide depth and detail into best practices for building BPM solutions, guidance for advancing your SOA, and using the latest development tools and technologies for connecting people, processes and in......

1220 of 1492 | Microsoft's "A Foundation for the New World of Documents" - A tale of two tipping points. Microsoft’s Chris Capossela has published on MSDN an explanation of MS’s position on XML formats that is, I think, really important and useful. Microsoft needs to stimulate new opportunities for their developers Until HTML came along, only the people involved in text-based markup languages (SGML, LaTeX, remanant troff and proprietary formats, CVS and other homemade formats) could really put together large document systems successfully with low failure rates. Word macros and binary translators don’t cut it; they are a honeyed tar baby that traps you at a fairly low level of automation. With HTML and XML the ability to construct softwar......

1221 of 1492 | The ColdFusion Podcast Episode 22 - ColdFusion Admin API - This week a few news items and brief discussion of the Admin API and how to access those components programatically. We'll be podcasting every 2 weeks instead of once a week to focus our efforts on more comprehensive research of frameworks, applications, and more in-depth topics. Max Kiesler - Round-up of 50 AJAX Toolkits and Frameworks Johan van Mol .org - The Unicode Workflow Annotations for ColdFusion Podcast Episode 21: Performance Tuning - TalkingTree.com Strikefish Blog: Poorly written SQL is the root of all evil! Macromedia - ColdFusion TechNote : ColdFusion MX 6.1, MX 7.0: CFQUERY, CFSTOREDPROC maxrows behavior Listen...

1222 of 1492 | The Daily Grind 923 - Not too much cooking this morning. TestDriven.NET Enterprise & Professional - This appears to be "buy it because it's the right thing to do" licensing - you can still download the personal version for free. ShinyPower! - C# application to browse the help files for PowerShell. IEFeedManager - RSS Reader+Internet Explorer 7 Feed Manager - .NET 2.0 application that builds on IE7's built-in RSS functionality. ASP.NET 2.0 Web Menu Editor - Windows Forms application for editing ASP.NET 2.0 SiteMap files. (via Jason Haley) --> wf.netfx3.com new rss feeds - Just in case you want to try to keep up with the ......

1223 of 1492 | The Daily Grind 922 - Oh boy, another Monday, and already the e-mail is piling up. OmniPeek Personal - Packet capture and network analysis tool with all sorts of spiffy displays and expert analysis options. Free for personal use. ELMAH for ASP.NET 2.0 - I hadn't realized this excellent error-logging tool for ASP.NET had been rebuilt to work without issues in ASP.NET 2.0 apps. Good news, and still free. .netCHARTING 4.0 - New version of this super-spiffy charting engine. TeamDirection Project for SharePoint - Project Management software that uses SharePoint as its backend. 15-day trial download is he......

1224 of 1492 | Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Interaction - Visualized - I have been speaking out against the use of synchronous interaction principles on this site, and other places. It is has mostly been trough to use of words, but I really wanted to illustrate it instead.The difference between asynchronous and synchronous interaction is that when it is synchronous you have to do each step at the time. You cannot do two things - or what is called multitasking. Take uploading a file. To do this, you have to:Select the files you want to uploadClick the upload buttonWait for the files to be uploadedWork with themYou cannot chose to upload another set of files while the first ones are being uploaded, nor can you start to work with them (like adding tags) before th......

1225 of 1492 | Guess Word - A game written in .Net 3.0 using WPF and WWF - Using the 3D graphics capabilities of the new Windows Presentation Foundation and the rules library available in Workflow Foundation (via DmRules), this game shows how easy it is to write interactive 3D applications with .Net 3.0....

1226 of 1492 | Web Directions 06 (Sydney, September 26-29) - webdirections 06, the successor to Web Essentials 04 and 05, will be held in Sydney on September 26-29. Over two big days of WD06, plus two days of workshops, you’ll hear from international speakers: Kelly Goto, Derek Featherstone, Jeremy Keith, Thomas Vander Wal, Andy Clarke and Molly Holzschlag, as well as all the local folk, who have also been doing some pretty exciting things this last year: standards based development with (X)HTML, CSS, DOM scripting and AJAX the latest design approaches web app design and development user experience interaction design information architecture, including tag clouds and folksonomies website and web app accessi......

