Kavitak's WebLog

Our team has posted a set of WF 4 Migration documents on MSDN. You'll find 4 papers initially - an overview document which introduces migration concerns and what to do for the WF3 developer. a best practices for WF3 development paper - how...

Earlier this week, we released Beta1 to MSDN subscribers. I am happy to share that the bits are now available for general public download! Go get them here .

In addition to the Beta1 samples I linked to , you may also find the training kit useful - it has more detailed walkthroughs of key features. Get it here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wcfwf4

When you download VS2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta1, you do not automatically get the samples. To get the SDK samples that the team put together, go to: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5aca0622-d87d-4cc9...

Here's a link to the Beta1 forums where you can provide feedback and ask questions: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/VSPreRelease,netdevelopmentprerelease,visualstudioprerelease,vstsprerelease Our team will be watching the...

I'm finally excited to share that .NET Framework 4.0 Beta1 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 is being released this week! After having kept it low key and quiet for so long, and a limited distribution at the PDC last year, it is great that this week, Beta1...

Finally, the PDC week is here. At the Ray Ozzie keynote this morning, he announced Windows Azure - www.azure.com - Windows in the Cloud. Azure will be the basis for the Microsoft Services Platform. .NET Online Services, Live Services, SQL Services...

The premier Microsoft conference, the PDC - Professional Developers Conference, is happening in the week of Octobert 26th in Los Angeles! Microsoft stars will join movie stars and present a bunch of upcoming technologies and paradigms to thousands of...

Check out Doug's post and Don's post about Oslo. Finally, we're ready to talk about Oslo at the PDC. I've been involved in Oslo since late 2006, when we were still trying to define what it really is! I personally work on the .NET Framework 4.0 which is...

In Windows Workflow Foundation V1, we shipped an activity called the CAG or the Conditioned Activity Group. If you use the CAG activity in your workflow applications, I would appreciate if you could share example scenarios for which you find the CAG activity...

WCF and WF have been out since November 2006, and they are both still relatively new technologies. To help get started, our marketing team has worked with our friends over in Pluralsight to set up a weekly 7 - 12 minute screencast series exploring short...

Our marketing team has launched a series of MSDN webcasts to explore the possibilities of Microsoft .NET 3.5 Framework through demonstrations and deep dives on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). You can find...

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RuleChainingBehavior.UpdateOnly has been supported in WF Rules since .NET Framework 3.0. It allows you to explicitly participate in the forward chaining process. Rule attributes are RuleRead, RuleWrite, RuleInvoke which can be placed on methods that...

RuleReevaluationBehavior has been supported in WF Rules since .NET Framework 3.0. It is an enum that you can tweak to control forward chaining and the re-evaluation on a per rule basis. Typically this property is used to prevent infinite looping due to...

The final bits for 'Orcas' or .NET Framework 3.5 are now available for download! I must say this was a relatively quick, feature packed release for us. Get it here . For the Connected Framework team in which I work in, we concentrated on 4 major...

Paul Andrew and co. have just released BizTalk extensions for WF . This is a really cool piece of technology as people have been asking whether to use BizTalk Server or Windows Workflow Foundation when they want to implement a business process. This SDK...

This past week, we announced "Oslo" at the SOA-BP conference in Redmond. Oslo is the code name for a group of technical investments we're making over the next couple of years to simplify designing, building and managing composite applications. This is...

We would like to know what Activities you want us to ship with in the next version of Windows Workflow Foundation. To help us with prioritizing our development effort, we've created a survey. We would really appreciate if you could take some time out...

It's been a while since I blogged, due to vacations and just a lot of work. I also have some additional responsibilities at work and now own Activities, Rules and Community which has been keeping me busy. Part of the reason I am busy is that I have two...

So, a bunch of us here at work are on facebook. I logged in this morning, and it logged in fine. Then I got an email from a Microsoft employee I dont know and she said facebook seems to be logging her in as me! Next thing I know, I was logged out, facebook...

Our team shipped WCF + WF and is now on a quest to build the next generation distributed application platform. We have a variety of openings for a Program Manager on our team and we'd love to hear from you! The openings are at various levels and are in...

I did a webcast in May on Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation Rules. I am doing another one this Friday, on some advanced scenarios and extensibility. I hope to see you there! Here's the registration link. I've been told that the recording...

I had my first Live WebCast today on Intro to WF Rules. I did a tech-check with Julie and we checked the sound, the slides, discussed the protocol we would follow to reach each other during the Webcast, how to mute everyone else except me etc...We had...

I will be giving a "Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation Rules" webcast on Friday May 18th at 11am PST. Hope to see you there! Description: This session provides an introduction to the rules engine capabilities provided in Windows Workflow...