January 2010

Deep dive on Windows Workflow 4.0 activities

January 21, 2010 Jan 21, 2010 01/21/10

Buck Hodges

Patrick Carnahan is a developer on TFS Build, and he’s written a series of detailed posts on how to write custom activities in Windows Workflow 4.0 (WF), which is now used to orchestrate the build process for TFS Build in 2010. It’s a deep dive on WF activities. Jim Lamb’s post on how to integrate custom workflow ...

Does your display not turn off automatically? You may need an update for your wireless mouse.

January 12, 2010 Jan 12, 2010 01/12/10

Buck Hodges

On my shiny new Windows Server 2008 R2 installation, my monitors won’t go into low power mode even though they should turn off after 10 minutes of inactivity based on my display settings in Windows. Chris Rathjen suggested to me that it could be the wireless mouse (Microsoft Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 in my case – what...

Free of XP and Vista! All Win7, all the time.

January 7, 2010 Jan 7, 2010 01/7/10

Buck Hodges

I took a couple of weeks off over the holidays (a ton of people did – there weren’t many folks around last week), and I finally took the time to migrate our two desktops at home from XP to Win7. I’ve been running Win7 for many months on my work laptop, my personal laptop, and most recently a Dell Mini 9 (okay, I ...

Buck Hodges

January 2010 - Buck Hodges