Orchestration / Workflow

101 of 1492 | Ready for some new UCMA blogs? - At long last this blog is back up and running.  Very soon (current goal is Wednesday), I will start a new series of UCMA blogs covering the new 2.0 API.  My goal is to eventually cover all parts of this now huge set of APIs, but unlike my previous set of posts on UCMA there will be some changes. I will not have a new post everyday.  In the last series I finished all posts before the first one was published.  They then followed each other day by day.  I do have several posts finished right now, but the rest will have to come later. My goal is to show you what the APIs can do and how to do it rather than bring you through a lengthy project buildup.  I simply ......

102 of 1492 | Register Now for Artists in Residence - Back in February, ShaneMo and Kordesy  attended "Artists in Residence" in Redmond and they were so impressed, they’re bringing it Australia! What is it? The idea of Artists in Residence is to quickly get designers and developers productive with Microsoft Silverlight. Basically it works like this: Artists in Residence runs for 5 days. You send along 2 people – a desinger and a developer. The developer needs basic .NET programming skills, the designer doesn’t need any particular MS skills, but needs to be ready to get the hang of Expression. The first day and a half is training aimed at both designers and developers, getting them productive doing basic tasks in Silverlight using E......

103 of 1492 | Screen Shots of Oslo, Dublin, and .Net 4.0 Workflow - I've put together a series of First Look blog posts covering Oslo, Dublin, and Workflow 4.0.  These posts include several screen shots of the new Microsoft Technologies and gives you a high level overview of some of the new features. Check them out here: First Look Dublin (Windows Application Server) First Look Oslo (Quadrant and M Modeling Language) First Look Workflow 4.0 Do not forget to check out all the great videos on these same subjects at BizTalkGurus.com media gallery. ...

104 of 1492 | Workflow Foundation Project Using Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition - Sequential WF Example using VS 2008 Express Edition...

105 of 1492 | Microsoft Azure Services Platform - I just wanted to sum up what the Microsoft Azure platform is. But before that, just to highlight that the Azure Services Platform is currently a CTP, kind of a very early 'BETA,' available only as a limited Community Technology Preview (CTP) to attendees at the PDC 2008 (Professional Developers Conference). In the near future, it will also be available to more customers & partners. The release date is not fixed yet, but in any case, we are currently in a very early stage. The point today is that it's just been discovered to the public. So, the Azure Services Platform represents a significant advancement for Microsoft’s cloud computing strategy. By bringing the power of Microsoft......

106 of 1492 | Silverlight Navigation - Part 2 - Welcome to the second in my short series of articles on navigation in Silverlight! In the first article I introduced the core Helix navigation framework and illustrated how the three main classes – Form, NavigationPage, and NavigationLink – could be used to support simple navigation scenarios in Silverlight. In this article I’ll be adding to the core framework to support more advanced scenarios. This article will take us a bit further along the road to Navigation Nirvana. You can download the latest Helix source code from here. The Helix navigation framework uses Uri’s to link everything together within the application. Each navigable part of the application is ass......

107 of 1492 | [SharePoint Designer]: “Unable to load workflow actions from the server.” -   Today I encountered a new error at work which is: “Unable to load workflow actions from the server. Please contact your server administrator.”   This occurred when I opened a SharePoint site in Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer, and then tried to add a Workflow. Apparently, if one makes a mistake when deploying his/her custom activities, no workflows work. The solution to this is to find the error in Visual Studio and then restart the IIS and try over again. Most probably, the error is in the new XML you wrote in the .ACTIONS file, so make sure to first check that out. Goodluck! ...

108 of 1492 | [SharePoint] State Machine Workflow vs. Sequential Workflow -   The two types of workflows which exist out of the box in Visual Studio are: Sequential Workflow State Machine Workflow Below, find the differences between them, so that when you are thinking of implementing a workflow, you would use the one that fits the most: State-Machine workflows: State-machine workflows are workflows which are driven by particular events. Example: OnTaskChanged OnTaskCreated OnTaskDeleted OnWorkflowActivated etc In order to move to another event, the workflow needs to meet another state. If a task is created, the workflow stays on that event until another even is c......

