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Loading Assemblies in a Re-Hosted Workflow Designer

The basic re-hosted workflow designer solution described in re-hosting the workflow designer article provides a baseline for a bespoke application that can be used for designing workflows, but without some further enhancements it is quite limited. By default it will only allow you to create and edit workflows that use the Framework’s built-in set of activities.
Adding Visual Debugging to a Re-Hosted Workflow Designer

The basic re-hosted workflow designer solution described in this article provides a baseline for a bespoke application that can be used for designing workflows, but without some further enhancements it is quite limited. A relatively straightforward addition to a re-hosted workflow designer is visual debugging.
Re-Hosting the Workflow Designer in Your App

In Windows Workflow 4, basic re-hosting of Microsoft’s Workflow Designer WPF control is a simple task. Microsoft has provided a set of controls that can be inserted directly into your own application. This article will guide you through creating your own workflow editor application by re-hosting the System.Activities.Presentation.WorkflowDesigner WPF control.
Generating In-Code Representations Of An XML Schema

Generating an in-code representation of an XML schema is pretty straight-forward, using native classes in the .NET Framework. This article covers how to read the XML, and generate the appropriate class files to support that.
REGEX Reference List

This article provides details of some of the more complicated Regular Expressions I’ve needed to compose for various projects, etc. It is a living document that I’ll update with any complicated regular expressions I have to develop.
Modifying Bootstrap Styles – The Right Way

ASP.NET MVC web projects include the Bootstrap framework by default. If the styles aren’t to your liking ‘out-of-the-box’ then you can customise the look and feel quite easily by hacking the Bootstrap CSS file directly, but this isn’t necessarily the best way to go.
Using Bootstrap

This article aims to introduce using Bootstrap in scenarios where an IDE (like Visual Studio) hasn’t set up a complete starting point for you, or where you want to control exactly what your page layout will be. This is as much my own aid memoir as it is an article in its own right to…
Customising WordPress

WordPress works acceptably out-of-the-box but you may want to customise it to meet your needs. For example, you may want to use your company branding or alter the layout so your blog is more in-keeping with your commercial website.
Simplifying the WCF Configuration Hell

Anyone who’s done much in the way of programming in Windows Communications Foundation (WCF) will be well aware of the problems that can occur due to even minor configuration inconsistencies between client and service endpoint settings. The fact those settings are normally defined within application configuration files means that a typo, or one or more…
Password Hashing

Password hashing is a valuable security feature that helps to ensure users’ passwords are encrypted at rest when saved in user data stores, such as databases. Hashing works on the principle of reliable/repeatable one-way encrypting of data.