MSDN Magazine: Foundations

All MSDN Magazine Columns

• Foundations: Workflow Communications
  Matt Milner - September 2007
  Matt Milner introduces the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) communication architecture and covers sending data out of a workflow and submitting data to running workflow instances.

• Foundations: Declarative WCF Security
  Juval Lowy - August 2007
  Juval Lowy designs easily configured security settings for applications built on Windows Communication Foundation.

• Foundations: Extending the WPF Animation Classes
  Charles Petzold - July 2007
  Learn what the WPF Animation Classes can do, what they can't, and how to extend them.

• Foundations: ActivityExecutionContext in Workflows
  Matt Milner - June 2007
  This month Matt Milner explains a critical component in the execution, persistence, and compensation of workflows.

• Foundations: WCF Transaction Propagation
  Juval Lowy - May 2007

• Foundations: 3D Mesh Geometries
  Charles Petzold - April 2007
  This month Charles Petzold focuses on a very important part of the Viewport3D assemblage—the MeshGeometry3D class that defines the geometry of a 3D object in Windows Communication Foundation.

• Foundations: Tracking Services in Windows Workflow Foundation
  Matt Milner - March 2007

• Foundations: Build a Queued WCF Response Service
  Juval Lowy - February 2007
  With queued calls in Windows Communication Foundation you can perform work in a disconnected manner by sending messages through Microsoft Message Queuing. Juval Lowy explains.

• Foundations: Using Templates to Customize WPF Controls
  Charles Petzold - January 2007
  This month we welcome Charles Petzold to MSDN Magazine with his first column on building apps for Windows Vista and the .Microsoft NET Framework 3.0.

• Foundations: Templates for Uncommon Controls
  Charles Petzold - January 2008
  Charles Petzold demonstrates how Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) templates let you turn common controls into uncommon visual objects.

• Foundations: Workflow Services
  Matt Milner - Launch 2008
  With the NET Framework 3.5, Windows Workflow Foundation can now truly be integrated with Windows Communication Foundation. This column describes how the integration works and how to make use of it effectively.

• Foundations: What's New for WCF in Visual Studio 2008
  Juval Lowy - February 2008
  Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 provide new tools and support that extends Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Visual Studio 2008 also automates a number of manual WCF tasks for the developer as well.

• Foundations: Vector Graphics and the WPF Shape Class
  Charles Petzold - March 2008
  The System.Windows.Shapes namespace is Charles Petzold's namespace of choice for rendering two-dimensional vector graphics in WPF. Here he explains why.

• Foundations: Synchronization Contexts in WCF
  Juval Lowy - November 2007
  After a description of what synchronization contexts are and how WCF uses them, the author demonstrates various options for extending WCF to use custom synchronization contexts, both programmatically and declaratively.

• Foundations: 3D text in WPF
  Charles Petzold - October 2007
  This month Charles Petzold explores techniques for generating 3D text in Windows Presentation Foundation.