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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 ...

As you can read on Olaf’s blog the Microsoft Patterns and Practices Group will be holding a 3-day workshop on the Service Factory framework.I think it will be a great event where we can learn allot on how to embrace and extend the service factory platform they created. The event will be held at our info support seminar locations in ...

Today I gave a session at SDC about Practical windows workflow foundation and a session on advanced activity development where I explained the way I build te WCF activities I published at codeplex. I promised to put up my slides and code samples on my blog, so here they are:slides for the Practical Workflow Foundation Session: heredemos:01- ...

The past few weeks have been pretty busy for me. Not only was I working with some colleagues on a Robot challenge (where we finished third J, see here a movie with Woody in action  , and the post of my coleague Erik) , I also had to prepare for 3 sessions for the DevDays here in the Netherlands.At my session on "Practical Team ...

Finally I made it to free up some time and create a released version of the WCF Activities I have been working on for some time now. This version is fully tested and already used in multiple projects I am working on including the very demanding ones that run thousands of workflows a day!First of all I want to thank Martijn Beenes who has been ...

This morning I browsed to the MSDN website I got a big surprise, my article on team system is up there as one of the feature article links!  I know I already published that the article was available, but It was great for me to see that MS thinks it is good enough to make it to the main page of MSDN for all Microsoft developers to read. (see ...

A few months ago I got an Email from Jack Greenfield who asked me to work with him on writing a whitepaper on software factories and how to enable this using visual studio team system.It took a lot of time and many conference calls with Jack and Erik Gundvaldson, but I can now announce that the whitepaper got published on MSDN!I am very pleased ...

The past months I have been working for a large international company in building a new back office solution. This solution is based on the Smart Client concept where we use zero touch deployment from .NET 1.1 (There are some difficulties upgrading the desktops to XP SP2 and therefore we can’t use Click Once and .NET 2.0)   In a smart ...

The past two days where really packed with lots of new stuff. I must say I was a little bit disappointed at first with the keynote of Bill and Jim. I found that many of the demo’s they came up with where more or less a repeat of the stuff they did in 2003. Lots of cool demo’s on Avalon (sorry, I now must say WCF) and your usual 3D ...

The past two days I have attended the preconf sessions. I must say I learned allot on SQL server. The past year I did not take the effort to dive into new SQL 2005 stuff, but to catch up I decided to attend the two preconf sessions on SQL 2005. Attending these Sessions taught me some stuff I would like to share, because I thing there are ...