Sam Gentile's Blog (if (DeveloperTask == Communication && OS == Windows)

Yup, I'm still stuck in Seattle and I still feel like crap. Tomas just went off to the airport and I feel like the last MVP left in Seattle. Just want to get out of here and home but can't do that until tomorrow night. Lots of stuff stored up

Entity Framework/ADO.NET 3/ORM/ASP.NET/MonoRail

• I consider my (and all the Code Better guys) biggest contribution to the whole Summit has been our conversations with the Microsoft Data Team on Linq for Entities. I would like to thank the Microsoft guys for being so open to feedback and understanding us
• In the meantime, Ayende went and did LINQ for NHibernate in his spare Time; does this man ever sleep????
• Actually the second proudest moment came some of us CB bloggers with the special meeting with Scott Guthrie on how to make ASP.Net better support MVC much like Rails and MonoRail. My dissatisfaction with ASP.NET is well known and the reasons are expressed well by Ayende here on the leaky abstractions with WebForms and Jeremy Miller here. I expressed many times on my blog that I would just as soon go to Ruby on Rails if I had to do any Web stuff today. Several of the CB bloggers let me know about the goodness that is MonoRail. It's really awesome to see ScottGu have an MVC framework in the works as Jeffery talks about here
• Inheritance in the Entity Framework is the latest from the Data Team
• They also updated the 101 LINQ Samples that were included in the March CTP have now been updated to include the 101 LINQ to Entities Samples. To check out the newest samples download from here.

Software Architecture/WCF/SOA

• Nice discussion from Harry on answering Dr. Nick's questions on SSB/WCF
• The Feb 2007 release of both the GAT and GAX have been released with Vista support but Harry has noted that you have to re-install all your guidance packages which is not so good
• Christian Weyer has some great slide decks from DevWeek 2007
• Matias has an awesome post, "The holy grail of Enterprise SOA security" about SOA Enterprise Security using WCF [via Johnny]
• Using the WCSF with an existing Web Application Project

CLR/.NET Framework 3.5, Orcas

• Daniel explains GCCollectionMode and GCSettings.LatencyMode in Orcas
• ScottGu explains Extension Methods
• Andrew talks about the Pex (Program EXploration). 

Avalon/WPF

• The RC1 of Expression Blend is here [via Simon]

Currently listening to I've Been Working by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band on album Live Bullet