109 of 1492 | A First Look at WF 4.0, Dublin, and Oslo - Lots of interesting new technology is on the horizon from Microsoft. Among it is a set of interlated things from the company's Connected Systems Division. This group includes:WF 4.0, which is the next release of Windows Workflow FoundationDublin, a new server for WF applications and others Oslo, a modeling platform that can be applied in lots of different ways.I've written a Microsoft-sponsored white paper introducing these three, attempting (as usual) to paint the big picture. If this picture sounds interesting to you, the paper is available here....

110 of 1492 | Announcing Silverlight 'Artists in Residence' - Melbourne 1-5 December - Back in February, Kordesy and I attended a program called "Artists in Residence" in Redmond. We had a blast, and learned stuff too! So Kordesy was determined to bring the Artists in Residence magic to Australia. Therefore... announcing the first Aussie Artists in Residence! Artists in Residence The idea of Artists in Residence is to quickly get designers and developers productive with Microsoft Silverlight. Basically it works like this: Artists in Residence runs for 5 days. You send along 2 people – a designer and a developer. The developer needs basic .NET programming skills, the designer doesn’t need any particular MS skills, but needs to be ready to get the hang of Expression. The f......

111 of 1492 | Join us in LA at the Henry Stewart DAM Conference - Henry Stewart is a briefing and networking event focused on digital asset management. We will be attending the Los Angeles, CA briefing event, with a presentation focused on showing how companies can streamline the creation, management, and delivery of content, “Integrating DAM with Distribution Tools to Build and Effective Digital Supply Chain,” <Monday, Nov. 10th @ 4:30pm> by Jake Winett – M&E Global Industry Manager. And a session focused on the productive use of workflow to bridge process gaps, “How Our Workflow has Been Made More Productive,” <Monday, Nov. 10th @ 10am> presented by Mark Kashman -- IMM Product Manager. If you plan to be at the conference, or are in ......

112 of 1492 | Google Removes OpenID Whitelist Requirement - A day after announcing their support for OpenID, Google has decided to back off on the requirement that relying parties first get approval from Google to accept OpenIDs originating from Gmail. Google says the reason they’re lifting the requirement is that more sites than they could handle applied for API access. Google’s Eric Sachs explains in a blog post what this means for consumers: That registration requirement also led to some confusion because users wanted to be able to use existing websites that accept OpenID 2.0 compliant logins by simply entering “gmail.com” (or in some cases their full E-mail address) into the login boxes on those websites. Normally what would happen after a user ......

113 of 1492 | My Dilemma at PDC and Sydney Film Festival - The dilemma I always have at PDC and the Sydney Film Festival is - there are so many wonderful concurrent sessions - which one do I go to? this year - I think I've worked out a great formula that suits me - I'm sticking to the Advanced or Expert sessions. And so far, not a single dissapointment. Short day tomorrow - but I'm really looking forward to: 8:30 - 9:45 - SQL Server Under the Hood, or, Live Services: Feedsync and Mesh Synchronization Services 10:15 - 11:30 - .NET Services: Messaging Services - Protococols, Protection, and How we Scale; or, Live Services: The Future of the Device Mesh; or, Under the Hood: Inside the Cloud Hosting Environment noon - 1:15 - Live Services: Notifi......

114 of 1492 | TechDays and PDC - It's such an eventful week! 80% of our community team is at TechDays today, and the rest 20% at the Professional Developer Conference in LA.  I presented the last session of the day in Web Developer Track and the first session on Silverlight. I was very anxious to hear the feedback from developers about my session because I was trying to talk about Silverlight controls from both design and development sides. Below are my first and last slides. At the end of the session, I was happy to hear from several developers that they found Expression Blend was very interesting, and they were surprised that it was so easy to create a user control and changing visual states in Blend. At the same ti......

115 of 1492 | Windows Azure : Azure Services Platform - no ar! - Olá pessoal, tudo certo? Já está no ar o site da plataforma de serviços do Windows Azure. Entre no link abaixo para acessar os principais serviços já disponibilizados para a comunidade, assim como material, SDK, discussões e artigos. http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx A plataforma Azure fornece uma série de serviços, chamados de building blocks services, que cria uma infra-estrutura para a construção de aplicações, suportando storage de dados, workflows, identity, messaging, etc. Esses mesmos serviços são usados pela Microsoft para a oferta de serviços prontos, voltados para o consumidor, como Windows Live, Office Live, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online e CRM Online, que vemo......

