I am not at the Microsoft Build Conference and missing all the exciting developments . It’s going to take me a while to digest all the developments although it looks like I was mostly right about Windows 8 and the HTML5/CSS3/Javascript programming model even though .NET is not dead (yet). I have...
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Wow! Last post was June 4th on Windows 8th. I talked then about the Windows 8 UI and the HTML5/Javascript/CSS3 interface and, that indeed seems like a lot of people are achieving platform independence (more on that soon). So, I am happily still employed (over a year now) at the US Department of Homeland...
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Software Development Tools TestDriven.Net 3.0 Alpha - Support for Visual Studio 2010 - Yes! My #1 tool of choice has been upgraded with support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2! Typemock Isolator 5.4.3 released - This version fixes some issues raised after releasing Intellitest last week , as well as releasing...
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The focus continues to be VS 2010/.NET Framework 4 Beta 2 VS 2010/.NET Framework 4 Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit - October Preview - The new release has a wealth of resources including demos, slide decks and labs No Javascript IntelliSense in VS 2010? Reset your Settings? - Rick...
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Agile The vital discussion that I pointed to yesterday initiated by Ted Neward continued today with a well-written follow-up from Phil Haack , and then followed up by Ted . Interesting discussion and comments. Software Development Tools Power Commands for Reflector 1.3 and Introducing Query Editor –...
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ASP.NET MVC Single Project Areas with ASP.NET MVC Preview 1 WCF/Oslo Client Certificate Credential Verification Polling Duplex Sample with Silverlight 3 What's So Compelling about "Quadrant" Anyway? Silverlight Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part...
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ASP.NET MVC The big news today is the detailed announcement by ScottGu about the ASP.NET MVC V2 Preview 1 release. Phil Haack also has an announcement post. There is also Hanselminutes on 9 on the preview release.The pose post includes some additional links. CSD Stuff (MSE, WCF, REST, Oslo, M, BizTalk...
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Playing around quite a bit with jQuery while re-learning JavaScript. It's easy to see why people fall in love with it. WCF/WF Breaking All The Rules with WCF - Scott Hanselman reminds us that true Interop is hard even using WCF Metadata Client Behaviors Mocking the Console ASP.NET/ASP.NET MVC/jQuery...
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Phil Haack has the great news that the installer is now available on CodePlex...
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CSD/Oslo/M/WCF First, in the CSD family of technologies, Aaron has another screencast for Ajax-enabling your WCF services Arnon shows Implementing a WCF service firewall, Part 1 and Part 2 of N Jon Flanders shows how to program against M (M Schema) ASP.NET MVC Phil Haacked on Troubleshooting Windows...
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First new and notable with the new Graffiti blog. WCF/Cloud Services Aaron has his latest in his series of WCF screencasts , this time showing how to host WCF services within traditional Windows services Aaron also has a geekSpeak webcast on Cloud Services today Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008 According...
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Haven't wrote much because I am saving up for a big post on Castle Active Record, which I am just really, really enjoying right now in my work. I know we made a good choice. More on that soon. NHibernate/Castle Chad Meyers has posted source/binaries for his recent NHibernate Intro screencasts that are...
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And that's it, summer is over. ASP.NET MVC ScottGu returns with ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 and Form Posting Scenarios Jeff Palermo has published another excerpt from his upcoming ASP.NET MVC in Action book, this time the Basics of MVC Routes LINQ K. Scott Allen on Stupid LINQ Tricks ALT Languages F# Releases...
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ASP.NET MVC Lots of activity on the http://www.ASP.net/mvc website. First, I heard from Scott Hanselman on Twitter, about the 5 free chapters to 5 new MVC books Then, via Steven , the addition of 15 new ASP.NET MVC videos and tutorials. Of special interest, is his pairing with Charlie Poole to use TDD...
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Enterprise Architecture Bob has, once again, collected a superb collection of Enterprise Architecture links in his latest Carnival ASP.NET In his latest tip , Steve demonstrates how to unit test the LINQ to SQL DataContext by using a Fake DataObject. Isn't that a mock? WPF Christopher has started a Building...
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C#/.NET Programming/WPF Jimmy has a nice post on the differences between Expressions and Lambdas Scott continues to learn WPF Learning WPF with BabySmash - Customer Feedback and a WPF Font ComboBox Learning WPF with BabySmash and Back to Basics - Making Assumptions and When to Turn to Books Learning...
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Just got back from a 10 day vacation with my family from lovely LA. We went to Universal and then spent 2 and 1/2 days at Disneyland, which Heather and Jonathan loved. I also got to spent some quality time with my very good friend Jon Flanders . ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 of ASP.NET MVC is out on CodePlex...
