Sam Gentile's Blog

.NET Services/CSD/WCF/Oslo

• .NET Services March 2009 CTP Is Released - There are many exciting improvements in  cross-platform interoperability, Services Bus and Workflow Service capabilities and the developer experience. 
• Speaking of said release, Clemens has a number of posts on the Service Bus portion
  • .NET Services March 2009 - Service Bus Routers and Queues - Part 1 : Fundamentals
  • .NET Services March 2009 - Service Bus Routers and Queues - Part 2 : Queue Policies
  • .NET Services March 2009 - Service Bus Routers and Queues - Part 3: The REST Queue Policy
• I've registered my discontent that many .NET developers don't know about the benefits of WCF and continue to use inferior choices, especially ASMX. To that end, , Microsoft will release the 'WCF Champ Web Campaign' on www.microsoft.com/net/wcf/champ<http://www.microsoft.com/net/wcf/champ>.This The first "smackdown" video is up on Facebook and pretty cool at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y2aQ-A_AIs
• Christian Weyer expresses it correctly with A Cloud Manifesto? WTF?! Micheleweighs in as well with similar sentiments.
• Bart with The M Programming Language - Part 3 - Primer to NGrammer

ALT.NET/Tools

• MbUnit3 RTM
• Typemock is Going Open Source!

ASP.NET MVC

• ScottGu announces the release of the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 source code under MS-PL
• The MONO folks already have it working on Mono!