Ron Jacobs
Windows Workflow Foundation
AppFabric WCF DataService (C#)
Today I’m happy to announce the availability of a new Feature Builder based template for...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 08/23/2010
How to make a WorkflowService implement a contract
You may have noticed that WorkflowServices have two ways of operating. One way is to pass...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 07/30/2010
Testing a WorkflowService .xamlx file with Visual Studio
One thing I have not tackled until today was how to test a Workflow Service in a .xamlx file. ...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 07/29/2010
The Canonical REST Entity Service
Recently I was doing a review of some .NET 3.5 WCF REST code based on the REST Starter Kit to see...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 07/23/2010
New Hands On Lab - Introduction to WF4
A couple of weeks ago I ran across a very interesting tool called Feature Builder. As I...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 07/21/2010
WF4 Activities Best Practices
Lately on https://endpoint.tv we have been doing a series called WF4 Activities Best Practices with...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 07/17/2010
Stepping Through .NET Source with VS2010 and .NET 4
This morning I stumbled across something so cool… I had no idea it existed (I know some of you are...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 07/04/2010
WF Tip: Use a StringWriter to capture WriteLine Activity output when testing
Question: Suppose you want to test an activity that uses WriteLine and you want to verify the...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 07/01/2010
System.Web.Routing RouteTable not working with IIS?
Most of the time I write simple apps that run in the local ASP.NET development server. I noticed...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/30/2010
AppFabric-enabled WCF Data Service Walkthrough (C#)
In this walkthrough I’ll show you how to use the AppFabric-enabled WCF Data Service (C#)...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/30/2010
AppFabric-enabled WCF Data Service Walkthrough (VB)
In this walkthrough I’ll show you how to use the AppFabric-enabled WCF Data Service (VB) template...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/30/2010
AppFabric-enabled WCF Data Service Templates (C#/VB)
After working out how to do the right thing when using WCF Data Services with Windows Server...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/29/2010
Make WCF Simpler
If there is one thing I hear from people over and over again it is this. Please make WCF simpler,...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/29/2010
endpoint.tv - Workflow Messaging Architecture with Dave Cliffe
In this episode, Dave Cliffe, Program Manager for Workflow Services, describes the architecture of...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/28/2010
Watch Out! Overloading Constructors on XAML based Activities
This morning I was refactoring some code and I decided to create a partial class with an overloaded...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/26/2010
Need Help Moving from WF 3.5 to WF 4?
Here are some helpful resources Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) Migration Guidance for WF 4 This...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/24/2010
Designers for Custom Activities
Morgan Skinner created a great post describing how you can associate designers with custom...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/21/2010
Ron Jacobs Tech-Ed North America Sessions
My Tech-Ed (or is it TechEd?) sessions are now available The Total Noob’s Guide Windows Workflow...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/21/2010
Working with OutArgument in Workflow
If you want to assign a value to an OutArgument in your workflow here is something you need to keep...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/21/2010
New Native Activity Item Templates for Visual Studio 2010
I’ve been creating a lot of Native Activities lately and to do it I would add a new item to my...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/20/2010
First Wave of AppFabric Patches
Thanks to Damir Dobric You might want to pick up these patches KB980423 FIX: You experience several...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/20/2010
CancellationScope Activity Updated for .NET 4 RTM
Update: 6/24 – updated sample to show how unhandled exceptions and the UnhandledException delegate...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/18/2010
endpoint.tv - How to Do API Key Verification with a WCF WebHttp (REST) Service
In .NET 3.5, we created the REST Starter Kit as a way to get you up and running with RESTful...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/17/2010
endpoint.tv - Windows Server AppFabric Local Security
In this episode, Michael McKeown describes the security model used in Windows Server AppFabric,...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/17/2010
New WCF Interop Dev Center on MSDN
From time to time people will come to me with an interop problem. I have to say I’m the last...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/15/2010
How to do API Key Verification for REST Services in .NET 4
