Kavitak's WebLog https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/kavitak/feed.xml My space on the web... Tue, 16 Apr 2019 05:16:09 GMT en-US hourly 1 WF 4 Migration Guidance now live on MSDN https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/kavitak/wf-4-migration-guidance-now-live-on-msdn Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:07:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/kavitak/2009/06/05/wf-4-migration-guidance-now-live-on-msdn/ Our team has posted a set of WF 4 Migration documents on MSDN.

You'll find 4 papers initially -

  • an overview document which introduces migration concerns and what to do for the WF3 developer.
  • a best practices for WF3 development paper - how to design your WF3 artifacts today to help with the move to WF4
  • a document on Rules guidance which I've authored
  • a document on State Machine guidance

 You can find them here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bd94c260-b5e0-4d12-93ec-53567505e685&displaylang=en

We hope you find these documents useful, and I am personally interested in hearing from the Rules folks on the guidance I've provided in the Rules document.

]]> VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 now available for public download https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/kavitak/vs-2010-and-net-framework-4-0-beta-1-now-available-for-public-download Wed, 20 May 2009 13:57:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/kavitak/2009/05/20/vs-2010-and-net-framework-4-0-beta-1-now-available-for-public-download/ Earlier this week, we released Beta1 to MSDN subscribers. I am happy to share that the bits are now available for general public download! Go get them here.

 

]]> WCF and WF .NET Framework 4.0 Beta1 Training Kit https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/kavitak/wcf-and-wf-net-framework-4-0-beta1-training-kit Tue, 19 May 2009 19:11:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/kavitak/2009/05/19/wcf-and-wf-net-framework-4-0-beta1-training-kit/ In addition to the Beta1 samples I linked to, you may also find the training kit useful - it has more detailed walkthroughs of key features. Get it here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wcfwf4

]]> WF and WCF .NET Framework 4.0 Beta1 samples https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/kavitak/wf-and-wcf-net-framework-4-0-beta1-samples Tue, 19 May 2009 19:02:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/kavitak/2009/05/19/wf-and-wcf-net-framework-4-0-beta1-samples/ When you download VS2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta1, you do not automatically get the samples.

To get the SDK samples that the team put together, go to: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5aca0622-d87d-4cc9-a22c-0d58205a56b4#tm

]]> Beta1 Forums https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/kavitak/beta1-forums Mon, 18 May 2009 15:14:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/kavitak/2009/05/18/beta1-forums/ Here's a link to the Beta1 forums where you can provide feedback and ask questions:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/VSPreRelease,netdevelopmentprerelease,visualstudioprerelease,vstsprerelease

Our team will be watching the WF Beta1 forum closely!

]]> VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta1! https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/kavitak/vs-2010-and-net-framework-4-0-beta1 Mon, 18 May 2009 14:59:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/kavitak/2009/05/18/vs-2010-and-net-framework-4-0-beta1/ I'm finally excited to share that .NET Framework 4.0 Beta1 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 is being released this week! After having kept it low key and quiet for so long, and a limited distribution at the PDC last year, it is great that this week, Beta1 will be available more generally. Today, Beta1 bits were released to MSDN customers and Beta1 documentation went live on MSDN. In addition, forums have been created for soliciting feedback. On May 20th, Wednesday, Beta1 will be available on MSDN download center for everyone. Here is the VS 2010 page.

Me and my team definitely look forward to hearing all the feedback you have on Windows Workflow Foundation in .NET 4.0.

We will be publishing content about WF 4.0 on http://blogs.msdn.com/endpoint

]]> PDC is here! https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/kavitak/pdc-is-here Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:07:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/kavitak/2008/10/27/pdc-is-here/ Finally, the PDC week is here.

At the Ray Ozzie keynote this morning, he announced Windows Azure - www.azure.com - Windows in the Cloud. Azure will be the basis for the Microsoft Services Platform. .NET Online Services, Live Services, SQL Services, SharePoint Services and CRM Services are all technologies that add value to the cloud platform helping you build highly scalable and available applications that run on the cloud.

In addition, we've unveiled a few new initiatives and downloads - check them out here!

