Kushal Shah - Workflows
WF3 Design Time Performance - III
By this time you are saying, I don't want tips/trouble shooting anymore. I have a large workflow and...
Date: 04/09/2010
WF3 Design Time Performance - II
Recently, we worked with one of the customers whose designer launch was painfully slow. The project...
Date: 04/07/2010
WF3 Design Time Performance - I
Before, we start talking about the WF3 design time performance, let me clarify some of the...
Date: 04/05/2010
Mocks for Unit Testing
This post is not exactly related to Designer, but something I am looking closely into nowadays....
Date: 03/13/2010
Base Designer with additional adornments II
Couple of customers reported an issue with applying additional adornments on the designer discussed...
Date: 03/12/2010
Storing your information into activities during design time
Continuing with the theme of questions we get from customers: How can we store some specific...
Date: 03/11/2010
Hiding the Breadcrumb
We continue to get requests from customers we didnt anticipate. And we continue to solve those...
Date: 03/11/2010
Icons for the Designer
We have already seen how to have icons for the toolbox items. However, unfortunately, it is not the...
Date: 03/11/2010
Binding activity properties to a custom control
Today, for a re-hosted application, generally users have the Designer, Toolbox and the Property...
Date: 03/11/2010
Designer in View
Recently, a customer asked how can we get the designer in focus if we know the Model Item for that...
Date: 03/11/2010
Observing Model Item changes
One of the customers, recently reported an issue where he was not observing the changes he had just...
Date: 03/11/2010
Adding activities out of box to the VS toolbox
In the previous posts, we have already see as to how we can get the custom activities shown up in...
Date: 03/11/2010
Dev-BA Collaboration:Part-3
Scenario: A BA starts with the Workflow authoring using the Re-hosted workflow designer and the...
Date: 01/18/2010
Dev-BA Collaboration:Part-2
In the series, the next question we generally get is, How about Validations. How can I have one set...
Date: 01/14/2010
Dev-BA Collaboration:Part-1
One of the selling points with Workflows is customers have been able to customize the Workflows and...
Date: 01/14/2010
Workflow Toolbar and Customizations
In the re-hosted scenario, as part of customizations that domain specific users want – we have been...
Date: 01/04/2010
Toolbox Tooltips and Icons
In regards to Toolbox, another common question I get is how can we get the Tooltips and icons for...
Date: 01/04/2010
Undo-Redo : Programmatically
One of the very essential services while authoring Workflows is Undo-Redo. Common question asked is,...
Date: 01/04/2010
Base Designer with additional adornments
In the previous two posts, we talked about the visual view on the Workflow tracking data and how we...
Date: 01/04/2010
VisualWorkflowTrackingWithStepService
In the last post, we went through the SDK sample where we saw how to use the Designer and the...
Date: 12/29/2009
VisualWorkflowTracking aka WorkflowSimulator
In the Beta2 SDK, we shipped a sample called WorkflowSimulator. Essentially, the sample is using the...
Date: 12/22/2009
Differentiating between Cut-Copy-Paste/Undo-Redo/Drag-Drop/Move
A couple of customers have asked this one, as they work with the Programming Model, how do I know if...
Date: 12/04/2009
Using the Sequence Styling
One of the most commonly used designers and generally the root is the Sequence activity. Of course,...
Date: 11/22/2009
IActivityTemplateFactory
As part of workflow authoring, it is always the case where the customer says, I like your out of box...
Date: 11/12/2009
Morphing
Lets talk about a couple of common customer scenarios/questions that I have encountered till date....
Date: 11/11/2009
Toolbox and Custom Activities
Couple of customers have complained that I have my assembly with all the custom activities...
Date: 10/28/2009
Adding Activities on the designer programmatically
One of the common asks that customers have is how to add/remove activities from the workflow...
Date: 10/27/2009
Adding Variables, Expressions and Bindings Programmatically
I am assuming we already know how to add activities on to the designer surface dynamically using the...
Date: 10/26/2009
WF 4.0 Templates - Beta2
During Beta1, I had talked about the templates we are shipping in depth and our rationale around...
Date: 09/21/2009
IActivityToolboxService
During Workflow authoring, customers generally want their Toolbox to be context sensitive. For...
Date: 09/16/2009
Re-hosting the Workflow Desinger in Read-Only Mode
One of the questions, we get fomr customers is how can we re-host the designer in a Read-Only mode....
Date: 09/14/2009
Debugging in Workflow 4.0
Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 is out and includes the new Windows Workflow Foundation (WF 4). This...
Date: 06/01/2009
Workflow 4.0 Templates - Beta1
As Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 is released, let’s take a quick walkthrough of the Workflow templates we...
Date: 06/01/2009
.NET Source Code Debugging
Recently I came across this blog from ScottGu and was thrilled to see this initiative from the .NET...
Date: 10/28/2007
Recruiting Trip
It was a very hectic week for me. I had been on one of the recruiting trips to a school on east...
Date: 10/28/2007
State Debugging
Recently I was talking to Mike Stall from the VS team and he showed me this cool concept of state...
Date: 10/17/2007
The Decider
OK, This is not about WF or Technology or anywhere near it. This is about Formula 1. My biggest...
Date: 10/14/2007
Workflow within other Projects
I have seen a couple of forum questions regarding this issue and I thought I will blog it out. What...
Date: 08/10/2007
Orcas additions
Though there are countless additions in Orcas I would highlight the ones I have been working on for...
Date: 08/05/2007
My First Blog Post
Hi Everybody - So atlast I got myself to create a blog. Couple of reasons to do so. Surely being...
Date: 07/17/2007