Today at PDC we are excited to introduce the Windows Server AppFabric Beta 1. AppFabric evolves the existing application server capabilities of Windows Server to make it easier to build, scale and manage Web and composite applications that run on Internet...

Attending Microsoft PDC 2009 ? Then come hear Henrik Frystyk Nielsen 's presentation on Developing REST Applications with the .NET Framework . The talk gives an overview of REST principles and why REST is becoming popular beyond traditional Web applications...

Today I am blogging about a common mistake that several developers have committed when using our latest .NET 4 bits. This user experience has its origin in the simplified configuration work developed in this upcoming version of the framework. I will summarize...

Fresh on the heels of the beta 2 release of .NET 4/Visual Studio 2010 , the team has been working on supplemental documentation to help you out with evaluation and adoption of WCF and WF in .NET 4. Last week, two sets of documentation went live: WF4 Migration...

3 weeks to go until PDC09 ; sessions are being reviewed, demos are being polished, schedules are being finalized, and the booth machines are being installed and packed up to go down to Los Angeles. Among the WCF, WF, and ‘Dublin’ group, we have about...

If you redistribute or require .NET 4 for your applications, you now have the option of installing .NET 4 Client Profile – a subset of the Framework intended for client applications. Even better, Client Profile includes almost all pieces of Windows...

Hi all, I’m Matt Winkler , a PM on the WF team and occasional guest blogger here on the endpoint.  I wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the interesting new things in WF4 in Beta 2.  For more info on Beta 2, please check out this page...

Late in the summer we have released WCF sources publically in the reference source . You can now browse and debug WCF source code through Visual Studio. We are working to get the WF in reference source later this year. I will provide an update when WF...

We’ve just published the first chapter of the WCF Extensibility Guidance series.  One of the powerful things about WCF is its extensible architecture.  However, the degree of extensibility can also be daunting.  It’s not something you do...

Christian Weyer has published a great article on the topic of Schema-based Development with Windows Communication Foundation.   Few would argue with the value of Contract First programming when building large systems.  However when programming...

We’re five weeks out from PDC09 , and the rest of our sessions went live last week. I know I posted a couple weeks ago about PDC and sessions that went live, but I wanted to let folks know about the four new sessions – to help you maximize your experience...

The 2009 Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is less than a couple months away, and the team is starting to create content and demos for the event. The team has been working with PDC event management over the last couple months to secure sessions...

We’ve just published Chapter 2 in the WCF Essentials series .  This new chapter is about WCF Templates and Tools. There are several Visual Studio templates available to help you to be more productive with WCF. In addition there are a few essential...

We just published a new article: A Developer's Guide to the WCF REST Starter Kit .  In this article Aaron Skonnard covers all of the main features in the Starter Kit and demonstrates how to use these features in common REST scenarios with lots of...

Looking for a single place to go to learn about what’s new in WCF and WF in .NET 4? We just published a couple of new articles that should help: A Developer’s Introduction to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) .NET 4 Beta 1 , by Aaron Skonnard , Pluralsight...

Maybe you have decided WCF is the right technology for your next project because it has the power, productivity, and flexibility you need. But you might be a little nervous that your team will be able to get up to speed quickly and make the right design...

About six weeks ago, the WF team published up the first four WF3->WF4 migration guidance documents , aimed at helping WF developers prepare and think about the new WF object model runtime. Today, we published the next three documents in the series...

We've all heard of a " mashup " because its one of those buzz words, like " Web 2.0 ", that is picked up and repeated over and over again by the journalists and analysts.  But have you actually seen one up close in the wild? ...

Hello! My name is Miguel Susffalich and I work in the Connected Framework team. In previous posts we have showed an Introduction to Workflow Tracking and a deep dive into Tracking Profiles in .NET 4 Beta 1 . In this post we will explain how Tracking Participants...

The ten Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) hands-on labs were updated today on Microsoft download center for your coding enjoyment! These ten labs were initially posted when WF was new to the world and .NET 3.0 was hot off the presses. This past winter...

Microsoft is pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for participation in the “Dublin” Technology Adoption Program (TAP). “Dublin” rounds out the existing application server capabilities in Windows by providing additional features...

Hello! I am Amadeo Casas Cuadrado, Program Manager in the Connected Framework team. I would like to introduce some of the new .NET 4 features (available with .NET 4 Beta1 !) that we have developed to simplify the user experience when configuring WCF services...

As you have probably noticed, the WCF Dev Center has changed quite a bit recently. If you are a returning visitor, you may be wondering where your favorite links went. The driving principle behind the redesign is to better cater to the different audiences...

Last week we introduced the new Workflow Tracking features in .NET 4.0 .  In this post we’ll do a deep dive into tracking profiles and explain how to use them to track workflow execution in a flexible way.  Tracking Profile Overview Tracking...

We feel that learning by example is one of the easiest ways to get started with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).  In fact, we find that we often use code samples internally to get people from different...