Models Remixed

Oslo Developer Center

REST Starter Kit

I will be giving a chalk talk in the Tools, Languages and Frameworks Lounge on the 4.0 Activities on Day 4 at 10:15am. See you there!

]]> PDC, here we come! https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/kavitak/pdc-here-we-come Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:27:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/kavitak/2008/10/07/pdc-here-we-come/ The premier Microsoft conference, the PDC - Professional Developers Conference, is happening in the week of Octobert 26th in Los Angeles! Microsoft stars will join movie stars and present a bunch of upcoming technologies and paradigms to thousands of developers.

There are still seats left, so please register if you havent already. You can pre-register for sessions you'd like to attend here.

We have a few talks on the technologies my team works on - WCF/WF. I hope to see you at these sessions or in the lounge where a bunch of product folks will be hanging around waiting to answer your questions. We know we've been quiet and we want to break the silence!

WF 4.0: A First Look, Kenny Wolf

Programs coordinate work. The code for coordination and state management often obscures a program's purpose. Learn how programming with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) 4.0 provides clarity of intent while preserving the functional richness of the .NET framework. See how easy it is to build workflows with the new Visual Studio workflow designer. Learn about text-based authoring options for WF. Hear how WF integrates well with other Microsoft technologies (WCF, WPF, ASP.NET). If you've looked at WF before, come and see the changes to data flow, composition, and new control flow styles. Significant improvements to usability, composability, and performance make Workflow a great fit for a broad range of solutions on both the client and the server.

 

WCF 4.0: Building WCF Services with WF in Microsoft .NET 4.0, Ed Pinto

Eliminate the tradeoff between ease of service authoring and performant, scalable services. Hear about significant enhancements in WCF and WF to deal with the ever increasing complexity of communication. Learn how to use WCF to correlate messages to service instances using transport, context, and application payloads. See how the new WF messaging activities enable the modeling of rich protocols. Learn how WCF provides a default host for workflows exposing features such as distributed compensation and discovery. See how service definition in XAML completes the union of WF and WCF with a unified authoring experience that simplifies configuration and is fully integrated with IIS activation and deployment

 

WF 4.0: Extending with Custom Activities , Matt Winkler

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) coordinates and manages individual units of work, encapsulated into activities. WF comes with a rich library of activities. Learn how to extend this library by encapsulating your own APIs with custom activities. See how to compose those basic activities into higher level units using rules, flowchart, and state machine control flow styles. Learn how to build your own WF control styles. Learn how to customize and re-host the workflow authoring experience using the new WF designer framework.

 

WCF: Developing RESTful Services , Steve Maine

Learn the latest features in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) for building Web 2.0-style services that use URIs, HTTP GET, and other data formats beyond XML. See how these features can be applied to AJAX web sites, "REST" applications, and data feeds.

 

Microsoft .NET Framework: Declarative Programming Using XAML , Rob Relyea/Daniel Roth

If you're using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), or Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), then XAML is your new best friend! Learn how an entire application-from presentation to data to services to workflow--can be authored using simple, declarative XAML notations introduced in the next version of the .NET Framework. Learn about XAML additions like: support for generics, object references, non-default constructors, and more.

 

WCF: Zen of Performance and Scale , Nicholas Allen

Join us for an interactive lunch discussion about different kinds of performance and scale requirements that are a crucial part of any distributed systems development life cycle. Learn the principles of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) throughput and responsiveness optimization. Hear about WCF scalability improvements in the next version of the Microsoft .NET Framework.

]]> Oslo, the silence explained https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/kavitak/oslo-the-silence-explained Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:07:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/kavitak/2008/09/07/oslo-the-silence-explained/ Doug's post and Don's post about Oslo. Finally, we're ready to talk about Oslo at the PDC. I've been involved in Oslo since late 2006, when we were still trying to define what it really is! I personally work on the .NET Framework 4.0 which is the underlying framework that drives Oslo. At the PDC, we will unveil Oslo and the improvements and changes we're making in the .NET Framework 4.0. Hopefully that will break the silence.]]> Request for scenarios : CAG https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/kavitak/request-for-scenarios-cag Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:57:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/kavitak/2008/08/14/request-for-scenarios-cag/