Orchestration / Workflow

1 of 1692 | BizTalk 2006 R2 - Microsoft has introduced BizTalk 2006 R2. This product refresh includes a number of interesting features and enhancements to improve compatibility with Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007. Let’s have a look. · Microsoft EDI Solution for BizTalk 2006Microsoft’s EDI Solution for BizTalk adds full featured EDI capabilities to BizTalk 2006 with over 6000 schemas that include HIPAA, X12, and EDIFACT support.Microsoft is highly committed to the B2B space with a dedicated team focusing on B2B messaging solutions integrated with the BizTalk Architecture. This EDI solution joins a group of solutions delivered with BizTalk 2006 including HIPAA, HL7, SWIFT, RosettaNet, cXML, and xCBL.Microsoft’s g......

2 of 1692 | Welcome back - First post in nine months, and very little to report. BizTalk has gone from 2004 to 2006, Windows Workflow Foundation is nearly upon us, and everyone's talking about Web 2.0, whatever that may be. All of which has passed me by, as I've spent most of the last nine months in meetings, fighting fires, and generally trying to keep on top of my undiminishing workload.I'm hoping to restart posting over the next few weeks so hopefully something more useful will be appearing here soon....

3 of 1692 | System Integration with Nintex Workflow for SharePoint 2007 (Part II) - In my previous post I briefly described what the workflow tool from Nintex looks like and how to use it within the SharePoint environment.  Now, let’s see how to actually perform our first system integration scenario through the use of web...(read more)...

4 of 1692 | Upcoming FREE SharePoint Events! - Don’t forget, you can attend these events remotely! SharePoint Server 2007: Connecting People, Process and Information This free joint seminar from New Horizons of Minnesota and Inetium will explore how Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 can boost organizational effectiveness by providing a comprehensive business solution for managing content, accessing information efficiently, improving business processes, and facilitating team collaboration and communication. April 2 9:00am – 12:00pm SharePoint 2007 - Business Intelligence Deep-dive This free session will explore the various Business Intelligence options available from Microsoft and how they integrate with Microsoft Office ......

5 of 1692 | System Integration with Nintex Workflow for SharePoint 2007 (Part I) - If your organization uses MOSS 2007, hopefully you’ve taken a look at what the folks at Nintex have to offer.  My company recently deployed their workflow solution, and I thought I’d take a look at how to execute system integration scenarios as part of a Nintex Workflow. In this first post, I’ll take a short look at the general product toolset.  The second post will show off web services integration, and the final post will highlight their native BizTalk Server integration. First off, what is Nintex Workflow?  It’s a solution hosted within the SharePoint environment that allows you to graphically construct robust workflow solutions that play off of SharePoint lists and libraries.  While you......

6 of 1692 | Windows Workflow: Use of ConditionedActivityGroup activity - One of our developers used ConditionedActivityGroup activity with a single branch. ConditionedActivityGroup is a kind do of loop, but it should not be used instead of the WhileActivity.    There are a few reasons for this: 1.Use the simplest tool that satisfy your requirement 2.workflow designer doesn't expand body of ConditionedActivityGroup, and you need to click it to Preview 3. If you have many activities in the workflow, the designer becomes terribly slow(VS 2008) The huge workflows should be considered for refactoring by converting parts of workflow into custom composite activity or as separate worklow (with InvokeWorkflow activity)   I have a question,  should I use Code Con......

7 of 1692 | IdentityMine releases Gesture Engine for advanced multitouch development - Multitouch is going to be the next big thing. Natural User Interfaces (NUI) are going to change the way we use client applications soon. You think it's not true? See the iPhone hype. This is not a very good phone, feature wise. It is lacking very basic features. But being able to control your phone using multiple fingers was a real killer feature. Apple is not the only one working on that, of course. Firms like Perceptive Pixel or Oblong have been exploring this space for a very long time. (watch these videos by the way they are amazing). More recently, Microsoft released the Surface computing device, which is also using multitouch. Multiple users can use multiple fingers to control th......

