I’m always getting frustrated by little problems at work. One by one they are tiny but gradually they add up. Especially if they happen again and again every day! Running out of hard disk space on my C: drive on one of my machines is one of the ones which...

A little while I begin a new rehosted designer project, and this time I want to get a little bit more creative with it, mixing in some of the stuff I have done earlier with XAML compilation. The more functionality like that I add, the closer to the Visual...

Introit - call it whatever, but today I’m recycling an old post. And I have one more little confession. When I started writing a new rehosted app today, I found out my old toolbox FAQ was fairly useless. It was even getting to the point where someone...

Sometimes it happens that via the forums I learn about a new [to me] beast in the WF Zoo. Today that animal is WorkflowDataContext . The MSDN document is terse: “Represents the data context of the current workflow environment and provides...

One of our internal customers pinged me with a quick question today. He asked whether it is possible to set a default type argument for T if you have an activity of GenericType, say DataCollectorActivity<T>. I might have said this in passing by...

Hello State Machine fans! There have now been several eras of support for state machines in WF4 and WF3, and I think it would be good for a retrospective, part stocktake, part promo and making sure everyone is up-to-date (+reminder of CTP license terms...

[Or: Rant - Code-Reviewing Random Code on the Internet.] I’m sure I’ve stumbled upon this post before once, and I hit it again today. I think it’s a little unfortunate this appears so high up in the results, as the post has a bunch...