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Tuesday, November 24, 2009 10:48 AM

How do I clear my AppFabric Databases?

Once you start to develop apps with Windows Server App Fabric you will quickly find that your AppFabric monitoring and persistence databases become cluttered with stuff.  From time to time you will want to clear out these databases. Here is the PowerShell
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Thursday, September 24, 2009 3:12 PM

WF4: How To Access Out Arguments

To get a value from your workflow you must access the dictionary of output arguments returned from the workflow. Note : This example is based on Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Consider a workflow that accepts two arguments Name Direction Argument Type UserName
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Monday, September 14, 2009 5:49 PM

WF4: Passing Arguments to Activities

In Windows Workflow Foundation .NET 4 (WF4) everything is an Activity .  That is a class that inherits from System.Activities.Activity.  Activities can have in, out or in/out arguments and do their work then the Activity.Execute () method is
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Thursday, September 10, 2009 11:47 AM

WCF Essentials – Great Stuff now online

Michelle Leroux Bustamante has written some great new papers for MSDN that you really should check out.  They are in the WCF Essentials series. What I like the most about these articles is that she gives really great practical advice.  For example
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009 11:00 AM

Testing a SendMail activity with WF4

Many applications send email.  After all it is the preferred binding for async app to human communication.  I noticed that many of my colleagues were creating samples that simulate email by dropping a text file into a directory.  Then they
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009 1:33 PM

Windows Workflow in .NET 4 and Web Services

Today I published 10-4 episode 29: Workflow Web Services on our Channel 9 10-4 Show about Workflow Services in .NET 4 beta 1.  People have asked me why they would want to implement a web service with a workflow rather than with code using WCF. 
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 9:46 AM

Another reason I love Windows 7 - The Network Troubleshooter

After installing the RTM release of Windows 7 I dropped by the office this morning and when I put the laptop on the docking station I fired up the web browser and got… nothing.  My PC was acting like it had no network connection even though it was
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 6:21 PM

Mocking the Console

I’ve posted an update to the Microsoft.Activities.Simulation library.  Today at the team meeting I showed the library to the Windows Workflow team and Ed Pinto said “That is cool!” so I must be doing something right. Today’s update is a better TestConsole. 
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Friday, June 05, 2009 9:10 AM

How to test WF4 Workflows with Microsoft.Activities.Simulation

Recently I posted a new sample for the CancellationScope activity.  Of course, I’m building these samples on .NET 4 Beta 1.  But the team is already making rapid progress towards the next major milestone.  They are checking in changes that
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009 3:12 PM

WF / WCF 4 and “Dublin” Resources

Every now and then somebody will ask me about resources for WF/WCF 4.  I usually copy a bunch of links into an email for them.  Today I decided I ought to share these resources with all of you.  I’ll try to remember and come back to this
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Monday, June 01, 2009 12:00 PM

CancellationScope Activity

Last Edit: 2-Jun-2009 How do you cancel work in your application?  Many middle tier components and services rely on transactions to handle cancellation for them.  This makes a great deal of sense because transactional programming is well understood. 
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009 11:02 AM

Ready to learn WF/WCF 4?

Tomorrow Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 beta 1 will be available for everyone to download.  I’ve been keeping quiet about the work I’ve been up to for the last month and a half while we got some great resources ready for you. Ok – I let some of this
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Friday, April 03, 2009 3:24 PM

Configuring a VPC for the REST Starter Kit Hands On Labs

Today I was given a VPC image that someone had started and asked to put the WCF REST Starter Kit Hands On Labs on the image so we can use it at Tech-Ed. I ran into some interesting problems and I thought I would share the solutions with you in case you
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Friday, March 27, 2009 7:29 AM

Installing Microsoft URL Rewrite Module on Windows 7 Beta

Recently I said that the IIS 7 URL rewrite module will not work on Windows 7.  Someone commented on my blog post that there is a workaround posted on the iis.net site.  I know the IIS team says this works but I’ve tried it on multiple machines
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Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:42 AM

Today on endpoint.tv – The REST Collection Template

  One of the more interesting (challenging?) things we did with the WCF REST Starter Kit is the REST Collection Service Template.  The idea behind this template was to produce a service that allows you read/write access to a service using a
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