Project Management: Planning a project with Team System 2010 08 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, VS2010, Team System Project management has changed. Changed towards SCRUM based project management where you start by building a list of User Stories, also known as the backlog... This list of user stories allows you to plan the project by selecting the highest priority user stories, adding them to an iteration, planni... [More]
God mode for windows 7 01 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot I love windows 7, but now I love it even more. Remember these game cheats, called god mode? There is one in windows 7 as well. Thanks to http://windows7themes.net/windows-7-enable-secret-godmode.html Simple create a folder called GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} Now you can a... [More]
Happy new 2010! 27 December 2009 Peter-Himschoot Good health, lots of fun @ work, great time @ leisure. What else?
Using Workflow4 extensions 30 November 2009 Peter-Himschoot WF 4 Workflow Foundation 4 allows you to add your own custom activities in code. You have a choice of CodeActivity, AsyncCodeActivity and NativeActivity. CodeActivity is ideal if you want to add a simple activity that doesn’t block. AsyncCodeActivity is great if you need an activity that needs to d... [More]
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]