Humans Go to Control Panel / Programs / Programs and Features / View Installed Updates Use the Search Box to search the updates for KB2495593 KB2478063 Or if you prefer, search the list your self Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Platform Update 1 - Runtime...

Sometimes when using Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4) you need to create a custom WorkflowServiceHostFactory.  There are a couple of main reasons why you would want to do this. To configure the WorklfowServiceHost in some way like adding an extension...

If you want to read the AppFabric Monitoring Database from a Web Application your web app will have to have permission to login. If you try to run a web app that does not have permission you will likely see this Cannot open database "AppFabricMonitoringDB"...

I can’t count how many times this has bitten me…  You create a new Workflow Service.  You create a client app, add a service reference and boom! There is no context attached to the incoming message for the service and the current operation is...

Are you sometimes frustrated by WF/WCF? Let’s just be honest for a moment… all of us are frustrated by WF/WCF at times.  Even those of us who work on the product can probably think of a hundred ways we would like to make them better.  However...

One rather large pain point with distributed systems is versioning.  There are things you can do that make this problem better and things you can do that make it worse.  The worst thing you can do is pretend that this problem does not exist...

I have a tool that I created to help me package sample applications for the web.  It removes stuff that I don’t want in the zip file like binaries, test results and various other junk that builds up when developing apps.  It also removes source...

In my investigation of versioning issues with Windows Workflow Foundation I’ve come to one important conclusion.  This isn’t something new, in fact at TechEd 2008 when I gave my very first “chalk talk” about WF3.5 I said that this issue (versioning...