116 of 1492 | "Oslo": Customizing and Extending the Visual Design Experience - Together with Alex Thissen, Paul Gielens, Marco Stolk and Dries Marckmann we’ve been reflecting our thoughts on “M”. Right now we’re all at another Oslo talk about Quadrant. Why “Quadrant”? As more software becomes more model-driven, the volume of data in the system grows We need a tool that lets people query, update, and visualize that data in ways that make sense for the task at hand. What is “Quadrant”? “Quadrant” is a tool for interacting with data Flexible, focused design surfaces Default experiences over arbitrary data Rich declarative customization “Quadrant” is completely data-driven, every bit of data in SQL Server. “Quadra......

117 of 1492 | CONDG Lightning Talks - Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:" "; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} Mono Presentation Last Thursday I took part in CONDG’s answer to Open Mike night; Lightning Talks. I presented for 10 minutes on Mono, an open source implemen......

118 of 1492 | CRM 4: Waiting Workflow VS Windows Service - Guest blogger Ayaz Ahmad is a CRM MVP who blogs at http://ayazahmad.wordpress.com/. Developing some service or workflow to handle some periodic tasks is a common task when creating a CRM solution. Last week, I was looking for the best way to handle periodic tasks such as sending reminders when creating tasks based on date/time, birthday notification and the like. For example, I have an entity project schedule with thousands of records of this entity. For each of these I want to send email reminders. For each record I can have a waiting workflow which results in thousands of waiting workflows. Or, I can develop a Windows service that runs overnight and process records according to my crite......

119 of 1492 | Day 3 PDC Microsoft Research Rules the Roost - Reading tweets and Scott’s WOW blog post this morning perked my interest in what was shown at PDC this morning. I checked out the overview of what was presented and the Microsoft Research site to find out more about what was shown. Unfortunately it looks like today's keynote wasn’t recorded but I have found a few videos online of what some have called the “best bits”. Check out the Boku website and the SecondLight white paper. Countdown to PDC2008: Rick Rashid, a Researcher’s Researcher Also many of the breakout sessions from PDC are making their way up to channel9. Below is a list of the ones that I have spotted so far The Concurrency and Coordinati…ized Software......

120 of 1492 | PDC: Keynote I e II - Ecco le keynote della PDC: Primo giorno: Introducing Windows Azure | Key Features of Windows Azure | Key Services of Azure & cloud functionality | Windows Azure and Developers Articoli: Introducing the Azure Services Platform : an early look at windows azure, .net services, SQL services, and live services Workflows, Services and Models - A First Look at WF 4.0, "Dublin", and "Oslo"   Secondo Giorno: Windows 7 Demo | Windows Live Services Demo | Live Office Demo -Pietro...

121 of 1492 | Slides for WF 4.0: A First Look - Slides should be available soon on Channel9. Until then, I’ve made them available here. ...

122 of 1492 | Some Thoughts on Oslo - I’ve started playing with the Oslo bits a little, and I thought I’d share a couple of thoughts on the platform and its tools: M – The Language M is an interesting beast, but to me the most interesting part of the platform to start with. In particular, I’m looking forward to playing with the MGrammar stuff. I’m not thrilled about the close relationship between M (and its tooling) to SQL, though. In particular, I really think that Don Box and friends really need to find a better example to introduce Models and M; it was painfully obvious (at least to me) during the M language talk that many people just weren’t getting it. ......

123 of 1492 | Thursday sessions @ PDC: .NET Workflow Service and others - If you’re @ PDC, come to BB27 this Thursday @ 1:45 to learn more about .NET Workflow Service. During this session, I’ll talk about the .NET Workflow Service roadmap and how you can use the live CTP bits this Thursday @ PDC.   Also, there are a lot of good sessions on Thursday that you don't want to miss. I would recommend going to TL31 "Oslo": Building Textual DSLs @ 12:00 to hear more about Oslo.  ...

124 of 1492 | WF 4.0 First Look! - More coming up Here is the First Look at WF 4.0 talk by Kenny http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL17/  ...