8 of 1692 | Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.3 - Mar 2009 CTP released - A new CTP version of the SharePoint project and item templates for Visual Studio 2008 are available. Remember that an CTP version is still in development, so Microsoft Support doesn’t officially support them. Download VSeWSS v1.3 March 2009 CTP from the Microsoft Download Center.   Error logging The descriptive error’s, which I blogged about in “Getting the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint v1.3 CTP to work on Windows Server 2008”, are better documented now. VSeWSS creates a log file with debug information, e.g. why the deployment of a web part has failed. Some example errors that VSeWSS shows you are: The feature name WebPart1 already exists in SharePoint. You ne......

9 of 1692 | Blend 3 MIX Preview and TFS 2008 Integration - Today at MIX 2009, Microsoft announced a number of new things. One of the things I’m excited about is the new version of Blend and its support for Team Foundation Server (TFS). To try this out, you’ll want to first download one of the virtual machines I’ve blogged about. You’ll then want to get all the bits from Microsoft related to Silverlight 3, Blend 3, etc. Once you’ve got everything installed, you may find it a bit weird at first. There’s no Open from Source Control command or even an Add command. At least for this preview release, in order to work with version control you need to do the following things first: Have access to or create a Team Project Technorati Tags: ......

10 of 1692 | MIX09 Day 2 Scott Gu Keynote - Check out John Papa’s blog for much more detail and camera work… I’m just doing highlights. Web… Each of the tools can be used independently or integrate with each other or open source tools Expression Web 3: Standards based web authoring, Multi-laguage, Secure FTP, CSS Diagnostics, SuperPreview Erik Saltwell demoing Expression Web 3 SuperPreview – split screen or full, and can pick the browser to view it in, also can side-by-side the various browsers, or layering them one over the other to see problems. SuperPreview can talk to the cloud service to see a view in a browser you don’t have installed locally. A standalone version of SuperPreview is NOW available FREE that will allow yo......

11 of 1692 | My talk ''Building Workflow Services in .NET 3.5'' at TechDays 09 in Antwerp today - Slides and demos can be downloaded clicking here. (=3.5 MB Zipfile) ...

12 of 1692 | Saving Money in IT: Maximizing Value is Key (+ review of new U2 album) - In a recent post to a blog, a writer, Guy Creese, writes that the key to saving money in IT is ‘granularity’. In short- he suggests that the IT cost-saving key is to figure out what the basic use experiences are for people and match them to the cheapest software that suits those needs. I respect his view, and I hope he doesn’t mind if I politely disagree. Regarding Microsoft Office he says: “Somebody needs a productivity suite? Give them Microsoft Office. It does everything and then some. In many cases, it does more than the employee needs; but there's no easy way to get Microsoft Office lite from Microsoft.” Granted, there is such a thing as overkill. You see it happen all of the time in t......

13 of 1692 | What is needed is a revolution in Office - I think that Microsoft is missing a large opportunity with the Microsoft Office product. I’ve been thinking about this for some time now. To me, it has been evolving in the wrong manner over these last few releases and it has bothered me greatly. You might be saying, “what is Bill talking about here, they just did a major and well-received upgrade to Microsoft Office with the Office 2007 release!”.  I do have to say that you are right in that regard – but what I am talking about is Microsoft Office for Developers! I do like the new Office (2007) in regards to the new workflows – the Ribbon and some of the new Excel features. It is a wonderful product for the end user that works wonderfull......

14 of 1692 | Active Record to the rescue - On my latest project, I needed to come up with a Business and Data layer(s) with the following requirements: 1) They wanted to use a code generation tool to automatically generate the classes whenever the database (which was still under development) changed 2) The business objects would basically mirror the database tables 3) I had a couple of days to deliver. Michael Eaton suggested using Castle Active Record (which uses NHibernate). I found some Active Record templates for CodeSmith, and within a few days was up and running with a fully functional Business/Data layer. I created partial classes which allows me to regenerate the private and public properties and mappings as requested when t......

