Sometimes when you have a clean install of Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 the context menu item "Edit WCF Configuration" for a app.config or web.config will not show. The picture above does show the menu item I'm talking about, but you may find that it is not there. Help is at hand: there is...
From my week in Redmond I still had notes on the performance session of WF. Instead of throwing them away, I thought I would share them. The session follows the technical artical ' Performance Characteristics of Windows Workflow Foundation ' for the larger parts. This means that the points on performance...
Again, some background on where we are with rules in WF version 1 (in .NET FX 3.0): The Rules framework in WF allow you to define discrete and atomic rules using simple semantics. This makes it very approachable. WF Rules distinguish conditions (boolean evaluations) and rules (if-then-else semantics...
The .NET Framework 3.5 build 3.5.20209 was released earlier this morning as part of the Visual Studio Orcas March 2007 CTP. Find the downloads here: Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" March 2007 CTP (Self-extracting Install) Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" March 2007 CTP Team Foundation Server (Self-extracting...
The January 2007 CTP version of Visual Studio "Orcas" has .NET FX 3.5 version 3.5.11209. One of the assemblies is System.Web.Extensions and hosts some great new additions to the ASP.NET stack. It has new classes in the namespace System.Web.Security, two of which are LoginService and RolesService. In...