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Mini Windows Workflow Series: While, I was looking at the outline for my SOA/WCF/ESB series , I noticed I had put down Workflow at the end. In the meantime, I have a somewhat old four-part real-world as I did it series on WF from last year. Enjoy. Windows Workflow 101 or 2 Months...
Posted 05 June 2008 08:29 AM by Sam Gentile | 3 comment(s)
Filed under: WF, Windows Workflow, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3

New and Notable 221: I was going to write a separate post on this but I will include it here. I have had the opportunity to work on three different projects with three different Microsoft field groups lately and have come away impressed with both their technical skills as...
Posted 31 January 2008 09:07 AM by Sam Gentile | 3 comment(s)
Filed under: CLR, WF, Windows Workflow, New and Notable, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3, ADO.NET

New and Notable 168: My four year old daughter, Heather, had her first ballet recital last night. It was a very proud moment for me. She had to wear a little makeup for the lights and with hair up, she looked beautiful but older and that was emotional. I have some things...
Posted 03 June 2007 02:37 PM by Sam Gentile | 3 comment(s)
Filed under: Ruby, WCF, SOA, Software Architecture, Software Design, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3, MAC OS/X, Tools

Windows Workflow 104 or WF Part 4: Last time around in Part 3 , I promised to return for a part 4 on Services and Hosting. One of the best features of WF is that the runtime is very lightweight and simple. WF was designed to be hosted by your application. It's host can be as simple...
Posted 26 May 2007 10:57 PM by Sam Gentile | 5 comment(s)
Filed under: WF, Windows Workflow, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3

New and Notable 153: Its suddenly over 80 degrees here today and went off for a drenching run. Team System/Team Foundation Server Big news of the day is that Microsoft has acquired TeamPlain , which makes the popular TeamPlain Web Access for Team Server. Brian Harry says...
Posted 27 March 2007 06:51 PM by Sam Gentile | 11 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, Indigo, WCF, .NET, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3, Orcas, Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio Team System, VSTS

New and Notable 152: Smart Clients/Orcas I am extremely pleased to see the .NET Framework (and Microsoft) finally gain the offline sync services that I have been talking about for quite a few years in my work at Groove and Adesso . You will be able to do synchronization from...
Posted 26 March 2007 12:08 PM by Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
Filed under: CLR, Agile Development, .NET, NHibernate, Software Architecture, TDD, Extreme Programming, Data, Microsoft, Agile, .NET Framework 3, Orcas, O/RM

More Specifics on the WF Issue: I asked Tomas to expand on the details of the issue we faced last Sunday and it's this: What’s going is that you wanted to create a custom, reusable composite StateActivity-derived activity. While WF allows you to create an StateActivity-derived class...
Posted 23 March 2007 11:59 AM by Sam Gentile | 9 comment(s)
Filed under: WF, Windows Workflow, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3

New and Notable 150!!: This is it, the big 150! The first New and Notable was on May 19, 2003 , (my first post was March 29, 2002 ) and I paid homage to the master, "I have always admired Mike's ability to look at the world out there and put it all into one great post...
Posted 22 March 2007 02:24 AM by Sam Gentile | 8 comment(s)
Filed under: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Agile Development, .NET, ASP.NET, NHibernate, WF, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, TDD, Extreme Programming, Windows Vista, Data, Microsoft, Agile, .NET Framework 3, Entity Framework, MonoRail, Orcas, OR/M, PAG, REST, ADO.NET 3.0

New and Notable 149: Yup, I'm still stuck in Seattle and I still feel like crap. Tomas just went off to the airport and I feel like the last MVP left in Seattle. Just want to get out of here and home but can't do that until tomorrow night. Lots of stuff stored up...
Posted 18 March 2007 01:02 AM by Sam Gentile
Filed under: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Agile Development, .NET, ASP.NET, NHibernate, WF, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, TDD, Extreme Programming, Windows Vista, Data, Microsoft, Agile, .NET Framework 3, Entity Framework, MonoRail, Orcas, OR/M, PAG, REST, ADO.NET 3.0

New and Notable 148: Still real tired from my Oklahoma trip , partying with Raymond sure is exhausting-). Agile/Development Tools On my short list for some time now, is to switch from NUnit to the definitely superior MbUnit. My friend Andrew has done some great work with...
Posted 07 March 2007 04:08 PM by Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Agile Development, .NET, WF, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, TDD, Extreme Programming, Windows Vista, Microsoft, Agile, .NET Framework 3, Avalon, Orcas, WPF, PAG, REST

New and Notable 147: Harry wonders if it has been a slow week. It started that way for me but its certainly not now with both work and the Orcas CTP release. I was getting so bored with .NET in general and even WCF/WF lately. Its really been a long time for me with something...
Posted 02 March 2007 06:57 PM by Sam Gentile
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, .NET, WF, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3, Avalon, Orcas, WPF, BPEL, PAG, REST

First Experiences with Orcas March CTP VPC Image: So after two days of downloading at broadband speeds, I finally got all the pieces of the Orcas Mrach CTP downloaded. Doublce-clicking on Part1.exe expanded the other 8 RAR files. Once that was done, I used Virtual PC 2007 on top of my Vista Ultimate...
Posted 02 March 2007 05:14 AM by Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, .NET, WF, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3, LINQ, Orcas, OR/M

It's Out!! Code Name "Orcas" - March Community Technology Preview (CTP): I am really excited about this drop! Too many great things to mention. Get the installable bits here and the VPC image here . The page shows the very exciting Workflow and WCF new features. I'll have more to say as I play with them. Windows Communication...
Posted 28 February 2007 03:12 PM by Sam Gentile
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, .NET, WF, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3, LINQ, Orcas, OR/M

New and Notable 146: Ah Saturday morning where we can sleep in, ah no wait...I have kids to wake me up at the crack of dawn... Software Architecture The PAG folks continue to deliver their goodness with their first weekly drop of the new version of the Smart Client Software...
Posted 24 February 2007 02:12 PM by Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Smart Client, Agile Development, CAB, SCBAT, .NET, Software Architecture, TDD, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3, Microsoft MVP, Rails, PAG, REST

New and Notable 145: Architecture/SOA Blaine Wastell has posted that PAG planning an update of the Smart Client Software Factory to be released in late April of this year. They are encouraging feedback at http://www.codeplex.com/smartclient and enter critical items into the...
Posted 21 February 2007 01:21 PM by Sam Gentile
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Smart Client, Agile Development, CAB, SCBAT, .NET, Software Architecture, TDD, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3, LINQ, Microsoft MVP, PAG