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It has only been a few days ago, when I gave some talks at the Visual Studio 2008 Launch event here in the Netherlands.(b.t.w you can download the slide deck of the presentations over here) Now the product is launched customers can start using the product and our integrated version of the Endeavour software factory. Where the adoption cycle for ...

Thursday I will be doing two sessions on Team system at the Visual studio 2008 launch event. One "Chalk & Talk" session and one session on "what is new in visual Studio Team System 2008".While the launch event is not even over, I just got the confirmation from the devdays organization that I will be doing two sessions this ...

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 ...

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 ...

The past couple of days I have done some work on creating custom workflows in the new Windows SharePoint V3 environment.I must say that it is quite a good environment from an end user perspective and the activities out of the box available are, after reading some blogs, quite appealing. The sharepoint activities have some interesting twists if it ...

This evening I implemented the rudimentary way of doing workflow correlation in the WCFInputActivityYou can now create a workflow that has multiple WCFInputActivities and have the next calls correlated to the same workflow instance. The way it works is based on the use of a custom SOAP header you can add before you call the WCF service ...

The past weeks I have been pretty busy working on one of the things I found really missing in the current version of windows Workflow Foundation. Windows Communication Foundation Input & output activities.I thought it would be very useful and also a very nice exercise for me to create those activities the same way you see the current ...

The past few weeks I have been working on writing a new training on windows workflow foundation. Last week we did an internal dry run of the content and as we speak I am working on the hands-on labs that accompany the course.During the development of the labs I ran into an interesting struggle with the activity binding dialog when you try to ...