15 of 1692 | MIX09 News: Explore All the New Sessions - Explore sessions covering Web standards, workflow, Silverlight, Internet Explorer 8, WPF, Expression, SharePoint, and much more!...

16 of 1692 | On the subject of Software Factories ... - Overview As many of you know, the patterns & practices team has been involved in Software Factories for a number of years now. As a team who is responsible for a number of Factories and the technologies that many of them depend on (GAT/GAX), we are committed to the scenarios that benefit from their use. Okay, that was subtle, so let me repeat it for adequate emphasis. We are committed to the scenarios that have proven over time to benefit from the use of Factories. Now you'll probably hear these scenarios defined differently depending on who you hear them from, so this is what is sounds like coming from p&p: Software Factories have shown to add the value of consistency, quality, p......

17 of 1692 | Download the Microsoft .NET Services SDK - Get the APIs, tools, documentation, and samples you need to develop applications that take advantage of the Access Control Service, Workflow Service, and the Service Bus....

18 of 1692 | Upcoming Project Server Developer MSDN Webcasts - HI All, I'll be delivering a few MSDN webcasts, below is the schedule.  Hope to see you there.  Feb 12, 2009       Project Server and Project Portfolio Server Advanced Customization Feb 26, 2009       MSDN Webcast: Office Project Server Programmability (Part 1 of 4): Project Server 2007 Architecture for Developers (Level 400) March 12, 2009   MSDN Webcast: Office Project Server Programmability (Part 2 of 4): Project Server Interface Programming Overview (Level 400) March 26, 2009   MSDN Webcast: Office Project Server Programmability (Part 3 of 4): Review of the Project Server Interface Web Services (Level 4......

19 of 1692 | An idea of F# Workflow Engine based on Concurrency and Coordination Runtime - This article describes basic ideas of how to build workflow engine a-la WF based on F# workflows and CCR...

20 of 1692 | Microsoft BPA Partners Well Positioned In New Gartner BPMS Magic Quadrant - Four members of the Microsoft Business Process Alliance were positioned in the Leaders or Visionaries Quadrants for the new BPMS Magic Quadrant released by Gartner on February 18th.  Global 360 and Metastorm, two of the acknowledged leaders in BPMS software and the largest .NET-based providers were well positioned in the Leaders Quadrant just behind the market leaders.  K2 and Ascentn were positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant, where K2 was called out for their leading edge use of .NET technologies and Ascentn was mentioned as a thought leader in model-driven development. Gartner also acknowledged Microsoft's key role in this market as a provider of Windows Workflow Foundation a......

21 of 1692 | SharePoint Content vs. Code - A Parable - The difference between Content and Code, and between Publishing and Code Deployment, can be a very difficult thing for the Stakeholders in an Enterprise SharePoint implementation to grasp. So for what it is worth, I recently told a client the following parable, and the light went on... Perhaps the story is worth retelling. Imagine a beautiful lush green meadow called SharePoint. And this meadow is filled with all these happy productive business people having a great time playing with this beautiful fragile stuff called “Content”. And off to one side of this meadow is a deep abyss. And at the bottom of this abyss, if it has a bottom, there are these mean......

22 of 1692 | McKinsey Quarterly: Six ways to make Web 2.0 work - Web 2.0 tools present a vast array of opportunities—for companies that know how to use them. FEBRUARY 2009 • Michael Chui, Andy Miller, and Roger P. Roberts Technologies known collectively as Web 2.0 have spread widely among consumers over the past five years. Social-networking Web sites, such as Facebook and MySpace, now attract more than 100 million visitors a month. As the popularity of Web 2.0 has grown, companies have noted the intense consumer engagement and creativity surrounding these technologies. Many organizations, keen to harness Web 2.0 internally, are experimenting with the tools or deploying them on a trial basis. Over the past two years, McKinsey has studied......