1227 of 1492 | Review: OnTime 2006 - 0.2 Review: OnTime 2006 OnTime 2006 V6.1, $149 per user Axosoft Scottsdale, Arizona (480) 362-1900 http://www.axosoft.com/Products/ontime.aspx?cn=otm_overview OnTime2006 is a .NET-based bug and feature tracking system with a flexible set of user interfaces and a very wide set of features. You'll find, broadly speaking, two different camps in the design of bug-tracking systems. One camp believes in trying to limit the feature set to only the essentials so as to make the process streamlined. The other camp believes in making a large varie......

1228 of 1492 | Tip/Trick: Gathering Custom User Registration Information - Problem You are building a web-site that allows customers to register new users on the site.  As part of the registration process, you naturally want to allow them to create a username and password.  You also want them to enter additional personalization/registration data like their address, zipcode, gender, age, etc. and associate it with the newly created account.  You want to create an intuitive wizard-like navigation UI that enables customers to easily manage this workflow. Solution ASP.NET 2.0 now provides a built-in control -- <asp:createuserwizard> -- that provides developers with an easy way to create user registration workflows for their site.  The <......

1229 of 1492 | Call for Papers: Architecture Journal Issue #9 - Microsoft’s Architecture Journal is a quarterly magazine, providing a world-class forum for the publication of unique articles on how good architecture can help create great implementations. Microsoft’s Architecture Journal is available as a printed subscription (you can order your own here) and also online here Now that TechEd is out of the way, I'm looking for abstracts and ideas for Issue #9, the theme of which is Software Factories (think modeling, DSLs, development approaches etc.). Writing for the Architecture Journal gives you the opportunity to get your thoughts and ideas in the hands of enterprise, solution and infrastructure architects around the world – that’s ......

1230 of 1492 | The Larkware 1000 Contest - Yes, it's time to kick off a new Larkware contest. This time, it's actually more of a sweepstakes. You see, I'm celebrating, and I'd like as many of you as possible to celebrate with me. And the reason for celebration is simple: The Daily Grind #1000 is due to be published in late October. That's quite a milestone for any weblog. If I could, I'd hold a big party and invite you all over. But I'm way out here in the Palouse, and none of you would come visit if I did. So, I'm going to celebrate (with the help of the contest sponsors) by giving stuff away instead. Contest Rules There are two ways that you can enter the contest: At the......

1231 of 1492 | Workflow Developer Starter Kit for WSS v3 + More - Fresh new goodies on the Microsoft Download site: Windows SharePoint Services V3 Starter Kit: Workflow Developer Starter Kit for Windows SharePoint Services V3The Workflow Developer Starter Kit for Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services V3 (Beta 2) contains Microsoft® Visual Studio® project templates for workflow in Windows SharePoint Services V3 (Beta 2) and a sample custom workflow. Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Update: InfoPath 2007 Beta SupportWith this update to the Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 Toolkit for Visual Studio 2005 as included in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 for the Microsoft Office System, you can develop InfoPath 2007 forms inside Visual Studio. Outl......

1232 of 1492 | The Daily Grind 914 - A nice five mile bushwhack before breakfast is a great way to get the blood moving. NSpec - The start of a Behaviour Specification Framework for .NET. Some people see Behaviour Driven Development as the successor to TDD. (via Jeremy D. Miller) Tao of the Windows Installer, Part 4 - Guidance on patching from the Windows Installer team. Is Microsoft about to release a Windows "kill switch"? - Ed Bott passes along the rumor that Windows Genuine Advantage is poised to start turning off copies of Windows that it doesn't like. In other news, Microsoft has somewhat neutered the obnoxious "phon......

1233 of 1492 | Adobe Developer Week - All sessions were recorded and are available in the list above. The Adobe Engagement Platform http://seminars.breezecentral.com/p50165810/ Introduction to Developing with Flex http://seminars.breezecentral.com/p29278920/ Introduction to Adobe LiveCycle http://seminars.breezecentral.com/p41402531/ Building Flex Apps with Flex Builder http://seminars.breezecentral.com/p19942249/ Flex Data Services http://seminars.breezecentral.com/p24622178/ Building Killer RIAs? Meet: Adobe’s Next-Gen Technology http://seminars.breezecentral.com/p35808495/ Architecture and Overview of Adobe’s Security Model http://seminars.breezecentral.com/p67184497/ ColdFusion Powered Flex http://seminars.breezecentral.com......