125 of 1492 | WF 4.0: A First Look - On Monday afternoon I unveiled WF 4.0 at PDC 2008. With this public disclosure you will start seeing a lot more details of the WF system here. For those of you that were able to attend my session in person, please fill out the evaluation form (we’re currently at about 5% participation). For those that couldn’t join me in person, the session was videotaped and is available at http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL17/. Enjoy! ...

126 of 1492 | Windows Azure : SQL Data Services (SDS). - Olá pessoal, tudo certo? Como já sabemos (desde ontem:) o sistema operacional Windows Azure, construído para o suporte de serviços na nuvem, apresenta 5 grandes blocos de serviços para aplicações: Live Services Microsoft .NET Services Microsoft SQL Services Microsoft SharePoint Services Microsoft Dynamics CRM Services Esses são os chamados blocos construtivos do Windows Azure. Cada um dos blocos acima suporta, por exemplo, serviços finais da Microsoft (lá no topo) como: Windows Live Microsoft Office Live Microsoft Exchange Online Microsoft SharePoint Online Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Serviços finais são destinados ao consumidor final, usuários domésticos ou do......

127 of 1492 | "hello cloud" - What's new PDC Day One? - An original reading suggested a new cloud OS.“Microsoft has announced a version of Windows that runs over the internet” http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Microsoft-launches-Windows-Azure/0,130061733,339292874,00.htm?feed=rss   However a clearer interpretation from CIO mag says its project Red Dog - a hosting environment for development projects in the cloud: http://www.codeproject.com/News.aspx?nwid=7829   Impressively, there are already (non-Microsoft) applications out there like BlueHoo hosted by Windows Azure. even has a Vista sidebar gadget   New sites as a result of PDC announcements: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/oslo/default.aspx http:......

128 of 1492 | [PDC 2008] quelques retours sur Windows Azure Services Platform - La conférence Microsoft à ne pas rater cette année est la Professional Developers Conference. En effet, il s’agit du lieu privilégié par Microsoft pour dévoiler ses grandes orientations technologiques et sa stratégie plateforme et outils pour les développeurs. J’ai la chance de participer à la conférence cette année, et je vous livre mes 1ères impressions sur ce blog. En me dirigeant vers le centre de conférence ce matin, qu’est-ce que je vois ? Une dizaine de chariots “Salesforce”, distribuant dépliants publicitaires, café et viennoiseries aux passants. Cette opération de pub menée juste devant le centre de conférence de la PDC, le jour même où Microsoft va dévoiler sa plateforme de s......

129 of 1492 | “Dublin” and “Oslo” in the words of a Technologist - David Chappell is both a technologist and an amazing wordsmith.  In his most recent whitepaper, titled A First Look at WF 4.0, “Dublin”, and “Oslo” , he does an amazing job of detailing the new release of WF, and the new “Dublin” and “Oslo” technologies.  Read it at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd200919.aspx . For those who focus on BizTalk, and who may be feeling that “Dublin” is encroaching on BizTalk’s territory, make sure you read the section titled “Dublin” and BizTalk Server...(read more)...

130 of 1492 | An Azure Grab Bag - I’m delighted to see Windows Azure on the BBC News Homepage today – hats off to my pal James Tutt and some fine work by Rory Cellan- Jones. They have one more trick up their sleeve I believe. As an avid BBC reader you will want to know more about Azure of course. Look no further   Azure Services Platform (.pdf file, 2.6 MB) Cloud Platforms Whitepaper (.pdf file, 822 KB) Azure Services Platform Fact Sheet (.doc file, 40 KB) Windows Azure Fact Sheet (.doc file, 33 KB) .NET Framework 4.0 - Fact Sheet (.doc file, 73 KB) Oslo Fact Sheet (.doc file, 40 KB) Microsoft SQL Data Services Fact Sheet (.doc file, 41 KB) SQL Server – Developer Focus (.doc file, ......

131 of 1492 | Azure Service Platform - Proprio ieri segnalavo un documento di David Chappell su  WF 4.0 Oslo e Dublin... Bene oggi, svelato il nome del nuovo Sistema Operativo On the cloud in casa Microsoft (Azure) ecco il nuovo whitepaper di David Chappell intitolato : Introducing the Azure Services Platform : an early look at windows azure, .net services, SQL services, and live services . Tra l'altro questo documento è alla base della Keynote che David terrà ai TechDays WPC 2008 in italia nonchè una delle sessioni al TechED Developers di Barcellona . --Mario...

