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Mocking the ConsoleI’ve posted an update to the Microsoft.Activities.Simulation library. Today at the team meeting I showed the library to the Windows Workflow team and Ed Pinto said “That is cool!” so I must be doing something right. Today’s update is a better... more
WF / WCF 4 and “Dublin” ResourcesEvery now and then somebody will ask me about resources for WF/WCF 4. I usually copy a bunch of links into an email for them. Today I decided I ought to share these resources with all of you. I’ll try to remember and come back to th... more
CancellationScope ActivityLast Edit: 2-Jun-2009 How do you cancel work in your application? Many middle tier components and services rely on transactions to handle cancellation for them. This makes a great deal of sense because transactional programming is well u... more
Online Talks from TechEd 2009Just before heading home from TechEd 2009 in LA, I recorded a couple of online interviews, which are now available: Patterns for Moving to the Cloud: Recorded with Denny Boynton, host of ARCast, we chat about where applications live, and what... more
Ready to learn WF/WCF 4?Tomorrow Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 beta 1 will be available for everyone to download. I’ve been keeping quiet about the work I’ve been up to for the last month and a half while we got some great resources ready for you. Ok – I let some of... more
Slides from TechEd 2009Today is my last day at TechEd 2009 in LA, and as promised, I’ve uploaded the presentations from the three talks that I’ve given this week. Thanks again to everyone that attended my talks, and I really enjoyed speaking with many of you after th... more
Using SketchFlow to Create Better PrototypesI recently put together this article for InfoQ on using SketchFlow to create better prototypes. In case you haven’t run across it yet, SketchFlow is a feature of Microsoft Expression 3, announced during the MIX09 conference in March this ye... more
Displaying XPS Documents in SilverlightI’ve recently been involved on a project that has a requirement to create and view XPS documents in Silverlight. The application needs to display the XPS file in a full screen window together with zoom and navigation features. After a little s... more
Cloud Computing Talks at TechEd 2009I wanted to share the details of two cloud computing sessions that I will be presenting at TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles next month: ISB204: The Impact of the Cloud and Software as a Service - 5/11/2009 4:30PM-5:45PM ARC308: Pattern... more
Configuring a VPC for the REST Starter Kit Hands On LabsToday I was given a VPC image that someone had started and asked to put the WCF REST Starter Kit Hands On Labs on the image so we can use it at Tech-Ed. I ran into some interesting problems and I thought I would share the solutions with you in case... more
I'm Back!!! Well... sort ofStill not fully back on blogging quite yet (soon I promise). In the meantime, (if you want) you can follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/gcarraro. See you soon in the 140 char / tinyurl world! #gpstillnotblogging... more
Today on endpoint.tv – The REST Collection Template One of the more interesting (challenging?) things we did with the WCF REST Starter Kit is the REST Collection Service Template. The idea behind this template was to produce a service that allows you read/write access to a service using... more
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Anna Liu is an Architect Evangelist at Microsoft in Sydney, Australia - Beat Schwegler
Beat Schwegler is an Architect working for Microsoft EMEA and focuses mainly on Web Services, Interoperability and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) - Clemens Vasters
Clemens Vasters is an Architect MVP, CTO of Newtelligence AG, and Principal Architect of the Microsoft examples of “Proseware” and “FABRIQ" - Dave Welsh
Dave is a member of Microsoft’s Corporate Standards policy team. He is involved with all of Microsoft’s global standards around server & tools which includes everything from XML to WS-*, from W3C to Oasis and ISO, all Office standards including Office Open XML, and all vertical industry standards from the enterprise markets to Microsoft Dynamics products - Fred Chong
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John Evdemon has been designing and deploying enterprise systems for over two decades. He is currently focused on BPM and SOA as a member of Microsoft's Developer and Partner Evangelism Architecture Strategy Team - Mark Baciak
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Simon Guest is a Group Program Manager in the Architecture Strategy team at Microsoft, specializing in creating content and communities for the Architect audience. Drawing on over a decade of experience as a consultant in various industries, Simon enjoys taking an objective and pragmatic approach to developing solutions using Microsoft technology. A frequent speaker at conferences worldwide, Simon also enjoys writing, and is the author of the 'Microsoft .NET and J2EE Interoperability Toolkit' by Microsoft Press - Vittorio Bertocci
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