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August 2008 - Posts

Building Human Workflows with Windows Workflow Foundation State Machines

I am fortunate to be a speaker at TechEd New Zealand and TechEd Australia this week. One of the sessions I am presenting on is "Building Human Workflows with Windows Workflow Foundation State Machines". Admittedly, I am standing on the shoulders of giants

Creating SharePoint Workflows with Visual Studio 2008

My friend Doug is having some problems with SharePoint workflows and using the OnTaskCreated activity . He says it doesn't work, but I haven't had problems with this. Hoping that this video helps him as well as shows some of my readers how to quickly

iPhone UI With Silverlight

Pretty cool... Faisal Khan recreated the iPhone UI with Silverlight and shows how you can do it, too. http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/silverlight/IPhone-UI-with-Silverlight-2-beta-2.aspx This will be really cool once Silverlight for mobile starts to
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Free Silverlight and WPF Workshop in NYC 9/3/2008

Next week, my teammate Michael Scherotter will be holding a free half-day mini-workshop at the Microsoft office on 6th Avenue to teach people about building Silverlight and WPF applications with Expression Studio and Visual Studio. Since we work with

Palm Treo Pro - I want.

The new Palm Treo Pro phone looks like exactly the phone I have wanted. Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro, square 320x320 screen, keyboard, world phone, GPS, wifi, 2 megapixel camera, removable rechargeable battery, standard micro-usb cable, micro SD slot up to
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XmlWriterSettings Encoding Being Ignored?

I had an interesting exchange in an internal mailing list today, and thought that my readers could possibly benefit from this clarification as well. Scenario You are working with the XmlWriter class and trying to write the contents to something. You are
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Talking With William Oellermann About the Managed Services Engine

I had the opportunity to talk with William Oellermann about the Managed Services Engine (MSE). MSE is a solution built by Microsoft's SOA Solutions Team that facilitates enterprise SOA through service virtualization. MSE provides the ability to support

Creating SharePoint Workflows for WSS with Visual Studio 2008

I just ran across one of those nuisance things with Visual Studio 2008 that I haven't seen before. Create a SharePoint workflow (Sequential or State, doesn't matter) for a WSS site (not MOSS). Build the project, you'll get an error similar to the following:

Change the Drive Letter for External Drives in Vista

I use Virtual PC a lot, and it stores the full path, including drive letter, to saved state and hard disks. This is a real pain in the arse when you plug in multiple thumb drives and USB devices, and Vista changes the drive letter... unless you can get
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Looking at Blackpoint with Shaun and Sebastian from K2

Kirk Evans talks with Shaun Leisegang and Sebastian Garrioch from K2 to learn more about K2 Blackpoint. Blackpoint is a tool built upon Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Presentation Foundation that targets SharePoint, allowing users to build workflows

Security Guidance for WCF Available

Just released: patterns & practices Improving Web Services Security: Scenarios and Implementation Guidance for WCF . Yah, I know that security can be a dry subject, but this book has some really interesting nuggets of information. For instance, they
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