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These entries all deal with the architecture of continuations

Workflow and Animations - Sequencing Animations

posted Tuesday, July 17, 2007 7:12 AM by MarkMMullin :: 1 Comments
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In the earlier posts in this series I discussed the need for workflow based solutions to complex animation requirements, and showed how continuation functions could be used to achieve this goal.  In this post I am going to concentrate on the sequencing Read More

Workflow and Animation – Code

posted Tuesday, July 17, 2007 7:11 AM by MarkMMullin :: 1 Comments
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Go here to get previous and subsequent posts in this series. The two classes with primary responsibility for rendering and managing the visual game,GameBoard and GameBoardPresenter,provide a main entry function (SetupBoard() in GameBoard) and Read More

Workflow and Animations - Introduction

posted Tuesday, July 17, 2007 7:10 AM by MarkMMullin :: 1 Comments
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Click Picture to see Animation Go here for more posts in this series WPF animations of visual elements require special attention when used in a multithreaded environment or for that matter even in a single threaded environment whenever animations Read More

Animation Article Overview

posted Monday, July 16, 2007 8:03 PM by MarkMMullin :: 5 Comments
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  These articles illustrate a mechanism you can use to perform sophisticated animations using WPF without needing to make your code overly complex while still adapting to the two key constraints WPF imposes on animation development.  The first Read More

Workflow, Part I

posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 5:56 AM by MarkMMullin :: 0 Comments
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In the next series of posts I’m going to dig into a specific workflow example, showing how continuations can be used to support a process that moves forward by fits and starts, and how this can be considerably easier than you expect.  I’d Read More

The relationship between continuations and workflow

posted Sunday, April 22, 2007 8:15 PM by MarkMMullin :: 0 Comments
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When it comes to resurrecting a continuation and returning to a prior flow of control, the most critical issue is the ability to accurately identify the continuation to be resumed based on an external event.  Any application beyond a simple example Read More

The Continuations Class

posted Thursday, April 19, 2007 9:32 PM by MarkMMullin :: 0 Comments
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In this posting I am going to discuss the central class used to support continuations, the Continuation class.  The implementation I will discuss in this posting is minimalist in nature, providing the bare essentials to support continuations.  Read More

Introduction to Continuations

posted Monday, April 09, 2007 9:01 PM by MarkMMullin :: 0 Comments
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In this posting I am going to lay some of the groundwork for explaining what continuations are, why they are a ‘good thing’ and how .Net makes them easy.  Continuations are not new, they’ve been around for quite a while.  What is new is the Read More

An evolution in SOA architectures - Introduction

posted Saturday, April 07, 2007 9:34 PM by MarkMMullin :: 1 Comments
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Introduction to a pattern for next generation SOA architectures on the .Net platform Read More