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Microsoft HDInsight Installation & Dependency Management
It’s a rainy Saturday afternoon here in Seattle, and the kids are keeping themselves busy running...
Date: 12/16/2012
Updating HDInsight Preview
Today we’ve shipped an update to the single node HDInsight Server Preview that is installable via...
Date: 12/04/2012
Getting Up and Running with Piggybank on HDInsight
It’s been a fun couple of weeks launching HDInsight, and I’m going to be getting back into doing...
Date: 11/02/2012
Writing a Map/Reduce Job for Hadoop using Windows PowerShell
I had a little bit of time on my hand and wanted to whip up a quick sample using PowerShell for a...
Date: 07/20/2012
Talking About Hadoop on Windows
A few folks have asked, so I decided to put the data in one place. We'll be talking more about...
Date: 06/09/2012
Tap, tap, tap, is this thing on?
I'll be back to bloging here in a bit. Since you last visited, I've had a fun journey working...
Date: 05/08/2012
Thoughts on Flowchart
Last night I saw that Maurice had a few tweets that caught my attention about flowchart, but this is...
Date: 08/13/2010
VS 2010 RC Is Available
We’ve been hard at work here in Redmond (and with our team in Shanghai) working on getting WF ready...
Date: 02/09/2010
Making Swiss Cheese Look Good, or Designers for ActivityAction in WF4
In my last post, I covered using ActivityAction in order to provide a schematized callback, or hole,...
Date: 01/14/2010
Swiss Cheese and WF4, or, An Introduction to ActivityAction
One common scenario that was often requested by customers of WF 3 was the ability to have templated...
Date: 12/23/2009
Inspection, Default Services and Items (WF4 EditingContext Intro Part 6)
This part 6 of my 6 part series on the EditingContext. Introduction Sharing Functionality between...
Date: 12/22/2009
Subscription / Notification Engine (WF4 EditingContext Intro Part 5)
This part 5 of my 6 part series on the EditingContext. Introduction Sharing Functionality...
Date: 12/22/2009
Providing Callbacks for the Host (WF4 EditingContext Intro Part 4)
This part 4 of my 6 part series on the EditingContext. Introduction Sharing Functionality...
Date: 12/22/2009
Host Provided Capabilities (WF4 EditingContext Intro Part 3)
This part 3 of my 6 part series on the EditingContext. Introduction Sharing Functionality...
Date: 12/22/2009
Sharing Functionality Between Designers (WF4 EditingContext Intro Part 2)
This part 2 of my 6 part series on the EditingContext. Introduction Sharing Functionality between...
Date: 12/21/2009
Introduction to the WF4 Designer Editing Context (Part 1)
I want to briefly touch on the editing context and give a little introduction to its...
Date: 12/21/2009
Emitting the mc:Ignorable Instruction In Your WF4 XAML
Frequent forum guest Notre posed this question to the forums the other day noting that the XAML...
Date: 12/10/2009
AttachedProperty Part 2, Putting it Together
On my last post, Jason jumped right to the punchline in his comment here. He asks “if there is an...
Date: 12/06/2009
WF4 Design Time AttachedPropertiesService and Attached Properties
I’ve been meaning to throw together some thoughts on attached properties and how they can be used...
Date: 12/05/2009
WF4 ViewStateService
A comment posted by Notre asked for some more details about view state and attached property...
Date: 12/05/2009
Where is System.Activities.Design in WF4 Beta2 and Beyond?
I got an email over the weekend asking about this, and I realized that it’s somewhat buried in this...
Date: 12/05/2009
WF4, WCF and AppFabric Sessions @ PDC09
I’m taking this week off to catch up on everything I haven’t done the last two months and to...
Date: 11/23/2009
A Few Additional Treats @ PDC09
One fun thing we will be doing this year is using the theater in our lounge/booth area to have a few...
Date: 11/13/2009
Matt’s PDC Session List
I’m hoping that this PDC might be a little different and I may actually get to attend some sessions,...
Date: 11/11/2009
Displaying Validation Errors in a Rehosted WF4 Designer
Here’s a quick one “I’d like to find out if the workflow in the designer is valid… is there someway...
Date: 11/06/2009
Finding the Variables in Scope Within the WF Designer
In this thread, one of our forum customers asked the question: “how do I find all of the variables...
Date: 11/05/2009
WF4 Beta1 => Beta2 Breaking Changes Document Published
Fresh on microsoft.com downloads, you can get the details of the major breaking changes that...
Date: 11/01/2009
Deep Dive into the WF4 Designer Data Model: ModelItem and ModelProperty
In this post I published an overview of the designer architecture. I’ll copy the picture and...
Date: 10/28/2009
WF4 Designer Bloggers
I wanted to put a quick note up as the team is starting to blog a little more frequently and putting...
Date: 10/28/2009
Types, Metatypes and Bears, Redux
I made a quick post a few months back where I tried to talk about the way the designer works and...
Date: 10/23/2009
Navigating the WF4 Beta 2 Samples
Hot off the presses (and the download center) come the WF4 Beta 2 samples here. The team has...
Date: 10/22/2009
WF4 Designer Enhancements in VS 2010 Beta 2
So, you might have heard that Beta2 has shipped. I wanted to give a brief overview of the...
Date: 10/20/2009
Introduction to WF Designer Rehosting (Part 2)
standard beta disclaimer. This is written against the beta1 API’s. If this is 2014, the...
Date: 06/17/2009
Introduction to WF Designer Rehosting (Part 1)
standard beta disclaimer. This is written against the beta1 API’s. If this is 2014, the...
Date: 06/16/2009
Types, Metatypes and Bears, Oh my!
***** UPDATE: Please see this post for how these features and functionality work in Beta2 *****...
Date: 06/09/2009
Introducing the WF4 Designer
// standard disclaimer applies, this is based on the released Beta 1 bits, things are subject to...
Date: 05/20/2009
10-4 Good Buddy, First Look at WF 4
Our WF evangelist, Ron Jacobs, just posted a 10-4 screencast that walks through WF4 as it's looking...
Date: 04/16/2009
WF 4.0 -- Designer Type Visibility
One of the exercises I'm going through now is scrubbing our API and taking a hard look at types...
Date: 02/12/2009
Endpoint.tv Talks Tracking
I heard that the folks that bring you endpoint.tv are doing a two part series on Workflow Tracking...
Date: 01/14/2009
Thoughts on Waiting until 20xx for WF
Usual msblog disclaimer applies, this represents my opinion! While I was on break, a number of folks...
Date: 01/06/2009
Which WF/WCF Talks Should You Attend at PDC?
Just got the email the other day that PDC is less than 4 weeks away, and it got me thinking a bit...
Date: 10/02/2008
WCF Perf Talk @ PDC (or, the Doctor Teaches Fishing)
I'm probably not going to have too much time to attend talks at PDC, but one talk that would be high...
Date: 10/02/2008
More Details On WF/WCF in .NET 4.0
Steve Martin, a director of product management for CSD, has a blog post containing more information...
Date: 10/01/2008
Advanced Workflow Service Talk (Demo 4 of 4)
When we start doing this two way style of messaging, we now open up to start modeling some...
Date: 08/11/2008