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ALT.NET/Mocks Jim Shore The Art of Agile Development: Coding Standards Unit Tests for WCF (and Moq) Part II ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, .NET, Visual Studio, Silverlight, WPF ScottGu delivers again - May 20th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, .NET, Visual Studio, Silverlight, WPF Visual Studio Links #30 More later...
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Trying to get in a habit of doing these when I get up and before getting into work. Design Patterns/DI/IOC Command-Query Separation and Immutable Builders Castle demo app: ActiveRecord basics and unit testing Prism Vs. Framework XXXX General Christian notes that we will have 12-Core Processors in 2010...
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Trying to get in a habit of doing these when I get up and before getting into work. Design Patterns/DI/IOC Command-Query Separation and Immutable Builders Castle demo app: ActiveRecord basics and unit testing Prism Vs. Framework XXXX General Christian notes that we will have 12-Core Processors in 2010...
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WCF/DI/BizTalk Nice pair of posts: Dependency Injection in WCF Services and Dependency Injection in WCF Services Part 2 Article Series on BizTalk and WCF: Part VIII, BizTalk Adapter Pack Service Model Patterns ASP.NET/OR/M/ASP.NET MVC EntitySpaces and Silverlight Demo (Part 1) MVC Storefront,...
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WCF/DI/BizTalk Nice pair of posts: Dependency Injection in WCF Services and Dependency Injection in WCF Services Part 2 Article Series on BizTalk and WCF: Part VIII, BizTalk Adapter Pack Service Model Patterns ASP.NET/OR/M/ASP.NET MVC EntitySpaces and Silverlight Demo (Part 1) MVC Storefront, Part 8...
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CLR/DLR/Popfly IronPython 2.0 Beta 2 Popfly Game Creator Windows PowerShell V2 CTP2 SOA/WCF Weekly SOA crumbs #15: Have you seen the latest “mesh”up from Microsoft? Service Oriented Architecture, Service Factories and Modeling Federation Over TCP With WCF 6 New patterns & practices WCF...
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CLR/DLR/Popfly IronPython 2.0 Beta 2 Popfly Game Creator Windows PowerShell V2 CTP2 SOA/WCF Weekly SOA crumbs #15: Have you seen the latest “mesh”up from Microsoft? Service Oriented Architecture, Service Factories and Modeling Federation Over TCP With WCF 6 New patterns & practices WCF...
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ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight April 11th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight - The latest in ScottGu's series Latest in James series: Visual Studio Links #17 Putting ASP.NET Dynamic Data into Context WF Co-worker Mark Bosley on Workflow...
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ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight April 11th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight - The latest in ScottGu's series Latest in James series: Visual Studio Links #17 Putting ASP.NET Dynamic Data into Context WF Co-worker Mark Bosley on Workflow...
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So what have I been doing? Lots of things! I gave Advanced WCF talks in Lehigh Valley and Northern Delaware . The message of EDA is starting to resonate with folks who want their communications infrastructure to be taken care of and want to focus on Event Driven communications (i.e. Purchase Order event...
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Mocks/Software Development Tools/ASP.NET MVC Phil Compares Moq to Rhino Mocks Simplified Asp.net MVC Controller Testing with Moq C#/.NET Sample Code for Games, P2P Apps, Vista Tools, Web Services for Flickr, MySpace, Digg and YouTube DLR/IronRuby/IronPython John Lam and Martin Maly: Deep DLR WF ReceiveActivity...
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Mocks/Software Development Tools/ASP.NET MVC Phil Compares Moq to Rhino Mocks Simplified Asp.net MVC Controller Testing with Moq C#/.NET Sample Code for Games, P2P Apps, Vista Tools, Web Services for Flickr, MySpace, Digg and YouTube DLR/IronRuby/IronPython John Lam and Martin Maly: Deep DLR WF ReceiveActivity...
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SOA/Service Bus/Design Patterns/SaaS Ayende - NServiceBus Review Ayende - NServiceBus Distributor Review SQL Server Data Services - SSDS - New version of LitwareHR LitwareHR on SSDS - Part II - the data access layer TDD/Software Design/Design Patterns MVC or MVA? Or, What Do Controllers *Do* Anyway?...
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SOA/Service Bus/Design Patterns/SaaS Ayende - NServiceBus Review Ayende - NServiceBus Distributor Review SQL Server Data Services - SSDS - New version of LitwareHR LitwareHR on SSDS - Part II - the data access layer TDD/Software Design/Design Patterns MVC or MVA? Or, What Do Controllers *Do* Anyway?...
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Onto the 2nd cup of coffee. Looking at a whole weekend of work.... ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC and .NET My good friend Joe Stagner has a theory on how ScottGu gets so much work done :) as well as resources on Getting up to speed with ASP.NET and the 3.5 Extensions Speaking of the Man himself,...
