This post was written after I wasted invested several hours in getting a non-HTTP WCF 4.0 workflow service hosted in the Windows Process Activation Service (WAS), in hope that the next person who stumbles upon this would find it in Google Bing or something… Assume you want to host a WCF 4.0 service in WAS […]
I’ve worked a lot with WF 3.0 and WF 3.5 in the past, and I almost always ended up with some mixed feelings. On the one hand, WF is an amazing technology which allows you to do some pretty incredible things when you think about it – easily create a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) and allow […]
The PDC ended over a week ago with me coming back home this Wednesday after a short vacation. On this blog post, I’ll try to summarize my main thoughts and conclusions from this year’s conference and also give a quick reminder regarding the upcoming SDP. Cloud Computing in Full Thrust In my opinion, the main […]
In this PDC session, Nicholas Allen, Program Manager at Microsoft Corporation, reviewed various extensibility points in Windows Serer AppFabric workflow hosting . Hosting Workflows AppFabric ships with three out-of-the-box extensible workflow hosts: Workflow Driven Application – A host for workflows which are used as an execution engine and which do not require WCF interaction to […]
In this PDC session, Mark Fussel, Program Manager at Microsoft, spoke of creating Workflow Services in .NET 4.0, and hosting and deploying them on Windows Server AppFabric. AppFabric AppFabric provides a set of features for hosting, managing and deploying workflow services: A set of runtime databases for persisting and monitoring the running instances. Persistence services. […]
In this PDC session, Ed Pinto, Program Manager at Microsoft, reviewed the many new additions to WCF 4.0. REST and WF services were not covered in this session, as they are covered in other sessions. WCF Configuration Default Endpoints – The WCF team took feedback in and decided to prefer “Convention over Configuration”. This means […]
In this PDC session, Muralidhar Krishnaprasad, Principal Software Architect at Microsoft, presented the caching functionality of Windows Server AppFabric, which replaces the project formerly known as “Velocity”. What is AppFabric Caching? AppFabric caching is an explicit, distributed in-memory cache for all kinds of application data. In a typical 3-tier application, one has three tiers: User/Presentation, […]
In this PDC session, Anil Nori, Distinguished Engineer in Microsoft’s server application group, presented an overview of the upcoming server technologies coming from Microsoft. 2010 Wave Initially, Anil spoke of the application serer technologies which are due to be released during 2010. .NET 4.0 – WCF & WF .NET 4.0 contains many WCF productivity enhancements, […]
In the second PDC keynote, Bob Muglia, President of Server Applications & Tools, spoke of the Cloud Application Model as the next widespread and accepted software model: Mainframe. Client-Server. Web. SOA. Cloud Computing. According to Bob’s vision, cloud computing would be successful as it would enable some very complex scenarios such as scaling out, failure […]