Blogging Frenzy 21 October 2009 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development Looks like I started to blog a lot more lately, and so do a couple of my colleagues. Check out Nick’s blog: http://blogs.u2u.be/Nick/ And of course Kris’s blog: http://blogs.u2u.be/Kris/ Both of them have gone crazy with Extension methods… So should I?
Cool! Copy as image in workflow foundation designer 17 October 2009 Peter-Himschoot Hey, I build slides a lot, so I like this cool feature in workflow foundation 4 designer (using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2): copy as image. If you need to copy a workflow (or part thereof this only works for the whole workflow, a pity, because you will want copy parts of your orchestration to a docu... [More]
Workflow 4 parallel and compensation activities 15 October 2009 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, WF 4 So I’m looking into workflow foundation 4 (using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2). Let’s look at the parallel activity included within. The parallel activity will schedule all of its child activities asynchronously and then wait until all children have completed or the CompletionCondition evaluates to Tru... [More]
Adding Error Handling to content based routing with WCF 12 October 2009 Peter-Himschoot WCF Yesterday I blogged about content based routing with WCF. Today I want to talk about error handling. What if you route to a service that is not available. WCF allows you to define backup services using a backup list. So let’s do this: start by building a compatible backup service. In this case I wi... [More]
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 available today! 10 October 2009 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development I’m downloading it as we speak. So please wait until I’ve done :) Oh, for the first couple of days the download is only available through MSDN subscriber download, but then MS will make it public for everyone. Today Microsoft announced a new (albeit beta 2) release of their flagship developer softw... [More]
Generate sequence diagrams with Visual studio 2010 09 October 2009 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, VS2010 Cool! I’ve just discovered this new feature in Visual Studio 2010 (Beta 2) where you can generate a sequence diagram from your code. This should take the hard bit out of generating documentation from your code :) Here’s a screen shot: The only thing you need to to is to point to the method you ... [More]
Installing VS2010 Beta 2 09 October 2009 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development So I’ve installed VS2010 today. Installation went quite well but you might want to uninstall the Silverlight 3 SDK because that gave an issue on my machine. The VS logo has changed colors: Usual license stuff… 5.6 Gb on disk required… And there we go… This took about half an hour on my ... [More]
who is going to teched in Berlin? 09 October 2009 Peter-Himschoot I am looking forward going to TechEd in Berlin this year. Not only because of TechEd, but also because of the celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall. If you’re also going, I hope to see you there! U2U, the company I work for, will give a free TechEd ticket to the first two bookers of a new trai... [More]
Problem running the WCF 4 DiscoveryProxy sample 08 October 2009 Peter-Himschoot WCF Today I was playing around with managed WS-discovery with WCF 4. To try a couple of things I used the WCF sample DiscoveryProxy. However running the sample gave me this error: {"A TCP error (10013: An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions) occurred w... [More]
Strange but true: using a keyword as a variable 04 October 2009 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development Can you use a keyword as an argument, or any other kind of local variable? Why would you want to do that? That aside: how? Easy! Just use the @ in front of any keyword and you can now use it as a variable. For example: class Program { static void UsingKeywordArg(string @string) ... [More]