As I promised, here is the full source and presentation for this weekends presentation at the Twin Cities Code Camp. The talk was entitled: Smooth Operator: Using the Workflow Rules Engine within WCF Ever changing business logic requires rule systems that are flexible to business demands. The majority of the time the business requires that these rules systems must be consumable by other applications. Come see how we can utilize the Rules Engine within Windows Workflow Foundation to evaluate our rules and simplify our rules configuration. We will then encompass this functionality within a...
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I just got off a really long week at a client setting up Team Foundation Server. Tonight I was putting some final touches on my WCF portion of my Twin Cities Code Camp talk that is going to be tomorrow. Having a 4 week old baby and having travlled all day yesterday with no sleep due to the baby has left me in an “altered state”. AKA: I’m not running on all cylinders right now. Anyway … to the good stuff…   I kept getting the following error:   “The client was unable to retrieve service metadata. Make sure the service is running and exposing...
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Just a reminder for all of you in the Twin Cities Area (Minneapolis/St. Paul) … Twin Cities Code Camp will be this weekend! I will be speaking – the presentation is entitled: Smooth Operator: Using the Workflow Rules Engine Within WCF See you...
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Normally unit testing is used to verify that state is being altered as expected and interactions are occurring as expected (state based testing or interaction based testing). We also write integration/functional tests to ensure that layers and components are working together correctly in the overall picture. While in the field I’ve noticed that most tests neglect the attributes of the WCF ServiceContract. Shouldn’t these be tested as well? Yes, they definitely should! You may say …. "OperationContractAttribute  is just an attribute that indicates that this method is...
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