1234 of 1492 | Downloading and installing .NET 3.0 (previously WinFX) June CTP - In response to recent questions/confusion, I posted an entry with links to the .NET 3.0 Beta 2 downloads -- ironically a few days later on Friday (June 23), they released a new version labeled the June CTP.   So, to avoid being the cause of even more confusion, here are the links to the latest June CTP bits:   .NET 3.0 (WinFX) Runtime Components June CTP Windows SDK (for June CTP) VS.NET 2005 Extensions (for June CTP) Workflow Foundation RC and Extensions (for June CTP)   As a matter of practice, go to the new .NET 3.0 portal site (http://www.netfx3.com/), and follow the download links to locate the latest bits.  ...

1235 of 1492 | The Daily Grind 913 - It would be nice if this heat wave ends before the computers are reduced to a pile of slag. Microsoft Office 2007 Test Drive - Try it out in your browser instead of installing the whole darned thing. Sparkle Microcontent Viewer - Browser-based tool to ferret out microcontent in Web pages. More details here. Information Anywhere Suite - Sybase is promising a secure, scalable mobile software platform. FxCop 1.35 - New drop of this .NET code analysis tool. FileHelpers 1.5.0 - New version of this free library for working with fixed and delimited records from .NET. ......

1236 of 1492 | 1.1. Identify the application requirements. Exam Aid - 1.1. Identify the application requirements. Exam Aid A BizTalk "Application" is a general term that can refer to many different designed implementations.  BizTalk Server 2006 can implement Messaging Solutions, Orchestration or "Process" solutions, Workflow "Process" Solutions and a plethera of many others. Specifically, when referring to Messaging Solutions, the BizTalk Orchestration engine is not used. BizTalk relies solely on the internal Messaging engine, the BizTalk SQL databases. Given a specific scenario, let's see if we can identify applicaiton requirements and extract out all of the posibilities that merit a good BizTalk Design. Let's say you are designing a BizTalk me......

1237 of 1492 | News: Adobe to integrate Pixmantec tech into Lightroom - Adobe has announced the acquisition of Pixmantec, a developer of digital camera workflow tools. ...

1238 of 1492 | The Daily Grind 912 - Time to spray the thistles again. What fun. Cavemen - 102 levels of Lemmings-like game for the PocketPC. Demo download is here, purchase the full game for $12.95. NHibernate Helper Kit - Free tool to write some of the tedious NHibernate glue files for you. Microsoft Pre-Release Software Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 - June 2006 CTP - New drop of the technologies previously known as WinFX. Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Extensions for Windows® Workflow Foundation Release Candidate 2 - Tools to build workflow applications. Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” Community Technolog......

1239 of 1492 | Using WF Rules Outside a Workflow - Moustafa demonstrates how: http://blogs.msdn.com/moustafa/archive/2006/05/21/603415.aspx . ...

1240 of 1492 | Using WF Rules Outside a Workflow - Moustafa demonstrates how: http://blogs.msdn.com/moustafa/archive/2006/05/21/603415.aspx . ...

1241 of 1492 | Supporting HTTP Authentication and Forms Authentication in a Single ASP.NET Web Site - Authenticating users visiting an Internet-based website is usually accomplished in one of two ways: Using Forms authentication - here a user is prompted for their credentials through a standard web page form Using HTTP authentication - RFC 2617 defines two standard HTTP protocol-level authentication schemes - Basic authentication and Digest authentication. When a browser interfaces with a site using this form of authentication, it displays that familiar modal dialog box prompting you for your credentials (see this image). Many websites use Forms authentication, as it provides more control over the user experience and many platforms (such as ASP.NET) include tools for adding Forms authe......

1242 of 1492 | Supporting HTTP Authentication and Forms Authentication in a Single ASP.NET Web Site - Authenticating users visiting an Internet-based website is usually accomplished in one of two ways: Using Forms authentication - here a user is prompted for their credentials through a standard web page form Using HTTP authentication - RFC 2617 defines two standard HTTP protocol-level authentication schemes - Basic authentication and Digest authentication. When a browser interfaces with a site using this form of authentication, it displays that familiar modal dialog box prompting you for your credentials (see this image). Many websites use Forms authentication, as it provides more control over the user experience and many platforms (such as ASP.NET) include tools for adding Forms authe......

