Looks like Macros are getting dropped in the next version of Visual Studio. Makes sense but I guess I’ll have to move the one or two macros I use onto commands in a package or add-in. http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/10/VS-Macros
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Workflow Service Tracking Viewer
If you are working with Workflow Services (.xamlx) and you want an easy way to see live tracking from your workflow your only out-of-the-box option right now is AppFabric which doesn’t show live data and the UI can be a … Continued
Help make Workflow Foundation better
Ron Jacobs and the workflow team are looking for feedback and ideas for WF vNext. Help make it better by adding your suggestions or voting for some others.
Slides and Code for Visual Studio eXtensibility, DSL and T4
Here are the slides and the code for the talk on VSX, DSLs and T4 that I did in the North Shore and Auckland .Net User Groups. Snippets For snippets I used the Snippet Designer on Visual Studio Gallery. The … Continued
Responding to WF completion using the Creation Context
This is the fourth post in a series on building an Enterprise Workflow system using WF4. Previously we looked at the WorkflowServiceHostFactory, the WorkflowCreationEndpoint and how we can use these to host activities as our own services. In this post … Continued
Starting WF Instances using the Creation Endpoint
This post is the third in a series on building an Enterprise Workflow System using WF4. Previously we discussed how to get the activity authoring experience for workflow service authors by using a custom WorkflowServiceHostFactory to tell the WorkflowServiceHost to … Continued
Hosting an Activity as a Service using the WorkflowServiceHostFactory
This is the second post in a series about Building an Enterprise Workflow system with WF4. In the previous post we discussed how the default workflow service design experience wasn’t really what we would want for an enterprise workflow system. … Continued
Speaking at North Shore .Net Users Group
I’m giving a talk on Thursday 15th September at the North Shore .Net users group in Auckland on Visual Studio Extensibility, DSL Tools and T4 Code Generation. Quadrangle B; Seminar Room 3(QB3), Massey University, Albany Start Time: 15/09/2011 5:45 p.m. … Continued
Activities vs WF Services: In search of the ideal authoring experience
This is the first post in a series about Building an Enterprise Workflow system with WF4. Hosting our Workflows When we were building our enterprise workflow solution at our company, it was during the development of .Net 4 and we … Continued
Building an Enterprise Workflow system with WF4
Recently Stef and I presented the session “Hardcore Workflow” at Tech-Ed New Zealand in which I gave a demo of how to create your own enterprise workflow system in WF4. I had been deliberating for a while on whether I … Continued