WF 4 talk at the GL.NET User Group

I'll be doing a Windows Workflow Foundation 4 talk at the GL.NET User Group on the 12th August 2009.

The talk will be covering the Beta 1 release of VS2010 and Windows Workflow Foundation, unless Microsoft releases another Beta/Release Candidate by then ;). I'll be looking at the new features of WF 4.0 like the new Workflow Designers and the WPF based Activity functionality.

If you fancy coming along go here to register and I'll see you there!

Typemock Giveaway!

In my current contract they use TypeMock and I must admit that before I'd started here I used the free mocking frameworks like Moq and RhinoMocks instead. Having three coding API styles is really nice so you can choose the syntax that suits you best :)

I just found out typeMock are running this promotion adn I just at the chance to get a TypeMock license.

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Visual Studio 2010

Having an MSDN subscription I’ve been lucky enough to get Visual Studio 2010 a couple of days early. I’ve installed it happily on my Vista installation (main dev box) and it runs faster (IMHO) than VS2008 does, so I’m dead chuffed!

I then tried installing it on my Win 7 installation (dev laptop), but the damn things always bombs out with the following dialog when the progress bar completes

on this screen

I’ve tried disabling Anti Virus (AVG), removing the external HD it was running from and running it locally, I’ve tried running it from the local HD in CloneDrive as opposed to from the external HD, I’ve tried removing CloneDrive and I’ve even copied the contents of the ISO to a local folder and run it that way. But still no joy.

I thought I’d be smart and check the event logs, but nope, they just said it had completed successfully :P Oddly enough Professional works...

Ah well, if anyone else has any ideas as to why this might have happened I’m open to suggestions :)

WF 4.0 Beta

So the Beta of WF 4.0 comes out for subscribers tomorrow, you can find more out here.

The WF series I’ve been writing will continue with the Beta, and parts 1, 2 and 3 will be updated.

Stay tuned for the rewrites and new articles :)