Javier Caceres @ SpeechFlow

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October 25

Showin' WWF in VS 2008 @ Ineta Colombia Event

Hello Folks!

I have been working in community events & I have to say that there is a really huge interest in new Microsoft technologies, including Silverligth, Expression and of course WWF. My mission was showin' all new features included in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008; some of the new ones people enjoyed a lot was the SendActivity and Receive Activity; I supposed that this behavior it's because these new activities had masked many details about DataContracts and other Windows Communication Foundation details.

This event was called "Develop Yourself With Microsoft, El Sena & Ineta" (El Sena it's a goverment institute in charge of public education in Colombia) and took place in Neiva (a Colombian City) on September 24th. Here some of the pictures:

This it's me talkin' about the SendActivity & ReceiveActivity

Here the participating people (thanls a lot!)

And here there are some community leader's with Sergio Victorio (the guy in the middle),

who is the person in Microsoft who support commnunity inniciatives.

Thanks a lot everybody and will share the slides & my technical experience of this event in a "comming soon" post.

bYE

Javier Andrés Cáceres Alvis

MCP, MCAD, MCSD

Microsoft Influencer Group

Microsoft Speaker Andean Region

April 28

WWF & SOA event @ Bogotá [Colombia]

Hello there

I have been focused in making WinFX , WWF & MOCS events more avalailable for the dev pro/academic community; with this clear purpose in mind, We are giving seminars from Ineta (coz ´m a Ineta volunteer) & with the WillyDev.nets help. I wanna share with you some pictures about last event on 17th APRIL; We also video recorded the event, so if you're interested in, please let me know.

People who came this event were really interested in knowing about the new FW 3.0 features (specially WWF) & in understanding what the hell SOA is?; these topics sound fine for people (I mean, it's cool to say: "m making a SOA based project, don't you?"), but are harder to applying that it looks like. The event language it´s spanish and the topics covered are here: http://www.willydev.net/dugnews/Afiche.htm

Cheers

April 08

Advantages on using HandleExternalEventActivity

Hello there

I'm happy coz I have got a cool concept thanks to Kavita Kamani (Program Manager, Connected Framework); everything started when I did the Travel Booking Applicatin example (available from WinFX community site) I found an extensible inteface using; then I got this question: what's the advantange of doing it by this way and not by referencing directly the appropiate project ?

I supossed the first advantage it was having a less tightly coupled code but what I really liked knowing it was that this is like a service oriented pattern, I mean, what one does it's using these activities for generic communications and then implementing deatils for each service which ones will consume them.

Here you can find more on HandleExternalEventActivity & CallExternalMethodActivity:

Activities:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms734592.aspx

Cheers

Javier Caceres

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Confirm Input Application

Hello guys

I have been doing the exercises cointained in the Speech SDK; I make a workflow confirmation application but when I run it everything is okay, execpt cos I thougth I could spoke the machine for speech reconigtion but for my surprise, I had to write the numbers (in this way: one, two and not 1,2) I was not able to use the keypad (cos I got the screenshot error atached)

I post in the relationed forum:

http://forums.microsoft.com/Ocs2007publicbeta/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1447191&SiteID=57&mode=1

When I got answers I´ll share you my conlusions

Bye

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Travel Application Sample

Hello everybody

This entry is about my experience doing the TravelApplication lab available from http://wf.netfx3.com/files/folders/sample_applications/entry308.aspx; the purpose of this lab is showing the use of declarative rules, the conditioned activity group and the using of HandleExternalEventActivity & the CallExternalMethodActivity; this is a big sample & Í was only running it and checking out the concepts exposed; the huge interfaces using had make me many doods I post in the relationed forum (http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1447133&SiteID=1&mode=1); I think this continuoisly interface using it's coz the fexibility to handle event's and methods without "hard bounding" them .

I ´ll wait for the response and I ´ll share my conclusions.

Bye

Hosting WorkFlows

Hello gays

I wanna write a tutorial & material for other people who is starting the speechflow dev way, so I have been playing around with WWF's samples & code from different sources for learning myself doing this kind of material; okay this entry It's about the experience of doing the Hands-On Lab (Lab Manual) called "Lab 03 – Hosting the Windows Workflow Foundation Runtime" from http://wf.netfx3.com/files/folders/documentation/entry5618.aspx.

I could see 3 approaches on this lab:

-Introduction to Hosting WorkFlows

-Handling WWF runtime environment events

-WorkFlow configuration & tracing

I could did 2 of the 3 lab exercises; on the last one I got an error on this line:

using (WorkflowRuntime workflowRuntime = new WorkflowRuntime("WorkflowConsoleApplication1"))

According with the lab, this is where the App tells the WWF runtime where logging & tracing; I make everything according the lab but that´s work; I could not understand well ok this section and what's the SQL Server role.

So I post it:

http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?postid=1447061&isthread=true&siteid=1&authhash=11de027d4333c5a0a5737ea1124478a3f1738bbe&ticks=633116158499251178

When I got this solved, I´ll have it resolved enterily and I'll share you.

Thanks!

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Welcome post (& about Ineta's spirit)

Hello everybody

This is Javier Cáceres, I have to say this is my first post in my new blg; I used to work with other media but this is my first blog so I feel some strange.

Well I´ll start by talking about Ineta; this is an International Organization (which one I'm part of http://inetalatam.org/Voluntarios.aspx) focused in helping people learningf Microsoft .Net; as the primary target it sounds like simple but it´s all about it; I mean, It´s about friends, family, sharing and all it can pass when you join people in some activity.

The blog's purpose it's about sharing development experience and why not making friends around the world with his excuse =)

Okay, here I will primary talk about:

-WinFX (WWF)

-Office Live Communications (Speech developmet & Technologies)

-Biztalk

And sometimes about:

-ASP.Net

-Development Community

-and other things..

Finally I'll welcome you to read this & joining Ineta

Cheers