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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

Visual Studio 2008 RTM Available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads!!: I knew it was coming so I stayed up extra late last night but not long enough :) Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite with the .NET Framework 3.5 is available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads ! See Soma's post here . While my copy is on the way, I would like...
Posted 19 November 2007 09:53 AM by Sam Gentile | 9 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Sliverlight, WF, .NET Framework 3/WinFX, WCF/Indigo, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3.5, Connected Systems, LINQ, O/RM and Entity Framework, Orcas, Windows CardSpace, Workflow, Developer Tools, Development Tools, ADO.NET 3.0, Visual Studio 2008

Going to the Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference: I already said a few months ago that I was going to the SOA and Business Process Conference running October 29 - November 2. I am also going to be in Pluralsight's 2 day pre-conference with my friends Jon Flanders , Matt Milner , Aaron Skonnard ....
Posted 22 October 2007 03:41 PM by Sam Gentile | 6 comment(s)
Filed under: WCF, SOA, WF, WCF/Indigo, Microsoft, BPM, Connected Systems, CSD, ESB, Neudesic, Workflow, Neuron

New and Notable 180: So, I am totally thrilled in my new role at Neudesic , where today, I got to spend quite a bit of time with one of our Distinquished Engineer, David Pallmann , the architect of our Neuron ESB . We're doing a lot of thinking and doing with SOA at Neudesic...
Posted 14 August 2007 04:51 AM by Sam Gentile | 8 comment(s)
Filed under: Silverlight, WCF, SOA, WF, Windows Workflow, Microsoft, BizTalk, BPM, EDA, ESB, Neudesic, NeuronESB

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 166: TGIF!!! WCF/Indigo Three posts from Steve Maines, one on the WebServiceHostFactory Then Zen of the Web Programming Model Part 1 and Part 2 Great post from Christian - Improving WCF Interoperability - Flattening Your WSDL More on building and hosting the...
Posted 11 May 2007 12:39 PM by Sam Gentile
Filed under: CLR, Silverlight, Indigo, WCF, WPF/E, IronRuby, IronPython, DLR, WF, Microsoft, CardSpace

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

Windows Workflow 103 or WF Part 3 - Introduction to Workflow: In the last two posts 101 and 102 , I went pretty deep in some areas. I want to step back and do some more tutorial stuff. So the first question out of the gate is what is Workflow itself and where might you use it? In a nutshell, a Workflow describes...
Posted 10 March 2007 12:01 AM by Sam Gentile | 10 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, .NET, WF, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, Microsoft, Financial and Banking, Workflow, Collateral Management

Windows Workflow 102 or WF Part 2: So, last time around , I left off at the issue about my struggles with the ExternalDataService that ships in WF and purports to be the general mechanism to get data in and out of a workflow. Harry responded that he didn't like EDS and that I get real...
Posted 09 March 2007 06:30 PM by Sam Gentile | 12 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, .NET, WF, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, Microsoft, Financial and Banking, Workflow, Collateral Management

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