132 of 1492 | Business Process Automation, a story to tell - eFroms solution Components The eForms solution is a result of collaborating the following components all together: · Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Infrastructure. · Form Site (Portal): a SharePoint Site that hosts the whole solution and enabling this kind of integration. · Email: a mail services that will send notifications within the workflows. · Forms Template: This is the from that contains the target process. This is were you usually take a paper form or a manual process analyze, break-down and make an e-form out of it. In this solution we use Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 in implement eForms or you can use APS.NET forms. · Workflow: a component that is installed in the Shar......

133 of 1492 | Day 1 PDC – Waiting to Exhale! - Jeez, now I know how Whitney felt! After what feels like forever, we were able to announce our cloud services platform, Azure. So what is Azure? Well first of all, Azure, or the Azure Services Platform is a service platform which provides developers with the ability to host, integrate and share their applications through the Internet, all while using Microsoft infrastructure, so you don’t have to buy and install your own. The consists of: My team is the .NET Services team, which covers the Service Bus, Access Control and the Workflow Service. If you want to get access to .NET Services, you will need to register and join a waitlist. If you want to find out a little m......

134 of 1492 | Episode #10 – Special PDC2008 – Tag 1 - Momentan befinde ich mich auf der PDC2008 und berichte über die entsprechenden Neuerungen im Rahmen des ersten Tages. Darunter fallen Themen wie: Windows Azure C# 4.0 Windows Workflow 4.0 Hier die Links zu den Podcast Dateien Episode #10 – PDC2008 Tag 1 (mp3) Episode #10 – PDC2008 Tag 1 (wma) Viel Spaß beim reinhören, Dariusz...(read more)...

135 of 1492 | Links to MOSS materials By Scenario -   a.       Portal & Collaboration Collaboration Selection Guide Collaborating with SharePoint Server 2007 Overview SharePoint Server 2007 Team Sites Get Started   Wikis and Blogs Community Kit RSS to WSS Blog and Community Resourcesfor Blogging on WSS as a platform Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Document: Tips and Tricks - Using Wikis in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Document: Tips and Tricks - Using Blogs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0   My Sites SharePoint Server 2007 My Sites Get Started Managing social networking with Office SharePoint Server 2007 Role Based Template My Sites  ......

136 of 1492 | MOSS end User Kit - To further explain about it:   “Explore Office SharePoint Server 2007 with training from Microsoft experts, right from your desktop. Download a simple file to get the grand tour of the latest features and changes, including automated workflows to track approval cycles, business dashboards showing how well you are performing on your goals, and syncing documents to Outlook. The training, which includes articles, videos, and interactive tutorials, will lead you step-by-step through the rich features of Office SharePoint Server. We offer two training editions. If you just want to view the training on your desktop, then download our Standalone Edition. After you install the training, yo......

137 of 1492 | PDC 2008 - Part 2 - PDC 2008 ????????????????????????????? PDC ?????????????? PDC ????????????????? "???? OS" Windows Azure????? Azure Services Platform ????????! Windows Azure ????? Windows OS ??????OS ????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????? Windows Azure ???????????????????? Windows Azure ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Azure Services Platform ??????????????????????????????????????????? .NET Services (? BizTalk Services) ????????????????????? ????? ????????? SQL Services ?????????????????? Windows Azure ???? Azure Platform Services ???????????????????.NET ????????????? (ASP.NET?WCF ? WF) ?......

138 of 1492 | PDC 2008 - Unveiling ‘.NET Services’ - Just over three years ago, I was part of the team that launched Windows Workflow Foundation as part of .NET Framework 3.0 at PDC 2005. Shortly after WF, I co-founded a team along with David Wortendyke, John Shewchuk (and briefly Mike Vernal) - we all strongly believed that a developer cloud platform was the obvious evolution in computing. Mike left the team early on (and ultimately left Microsoft to go to facebook) while David, John & I continued pursuing building a platform I often called “the .NET Framework in the cloud”.  This one-time incubation was unveiled to the world as “.NET Services” - a key part of Microsoft’s Services Platform. Several people have mentioned to me that to the deg......

