Omar AL Zabir (MVP)

Executing one workflow from another synchronously

The InvokeWorkflow activity which comes with Workflow Foundation (.NET 3.0) executes a workflow asynchronously. So, if you are calling a workflow from ASP.NET which in turn calls another workflow, the second workflow is going to be terminated prematurely

Database connection string wrong in MSDN Subscription website

This is one of those moments in history which you must be really lucky to witness. Can you believe MSDN actually had a connection string problem in their website which were exposed wide open to the public? Also they deployed the site in debug mode in

Automate website deployment using Powershell

I published an article which automates website deployment. http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/DeploySite.asp The Powershell script does the following for you: · Maintains different configuration information for different deployments. For example, different

Reduce web site build time

When you have a pretty large web site in Visual Studio 2005, the site build time grows dramatically and it becomes very difficult to change code and then hit F5 (or Ctrl+Shift+B) in order to see if the project builds properly or not. In Pageflakes, we

ASP.net Ajax under the hood secrets

I have published a new article in codeproject: ASP.net Ajax under the hood secrets You will find the following tricks on it: Batch call advantages and disadvantages Implement auto retry in all web method call by modifying Ajax core framework Implement