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For those of you who attended my webcast today on workflow communications, the demo code is attached to this post. It includes the base activities used for communication activities (more on these in a later post) and it provides simple example of local communications and web services. The two-way communication...
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I've got a couple of fun talks coming up this month. First, I'm going to be doing an MSDN webcast on Windows Workflow Foundation - Communication in Depth. I'm going to dive into the core communication architecture, discuss how some of the OOB activities use it, and how you can build your own activities...
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Thanks to everyone who came to my session on port binding options in BizTalk Server yesterday. You can find the demos here including the visual studio solution, binding files for BizTalk and the PowerShell script I used for setting up and running my demos.
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Microsoft has rolled out the beta of SP1 for .NET Framework version 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Now don't get confused, this is not just a simple set of bug fixes, this thing is big! Entity Framework and LINQ to entities ADO.NET Data Services (formerly project "Astoria") Dynamic data web sites (highly...
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I've been teaching mostly WF and WCF lately, so I'm excited that in a couple of weeks (April 22) I'll be getting a chance to teach our core BizTalk course again in the lovely city of Chicago. I'm excited because there is a lot of cool stuff for this particular open enrollment. 1) R2 - need I say more...
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Last week I had the pleasure of teaching a class for Healthwise in Boise, and while there met David Starr. David has a website called Elegant Code and we got a chance to sit down for a podcast during the week. We chatted about WF, WCF, BizTalk, "Oslo" and being a Pluralsight instructor. Have a listen...
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I recently got to sit down with some local smart guys here in Minneapolis and we chatted about REST versus SOA. It wasn't any kind of religious discussion, but it was fun to talk to people who build apps and work with developers every day to hear what they think about this topic. You can find the audio...
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Several people are starting to blog about the introduction of the Volta project on live.labs.com. This is a pretty interesting research project and points to an interesting development at Microsoft. I get a little frustrated at times b/c I hear developers complain that a) Microsoft isn't agile enough...
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A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of participating in a roundtable event with some really smart folks from around the Minneapolis area. Jeff Brand, our local evangelist and .NET sex symbol (self-proclaimed) organized the whole thing and recorded it using a very cool device from Microsoft that...
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Hot off the presses, you can get it now from MSDN subscriber downloads or the trial version . See Soma's blog for more details on the new features, etc. Surprisingly, being a WF and BizTalk guy, I'm least excited about the WF/WCF integration. I'll talk more about what I dislike later, but this is a happy...
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I attended the Microsoft SOA and BP conference this week in Redmond where they announced their plans for future of connected systems (the division responsible for BizTalk, WCF, WF, AD, and much more). You can read more about the announcement and what impacted products are on the Microsoft SOA site ....
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I've got an upcoming talk at the Heartland Developer's Conference coming up in Omaha in November. If you are a developer in the Midwest, you should definitely check out this event. These guys put on a nice two day conference with some great technical content and fun atmosphere. Despite what you might...
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If you joined me for the two presentations I did Wednesday here in Minneapolis, then you'll find the code downloads for those sessions here( WCF/WF ) and here ( SharePoint and WF ). If you weren't there, then never mind.
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As many of you know, Jon Flanders recently joined us here at Pluralsight. In just a couple of weeks Jon is going to be delivering our first public offering of the BizTalk R2 class. If I weren't already committed, I'd be at this course as Jon has some great material on the new features in the upcoming...
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For those of you who attended Tech Ed and wanted the demos from the breakout and chalk talk about the WCF adapter, you will find them below. Thanks to all who attended, and enjoy. Breakout session (445 kb) (Connected Systems application) includes transaction flow example and basic adapter configuration...
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