Recently I asked you to vote on topics you want to see on endpoint.tv . Coming in at #3 was this question on how to Unit Test WF4 Workflows. Because Workflows range from very simple activities to long and complex multi-step processes this can be a very challenging. I found after writing many activities that I began to see opportunities to create a .. more »

In this episode, we discuss the FlowChart activity. Sure, it looks simple—and in fact it is. Watch as Leon Welicki explains how you can use the new WF4 Flowchart activity to build workflows.The sample application shown is a part of the WF4 SDK Samples.Ron Jacobsblog        http://blogs.msdn.com/rjacobstwitter    @ronljacobsW.. more »

If you’re in the Los Angeles, CA area and interested in different Web development technologies you’ll definitely want to check out the event scheduled for September 10th, 2010 if you haven’t already. (all extremely cool guys who know a lot about different Web technologies) will be presenting. Phil Haack is the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC PM respon.. more »

events that Microsoft is sponsoring around the world. These events provide a great way to learn about ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC 2, and Visual Studio 2010. The events are free and the feedback from people attending them has been great. We are working to setup many more web camps around the world in the months ahead. This Friday (September 10th) we’ll be.. more »

We have recently included a very cool feature to automatically create WCF service references (or service proxies) within Visual Studio 2010 from the SO-Aware repository. After running the installer, you will be able to find a "TellagoStudios.VisualStudio.Editors.SOAware.vsix" extension within "C:\Program Files (x86)\Tellago .. more »

The Microsoft CodePlex.com team has donated $25,000 to the Mercurial project, responding to the recent appeal by the project leader , Matt Mackall. Earlier this year we added Mercurial as a choice on CodePlex to provide an option to our users to use a distributed version control system. Since then, there have been over 1,500 new projects using .. more »

For those in Montreal this week’s User Group meeting should be interesting! Evan Hutnick from Telerik will present a technical session on Silverlight: Silverlight Development Best Practices ”In this session, we will explore best practices of development with Silverlight.  This will include a look at the current toolset (VS2010/Blend) as well .. more »

ASXM web services has been the favorite choice for many developers for building soap web services in .NET during a long time because of its simplicity. With ASMX web services, you get a web service up and running in a matter of seconds, as it does not require any configuration. The only thing you need to do is to build the service implementation .. more »

Scaling the Cliffs to Scala  ), one of the new Object-Fuctional languages that have emerged recently.  So, what excites me?  Let's list a few cool features. Scala functions are really and truly first-class objects. Let's not forget that Scala gives us Closures! Mixins really rock!  They bridge the gap between multiply inheriting from interfaces and .. more »

patterns & practices Summit Russia 2010, Moscow - September 2010.. more »

Like most developers, I love finding tools that do my work for me and make me look good. And, like most developers, I am extremely wary of adding too much outside crap to a project which can make maintaining it a nightmare. You may end up not only maintaining your own code but someone else's code, or worse, not being able to update the project .. more »

Couple of weeks ago I got a paper copy of book Pablo Cibraro, Kurt Claeys, Fabio Cozzolino, Johann Grabner - Professional WCF 4: Windows Communication Foundation with .NET 4 . This book has not a lot of pages, just about 400. Really, I don’t remember when I saw so thin book about some technology. But maybe this book has not a lot pages, but a lot of.. more »

Maana, con mi colega Leandro Boffi, vamos a estar presentando la charla Enamorandose de Entity Framework 4 donde repasaremos los nuevos features de Entity Framework 4 en el CodeCamp 2010 de Buenos Aires. A partir de el Lunes va a estar disponible en este Blog todos los recursos que utilizamos para las demos. Los esperamos!! Update: Source y PPT  .. more »

Today’s stupid mistake comes to you via the web.config file in an ASP.NET 4 Web application project. At runtime, when navigating to default.aspx, ASP.NET choked with this error message: Parser Error Message: Sections must only appear once per config file.  See the help topic for exceptions. Source Error: Line 14:     .. more »

httpRuntime element (about half way down the file). To increase the timeout, add the executionTimeout attribute to the httpRuntime element with a value of the number of seconds for the timeout. For example, to increase the timeout to 5 minutes, add an executionTimeout of 300 like this: In the default SharePoint Foundation 2010 web.config file it .. more »

, it became easier to add support for Dallas to Creating a connection to a Dallas dataset in Sesame is easy. You just need a dataset URL and an account key. In order to get an account key and URLs, you need to visit and sign in with a Windows Live ID. You'll then be able to subscribe to datasets, such as AP Online (Associated Press) or business .. more »

You may wonder that why I have chosen topic on GridView control, when there are lot of material available on internet for GridView. But this article focus on closer look on GridView control, my target audience will be novice to GridView control. Also I will try my best to explain different aspects of GridView. GridView is one of the robust Data .. more »

Don't you hate it when things go wrong? Most of the time on endpoint.tv, I show you when everything is working properly. On this episode, however, I'm going to show you some tools and techniques for troubleshooting what happens when you invoke a proxy with the wrong service address.Ron Jacobsblog        http://blogs.msdn.com/rjacobstwitter&nbs.. more »

The CPU meter shows the problem. One core is running at 100 percent, but all the other cores are idle. Your application is CPU-bound, but you are using only a fraction of the computing power of your multicore system. What next? The answer, in a nutshell, is parallel programming. Where you once would have written the kind of sequential code that is .. more »

announced the release of Feature CTP4 for the ADO.Net Entity Framework (EF). CTP4 contains a preview of new features that we are considering adding to the core framework and would like community feedback on. CTP4 builds on top of the existing Entity Framework 4 (EF4) which shipped as part of .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. CTP4 contains .. more »