As a little exercise to teach myself WPF (argue amongst yourselves about how successful I was on that point; feedback most welcome) I have written a tool call the Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) Configuration Editor. It’s purpose is to exercise complete...

In this article, I will show how to create a basic animation using JavaScript and the HTML 5 Canvas elements. The animation uses two png images (of concentric circles with transparency) that move within the constrains of the canvas to create a nice pattern...

If you have been using FSharpChart you will undoubtedly have read Keith Battocchi’s posting, on the F# team blog, covering Getting Started with FSharpChart . If not it is well worth a quick read. The FSharpChart library contains F#-friendly wrappers...

This article is part of a series: Part 1 Part 2 Inside ExecuteXamlWorkflow In my last post I introduced the ExecuteXamlWorkflow custom activity, an activity that you can use in your own workflows to execute a XAML file based child...

In WF 3.5 it was possible to enable and disable activity execution by simply changing the Enabled property in the designer property grid. This would turn on or off both validation and execution of the activity and was really useful in scenarios where...

If you follow the excellent Parallel Programing with .Net blog , you will have read a recent post by Emad Omara demonstrating a Parallel Merge Sort using Barrier . While there may be more efficient parallel sorting options, as this post notes, this is...

This article is part of a series: Part 1 Part 2 Overview Using the WF designer to compose workflows from other workflows is trivial providing the child workflow has been compiled. Then it’s simply a case of drag and drop...

If you've ever spent any time developing business rules in Windows Workflow Foundation using the RuleSetDialog then you'll have very quickly become infuriated with its inability to resize. The "letterbox" view of if/then/else expressions that...

So, in my last post I said that the template would be the last for a while, but here is one more. This template creates a Windows Library with a simple class definition. The template can be found on the Visual Studio Gallery: http://visualstudiogallery...

So to round out the templates for a while, the final one I have created is an Item Template for creating an Assembly Information File: The template can be found on the Visual Studio Gallery at: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/06bc7a47...