139 of 1492 | PDC 2008 ?? : ???? Windows Azure Services Platform ?????? - ? Amazon,Google ????? Platform As A Services (PaaS) ???,??????? 2008 ? 10 ?27 ???,? Ray Ozzie ??????????? Windows Azure Services  Platform,Ray Ozzie ? 2005 ????????????? Software + Services ??,?????? PDC 2008 ?,??????????????,??????????? 10 ? 15 ???????? Ray Ozzie ??????,????? Windows Update, MSDN , MSN ??????????,????????????????,???????????? Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V ?????? Microsoft .NET ????,???????????????Windows Azure Services Platform ???? Internet ???????????,?????????? (Cloud) ????,?????????,??????????? Windows Azure,???????? Live Servies , .NET Services , SQL Services ?????,???????,??????????????,???????????? Web ??,???????????????????? ? PDC 2008 ?????,?????? .NET Ser......

140 of 1492 | PDC 2008 Jour 1 - Keynote - Quoi de mieux que le grand ciel bleu de Los Angeles pour faire l’annonce de la plateforme de Cloud Computing de Microsoft nommée Windows Azure Platform Services? Les 2 heures de plénière ont été intenses et je buvais presque les mots de chacun des intervenants.     Voici donc notre réponse et notre positionnement dans le “muage”, le chaînon manquant à la stratégie “Softwares + Services”; Windows Azure va bien au-delà du simple hosting d’applications Web. Ce “Cloud OS” hosté dans les Datacenters de Microsoft fournit à nos clients un OS et un ensemble de services de développement. C’est une plateforme flexible, scalable, de haute disponibilité et interopérable pouva......

141 of 1492 | PDC-08 CSD Bits Review Webcast - 13:00 Tuesday saw the public availability of the virtual image congaing the “Bits” from the Microsoft Connected Systems Division (CSD). The image contains early builds of a lot of the technology that is being demoed at the PDC, and also a set of hands-on labs that will walk you through some examples of using the technology. The “Oslo PDC-08 CSD Bits Review” webcast will take a quick tour of what is available, and give you some tips on learning about all the new goodies. The main components that are installed on the image are as follows: ·         The preliminary release of software for code name “Oslo” and code name “Dublin”, including: o   “Oslo” repository o   “Oslo” SDK o   “Quadr......

142 of 1492 | Podcast PDC 2008 – Tag 1 - Momentan befinde ich mich auf der PDC2008 und berichte über die entsprechenden Ereignisse im Rahmen des ersten Tages. Mit den Themen Windows Azure C# 4.0 Windows Workflow 4.0 Den Podcast findet man entsprechend hier auf Channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dariusz/Dariusz-quatscht-PDC-2008-Tag-1/ Möchte man den Podcast Feed abonnieren, am besten den RSS Feed von http://blogs.msdn.com/dariusz_quatscht benutzen....

143 of 1492 | Visual Studio Team System 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010: already in love with all the new features! - An exhausting day at PDC... Here are the sessions that I did: Keynote: Windows Azure Microsoft Visual Studio Team System: A Lap Around VSTS 2010 ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap Team Foundation Server 2010: Cool New Features WF 4.0: A first look   I really love the new features of VSTS and TFS; I can hardly wait to start using them...   I will not go into a lot of detail here, instead I will highlight a couple of the main features and hope it will incourage you to go and view the session online.   Microsoft Visual Studio Team System: A Lap Around VSTS 2010 Cameron Skinner put it real nicely with 4 key points all getting rid of th......

144 of 1492 | Windows Azure Cloud Computing Platform: white papers - Check out these documents straight from a cloud – among others the white papers from David Chappell . Content: Azure Services Platform (.pdf file, 2.6 MB) Cloud Platforms Whitepaper (.pdf file, 822 KB) Azure Services Platform Fact Sheet (.doc file, 40 KB) Windows Azure Fact Sheet (.doc file, 33 KB) .NET Framework 4.0 - Fact Sheet (.doc file, 73 KB) Oslo Fact Sheet (.doc file, 40 KB) Microsoft SQL Data Services Fact Sheet (.doc file, 41 KB) SQL Server – Developer Focus (.doc file, 33 KB) Windows Azure Datasheet Windows® Azure™ is the cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting, and service management environm......

