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Advanced Workflow Services Talk (Demo 3 of 4)
So, we've seen in part 1 how to manage context, we saw in part 2 how we can take that basic...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 08/07/2008
Q & A on Advanced Workflow Services talk
Martin posted an interesting question here on my last post: <quote> The first thing that we...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 08/07/2008
Advanced Workflow Services Talk (Demo 2 of 4)
A continuation of my series of demos from my advanced workflow services talk. Here we focus on...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 08/06/2008
Advanced Workflow Services Talk (Demo 1 of 4)
So, last week I wrapped up a conversation at TechReady, our internal conference, where I was talking...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 08/05/2008
Oslo PDC Sessions Posted
Late last night, the PDC team posted an additional "bunch" of sessions, including one I'm...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 08/01/2008
TechEd 2008
TechEd Developer kicks off next week in Orlando, the first time the US group has tried the European...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 05/30/2008
PDC, 2008
The site went live last night, check it out and I hope to see you there. A few of the sessions that...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 05/28/2008
Usability Testing the WF Designer vNext (or, Yelling at Customers)
One of the things that my team is working on is the next version of the workflow designer. In...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 05/15/2008
Proving a Point with LINQ (or, the Longest Type Names in the .NET Framework)
I will often take a few moments during a presentation to get a chuckle by bringing up the...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 04/30/2008
We're Hiring
My team is looking for people interested in building the next generation of the WF designer. ...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 03/17/2008
Designer Rehosting Survey
We're heads down working on the next version of the WF designer. One of the areas we're...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 03/13/2008
You say XAML, I say XOML, PoTAYto, PoTAHto, let's call the whole thing off
With all due respect to George and Ira Gershwin, I have a quick question for the readers of this...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 01/30/2008
Would you like to refactor workflows?
One of the things I am working on now is the next release of the workflow designer. One thing...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 01/18/2008
Workflows that don't start with a Receive
A question recently came up on an internal list about how to start a workflow to do some work and...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 01/17/2008
.NET 3.5 Beta Exams
Trika dropped me an email asking me to point out the nice fact that if you're interested in taking a...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 01/14/2008
Musings for 2008 Resolutions
It seems to be the thing to note a few things one will try to do better in the new year. What...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 12/31/2007
VS 2008 RTM's!
As widely reported on blogs far and wide, Visual Studio 2008 has been released to manufacturing (or...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 11/19/2007
Regarding Re-use of Context-aware Proxies
Yesterday, following my "What's the context for this conversation" presentation, I was...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 11/08/2007
Worst Presentation... Ever.
I would like to take this moment to apologize for all of the attendees who were at our WIN302...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 11/05/2007
Greetings from Barcelona
I (and my entire team except for our boss) am here in beautiful Barcelona for TechEd...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 11/05/2007
SOA&BP Conference Announcements, "Oslo"
This morning at the SOA&BP Conference, we talked about Oslo for the first time. For me,...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 10/30/2007
Activities Survey
So, we're getting close to .NET 3.5 getting out the door, and as always we're thinking about what...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 10/18/2007
.NET 3.5 on Channel9
Following the big announcement last week, I got tapped to do a quick c9 interview with Shawn Burke....
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 10/09/2007
Dogs and Cats Living Together, Mass Hysteria (or, Source Available for the .NET Framework)
The title quote brought to you courtesy of the original Ghostbusters film. As Scott just announced...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 10/03/2007
Tracking Gem in SDK Documentation
I am always amazed when I find something cool in the SDK, it is a great source for all sorts of...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 09/11/2007
Recent WF Content Summary
I've been having some fun playing around with Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5, and...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 09/10/2007
Picture Services
As Justin announces here, my team recently released the picture services sample. This is a cool way...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 08/29/2007
VS 2008 Beta 2 Shipped : 0 to Workflow Service in 60 seconds
So, per Soma's blog, this great Channel9 video, and a bunch of other places, VS 2008 Beta 2 is...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 07/30/2007
Introducing the Windows Server 2008 Developer Training Kit
Finally, a post of mine without code, haven't had one of those in a while. Through some interesting...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 07/18/2007
N of M Question (Why Use ActivityExecutionContextManager?)
In this post, mstiefel asked the following: # re: Implementing the N of M Pattern in WF Since you...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 07/09/2007
WF and BizTalk
Before joining Microsoft, I did spend a fair amount of time in the BizTalk world, and to this day,...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 06/28/2007
Pageflow Sample Update
Updated to version 1.1 Changes Corrected the install to display the EULA at a more opportune time...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 06/27/2007
Implementing the N of M Pattern in WF
The second in my series of alternate execution patterns (part 1) I recently worked with a customer...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 06/26/2007
Pageflow questions: "What about WCSF / Acropolis / Codename 'foo'"?
So, I got a little bit of feedback from my initial post. First, thanks, it's great to see all of the...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 06/14/2007
Pageflow Questions: Why not a state machine?
Here's a comment from my initial post introducing the pageflow sample from wleong: NavigatorWorkflow...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 06/14/2007
Introducing the Pageflow Sample
Most people think of workflows as a tool to represent and automate back-end business processes....
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 06/07/2007
Down In Orlando
David and I arrived in Orlando yesterday morning via the redeye for TechEd 2007. We're settled into...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 06/03/2007
HELP WANTED
My boss, James, has a post on his blog about two positions that are open on our team. One focuses on...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 06/03/2007
Different Execution Patterns with WF (or, Going beyond Sequential and State Machine)
How do I do this? A lot of times people get stuck with the impression that there are only two...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 05/24/2007
Paste XML as Serializable Type
Every now and then, there's a really cool feature that's buried somewhere that just hits you and...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 05/14/2007
Orcas Beta 1 Samples (WF, WCF)
Beta 1 samples have been posted. In this release there are separate installs for WF and WCF (and the...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 04/27/2007
Hello World (WF Services) in Spanish
I noticed on Matias' blog that Ezequiel posted a hello world tutorial in Spanish based on the March...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 04/27/2007
Dynamically Generating an Operation Contract in Orcas using WF
This kicks off a set of posts where I'll be discussing some of the interesting features coming out...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 04/27/2007
So Many Cool Things Going On
Just a quick summary: Orcas Beta 1 is out BPEL folks are looking for feedback labs.biztalk.net is...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 04/25/2007
Starting and Transacting
Two quick links before I run back to my day job. Paul posts a Web Workflow Starter Kit. Check it out...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 04/09/2007
Two Cool Technologies, One Great Solution
My peer, David, has a great screencast posted on Channel9 that shows off a solution from FullArmor...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 04/04/2007
Orcas WF and WCF Samples
The first pass at a number of samples for WF and WCF in Orcas has been posted here. This has samples...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 03/08/2007
WCF and WF in "Orcas"
The wheels of evangelism never stop rolling. Just a few months ago I was blogging that .NET 3.0 was...
Author: Matt Winkler -- MSFT Date: 02/28/2007