23 of 1692 | Relationships between Moderation (Approval) status, Scheduling, Versions and Workflows - Recently, while working on a WCM project, I realized that many developers don't know that various properties of a list item (especially document library) are inter dependent and may change based on each other's values. These properties are: Moderation (Approval) status, Scheduling status, Versions Numbers. So I thought, I'd put up this write-up that would demystify some of the underlying concepts.  FACTS: Before starting on this let's get some facts clear: Item Scheduling (ability to schedule or expire an item) is ONLY available on document libraries. You cannot enable it on lists. SharePoint does not rely on Scheduling Start Date (or Publish date) and Scheduling End Date (or Expiry ......

24 of 1692 | Drowning in Outlook Reminders? This might help. - Today's guest star is CRM MVP Mike Snyder of Sonoma Partners. He is also the co-author of the books, Working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and Working with Microsoft Dynamics(TM) CRM 4.0. One of the GREAT new features in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is the ability to get pop-up reminders in Microsoft Outlook for activities created in CRM. Our company Sonoma Partners uses Microsoft CRM on a day-to-day basis for our own sales, marketing and service and we have a lot of workflow automation setup on our customer records to automatically create follow-ups activities such as tasks and phone calls. By default, Microsoft CRM will create reminders for every record it syncs into Outlook that has a ......

25 of 1692 | Usability in Practice - “In the past, user experience was not a high priority for most development projects, but that's changed. Today, end users have a lot of experience with the Web and with software. They want design that's easy to learn and use and that fits their workflow. This column will show you how to deliver such designs. “User experience design is comprised of a number of subfields. Most UX designers have skills in all the core areas, but some are more specialized. The key areas are interaction design (IxD), information architecture (IA), user research, visual design, and usability testing. “Usability testing ideally involves the actual user audience to validate early and often (iter......

26 of 1692 | The Earth Rover -     ???, ?100??????????????????????????,?????????????Azure Services Platform?????????????.NET??????,????????????????,????????????????,????????????????????????????????????     ??????????????????: Spirit?Opportunity?????, ?????Lego Mindstorms?????,????"the Earth Rover"????????,???????????????????????????????,???Azure Services Platform??.NET???????????????, ?????????????????????????, ???????????????????     21?????????,???????????????,???Facebook???? ???????????????: 1. ????: ?????????????????????????????; 2. ??????????????     ?????????????????????,????????????,????????????????? ?????????????????????(??Hotmail????Windows Liv......

27 of 1692 | Forcing Execution of MOSS Timer Jobs - Introduction MOSS relies heavily on timer jobs for a number of its functionality areas. Timer jobs execute on a fixed schedule, and no matter what, they will execute on the schedule that has been assigned to them. What if you want to get a particular job executed at your will? This article explains how. Changing Schedule of Timer Jobs If you want to force execution of a MOSS timer job, you unfortunately can't do it. Because every timer job has a fixed schedule. There are three types of schedules: Minutes, Hourly and Daily. Although you can't really force execution of a job, you can definately change the execution schedule of a timer job and in most cases, it'll give you what you're looki......

28 of 1692 | New screencast on WF transactions by Matt Milner - Matt Milner has just published a new screencast on Using transactions in Windows WF...

29 of 1692 | Presenting at Code Camp Oz 2009 - For all those that have attended the Code Camp Oz events in the past, this years event is shaping up very nicely, lots of great topics and speakers. I will be presenting the following 2 topics: Saturday - 15:15 Full Session - A Dive into Dublin: WF and...(read more)...

30 of 1692 | Presenting at Code Camp Oz 2009 - For all those that have attended the Code Camp Oz events in the past, this years event is shaping up very nicely, lots of great topics and speakers. I will be presenting the following 2 topics: Saturday - 15:15 Full Session - A Dive into Dublin: WF and...(read more)...

31 of 1692 | What Do Solution Architect And Enterprise Architect Do? -      I am aspiring Architect and I am on my quest to become an MCA: Solutions certification (Microsoft Certified Architect). To start off I first need to have an idea what's expected from the Architect. I need to know what key characteristics are common to all effective architects. I need to create a role model, a vision so can better develop myself as an architect. This is what I discovered reading What Architect Job Roles Are Recognized By the Microsoft Certified Architect Program? by Hamed Saber Enterprise architects Communicate primarily with corpora......

