This is part 2 in a multi-part series. You can find part 1 here . Last time, I walked through creating the "Hello World" equivalent of a state machine workflow. Today, we will expand that workflow to contain additional states and events. The goal will...

In the highly unlikely event that you have not seen Rob Caron's blog, here is a excerpt and link to said critical resource. BTW, we are getting an increased number of questions regarding 64-bit support in VS 2005 and I hope this article helps. Best...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e35cee88-c919-463f-b020-81468cd231da&displaylang=en SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) is a complete suite of tools that dramatically cuts the effort, cost, and risk of migrating from...

Not exactly new news, but with the RTM of Visual Studio 2005 I'd thought I'd remind everyone that VB developers get refactoring too! All you have to do is install Refactor! for Visual Basic .NET 2005 . It's FREE and available to Visual Basic 2005 developers...

I am sure it's been blogged tons o' times already, but it's the first thing that came up when I MSN'd it http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=rtm+visual+studio+beta+uninstall&FORM=QBHP . These instructions should help http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com...

Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Beta3 Refresh has released and will be on MSDN for subscribers to download later today. This release provides full compatibility with the RTM ("release to manufacture") versions of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005...

Are you a developer who writes the same code blocks over and over again and wishes that there was a faster way to insert the code blocks into your code within the Visual Studio IDE? Or are you a Lead Developer who wants to make it easier for the developers...

Have you ever wondered how you could programmatically add a user to Active Directory with .NET (Visual Studio)? Well, in this screencast you will see a 10 minute walkthrough with all of the steps and sample code needed to do so. Watch my screencast...

One of the things I hear often from our Federal customers is "How do I create Section 508 compliant web sites?" ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 to the rescue! Learn how to get started by watching my screencast and reading the related material here...

Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0 are done!!! See Soma's post at http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2005/10/27/485665.aspx --Darryl

Windows Workflow Foundation supports two types of workflows: sequential and state machines. Over the next several days, I'm going to talk about building state machine workflows. Sequential workflows are procedural in nature (activities are executed in...

As our Good Friend of Federal (or GFOF ) David M. said this morning in an email message, "It was only a matter of time...". Check out this MSDN TV episode on a future Visual Studio designer. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes...

By now, you've probably heard about the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). WF, like Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), will be part of WinFX. This means that it will be available for Windows XP, Windows Vista...

So today we launched the new generation of Microsoft Certifications. Check out http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/newgen/ and http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/oct05/10-25MSLearningNewCertsPR.mspx . Love it, hate it, indifferent? Comment...

Folks, download away: http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC05/ - Keith

It's official. I'm a Channel 9 Screencaster now. My first Screencast is Creating a Native XML Web Service in SQL Server 2005 . Screencasts are feature demonstrations (typically 5-10 minutes long). These are a great way to pick up a quick dose of feature...

The WinFX SDK installs a number of tools which assist in the building of Windows Communication Foundation services and clients. One of these tools is the configuration editor . Very little has been written about this tool, so, even if you've been doing...

Folks, here's a great chart, created for the PDC by Jeff Schlimmer, a program manager for WCF: http://www.pluralsight.com/jeffsch/images/IndigoProtocols-20050912.pdf - -Keith

I've receieved several great comments, both online and offline, regarding my previous posts around smart clients ( 1 , 2 ). All of the comments tend to revolve around the perception that web applications are, for the scenario in question, the only affordable...

Yesterday , I talked about building a simple Windows Communication Foundation client which communicated with an ASMX web service. In that post, I mentioned that I used Add Web Reference to create the Indigo Proxy. That tool reads the WSDL file from your...

Visual Studio 2005 includes new ReportViewer controls that you can use to add rich data reporting to Windows forms and ASP.NET applications. This download provides two complete samples so that you can view the control and sample reports in a finished...

I created a simple ASMX web service (VS 2K5 Beta 2) that I wanted to access from a WCF client (September CTP). The ASMX web service is running in the ASP.Net development web server, not IIS. I created my simple WCF client by using Add Web Reference. It...

This download describes the patterns & practices Security Engineering approach that can be used to integrate security into your application development life cycle. The Security Engineering approach contains activities for identifying security objectives...

Several weeks ago, I posted some thoughts about AJAX in particular and web applications in general. I talked about the fact that web applications trade user productivity for ease of deployment. I bring this up because I want to talk about something that...

Do you want to build a Smart Client application that looks like Outlook? How about doing it entirely with built in controls? Windows Forms 2.0 gives you the ability to do just that! You can find a link to the source code for such an app in the "Frequently...