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I will be heading back to Tallahassee, Fl. tomorrow to speak at the Capital City .Net User Group about WF. I was just there last week speaking at the Architecture SIG on tips for gathering requirements and designing architecture, however this week I...
I can help you save on registration for VSLive! Orlando 2008! Attendees who register for VSLive! Orlando using priority code SOWHI will receive the Gold Passport all-access pass for just $1,895, a savings of $300.00 off the standard price. Register...
I finally made it to Seattle, Wa this morning for Microsoft's MVP Summit, and I must say that Microsoft knows how to host an event. Everything has been first class. I have met a bunch of really nice fellow MVPs and finally Mark Clagett, our MVP Lead...
Our local architect SIG will meet April 22, 2008 and we will have one of our own, Gábor Lipták, doing a presenation on Enterprise Service Bus(ESB). Here are the bullet points that will be covered.
ESB Technology
ESB Functionality
ESB Patterns...
The Tallahassee Arch SIG has changed their meeting date this month because of some minor confusion(probably my fault). It seems they had me scheduled to speak April 17, 2008 however that did not fly with my schedule because I will be in Redmond that...
It has been 6 crazy months, but my team is finally getting notification that our maintenance solution is almost ready for production. In a nut shell, a Florida agency needed a maintenance solution to manage maintenance for dorm rooms internally and...
As I sit here in my hotel room reading and listening to "Sweet Home Alabama", I find myself dreaming of better times. Naturally of attending last month's Architect SIG meeting, and during the end when the passing out of the SWAG books started, which...
Wow, we have a great topic and presenter for this month's meeting. David Strommer will be speaking on one of my favorite topics Business Process Management! His discussion, "Understanding BPM" will focus on what defines BPM, its technology and approaches...
There are a many benefits for hosting a Workflow Runtime through Windows Communication Foundation services in IIS. Most importantly, WCF services can leverage the functionality that IIS already does, for instance health management. IIS has the ability...
If your job as a Software Architect is to research and exploit technology to help achieve business results - then you need to take a look at what has just been released in Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5. Microsoft's Jeff Barnes, will...
This Saturday I am loading up the kids and the wife and headed to SQLSaturday, in Tampa, Florida. I am speaking on "Persisting and Tracking Workflows Using SqlServer". Yeah I know... you might be wondering how WF fits into a SQL event but if you talk...
Tired of getting an error similar to "The object with ID implements the IObjectReference interface...", then try having different environments for testing workflows and another for developing them. This error is prevalent when you persist data through...
Here is a post within the WF Forum, that helped me the other day. I was so used to running tracking and persistence on the same local server that when I tried to set it up remote I ran into some trouble. In a nutshell, because I use config files to...
Last Wednesday, the motto was, "Have laptop, get VS2008"! I attended JaxDug's VS2008 Installfest, where about 50 and some attendees who RSVP'd were able to bring their laptop to D&B's to get a 30 day, register and get a full license of VS2008 Pro. There...
This blog is making a small relocation in order to consolidate my writing. You can see all future posts here: http://pragmaticworks.com/community/blogs/brianknight/default.aspx...
I was trying to bubble up an error that my service passes my workflow by using a FaultHandler Activity, when I noticed that the Fault property was acting quirky. At first I could not set the fault because it was grayed out, however I noticed that the...
You have to love the StateMachineWorkflowInstance object when working with state machine workflows. MS has done a pretty good job by making sure basic information is in there. For instance, need to know what states can be transitioned to from your current...
I am real excited about what 2008 has in store for our SIG, "Jax Architects". Last year we started back up during the middle of the year and I feel that because of some of the product releases with VS2008, this year is going to be even better!
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I just received an email that VSLive 2008 in Orlando, Florida has been moved up a week this coming May. The new dates are May 12-16 instead of May 19-23.
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VSLive in Orlando, Florida was one of the first conferences I ever attended and this year I get to speak at it. My session will explain how to expose workflows as services using WCF. First, I will demonstrate how this can be done currently in .Net 3.0...
There was no better way to start the New Year, than to receive an email from Microsoft, congratulating me on getting MVP for Connected System Developer! I was told that I had been nominated but I was trying not to count on it, since I had heard that...
This month’s meeting will be a little different. Majority of us have agreed to meet at Dave and Busters for networking and dinner. This will be a great time to relax and reflect on 2007 while planning for 2008. Please plan to come if you are in the...
Last Saturday while speaking in Orlando, Fl., I was asked about building data objects (entities) within a Policy activity. The person I was talking with wanted to build an object and all of it's properties within a Policy activity, based on certain...
This month we are scheduled to meet Thursday, November 29th, 2007. This will be the week after Thanksgiving so hopefully we will have a good crowd. Jeff Barnes will be back to talk to us about the role of an architect. It is always nice having Jeff...
The first Sql Saturday will be held tomorrow morning November, 10, 2007 in Orlando, Florida. And 'yes', tomorrow is the opening day of hunting season, but I am dedicated in showing my community support instead of being out in the woods. Besides, I am...