SDNUG - Mar 2009

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Sydney Deep .NET User Group

Code Red Solutions is presenting at SDNUG this March.

Exposing Windows Workflow to SOA: Real Life Lessons

In this 90 minute presentation, Paul Sorauer from Code Red Solutions, will demonstrate the practical steps required to expose Windows Workflow to SOA, and discuss the lessons learn from real-world projects.

Service-Orientated-Architecture is becoming increasing more important when designing ‘Enterprise Level' software solutions, and the recent releases of Visual Studio 2008 and .Net 3.5 now provide us with the ability to create Windows Workflows exposed to SOA via WCF endpoints. This ability to offer workflow as a service removes it from a tightly-coupled architecture, with the added benefit of making it much easier to consume from stateless environments such as ASP.NET.

Topics that will be covered in the presentation include:

What Workflow is and when to use it;
An overview of Sequential vs. State Machine Workflows;
The basic steps required to expose a State Machine Workflow as a WCF Service;
Various ‘Gotchas' and lessons learnt the hard way;
Bugs with Visual Studio's design time support for Workflow Services and their workarounds;
Custom Activities;
The Workflow Persistence Service;
Workflow support for database transactions.

Paul Sorauer is the director of Code Red Solutions, a one-and-a-half year old software development consultancy. Paul has been working professionally in the industry since 2000 on projects as diverse as Smart Card applications, 3D modelling in a web-browser, ISV products for the Retail Sector, and Microsoft Office and Sharepoint integration. His recent development work has been at the ‘Enterprise Level', consulting to Network Seven as a Windows Workflow Specialist.

SBTUG - Nov 2008

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:00:00 GMT

Sydney Business and Technology User Group

Paul plans to attend.

Quick details:

When: Wed 26 November 2008

Time: 6pm (until approx 8:30pm)
Where: Microsoft, North Ryde
Contact: Craig Bailey : 0413 489 388
Cost: Free (Pizza +Drinkies + Nibbliesall provided)
More details: http://www.sbtug.com/

The good news is that we'll be having a special SBTUG meeting with EOY drinkies, nibblies and much frivolity (as well as our usual talks and pizza).

And as an added bonus we'll be meeting at half time with the BizTalk User Group to chat and compare pizza toppings.

About our sessions:

How to Network

How appropriate–our first presentation this month is on Networking. Steve Herzberg will be giving us an overview of networking at events, with pointers, tips and advice. Steve, you may recall, presented an awesome session back in August last year on How to Win New Business. He's a top sales and marketing trainer (he does all the speaker coaching for the TechEd presenters for example) and is an all round top dude. He's even been known to get into a bit of stand up comedy of late.

Thus, after his session, you can practice your new found networking skills on the BizTalk User Group– they won't know what hit ‘em :-)

Content Management Systems

After the pizza and frivolity I'll be taking you through our second session for the night, covering Web Content Management Systems (CMS). I'll be taking a high level look at the different requirements of Content Management Systems and then mentioning a few of the hundreds (if not thousands) of Web CMS thatare out there. I'll briefly cover Elcom's own Web CMS as part of the discussion, but it won't be salesy (you know me well enoughby now) as I'll essentially be vendor neutral.

So if you've wondered where WordPress, DotNetNuke, Vignette, GoodBarry, Sitecore, Kentico, SharePoint, Elcom and a bunch of others sit in relation to each other, this will be of interest to you. I won't be going into huge detail about thefeatures of each, rather I'll be highlighting the main areas that each service.

I'll open it up to plenty of questions and will be encouraging your feedback since I'm sure you've all had experience with a CMS of sorts at some stage.

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