A few people asked about how they can integrate Windows Server AppFabric "Dublin" w/ Service Bus. Check the whitepaper and the sample here on how you can host WCF services w/ Service Bus endpoints in IIS 7.5. A really great sample.

The .NET Workflow Service has been part of the .NET Services platform for multiple CTP releases. Its architected to be the "cloud" Workflow hosting solution. The .NET Workflow Service was built on top of WF 3.5. Lately, we made a decision to build on...

انا لله وانا اليه راجعون يا أيتها النفس المطمئنة ارجعي إلى ربك راضية مرضية فادخلي في عبادي وادخلي جنتي On the 29th of March 2009 my father and my professor Prof. Dr. Khalil M. Ahmed of the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University passed...

We just published 4 whitepapers on .NET Services: an intro, a workflow, service bus, and access control specific ones. Check them out here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5057e2b3-c8e5-4b26-a601-ff9621589ce3&DisplayLang=en

Jenny talks about the steps you need to follow to create your first .NET Services solution. A great post. Check it out here: http://blogs.msdn.com/jennylo/archive/2008/11/04/a-step-by-step-guide-from-creating-a-net-services-solution-to-running-the-multicast...

A few folks asked about the set of supported activities in the Nov 2008 CTP of .NET Workflow Service. In the current release, Nov 2008 CTP, the Workflow Service supports a subset of the WF out-of-box (OOB) activities and some activities for the...

If you didn’t fill your absentee ballot yet please take some time to vote this Tuesday. I personally think the 2008 presidential election is of great magnitude but please remember this Tueday's election is not just a presidential one. All seats in the...

If you’re @ PDC, come to BB27 this Thursday @ 1:45 to learn more about .NET Workflow Service. During this session, I’ll talk about the .NET Workflow Service roadmap and how you can use the live CTP bits this Thursday @ PDC. Also, there are a lot...

Last PDC in 2005, I was part of the team that announced Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) as the new declarative programming model in .NET Framework. WF allows you to focus on writing the core logic of your application, declaratively. It handles a lot...

John Shewchuk talk about his PDC 08 talk here: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dan/Countdown-to-PDC2008-Technical-Fellow-John-Shewchuk-Talks-About-His-Talk-at-PDC2008/ John’s PDC talk is a high-level talk giving you an overview of what our team at...

The PDC team is regularly posting a list of sessions . Lately, they posted a session to give me the opportunity to talk to you about Cloud-based Workflow Services. Workflow Services: Orchestrating Services and Business Processes Presenter: Moustafa...

InfoWorld talks about BizTalk Services R12 and Workflow here .

We released BizTalk Services R12 Release today. R12 contains the first public release of BizTalk Workflow Services. Please read Clemens' announcement post here for more detailed information on R12's BizTalk Worklfow Services and major changes to the Messaging...

Hello World! Its been few months since I wrote last time. I’ve been super busy over the past few months working various efforts. In late 2007, we shipped Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 . The release contained significant WF framework...

A lot of developers wanted to build WF workflows and host them in BizTalk Server. Jon Flanders and others wrote the BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Extensions For Windows Workflow Foundation SDK V1 to show you how to do this. Check it out here .

The Connected Framework team is planning for the next version (v.Next) of WF and WCF and one of the work items if planning for the set of out of box (OOB) Activities to build. We created a survey to gather your feedback on the current set of WF OOB Activities...

CNN Money has published an interesting article on how KAS bank is using BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and the BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT to provide institutional investors with SWIFT connectivity. Short and interesting article to read for those interested...

WF Pageflow is a popular request from customers all over the globe. Shelly Guo, Israel Hilerio and Matt Winkler of Microsoft with Jon Flanders' help just released a WF Pageflow sample to show you how you can use WF to drive the execution behavior of an...

Next week @ TechEd 2007 in Orlando, I’ll present a WF Rules Extensibility breakout session. If you’re at TechEd and interested in learning more about WF Rules Extensibility, come to the session. I plan to give a brief overview of Rules and WF Rules...

We just posted a VB version of the WF hands on labs. You can find them here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2e575633-e357-4ee7-aaff-34138f00e830&displaylang=en . Enjoy! Update: When you download the exe file and extract...

If you don’t know already, the Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” March CTP is released to the web here .The combined WCF and WF teams added the following functionalities to Orcas: · WF Designer and Debugger integration with Visual Studio · WF &...

Last Janruary MSDN published two articles on WF Tracking: David Gristwood authored a Tracking Services Introduction article here , and Ranjesh Jaganathan authored a Tracking Services Deep Dive article here . David works in the Microsoft Developer and...

Paul Andrew writes on what to use WF for, excellent information for you and your customers. Check it out here .

The Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) group released a DinnerNow.Net sample. Get the scoop from Matt or James or David . In short, the website is a factious marketplace that is built using several Microsoft technologies. The source code...

Matt Winkler shows how you can use WF Tracking to track workflow data and how to later query for them if you’re using the OOB SqlTrackingService. Very nice illustration of the WF Tracking extracts functionality. Check it out here .