Today, we would like to announce the release of the WF Security Pack CTP 1 on http://wf.codeplex.com . Where did it come from? Quite simply, from you : real WF 4 customers who have spent time banging their heads against the wall trying to get certain...

Interoperability has been a primary goal of the web services standards from the beginning. After all, why would you go to the trouble to form a cross-industry initiative to essentially re-invent advanced distributed programming protocols like CORBA and...

If there is one thing I hear from people over and over again it is this.  Please make WCF simpler, easier to understand and use.  I totally agree with this sentiment.  In fact, in .NET 4 we made it much easier but we still have a long way...

In this episode, Dave Cliffe, Program Manager for Workflow Services, describes the architecture of the Workflow Services infrastructure. For more information, see the Workflow Foundation developer center on MSDN .

In this episode, Windows Workflow Foundation team Program Manager Leon Welicki drops in to show us the team's guidelines for developing custom activities.

In this episode, Windows Workflow Foundation team Program Manager Leon Welicki drops in to show us the team's guidelines for developing custom activities. For more information, see the Workflow Foundation developer center on MSDN .

The focus of the AppFabric Web Farm guide is to assist you in properly installing and configuring Windows Server AppFabric on an existing IIS Web farm. Within a small Windows Server AppFabric installation or within a development environment, having a...

Red Prairie is a software company building solutions for Workforce, Warehouse, and Transportation Management. Of course, every company they serve wants the solution to meet their unique business processes. In this episode, Dan Piessens, Software Architect...

If you are looking for Windows Server AppFabric Distributed Cache Client for Windows Server 2003 at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=193370 the link is currently broken The correct location is Windows Server AppFabric - Windows Server 2003 Distributed...

In this episode, Michael McKeown describes how the Windows Server AppFabric Security Model works in a domain environment.

I’ve been creating a lot of Native Activities lately and to do it I would add a new item to my project using the Code Activity template. I kept wishing for a Native Activity template so now I’ve created one. Read more at Ron Jacobs Blog

Nearly a year ago I created a CancellationScope Activity sample and posted it on CodeGallery for .NET 4 Beta 1.   I went back yesterday and updated it for .NET 4 RTM – the sample has some interesting points to demonstrate. It shows how the CancellationScope...

In .NET 3.5, we created the REST Starter Kit as a way to get you up and running with RESTful services. Now that .NET 4 is out, people are asking how to do things like API Key Verification in .NET 4. In this episode, I'll walk you through a sample based...

In this episode, Michael McKeown describes the security model used in Windows Server AppFabric, which spans Windows Security Groups and SQL Server Database Roles.

Recently somebody asked me about doing APIKey verification in .NET 4. Previously in .NET 3.5 we provided the REST Starter Kit which included a fair bit of server side code to enable a collection of RequestInterceptor objects that we showed doing API Key...

After my previous post about how you can monitor service calls with AppFabric, several people asked about how you can capture errors with AppFabric. Unfortunately, the default error handling behavior of WCF Data Services does not work well with AppFabric...

WCF Data Services provides a very simple model driven way to expose data using REST and the OData format. As I was preparing my talk for Tech-Ed on Implementing REST in .NET I was asking myself if there would be any value in using Windows Server AppFabric...

We are thrilled to announce the final availability of Windows Server AppFabric! As announced today at TechEd North America, Windows Server AppFabric is available for download to Windows Server 2008 (and Windows Server 2008 R2) Standard Edition and Enterprise...

Windows Workflow Foundation in .Net 4 (WF4) makes it possible for you to build custom activity designers that allow different kinds of users to graphically design business processes. In this episode, Kushal Shah, program manager for the Workflow Designer...

You asked for it...here it is. In this episode, Byron Tardif is back to explain how you can setup Windows Server AppFabric in a server farm environment. For more information, see the Windows Server AppFabric Developer Center on MSDN .