CCF Workflows takes several seconds to start for the first time. This is to do with the fundamental .Net feature called JIT. When you first launch the workflow, CCF creates the workflow engine for the first time and starts the engine before working on...

One of the most annoying features for admins with managing CCF is adding Agents. Updating/Deleting are less annoying as they are not in bulk most of the times. Even manually adding Agents using CCF Admin Console is not productive when adding more than...

I know very few people are working in CCF currently. But here is an undocumented life saver. The Context that is passed in the NotifyContextChange event is a reference to the object and not a value. Most of you might already know this as it is a reference...

WCF solves so many complex problems of the distributing computing, yet when it comes to simple things like overloading it fumbles. This is not what I say, but what I heard from some developers at my customer's site. So, I thought how can such a small...

Introduction This weblog provides a solution to one of the most common problem faced by developers while developing their projects involving WCF Services using Visual Studio. Background To give you a little background on what this is all about...

This can be tricky at times. If all you want is the basic communication WSDL, you can get it by appending ?WSDL to the .svc file. This will output the required WSDL. A sample for this would be something like: http://localhost/MyService/Service.svc...

Spike Xavier & Dan Wahlin came up with this song while carpooling to their work... Is starts like a rock song, then loses track. They have however tried to keep onto the same genre, but... They realized that they created a new genre of music and...

Long long ago... when people tried "Failure" in the search box and tried their luck (I'm Feeling lucky), they were directed to President Bush related website... How obvious!!! And they say... history repeats... and here is another proof... Try "Search...

InfoPath 2003 does not provide any password field. So, storing passwords on the form is not recommended as it is in clear text. To have something really critical as passwords on the InfoPath forms is not a straightforward task. I've used a workaround...

Lab 7 of the InfoPath labs discuss about the using user roles with InfoPath. This is one of the most useful features in InfoPath. You can do anything with this based on the role. For example, the admin user can be shown some admin views which are not...

On Friday (1st Sept 2006) I wrote 70-528 (developing web client applications in .net framework 2.0). The material available on the test was pretty little and the topics to cover were many. Though, I was very sure about the result... I myself was shocked...

Working on InfoPath form is an easy affair as long as, developers use it for the sole purpose of its creation (Creating a simple forms to capture data and publish them to a server for sharing). The moment this rule is broken, the increase in the complexity...

Open and copy contents from one form to another in InfoPath 2003...

If you are working with InfoPath 2003, sooner or later you’ll encounter situations requiring you to obtain information from a config file. If you are using Visual Studio 2003 you can add a config file to the project, but reading from that file is not...

I am sure this is not the first time you are looking at that title. I am pretty excited to start my blog at blogs.msdn.com. Though, this is not the first time I am saying "Hello, World!" in the blogging space, this is a special one for me. I'm working...