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How to write a caching Policy Activity to improve the performance of your WF rules
To follow up on my post from yesterday on Tuning the performance of your WF Rules, here is some code...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 10/17/2006
Business Rules Forum
I'll be attending the Business Rules Forum in Washington D.C. in November. Really looking forward to...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 10/16/2006
Tuning the performance of your WF rules
Someone asked a question on the WF forum today about tuning the performance of his rules. Basically...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 10/16/2006
Getting Linq to work outside of a Linq project template
I've been playing with the Linq family of technologies using the May CTP, and the other day, I was...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 10/16/2006
Tinkering with the Rules OM
Ok it's been a long time since I posted. Time for some code now. I was thinking what to write about...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 10/12/2006
A new rules team blog
You havent seen any posts from me in the last couple of weeks because I was out on vacation! I'm...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 10/03/2006
Updates to BRE documentation
The BizTalk team has updated their online documentation. You can get it here:...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 10/03/2006
Where do Rules fit in a Workflow?
A workflow has a bunch of activities. Some activities like the If-Else activity or the While...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 09/08/2006
Why workflows?
Workflows are used to model business processes. Anything you can think of from order processing, car...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 09/08/2006
RC1 Windows SDK docs are live!
Get it here: https://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/default.aspx Feedback welcome! Here...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 09/07/2006
Rules
With WCF RC1 out the door last week, I changed roles from being a test lead for the WCF Transports,...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 09/06/2006
WCF Ships RC1!
Last week, the WCF team finally signed off on RC1. WCF was a long product cycle, I personally have...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 09/06/2006
WCF and WF Chalk Talk Slides now available
We're all back from TechEd at work! I've posted all the chalk talk slides on www.netfx3.com, our new...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 06/23/2006
Beta2 of WinFX Runtime Components v3.0 now available
The Beta2 bits of the WinFX Runtime Components are now available. This includes the RC0 bits of WCF....
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 05/23/2006
WCF Documentation CTPs
The latest WCF product documentation is now posted on the WCF portal...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 04/17/2006
Configuration Code Generator
I pointed out in another post about the Channel Ecosystem project that a few of us from the Core...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 04/08/2006
The joy of AppDay
A few members of the Core Communications team spent a part of their "App-Day" time to write a bunch...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 04/08/2006
PDC05 Content now available online
The PDC05 content is up online for free viewing for 6 months to anyone! Those who attended the PDC...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 10/25/2005
WCF Interop Plug Fest - 7-10 Nov 2005; You're invited!
Kirill, our interop PM, is organizing a plug-fest here in Redmond from Nov 7-10, 2005, where vendors...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 10/06/2005
5 years!
Couple of days back, I completed 5 years at Microsoft. Today, at a team meeting, I was showered with...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 09/20/2005
What I work on
I am the test lead for the transports and listener feature. I work with Steve Maine, Yasser...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 09/18/2005
Indigo Beta1 RC bits now available
Indigo's Beta1 RC bits are now available on...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 05/31/2005
More Indigo Jobs!
I've been at Indigo for 3 years now. I started out working on our automation tools. The team had no...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 04/09/2005
Indigo CTP bits are live!
Yay! Finally, it's download time! The bits that are part of the Indigo CTP (community tech preview)...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 03/16/2005
Want to work on Indigo?
The indigo team has some job openings. If you are passionate about working at Microsoft, passionate...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 03/09/2005
The frontline program
In the past year or so, there have been a lot of community initiatives at Microsoft. Kind of related...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 04/16/2004
Cool article on the new C# features
If you want a two page summary on what's new in the C# language in Whidbey, this article is for you:...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 04/16/2004
March Sample Madness Month
A mail came out in early March called the “March Sample Madness“, which asked for...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 04/07/2004
After a long time
Trying to revive my blog after a long time. Sorry about that. I have been thinking of what to write...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 04/07/2004
Security fix CDs are available
Mike Howard says in his blog: https://blogs.msdn.com/michael_howard/archive/2004/02/20/77159.aspx...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 02/20/2004
Using the PDC release to create Indigo apps
Yasser, a fellow program manager on Indigo, and a known name in the world of web services, has a...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 02/13/2004
WS-Eventing workshop
There is a WS-Eventing workshop on Feb 19, 2004. Bruce, a tester on the peer team who works on the...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 02/13/2004
Restore the Show desktop icon
I was rearranging my taskbar and lost the show desktop icon and was searching how to do this. I...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 02/13/2004
DevDays Bloggers - another community site
Check out Brian's blog. https://blogs.msdn.com/bgold/
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 01/26/2004
Testing exceptions
Keith Stobie, a test architect on the Indigo team has an interesting article on testing exceptions....
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 01/25/2004
Testing with ASML
ASML - Abstract State Machine Language is a technique being used in Microsoft by a few test teams to...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 01/25/2004
Running as normal user
Florin brings up an important point...something we normally forget to do, making our machines more...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 01/10/2004
Indigo Newsgroup
After Indigo was released at the PDC, a dedicated Indigo newsgroup was created. You can ask...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 01/08/2004
RSS feed for the web services page on MSDN
I just figured out that I can configure my reader to point to msdn and check for updates when I read...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 01/08/2004
Outlook wish
Meetings at Microsoft are an inevitable thing. Scheduling rooms for meetings is also an inevitable...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 01/08/2004
Outlook 11 tip - the follow up flag
I have been using this for a while, ever since I installed outlook 11. I find it very useful for...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 01/06/2004
Seattle snow and INS
The northwest has been having some real cold spells...of all days, I had a fingerprinting...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 01/06/2004
Tree maps
Steve Makofsky, a co-tester in Indigo has a good write up about it in his blog recently. It also...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 12/30/2003
Peace....
I was at work last week before christmas and this week too...oh it is so quiet that you can get lots...
Author: Kavita Kamani - MSFT Date: 12/29/2003