Ron Jacobs
Windows Workflow Foundation
Thanks to the many supporters and friends who contributed to my first round of fundraising I have...
Date: 09/11/2013
Thank you to the many friends who have helped to pay for my experimental treatment with the CVAC...
Date: 08/22/2013
I know I said that my previous post was my last post. Today I checked my Microsoft email for the...
Date: 07/05/2013
A few months ago I wrote this post about my diagnosis with Adiposis Dolorosa (Dercum's Disease)....
Date: 01/10/2013
I am a musician. Over the years I have played keyboards in many bands, traveling and performing...
Date: 08/22/2012
Question Can I use a LINQ Query such as the following in a Workflow? private static void...
Date: 07/27/2012
Nearly every day I get email from someone asking for help. I wish I had time to answer every...
Date: 07/09/2012
Recently saw this question in the MSDN Workflow Forum Is there a (SetState) in the new StateMachine...
Date: 06/18/2012
One thing that many web sites do is to verify email addresses by sending you an email to complete...
Date: 05/06/2012
Sometimes you have a workflow service that is misbehaving in a production environment. How do...
Date: 12/16/2011
Try this… Create a new ASP.NET Web Application (MVC or Web Forms). Then add a new a WCF...
Date: 12/16/2011
In my previous posts I’ve written about my experiences with WorkflowServices and Silverlight....
Date: 12/14/2011
I was doing some work on my Contoso HR Workflow Services sample application today when for some...
Date: 10/19/2011
If you install the Visual Studio 11 Preview release on a machine that has .NET 4 Platform Update 1...
Date: 09/30/2011
If you need a quick and simple way to manually test your WorkflowService the WCF Test Client makes...
Date: 09/23/2011
From time to time I’ll hear from somebody who is trying to use a WCF Workflow Service with...
Date: 08/26/2011
If you are using Microsoft.Activities.UnitTesting.XamlInjector to mock activities you may run into...
Date: 08/25/2011
The Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4) - Custom Activity Designer sample demonstrates how you can...
Date: 08/14/2011
Today I’ve been fixing up the build system for Microsoft.Activities and...
Date: 07/28/2011
You know those little tools you build to help in your development? The ones that you slapped...
Date: 07/24/2011
The NuGet team has recently added the ability to store the package icon URL in the nuspec...
Date: 07/11/2011
I love Task<T>. It has to be one of the finest innovations in the framework in the past...
Date: 06/30/2011
In my previous posts I’ve been arguing that you can implement Task Parallelism with Windows Workflow...
Date: 06/28/2011
In my last post The Workflow Parallel Activity and Task Parallelism I said that you can implement...
Date: 06/28/2011
“Task parallelism (also known as function parallelism and control parallelism) is a form of...
Date: 06/28/2011
Most of the time in software when we say “Parallel” we mean that multiple threads are being used to...
Date: 06/23/2011
With Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4) you can author activities in Code or XAML. Each has...
Date: 06/22/2011
Recently I was contacted by a customer who had read my posts on Versioning and was investigating...
Date: 06/21/2011
This morning I saw a message post on the .NET 4 Windows Workflow Foundation Forum titled Load XAMLX...
Date: 06/15/2011
Lots of people create state machines. There are many examples on the web of people who are...
Date: 06/08/2011
Way back in September 2009 I wrote WF4: Passing Arguments to Activities. In the years since...
Date: 05/26/2011
For background on this issue see WF4 How To Invoke a Child Workflow as XAML. Thanks to...
Date: 05/26/2011
It’s been a long while but in the old WF 3.5 days as I recall there was this funky binding thing...
Date: 05/25/2011
Well it’s that time of year again. Time to write the performance review. While working...
Date: 05/24/2011
The other day I got this tweet from Adam @ronljacobs anyway to do something like:...
Date: 05/23/2011
In my previous post on WorkflowServices, CanCreateInstance and Silverlight I shared with you some of...
Date: 05/18/2011
Update 6/21 - there is a fix for this known issue see KB2468871 look for issue #9 I have found that...
Date: 05/18/2011
While working on signing assemblies you may run into a problem I encountered this morning so here...
Date: 05/18/2011
If you are using .NET 4 Platform Update 1 to do unit testing you may encounter this dialog box when...
Date: 05/17/2011
tempuri.org is the default namespace applied to WCF Services and Workflow Services. You can...
Date: 05/12/2011
Update 12/3/2011: Microsoft.Activities is now Microsoft.Activities.Extensions When I first saw NuGet...
Date: 05/09/2011
If you are having trouble with a Workflow deployed in IIS with Windows Server AppFabric, the event...
Date: 05/04/2011
So you want to know how the state machine really works? Take a look at the WF4 State Machine...
Date: 05/04/2011
Humans Go to Control Panel / Programs / Programs and Features / View Installed Updates Use the...
Date: 04/29/2011
Sometimes when using Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4) you need to create a custom...
Date: 04/27/2011