I find myself answering questions related to the presentation patterns repeatedly. Since I am a lazy person, I am writing this post to illustrate my understanding and interpretation of the Model-View-* patterns and their variations so I can refer back...

Windows Identity Foundation integrates with WCF at the host level (ServiceHost) and then various WIF extensibility points are invoked at different stages of WCF message processing pipeline. In this post, I will show how WIF can be integrated with Workflow...

I’ve been using MVVM since I started WPF (I was a latecomer to the beauty that is WPF) and one of the things that’s always irked me is the amount of code you need to write in order to expose a command. I’ll typically write something...

I am embarking in a series of mini post called .NET hidden gems, not necessarily new bits but usually unknown. They are dedicated to those small features and components that are not commonly used but can deliver interesting value in certain scenarios...

Date : 31 st August & 1 st September 2010 Location : Thames Valley Park, Reading As ASP.NET MVC 2 was released in March 2010 many of our customers are considering or are already planning to adopt it for their new applications. A new approach...

Now that the State Machine Activity Pack has been released on Codeplex (see http://wf.codeplex.com for details) I thought I should resurrect one of the samples I regularly used in the 3.x days to show a state machine example. The point of this example...

When you stop a project collection in TFS 2010, it asks you to enter a reason why you are stopping that collection: This text will be displayed to the users when they try to use an artifact in any of the projects in that project...

In a previous post I covered how to write a conditional validator to work with ASP.NET MVC, and a little gotcha to avoid. However, I didn’t include any details on how to wire up this validator with some client side JavaScript. This post is tacks...

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I’m in a curious time-warp this week, as I’ve just been asked how to do something in WF4 that I wrote about for WF3 in September 2005 . Anyhow, a customer of mine asked how to add an item to the context menu for an activity within the design...