Entries for Ron Jacobs

10-4 Episode 36: Windows Server AppFabric and Workflow Services Lab [10-4 Episode 36: Windows Server AppFabric and Workflow Services Lab]

Ron Jacobs — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:37:00 GMT

Have you heard about the new Windows Server AppFabric? In this episode we take you through the new Beta 2 version of the Introduction to Workflow Services Hands On Lab in .NET 4 which now includes a look at portions of Windows Server Application Fabric.

Look for this lab in the next update to the Visual Studio 2010 training kit and Visual Studio 2010 learning center on Channel 9.

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endpoint.tv Screencast - Lab: Introduction to Workflow in .NET 4 [endpoint.tv Screencast - Lab: Introduction to Workflow in .NET 4]

Ron Jacobs — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:53:00 GMT

Windows Workflow in .NET 4 (WF4) is an all new workflow engine. In this episode I'm going to take you through the hands on lab from the Visual Studio 2010 training course.

I'm going to move quickly through the lab so keep the pause button handy.

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endpoint.tv - High Performance WCF .NET Stock Trader with Greg Leake [endpoint.tv - High Performance WCF .NET Stock Trader with Greg Leake]

Ron Jacobs — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:33:00 GMT

Greg Leake is the man! He is the driving force behind the .NET Stock Trader sample application. If you want to understand how to build high performance apps with WCF you need to check it out. In this episode I catch up with Greg and discuss all the details.

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WCF Service Discovery using .NET Framework 4.0 [WCF Service Discovery using .NET Framework 4.0]

Ron Jacobs — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:35:07 GMT

Windows Communication Foundation 4 includes a new feature that enables service discovery. Service discovery allows you to locate services on the same subnet using ad hoc discovery, or using a proxy to establish connections with servers regardless of where they are. In this lab you will create a simple chat application that will use both methods to learn about available services.

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Workflow Designer Programming Model [Workflow Designer Programming Model]

Ron Jacobs — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:35:07 GMT

This hands-on lab introduces you to the designer programming model of Windows Workflow 4.0. You will learn how to rehost the workflow designer in a WPF desktop application and how to create composite custom designers for your workflow activities.

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Introduction to Workflow 4.0 [Introduction to Workflow 4.0]

Ron Jacobs — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:35:07 GMT

In this lab you will get to know the basics of creating, hosting and running a workflow. This lab is also intended to be and introduction to the new workflow authoring constructs in the .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010, including the new Workflow Designer, expressions, variables and arguments. Additionally, you will explore the use of some basic built-in activities.

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endpoint.tv Screencast - Spike on Workflow Managed Email Verification [endpoint.tv Screencast - Spike on Workflow Managed Email Verification]

Ron Jacobs — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:57:00 GMT

On this episode I'm doing a little spike project to prototype a web app that uses a workflow to manage email verification when registering a user for a web site. You will see how you can
- Create a SendMail custom activity
- Unit test the SendMail custom activity
- Consider a new way for making it easy for the web developers to invoke your business process
- Close the loop on registration

There will be more to do on this project but I thought I would share it with you now so you can see what we have got so far.

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10-4 Episode 31: AdventureWorks Bikes Front End to Back End [10-4 Episode 31: AdventureWorks Bikes Front End to Back End]

Ron Jacobs — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:37:00 GMT

In July Jonathan and Ron paired up to build out a web application for AdventureWorks Bikes. In this episode we will see how you can

Create a model driven ADO.NET Data service
Use the new ASP.NET AJAX controls to consume this service
Automate the business processing on the backend with a new Flowchart workflow
Consume a data service from an ASP.NET MVC application

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endpoint.tv - New in WCF 4 - System.ServiceModel.Routing [endpoint.tv - New in WCF 4 - System.ServiceModel.Routing]

Ron Jacobs — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:51:00 GMT

When people ask about new things for WCF in .NET 4 there are several but two of the big ones are discovery and routing. Last time we covered discovery. On this episode we are going to talk about routing. Suppose for example you want to do something simple like create a backup URI for your service in case the primary server is down. Routing can handle this simple case and much much more.

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10-4 episode 29: Workflow Web Services [10-4 episode 29: Workflow Web Services]

Ron Jacobs — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:03:00 GMT

Windows Workflow Foundation in .NET 4 makes it easy to build and consume web services. In this episode I'll take you through the Introduction to Workflow Services lab from the Visual Studio 2010 Training Kit. Where you will learn about some cool new features such as content based correlation.

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endpoint.tv - Service Discovery Explained with Anurag Pandit [endpoint.tv - Service Discovery Explained with Anurag Pandit]

Ron Jacobs — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:15:00 GMT

In our last episode we showed you how you can discover services with WCF in .NET 4 using Service Discovery. In this episode meet Anurag Pandit the program manager for Service Discovery who will explain how it works.

For more on Service Discovery be sure to check out the Service Discovery team blog

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10-4 Episode 24: Monitoring Workflow Services [10-4 Episode 24: Monitoring Workflow Services]

Ron Jacobs — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:28:00 GMT

One of the great advantages to building services with WCF and Windows Workflow 4 is that the environment is instrumented with loads of events that allow you to track what exactly is happening. This is useful for health monitoring, troubleshooting and other scenarios like auditing and compliance. In this episode I’ll take you through the monitoring lab from the Visual Studio 2010 training kit and show you how you can take advantage of these powerful capabilities.