32 of 1692 | Workflow and InfoPath Links - Workflow Definition Schema for InfoPath Forms http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms545033.aspx Workflow user experience in InfoPath  http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/archive/2006/11/22/workflow-user-experience-in-infopath.aspx InfoPath Forms for Workflows http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms573938.aspx Workflows in Office SharePoint Server 2007 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms549489.aspx ...

33 of 1692 | Hanselminutes Podcast 149 - Deconstructing "blu" - a new WPF Twitter client from thirteen23 - Scott talks to Doug Cook, Hal Saville, and Lee Brenner about their dramatic new Twitter client, called "blu" (formerly "chirp") with a jelly aesthetic you have to see to believe. How do they find developing in WPF? What's their workflow? What's coming for the next release of blu? Let's put the pressure on them to make it even better, eh? Subscribe: Download: MP3 Full Show #149 Play in your browser. Do also remember the complete archives are always up and they have PDF Transcripts, a little known feature that show up a few weeks after each show. Telerik is our sponsor for this show! Building quality software is never easy. It requires skills and imag......

34 of 1692 | Hanselminutes Podcast 149 - The new WPF-based Text Editor in Visual Studio 2010 - Interview with a Dev - Scott talks to Doug Cook, Hal Saville, and Lee Brenner about their dramatic new Twitter client, called "blu" (formerly "chirp") with a jelly aesthetic you have to see to believe. How do they find developing in WPF? What's their workflow? What's coming for the next release of blu? Let's put the pressure on them to make it even better, eh? Subscribe: Download: MP3 Full Show #149 Play in your browser. Do also remember the complete archives are always up and they have PDF Transcripts, a little known feature that show up a few weeks after each show. Telerik is our sponsor for this show! Building quality software is never easy. It requires skills and imag......

35 of 1692 | The NYC Azure Cloud Computing Group meets again February 23, 2009 - The NYC Azure Cloud Computing Group meets again February 23, 2009 Microsoft, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, 6th floor, NYC, NY 6:00 - 8:00 pm http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=135745 BE SURE TO REGISTER... Space fills up fast and Building Security Requires it. This month... Chris Rolon, Architectural Consultant Neudesic LLC will be presenting on... Azure Cloud Storage When trying to build services that are highly scalable, durable and always available, the storage of data is critical. In this session we will begin to dig deeper into Azure. We will start by examining Azure's file system otherwise known as Cloud Storage. We will discuss Cloud Storage’s ability to stor......

36 of 1692 | Vjoon K4 Publishing System works with Adobe CS4 - Vjoon's K4 Publishing System, a workflow for InCopy and InDesign, now works with Adobe CS4 apps. ...

37 of 1692 | Azure .Net Services e Arquitetura RESTfull - Vão aqui duas recomendações para vocês: A) Saíram 4 artigos, ainda em inglês, que tratam do .Net Services. Recomendo em particular a leitura do segundo, sobre Controle de Acesso. Os artigos foram escritos pelo pessoal da pluralsight e são bastante claros e didáticos. Aqui estão: An Introduction to Microsoft .NET Services for Developers A Developer's Guide to the Microsoft .NET Access Control Service A Developer's Guide to the Microsoft .NET Service Bus A Developer's Guide to the Microsoft .NET Workflow...(read more)...

38 of 1692 | WF 4.0 -- Designer Type Visibility - One of the exercises I'm going through now is scrubbing our API and taking a hard look at types marked as public and trying to decide "does it really need to be public."  While on first blush, you can What I'd love to get from folks are answers to the following questions: Were there designer types in 3.0/3.5 that were not public that caused you problems? If so, why?  What and how did you want to use that type? Were there scenarios where you found our decisions on type visibility odd, inconsistent or painful?  Let me know what those were.   Looking forward to your thoughts!...