Recently somebody asked me about doing APIKey verification in .NET 4. Previously in .NET 3.5 we...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/14/2010
endpoint.tv - Windows Server AppFabric - Server Farm Setup
You asked for it...here it is. In this episode, Byron Tardif is back to explain how you can setup...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/14/2010
Monitoring WCF Data Service Exceptions with Windows Server AppFabric
After my previous post about how you can monitor service calls with AppFabric, several people asked...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/11/2010
Tracking WCF Data Services with Windows Server AppFabric
WCF Data Services provides a very simple model driven way to expose data using REST and the OData...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/09/2010
endpoint.tv - Activity Designers and Designer Rehosting with Kushal Shah
Windows Workflow Foundation in .Net 4 (WF4) makes it possible for you to build custom activity...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/04/2010
Fixing the PrePostSequence custom activity in Introduction to Workflow Hands On Lab
Way back before .NET 4 Beta 1 shipped I created a hands on lab called Introduction to Workflow in...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 05/29/2010
How to detect if Windows Server AppFabric is installed
Here is a little PowerShell script that will tell you if Windows Server AppFabric is installed edit...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 05/14/2010
CodeContracts – Amazing… simply amazing
Look at this code… looks perfectly normal right? In a code review, you wouldn’t notice...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 05/08/2010
Visual Studio 2010 – Multi-Monitor Goodness!
After months of using Visual Studio 2010 – today I finally realized that I had never taken advantage...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 05/07/2010
DataCache.Put with Regions
If you really want to understand how something works. Try creating an interface and then...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 05/07/2010
I Love TDD and Code Contracts
After spending a few days writing a ton of code and heavily refactoring using TDD and Code Contracts...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 05/05/2010
The specified module 'DistributedCacheAdministration' was not loaded because no valid module file was found in any module directory.
What to do if you get this error when unit testing Windows Server AppFabric Caching Being new to...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 05/04/2010
Setting Up Windows Server AppFabric – order matters
What to do if your IIS Manager has no Deploy menu item Over the weekend I setup a new machine. ...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 05/04/2010
Using Moq with Windows Server AppFabric Caching
Last week I tried doing TDD with Windows Server AppFabric. In my previous post I shared with...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 05/03/2010
Unit Testing with Windows Server AppFabric Caching
I like to do TDD whenever I can. So today I was writing some code that would be using the...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 04/30/2010
<localCache> sync attribute changed in Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 Refresh
Surprise! another change hit me this morning. Previously my config files contained this...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 04/29/2010
Using AppFabric Caching Powershell cmdlets with AppFabric Beta 2 Refresh
Finally – I can use Visual Studio 2010 RTM with the new AppFabric Beta 2 Refresh release. I...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 04/27/2010
State Machine Activity Pack and ADO.NET Activity Pack CTP1 Release now Available
For the last year I’ve had to say “Sorry we don’t have the State Machine in WF4.” If you are a...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 04/21/2010
endpoint.tv – Developing Services with IIS/Windows Server AppFabric
To those nearly 5000 people who tried to watch this video today… sorry. I forgot to publish...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 04/19/2010
How to create a Workflow Service using a Flowchart
The WCF Workflow Service template in Visual Studio 2010 creates a Workflow Service using a Sequence...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 04/16/2010
DataContractSerializer vs. NetDataContractSerializer
While browsing through the bowels of MSDN I ran across this page that describes the...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 04/15/2010
How to clear and reinitialize Windows Server AppFabric Persistence and Monitoring databases
If you are using Windows Server AppFabric in a development or testing environment you will find the...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 04/14/2010
Developing Web Services on IIS with Windows Server AppFabric
Much of the content and samples for AppFabric shows developing your web site and services in Visual...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 04/14/2010
Visual Studio 2010 Training Kit April 2010 Update Is Released
Our latest release of the Visual Studio 2010 Training Kit just went live. The link on the...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 04/12/2010