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endpoint.tv - Service Discovery with WCF [endpoint.tv - Service Discovery with WCF]

Ron Jacobs — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:51:00 GMT

WCF in .NET 4 includes an implementation of the WS-Discovery protocol. Sounds exciting right? Actually it is very cool because it allows you to build applications and services that can discover other services using UDP multicast messages or via a discovery proxy. In this episode I'll walk through the Service Discovery lab where we build a messenger style application I call "ChatWOW". In this lab you will see how to make your service discoverable and how you can discover other services. Later when Beta 1 is released, you can try it yourself.

Update: The WCF/WF4 Training Kit is now live at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wcfwf4 so you can try it yourself.

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10-4 episode 19: Service Discovery with WCF [10-4 episode 19: Service Discovery with WCF]

Ron Jacobs — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:39:00 GMT

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endpoint.tv - Dublin Architecture [endpoint.tv - Dublin Architecture]

Ron Jacobs — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:01:00 GMT

So many questions about "Dublin" - the forthcoming Windows Application Server Extensions. What will it do for me? How will it work? For this episode I sat down with group program manager Ford McKinstry and architect Igor Sedukhin to get some answers

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endpoint.tv - Windows Workflow 4 [endpoint.tv - Windows Workflow 4]

Ron Jacobs — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:53:00 GMT

In this dual-podcast episode of endpoint.tv and 10-4 we build a "Hello Workflow 4" application. You might have heard that .NET 4 includes an all new Workflow engine - learn how you can not only use Workflow but also do test first style development with it.

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10-4 Episode 16: Windows Workflow 4 [10-4 Episode 16: Windows Workflow 4]

Ron Jacobs — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:09:00 GMT

In this episode of 10-4 we build a "Hello Workflow 4" application. You might have heard that .NET 4 includes an all new Workflow engine - learn how you can not only use Workflow but also do test first style development with it.

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endpoint.tv - WCF REST Starter Kit Lab 3 - REST Collection Service [endpoint.tv - WCF REST Starter Kit Lab 3 - REST Collection Service]

Ron Jacobs — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:23:00 GMT

The WCF REST Starter Kit includes a new REST Collection Template. In this lab we will build a service based on this template.

You can download the lab docs and code from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wcfrestlabs.

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endpoint.tv Screencast - WCF REST Starter Kit Lab 1 - Hello REST [endpoint.tv Screencast - WCF REST Starter Kit Lab 1 - Hello REST]

Ron Jacobs — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:39:00 GMT

Are you new to REST? New to WCF? No worries. In this simple lab we will build a "Hello World" SOAP service and then convert it to a REST service.

This screencast is a walkthrough of the WCF REST Starter Kit Hands On Lab 1 - Hello REST.

You can download the lab from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wcfrestlabs

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endpoint.tv - "Dublin" what is it and why should I care? [endpoint.tv - "Dublin" what is it and why should I care?]

Ron Jacobs — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:54:00 GMT

"Dublin"? What is it? What is it for? When is it coming?

You may have heard about the exciting new capabilities coming for Windows Server in the area of hosting and managing workflows and services. You might have seen Dan Eshner's talk from PDC2008 here on Channel 9 at http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/BB18/

In this episode of endpoint.tv I caught up with Dan and Ford McKinstry to get to the bottom of the "Dublin" mystery.

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endpoint.tv Screencast - QueryString Parameters in RESTful WCF [endpoint.tv Screencast - QueryString Parameters in RESTful WCF]

Ron Jacobs — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:14:00 GMT

QueryString parameters are great but can cause problems in RESTful WCF if not used properly. In this screencast I'm going to show you how you can and should use Query Parameters and I'll give you a pointer to a nifty little class I wrote to help you out.

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endpoint.tv - WCF and WF 4.0 First Look with Michele Leroux Bustamante [endpoint.tv - WCF and WF 4.0 First Look with Michele Leroux Bustamante]

Ron Jacobs — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:34:00 GMT

Ron interviews Michele Leroux Bustamante about her impressions on WCF and WF 4.0

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endpoint.tv - WCF and WF 4.0 First Look with Richard Blewett [endpoint.tv - WCF and WF 4.0 First Look with Richard Blewett]

Ron Jacobs — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:58:00 GMT

In another first look at WCF and WF 4.0 Ron interviews Richard Blewett of Developmentor about his thoughts on these new technologies.

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endpoint.tv - PDC Hands On Lab Cast - Lab 6 - Deploy and Manage Workflow Services [endpoint.tv - PDC Hands On Lab Cast - Lab 6 - Deploy and Manage Workflow Services]

Ron Jacobs — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:30:00 GMT

In this PDC Hands On Lab Cast Ron Jacobs will walk you through Lab 6 which demonstrates management features of the new Application Server code named "Dublin" including integration with IIS manager and a rich set of PowerShell cmdlets.

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endpoint.tv - PDC Hands On Lab Cast - Lab 5 - Introduction to Workflow Services [endpoint.tv - PDC Hands On Lab Cast - Lab 5 - Introduction to Workflow Services]

Ron Jacobs — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:15:00 GMT

In this PDC Hands On Lab Cast Ron Jacobs walks you through Lab 5 - Introduction to Workflow Services

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