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Onto the 2nd cup of coffee. Looking at a whole weekend of work.... ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC and .NET My good friend Joe Stagner has a theory on how ScottGu gets so much work done :) as well as resources on Getting up to speed with ASP.NET and the 3.5 Extensions Speaking of the Man himself,...
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I am so far behind at this point that I don't know how much of this is "new." MIX08/ASP.NET/ASP.NET MVCAJAX/Silverlight Mix 08 Sessions Published A bunch of posts from ScottGu ASP.NET MVC Framework Road-Map Update Feb 17th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET .NET 3.5 Client...
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I am so far behind at this point that I don't know how much of this is "new." MIX08/ASP.NET/ASP.NET MVCAJAX/Silverlight Mix 08 Sessions Published A bunch of posts from ScottGu ASP.NET MVC Framework Road-Map Update Feb 17th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET .NET 3.5 Client Product...
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3 states in travel last week, 3 more this week. I'm now Silver on US Despair and headed up on Southwest... ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio 2008 ScottGu continues his link blog posts with Jan 24th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET, IIS Source Code Outliner 1.0 PowerToy for Visual...
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3 states in travel last week, 3 more this week. I'm now Silver on US Despair and headed up on Southwest... ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio 2008 ScottGu continues his link blog posts with Jan 24th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET, IIS Source Code Outliner 1.0 PowerToy for Visual...
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ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, IIS7 Another in ScottGu's series: Jan 4th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, IIS7 ScottGu on Using VS 2008 to Create New ASP.NET 2.0 with ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Projects ADO.NET, Astoria Mike Taulty has a series ADO.NET Data Services...
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ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, IIS7 Another in ScottGu's series: Jan 4th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, IIS7 ScottGu on Using VS 2008 to Create New ASP.NET 2.0 with ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Projects ADO.NET, Astoria Mike Taulty has a series ADO.NET Data Services...
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BizTalk Services This is one way to find out that the BizTalk Services hosted at http://biztalk.net have been updated :) WCF/Web Service Software Factory/Oslo/Neudesic I really love the new Web Services Software Factory and the Contract Modeling capabilities. They just recently released the WCF Security...
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Coffee in hand, the Clash is playing, here we go BizTalk/WCF/BizTalk WCF Adapters Aaron has This short demo which illustrates how to take advantage of the message template feature made available by WCF send ports in BizTalk Server 2006 R2. Design Patterns/PAG/Software Architecture PAG continues to do...
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Lots to catch up on. ASP.NET 3.5/AJAX/MVC It's out! ScottGu details the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP , This release brings additional runtime functionality to ASP.NET and .NET 3.5. You can download it here (if you are using the MVC features also click here to download the MVC Toolkit extras)...
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Lots to catch up on. ASP.NET 3.5/AJAX/MVC It's out! ScottGu details the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP , This release brings additional runtime functionality to ASP.NET and .NET 3.5. You can download it here (if you are using the MVC features also click here to download the MVC Toolkit extras). ScottGu also...
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In addition to adding support for .NET, Microsoft is taking the next version of Silverlight farther by adding a comprehensive control model, powerful skinning/theming, data binding, and over 20 controls in the box. To better capture the scope of the feature set for the next version of Silverlight Microsoft...
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In addition to adding support for .NET, Microsoft is taking the next version of Silverlight farther by adding a comprehensive control model, powerful skinning/theming, data binding, and over 20 controls in the box. To better capture the scope of the feature set for the next version of Silverlight Microsoft...
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ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2008, .NET 3.5, IIS7, Silverlight Nov 17th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2008, .NET 3.5, IIS7, Silverlight - latest in a nice link series from ScottGu SharePoint Arpan has his Top 5 SharePoint Resources to Bookmark SOA/Software Architecture/Enterprise...
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ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2008, .NET 3.5, IIS7, Silverlight Nov 17th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2008, .NET 3.5, IIS7, Silverlight - latest in a nice link series from ScottGu SharePoint Arpan has his Top 5 SharePoint Resources to Bookmark SOA/Software Architecture/Enterprise...
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Taking a brief break on what has been a nonstop busy work day since the minute I woke up (and that's how I like it!) TDD/Software Development/Tools Free MbUnit and NUnit Test Templates for ReSharper DDD/Software Architecture/Software Design As you regular readers of this blog know, I am a huge fan and...
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Taking a brief break on what has been a nonstop busy work day since the minute I woke up (and that's how I like it!) TDD/Software Development/Tools Free MbUnit and NUnit Test Templates for ReSharper DDD/Software Architecture/Software Design As you regular readers of this blog know, I am a...
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