WF Community Bloggers

It feels like this webcast has been pimped enough but..

2008-07-03T03:10:55Z

If you haven't seen it advertised - I am doing a WebCast on WCF/WF integration next Wednesday at 10 am Pacific time. Signup link : http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032381608&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Hope to see many of you virtually there :) Check out my BizTalk R2 Training . Read More......(read more)

I guess I should be flattered

2008-06-27T17:22:11Z

That some spammer thought my wiki pages where hit enough to warrant modifying them on a daily basis with links to various "odd" sites ;-) Thanks to Craig I've upgraded to FlexWiki 2.0 and now those pages are locked down - I apologize if you've visited them and they haven't been right, should be ok from now on. My Workflow Sample Page My BizTalk Sample Page Check out my BizTalk R2 Training . Read More......(read more)

Ok - semi-technical post

2008-06-27T03:46:47Z

Mostly this post is here to motivate me to actually get this book done ASAP - http://www.amazon.com/RESTful-NET-Jon-Flanders/dp/0596519206/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214538175&sr=1-2 Yes - I am writing a book on WCF and REST. Not a big suprise ;-) Check out my BizTalk R2 Training . Read More......(read more)

cross posting testing

2008-06-27T03:34:37Z

still going on Check out my BizTalk R2 Training . Read More......(read more)

another cross-post test

2008-06-27T03:25:22Z

again - feel free to move along :-) Check out my BizTalk R2 Training . Read More......(read more)

Speaking At PASS 2008 In Seattle

2008-06-26T03:36:00Z

I just got back word from my buddy Brian, that we were invited back to PASS . This will be my forth year speaking at this conference and even though Brian and I keep the same title of our session, "Hacking SqlServer" every year is diffrent due to new threats and technologies. This means that we are continually implementing new tactics and technologies within our demos to help form opinions within our audiances if certain practices are safe or not. This year I will probably put LINQ to the test for...(read more)

Generic "HasValue" And Policy Activity Gotcha

2008-06-26T03:23:00Z

Recently I noticed this error, Cannot evaluate property "HasValue" because its target object is null. I did not get it at compilation of my workflow project, but running a workflow application. I use generic data types whenever possible, and I use the "HasValue" property as well, so when I started getting this error I was not sure where to start looking. Fortunately, this error means exactly what it says and since I cannot debug to the point where it occurs it probably means it is happening within...(read more)

Sofware Meme

2008-06-25T22:19:52Z

I was tagged by Scott - here we go: How old were you when you started programming? I was probably 11 or 12. I had a Commodore Vic 20 :-) What was your first language? Basic. What was the first real program you wrote? I wrote a program on my Vic20 to generate Dungeon and Dragons characters. What was your first professional programming gig? I build an ASP web site for the University of Minnesota Law School What's the most fun you've ever had...programming? Hmm - this is pretty hard. I think the most...(read more)

Jacksonville .Net Code Camp 2008, Suggest A Topic!

2008-06-25T20:02:00Z

The official site for Jacksonville's 2008 Code Camp is up! The actual event is scheduled for August 23, 2008. Check out the site and add suggestions of topics that you are interested in learning more about. Read More......(read more)

Silverlight calling Workflow Services

2008-06-25T02:39:15Z

One question I was asked during my web cast yesterday about calling WCF services from Silverlight is if the service could be a workflow service. I said - "Of course" - not knowing that it was a little more complex than that :) That said - here is a sample. SilverLightUsingWorkflow.zip (535.08 KB) Unfortunately I don't have time to go into the details right now - working on another project at the moment. The key to making it work is setting the instanceid context to null on the server when the "last"...(read more)

Code from my webcast earlier today

2008-06-23T22:04:23Z

I did a webcast on using WCF from Silverlight 2.0 this morning - I think you can see the replay here in about 24-hours - http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032380766&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US If you watched (or watch the replay) here is the code: webcastcode.zip (3.46 MB) Check out my BizTalk R2 Training . Read More......(read more)

Jacksonville,Fl. Architects SIG Meets June 24, 2008

2008-06-13T21:18:00Z

Well, I hope everyone is starting to enjoy the warm weather and the feeling of summer, which reminds me… this summer’s first meeting is scheduled June 24, 2008. This meeting will be a little different than any we have had in the past. The plan is to get our group to participate and learn by helping others within the community. I will start off the meeting with some basic architectural concerns/issues that are common within most IT shops, and hopefully this will break the ground for other participants...(read more)

Unit testing asynchronous workflow activities

2008-06-11T08:56:24Z

In a previous blog post I demonstrated how TypeMock allowed us to mock out the workflow runtime infrastructure and create true unit tests for a workflow activity. Now this may not seems like a big deal but because most of the classes in the workflow runtime are sealed mocking them with another mocking framework is pretty much impossible. Now you can test custom activities by wrapping them in a test workflow, creating a workflow runtime, running the workflow and inspecting the result I can hardly...(read more)

Orlando, Fl. Microsoft Community Summit Recap

2008-06-10T15:29:00Z

Many thanks to Joe Healy and crew for organizing the community summit we had last weekend. I came down to Orlando, Fl. last Saturday, not sure what to expect, however when I saw the facilities and attendees, I knew that this was going to be a fun weekend. To recap...We were able to use the civic center for the weekend in between the first and second weeks of Teched. It almost felt like we were speaking at Teched, minus a few thousand attendees. However our MS TE's and community leaders did an outstanding...(read more)

Changing the ActivityDesignerTheme on an activity

2008-06-10T13:34:07Z

Using an ActivityDesignerTheme is a quick way to customize the appearance of an activity in the workflow designer. But there is a gotcha Because once you applied the theme and have a workflow with the custom activity open in the designer no matter what you do changes will not be applied. I am not sure why this is but I suppose the designer caches the color scheme and doesn't see any changes made to it. Take the following activity: using System; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Drawing;...(read more)