39 of 1692 | WF 4.0 – A Look Ahead - At PDC this year, Microsoft announced a major release of the Windows Workflow Foundations (WF); WF4.0 WF4.0 promises better performance, scalability, control, visibility, and usability than its predecessor. Gone are code-asides and the dreaded code activities, replaced with 100% XAML markup and custom activities.  MFST has seriously stepped up its tooling to make custom activities easier (including defining a custom WF syntax which gets “compiled” to XAML), an improved designer and debugging support. Interop support is available to run your soon-to-be-legacy 3.x Workflows under 4.0, but it sounds as if a refactoring of current workflows and activities is the best way to leverage the 4.0......

40 of 1692 | ???????? ISV Innovation Days - St?? 17 Feß???a????, ?µ??a ???t? ?a? ap? t?? ??a 15.00 ?a? µet?, ???a???? st? Microsoft Innovation Center t?? ?a??e??µ??? e?d???s? ??a ta ???????? software houses (? ?at? Microsoft: ISVs), ???µat? ISV Innovation Days. Se a?t?? t?? e?d???s?, ?p?? ???e ?????, d??f???? ?µ???t?? ap? t? Microsoft ?????? ???? ??a t? p?? µp????? ?? s??????e? ????????? eta???e? p?? pa?????? ?a? s??t????? ????sµ??? ?a ???s?µ?p???s??? ??e? te???????e? ??a ?a ?????? p?? a?ta????st???? e?t?? ?a? e?t?? ????d??. F?t?? ?a ????µe t? ?a?? ?a a???s??µe t?? Patrick Malone se µ?a pa???s?as?/s???t?s? a?af????? µe t? ??a p?atf??µa a??pt???? p?? p??sfata e??a???ase ? Microsoft, t? Windows Azure, p?? d??e? t? d??at?t?ta t?? cloud......

41 of 1692 | Coming Soon: Programming for Unified Communications with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 on MS Press - There are lots of great books on OCS 2007 and OCS 2007 R2 that will help you install, configure and maintain the server infrastructure for Unified Communications.  With the Programming of Unified Communications with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 book, the authors and I wanted to create book to focused on building software that leverages OCS 2007 as the back end.  Starting back on Alpha bits, we wanted to write a book that provided all the expertise, tips and tricks that we’ve learned along the way building the APIs and building software with the APIs.  I’ve been reading early copies of the chapters and I’m really excited about how the book is shaping up. ......

42 of 1692 | How to troubleshoot [System Jobs] failures using [Advanced Find] - Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is using a lot of System Jobs to drive many features like: Send Bulk E-Mail, Import Data, Workflows, Duplicate Detections, Campaign Activities distribution, etc….. These jobs are processed by the Asynchronous Service and it can happen that the service fails to process these jobs. Jobs can fail or get stuck in waiting state. This is generally due to a configuration issue on the CRM Server. Here are a few steps you can try to get more information about the System Jobs failures...(read more)...

43 of 1692 | Implementer SharePoint Server 2007 Training Resources - Certification Exam and Preparation Resources Exam 70-630: TS: Office SharePoint Server 2007, Configuring Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Exam 70-630 Prep Session 1 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Exam 70-630 Prep Session 2 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Exam 70-630 Prep Session 3 Classroom Training - Microsoft Learning Solutions Partners Course 5061A: Implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (three days) Course 50026A: SharePoint 2007 Hands-On Labs Course 50047A: Advanced IT Pro Course for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (five days) Web Seminars – Level 100 How to Develop Complex Work......

44 of 1692 | Sales SharePoint Server 2007 Training Resources - Web Seminar – Level 100 Build and grow your SharePoint Business Building a Practice around Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server Capitalizing on the SharePoint Opportunity Enterprise Content Management in the 2007 Microsoft Office System Microsoft Office System Webcast: Top 10 Tips for SharePoint Products and Technologies Momentum Webcast: Collaborating in the Global Marketplace with Office SharePoint Server 2007 Momentum Webcast: Enterprise Content Management and Workflows in SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 100) Momentum Webcast: Microsoft Enterprise Search Solutions in SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 100) Momentum Webcast: The Enterprise Search Platform in SharePoint Server 200......

