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Last week I have been working on our workflow solution where someone discovered that in some cases it appeared that certain workflows did not complete and would never wake up again.It took me a while to figure out why this was the case. We host our workflows in IIS and there we use the ManualWorkflowSchedulerService to schedule the workflow. What ...

The past two days I have been working on a performance problem we were having with a workflow implementation. The workflow was quite simple, A WCF call coming in, then registering the request data in a SQL database and return a ticket that the request was received. The ticket can be used by people to get information later on the status of their ...

Microsoft is working hard on a service pack for .NET 3.5 and visual studio 2008 and it sure does look good. For a full list of features look here: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-framework-3-5-service-pack-1-beta.aspx One of the most important things to me is the fix of the WPF designer which allows ...

There's a lively discussion going on at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jean-paul_boodhoo/archive/2008/04/22/got-var.aspx about whether or not you should use implicit typed variables in your codebase. Personally I think that using implicit typed variables is acceptable, but this only works when methods are short and the developer reading ...

The past few days I have been quite busy with presenting 3 sessions at the MCT summit in Berlin.I must say that at first I was a little bit scared to do presentations for a group of Certified Trainers, since they are known for being a tough crowd to present to.But I must say I really enjoyed myself there. I never in my live started a presentation ...

Today I had to upgrade several machines from the Beta or RC version of VSTS to the RTM version.You must manually uninstall all artifacts installed during the Beta period and that can be a daunting task. Therefore I created a script you can run to uninstall all of the stuff in one sweep. Just copy the following lines, place them in a command file ...

WOW, this is great news. You can read it on Brian Harry's blog, they shipped it today. Finally after all the work the last year we can start using the great new version of visual studio.I know I will be downloading it now and installing it. The next week I will post some stuff we learned during the TAP program that can help to work around some ...

It's friday and I should be doing other stuff... However I'm working on my open source scheduling application again and this time doing some front-end implementation work. While I was building the basic layout of the website I noticed somethig weird when setting up authorization. I want users on my site to be authenticated before accessing any ...

Last week I moved some code over to my ''orcas'' beta 2 installation and tried to compile it using MSBuild. At first it didn't go any further than trying to compile, since MSBuild lost its mind somewhere along the road, complaining about illegal paths in my solution. As it turns out MSBuild isn't really comfortable with dots in the project ...