145 of 1492 | #PDC08 Talk: Microsoft Silverlight, WPF and the Microsoft .NET Framework: Sharing Skills and Code - High level goals: building rich apps with same people, same skills, same workflow and common code. Shows how to decide when to use Silverlight and when WPF. Moving from Silverlight to full .NET is easier than the contrary. From Full .NET to SL: You need to "unlearn" many APIs. Shared knowledge, but porting code is not easy- Ian codes an application in WPF then copy/pastes to WPF, UI works pretty much the same way, same controls. Uses WebClient to make a request to Twitter. WebClient class is very consistent in WPF and SL. Must use asynchronous request in WebClient because SL only supports async. In Silverlight, we are restricted by security restrictions. Since Twitter doesn't have a cross d......

146 of 1492 | ADO.NET Entity Framework Hands-on Lab - Last week the Swiss MSDN Team hold once again a Hands-on Lab here in Wallisellen. This time the topic was Entity Framework, the new Microsoft’s technology for bridging the gap between data structures and objects in your applications. The lab was divided into 4 parts. In the first part of the lab attendees were required to create and customize an Entity Data Model (EDM) within Visual Studio 2008 SP1. They saw how it is easy to define a conceptual model which is independent from the underlying data store structure. With the second part they started using the model, by first integrating it in a typical 2-tier Web Architecture (ASP.NET Web Application). The third part instead, the most diffi......

147 of 1492 | Announcing Microsoft .NET Workflow Service – a "Cloud"-based Workflow host - Last PDC in 2005, I was part of the team that announced Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) as the new declarative programming model in .NET Framework. WF allows you to focus on writing the core logic of your application, declaratively. It handles a lot of complications and logic that exist in applications that orchestrate services or coordinate work. WF is best for programs that are long running; i.e. stop and start during their lifetime. We released key developer enhancement in each version of the framework, and will continue to do so. As more people started using WF, they needed to write WF hosting environments to run the workflows in a scalable and reliable manner – if you ever wrote a se......

148 of 1492 | Benvenuto Windows Azure - E’ terminata da poco la KeyNote di Ray Ozzie alla PDC di Los Angeles dove insieme a Gabriele abbiamo assisto all’annuncio della nuova Windows Cloud Platform di Microsoft il cui nome ufficiale sarà Windows Azure. Di seguito l’immagine del logo della nuova piattaforma. Si tratta di una nuova versione di Windows che segna l’inizio di una nuova era per lo sviluppo del software su piattaforma Microsoft e che implementa un vero e proprio sistema operativo per il cloud computing. La nuova versione  creata appositamente per i data center Internet,  sarà disponibile direttamente sulla rete, attraverso una serie di data center posizionati in diversi......

149 of 1492 | DII Workshop Recap - The latest DII workshop took place in Redmond over the last two days. There were presentations at this event from a variety of people, including members of the Office product groups at Microsoft and developers and consultants from several other companies. Topics covered included planning an IS29500 document test library, server-side document assembly strategies, various approaches to document validation, use of content controls in e-courseware, and goals for future DII events. John Head already blogged a few thoughts from the workshop, and I expect we'll see more in the days ahead from John, his colleague Andrew Schwantes, or other blogger attendees such as Dennis Hamilton and Alex Brown.......

150 of 1492 | Does oslo have Cote’D’Azur? - ???????, ?? ???? ?????? ???? ??????? ? ?????????? PDC. ???????? ????? ?????????? keynote pdc ? ??????. ?? ??????, ?????????? Microsoft Azure. ??? ??? ?????? ??? ?????? cloud ????????? ?? ??????????, ????????????? ? ???? ????? ??????, ??? service bus ? workflow services, sql server data services, ??????????????? ? sql data services (? ? ??????? ????????? ???????? ????????? ? ?????????), ? ????? Live Services.  ??? ???? ???? ??????? ???????? ??????  ? visual studio, ??????? ????????? ????????? ? ?????????? ??????? ????????, ????? ??? ??? ????????? ? cloud. ?? ??????, ??? ????? ???????? ???? ?? ???????????? ????? ???????, ???????? ??????????? ???? ??????????? ?????????? OSLO, ??......