45 of 1692 | Upcoming CRM Usergroup Topics - I don't mean to gloat – but well, I cant help it! We really so have some fantastic sessions coming up in the next few months at the Sydney CRM usergroup and you really should make sure you register & come along! 24th February 2009 Title: How To Build A Kick Arse Startup on CRM 4.0 Come and listen to Chris Auld from Sunny New Zealand as he talks about how he built a successful startup business on Microsoft CRM 4.0. Chris and his friends started MedRecruit.com from scratch in late 2006. Since then it has grown to a multi-million dollar business and it’s been nominated for a bunch of technical and business awards in New Zealand. Chris will talk about how they’ve combined the power of ......

46 of 1692 | Training Resources For Aspiring Enterprise Architect -      What is Enterprise Architect? Who is Enterprise Architect? There are tons of descriptions and definitions. These definitions get quickly obsolete these days, aren't they. Ask your friends these questions and you will get plenty of answers, not very correlating one to another. Nevertheless, I need to know the answers. I need to know since I want to grow my architectural skills. I started to compile my own list of Sources Of Insight for Enterprise Architect. by √o??ƒx™  Enterprise Architect Training Resources patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Applic......

47 of 1692 | Your First Simple Basic Asp.net Workflow - When I tried to jump into the asp.net workflow platform, I found out there are really very few simple/basic examples available in the internet. Most articles deal with huge business concepts,utilizing different workflowservices, that can be really confusing for someone new to workflow development.Here I have tried a simple hello world Type of Asp.net Workflow..this is not bad for a startup. The concept is really simple.You have a webpage default.aspx , with a textbox and a button. You enter an amount in the textbox and if the amount is more than 100, you are redirected to the credit.aspx and if less, to the debit.aspx. To start, Place the code from my previous post, into the application_......

48 of 1692 | Your First Simple Basic Asp.net Workflow - When I tried to jump into the asp.net workflow platform, I found out there are really very few simple/basic examples available in the internet. Most articles deal with huge business concepts,utilizing different workflowservices, that can be really confusing for someone new to workflow development.Here I have tried a simple hello world Type of Asp.net Workflow..this is not bad for a startup. The concept is really simple.You have a webpage default.aspx , with a textbox and a button. You enter an amount in the textbox and if the amount is more than 100, you are redirected to the credit.aspx and if less, to the debit.aspx. To start, Place the code from my previous post, into the application_......

49 of 1692 | Creating a WPF Application With Prism v2 – Encapsulation Junction - What’s Your Function? - So, I’ve just hit a snag.  It’s not a big snag, but it’s somewhat fundamental.  I was happily going about my business.  I’d gotten the Browse module up and running that was going great.  I was about to start in on the Add or Voting module.  In order to do this one, I’m going to actually need an implementation of the IGameService  to exist.  I hadn’t forgotten it, but I didn’t want to get mired in it until I had Browse up and running, since Browse didn’t really need it. When I went to implement IGameService, I came to two conclusions very quickly.  The first was that a lot of the infrastructure for HollywoodService really is the same as the Game Service.  For the Entity Framework implemen......

50 of 1692 | Administrera dina Azure tjänster - Snubblade över det här ypperliga verktyget för att administrera och analysera dina Azure-tjänster i molnet med hjälp av en MMC snapin och några PowerShell cmdlets. De tjänster som idag kan administreras är SQL Data Services. .NET Access Control Services och .NET Workflow Services. Med hjälp av dessa verktyg kan du enkelt exempelvis ställa frågor mot dina entiteter i SQL Data Services, se och påverka regler för åtkomst i .NET Access Control och även installera och undersöka arbetsflöden. Som ganska vanligt nuförtiden så följer även kod och enhets-tester med i paketet för att du ska kunna vidareutveckla och återanvända i dina egna applikationer. Det finns dock ingen support för dessa verkty......