1243 of 1492 | The Daily Grind 911 - It's raining soup and we're running out of buckets. Box.net - 1GB of online storage for free, more for pay. Of course you have to ask yourself how much you trust them to stick around and be secure, but they've got a pretty reasonable feature set. (via Ido Samuelson) GenWise Studio Beta 2 released  - ASP.NET 2.0 code generator with a variety of advanced features. Ajaxium - AJAX for ASP.NET that promises easy integration with no javascript or server-side coding. $495 for a single-domain license. SQLServerPrint 2005 - Print colorful definitions of SQL Server objects, or export to HTML/RTF/PDF. ......

1244 of 1492 | MicroISV’s and Project Glidepath - I’ve talked a little bit about MicroISV’s recently. The release of Windows Vista will create a new wave of demand for applications that MicroISVs supply. We’ve just launched a new program to help small developers build apps for Windows Vista… since NZ has plenty of 2 or 3 people development shops I definitely recommend you take a look at http://www.projectglidepath.net and the accompanying video on channel 9. Project Glidepath is two-fold 1. The Project Glidepath Software Factory A freely available VS2005 Software Factory add-in that provides specific content, technology and templates for building applications for Windows Vista and .Net Framework 3.0. Workflow-based guidance regarding......

1245 of 1492 | The Daily Grind 910 - Green Eggs and Ham was our best software purchase ever. WPF MSDN Browser - Ian Griffiths combines the new MSDN APIs with WPF to build another browser. Database Utility for SQL Server - Dedicated virtualization software for organizations managing tens or hundreds of SQL Server instances. Insight A2 - New entrant into the visual data analysis field, now in beta and promising release in August. Scrum for Team System 1.1 - general availability - Updated version of this add-on for VSTS. (via Greg Duncan) .NET Compact Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 Redistributable - At least one piece of th......

1246 of 1492 | Adobe Developer Week Sessions now live. - Yup, finally, Adobe have made last weeks sessions available to everyone who couldn't make the original live sessions (i.e those of us not in the U.S) The Adobe Engagement PlatformIntroduction to Developing with Flex Introduction to Adobe LiveCycle Building Flex Apps with Flex Builder Flex Data ServicesBuilding Killer RIAs? Meet: Adobe's Next-Gen Technology Architecture and Overview of Adobe's Security ModelColdFusion Powered FlexAn Introduction to Adobe LiveCycle Workflow and Qpac ActionScript 3 for Flash DevelopersLooking for IT Agility, Sizzling Apps & Fast ProcessesColdFusion and Model GlueUsing InDesign Server with FlexBuilding Applications using LiveCycle and Flex Flex and AJAX Better ......

1247 of 1492 | Console Hosted Windows Workflows Hang With TestRunner - It appears that console hosted Windows Workflow applications hang and CPU usage climbs to 100% when executing the CreateWorkflow method from program.cs when Mailframe's Testrunner is installed on the same machine. Testrunner is a Visual Studio add-in that integrates running NUnit tests and provides test performance and coverage metrics (good when a project's unit tests were previously written with NUnit, or you don't have or wish to purchase a VSTS license). Removing Testrunner seems to fully resolve this problem. ...

1248 of 1492 | DmRules - A helper library for running rules in .Net 3.0 - A library that allows you to embed rules into your application. Written with Workflow Foundation libraries in .Net 3.0...

1249 of 1492 | Forum post about Persistence, IEventActivity, Transactions, and Correlation - http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=488698&SiteID=1&mode=1 There was a great set of questions that showed up on the forum the other day and I've finally gotten around to answering them all.  I was planning on posting the answers in this blog, but instead I'll just reference back to the forum post. Summary:* What is persisted with a workflow instance and what state am I in after a computer crash?Queues, the internal list of scheduled items, and the binary serialization of the workflow tree are all persisted.  Reloading an instance after a workflow crashes gives you the exact state you had at the last persistence point. * I want a single activity which d......

1250 of 1492 | Free SharePoint 2007 e-Book - [Via Eli Robillard] So you want to learn about the new version of SharePoint? Both Windows SharePoint Services v3 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007? Than this book is for you: 7 Development Projects for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Quite a long title for a 236 page book, but the good news is that you can download it for free! These are the chapters: WSS v3 Building Solutions with MOSS 2007 Building a Basic SharePoint Site Organizing Lists and Documents with Site Columns and Content Types Working with Features in WSS WSS Core Development Creating Workflows Introducing Excel Services InfoPath 2007 and Forms Server 2007 ...