The .NET Endpoint
Blog by the .NET and AppFabric teams about WCF and WF development, deployment, and management
Over the last year you’ve heard us talking about both Windows Azure AppFabric and Windows...
Date: 05/16/2011
A few folks have been asking if it is possible to serialize/deserialize using the...
Date: 05/14/2011
tempuri.org is the default namespace applied to WCF Services and Workflow Services. You can...
Date: 05/12/2011
This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and...
Date: 05/10/2011
Constraining what activities can be dropped on a custom activity designer in Windows Workflow Foundation 4
When designing a custom activity that can be used as a container for other activities, you may want...
Date: 05/09/2011
When I first saw NuGet I knew I had to find a way to take advantage of this great new way to deliver...
Date: 05/09/2011
A few customers have noticed an issue with WCF scaling up when handling a burst of requests....
Date: 05/04/2011
This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and...
Date: 05/03/2011
Humans Go to Control Panel / Programs / Programs and Features / View Installed Updates Use the...
Date: 04/29/2011
This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and...
Date: 04/28/2011
The workflow designer has a rich programming model that supports communication with the host. A...
Date: 04/27/2011
Sometimes when using Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4) you need to create a custom...
Date: 04/27/2011
MIX was indeed a busy time for the WCF Team. We delivered several talks, and released several shiny...
Date: 04/24/2011
This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and...
Date: 04/23/2011
State machine is a well-known model for event-driven workflows and a highly requested feature from...
Date: 04/20/2011
This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and...
Date: 04/19/2011
The Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Platform Update 1 released today, 4/18/2011. The Microsoft .NET...
Date: 04/18/2011
Most of the Windows Workflow Foundation samples use workflows that are hosted in a console...
Date: 04/18/2011
In my investigation of versioning issues with Windows Workflow Foundation I’ve come to one important...
Date: 04/13/2011
This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and...
Date: 04/12/2011
Update: This went live 4/18/2011, and there are more details here: Microsoft .NET Framework 4...
Date: 04/11/2011
This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and...
Date: 04/05/2011
I don’t remember anyone ever actually asking me this, but I found myself wondering the question...
Date: 03/31/2011
Last year we at PDC10 we gave you a preview of the next release of Windows Workflow...
Date: 03/31/2011
This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and...
Date: 03/30/2011
This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and...
Date: 03/28/2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is Microsoft’s unified programming model for building...
Date: 03/23/2011
This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and...
Date: 03/22/2011
How should you use WF4 and WCF with ASP.NET? For this post I’ve created a really simple...
Date: 03/21/2011
Even when AsyncCodeActivity.Cancel is called, the activity will still execute the EndExecute method,...
Date: 03/16/2011
The other day, I walked by the office where our team members from Shanghai work while in Redmond and...
Date: 03/16/2011
Now available Download the AppFabric WCF Service Template C# Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)...
Date: 03/11/2011
To access environment information from within an activity, you'll need to use the...
Date: 03/10/2011
Error message in WF4: "The argument of type '' cannot be used. Make sure that it is declared on an activity."
The following error might occur when an activity executes: The argument of type '<type>'...
Date: 03/09/2011
REST is primarily about 2 things, Resources and Representations. If you’ve seen any of my recent...
Date: 03/07/2011
Been a while since our last roundup and since my last blog post for that matter! Fortunately there’s...
Date: 03/06/2011
This refers to the previous version of Workflow, but it came up in a recent discussion, so I thought...
Date: 03/03/2011
When you create a new WorkflowConsole application you will see a line of code like this 1:...
Date: 02/12/2011
“The important point is that our test can’t control what that dependency returns to our code under...
Date: 01/20/2011
When the new Web Platform Installer (3.0) was released I had trouble finding Windows Server...
Date: 01/17/2011
Ready to have some fun? Today I spent the day investigating WCF FaulContracts and FaultException and...
Date: 01/14/2011
With the work I’ve been doing on versioning I’ve had to write unit tests that verify the behavior I...
Date: 01/13/2011
In my previous post, I’ve been exploring how changing the version of an ActivityLibrary affects a...
Date: 01/10/2011
In my last post I showed you how the _XamlStaticHelper class uses different semantics when loading...
Date: 01/08/2011
In agile software development, a spike is a story that cannot be estimated until a development team...
Date: 01/08/2011
I couldn't leave this one alone. While I was making the last episode I said that there was possibly...
Date: 01/03/2011
Just posted a new release of Microsoft.Activities.UnitTesting This release incorporates the Task...
Date: 12/24/2010
On Thanksgiving day while I was running in the snow I had an idea – what if you could create an...
Date: 12/13/2010
A little over a month ago we launched our new WCF Web Apis on Codeplex. Since then a bunch of folks...
Date: 12/12/2010