Kavitak's WebLog

Alberto, a PM on the Activities team who drove our BPEL release , mentioned that there have been over 3000 downloads since March when we first released our BPEL CTP. However, we havent heard feedback from customers, making us think that most customers...

In WF V1, we targeted developers and worked with some partners to enable high level authoring capabilities on top of our foundation. InRule went out with the general availability of their support for WF this week - you can read about it here .

Paul Andrew just announced the release of the first out of a series of new starter kits to help developers new to these technologies get started faster.

So I have to admit I've been late in jumping to the "code as data" magic! I did play around with LINQ and the lambda syntax back last year with the May CTP, and found it really simple and powerful - reminding me of the days I worked with ML. I did not...

After the excellent work done by our test team, I've written a small and simple sample that shows how to create rules using the object model - without using any editors. A scenarios where you'd want to do something like this - you're writing your own...

There's another new sample up, written by one of our testers Charlie. This sample shows how the WF Rules Engine can be used to process rules on Xml documents. This is something BizTalk BRE customers were able to do inside the Business Rules Composer,...

Maggie, a tester on the Rules team, recently wrote a PolicyFromFile sample. The idea here is similar to the PolicyFromService sample that is part of the ExternalRuleSetDemo , except that the PolicyFromFile activity does not use a database and externalizes...

An updated version of Dinner Now is now available - (version 1.2) http://www.CodePlex.com/DinnerNow The new version has several bug fixes and a few enhancements. Out-workflow PowerShell Commandlet - David Aiken developed a custom commandlet...

Our evangelism team has built a new sample application called DinnerNow.net. It is a fictious online marketplace for people to order food from a variety of restaurants. The samples showcases a bunch of the .Net Framework 3.0 technologies - WF, WCF, WPF...

Well, Western Washington seems to have made this a habit. We got snow again yesterday, and where I live, we have 9 inches of snow! Driving on the local roads is risky and I for now, cant even get out of my house in the car since there are cars just stranded...

Don Smith from the Patterns and Practices group has published an architectural and development guideline around the Web Service Software Factory specifically for WCF. The Web Service Software Factory (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated...

My main work for the next two weeks is to take care of WCF servicing. This means responding to forum questions, taking care of any customer issues that arrive in these two weeks etc. As part of that, I was going through old forum questions that have not...

On Friday, Day 8, we got power. Felt great to be back home!

Another day gone, another day without power. It's just getting unbelievable. So, I found out that there are 24 houses in my community without power. There's more than 2000 houses in all, and I guess I am seeing what being in a minority implies. PSE was...

Sometimes you want to write rules against all items in a collection. In WF V1, this is not supported natively but can be achieved in the following manner: (you can come up with other ways too, but the essential idea is you want to simulate looping using...

I was looking into a question on the WF forums and trying out something. So I defined a WF Sequential WF project, added some properties on my root workflow class, added a policy activity, defined some rules against those properties - all standard stuff...

What are the odds of living in a community where 99% of homes have power but ours doesn't? The person across the street has power too. Still counting and hoping we'll get power today.

As part of an effort to get the Microsoft field ready for the technologies the product teams are building, Microsoft organizes a conference called TechReady. It is Microsoft internal mainly meant for the Microsoft Technical Field community. TechReady...

In the windstorm that hit the pacific northwest on Thursday night, a lot of homes lost power. We, still do not have power - 5 days later. They're saying it could be through the weekend before we get power. Funny enough, most of my community got power...

A month ago I was investigating authoring WF rules against XML. We dont support it out of the box, but a simple way of achieving this is by exposing your XML schema as a .Net type - and then author rules against that type. Simple, and doable with XSD...

Last week the Channel 9 team came over to our building. They initially wanted to do an interview with Doug , our Group Program Manager. But Doug loves to put a nice spin to things, so he called other folks from the team over to his office and it ended...

I'm spending this week in DC at the Business Rules Forum Conference. It's been interesting. First, before this I'd been to TechEd and PDC and those are obviously much bigger conferences - 10,000+ or 15,000+ people. This one, comparatively, is tiny...

I am actually in DC this week at the Business Rules Forum conference, but someone sent me a couple of photos - it's been raining near Seattle like crazy. Yes, even though most people feel that's not news for Seattle, let me tell you, it's usually just...

After being on the WCF team for almost 4.5 years, I can tell you we've all been waiting for this day. You can now download WCF (and WF and WPF) as part of the .Net Framework 3.0 release here. This is not Beta1, or Beta2, or RC0 or RC1 - this is the final...

Internet Explorer 7 (English Version) for Windows XP is now available as a free download . Other languages will be available in the coming weeks. Internet Explorer 7 incorporates major advances like a streamlined interface, tabbed browsing, printing...