A.K.A. “Why won’t the workflow designer use my data template?” I was on site with a customer today writing some custom activities and found a problem that wasn’t immediately obvious how I could get around it (and indeed it’s...

Phew – that was a long title! This is a follow-up to a post that my colleague Josh wrote recently. I started typing a comment in response to one of the comments and it got a little bit cramped in the text box so I decided to post it here instead...

I’m lucky enough to have sneaked on to some MVC training created and hosted by my talented colleagues Simon Ince and Stuart Leeks . For some time now I’ve threatened to migrate theJoyOfCode.com blogging engine from ASP.NET WebForms to MVC...

Of course, the ThreadPool isn't actually dead - it's just hiding. Or at least it should be. Long live the Task Parallel Library. During my career I've got to play with some reasonably serious parallel challenges. As a result, I've posted a number of...

What’s not to love about ClickOnce? I’ll tell you what… There’s no doubt that ClickOnce is a killer deployment technology with many of the benefits of web deployment combined with the rock-hard awesomeness of juicy-fat Windows...

One of my favourite features in WPF is the ability to have it automagically wire up a databound object (often a ViewModel ) to a particular DataTemplate . A lot of people really miss this feature when using Silverlight as it's still missing from the latest...

I’m in the scalability labs with a customer this week and we’ve encountered an exception when setting up a goal based load test. We have a bunch of machines, and my customer has created a set of custom performance counters that report appropriate...

Our next SoundByte, “ Incorporating Security Practices into your Development Lifecycle ”, will be run on Friday 17 th September 2010 from 11:00 – 12:00 UK Time . The session is charged at the rate of 1 hour from your ADM contract for...

When building BizTalk applications you often need to generate the XML serialization classes for your schemas. Sometimes this is a more efficient and simple way gain access to data and manipulate or construct complex messages than maps, distinguished fields...

I’m a regular Subversion user, specifically TortoiseSVN and VisualSVN , but I’m also a big fan of Windows Search , particularly with all the improvements introduced in Windows 7. However, when Windows Search indexes areas of the file system...