Today I will embark on a journey that will keep me in the same State, but take me to a place that is all but familiair to me...South Florida! Why do I say this? No sweet tea! There is something wrong with being in Florida and not being able to purchase sweet tea. However, I am looking forward to presenting on a couple of things that are dear to my heart. My sessions will focus on hosting workflows in Windows App Fabric and architecting solution with Visual Studio 2010. If you get a chance come check out my sessions and a wealth of other sessions. This is Florida's biggest codecamp I believe and some of the best speakers around present at it, so you are bound to learn something just by showing up and saying, "hi". Find out more at http://www.fladotnet.com/codecamp/

Just finished my session on hosting workflows using WF4 in Windows Server AppFabric! I actually thought that I might not have enough demos for the session time, however my work paid off last week and I made more than I could show. First I showed how to build a custom workflow host with persistence. I demonstrated that I could shut down the host and pick back up where the workflow left off. Then I moved to building a workflow exposed as WCF. I showed how this was using raw ADO.Net but also showed how Entity Framework 4.0 could be used as well. Finally I pushed the workflow service into AppFabric and connected a client to it. On purpose I added more characters than the database field could hold so that the call would fail. I did this because I was able to work with the monitoring senarios with AppFabric when I got the same error by mistake:(. This was a nice turn into how AppFabric worked and how monitoring could be used to detect the errors that the client app could not see.