Identity Management/OpenID/Security/P2P/WCF Scott Hanselman has a great post on OpenId P2P and WCF: Some Resources - part of a great series. We use Peer Channel in Neuron by default. It's fast! Pablo: GetReady for OpenID Using IdentityModel: Converting ADFS Security Properties to Claims Software Development...
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Identity Management/OpenID/Security/P2P/WCF Scott Hanselman has a great post on OpenId P2P and WCF: Some Resources - part of a great series. We use Peer Channel in Neuron by default. It's fast! Pablo: GetReady for OpenID Using IdentityModel: Converting ADFS Security Properties to Claims Software...
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Glenn asked me to keep this quiet until today. As Glenn just announced, the patterns & practices team will develop WPF Composite Client guidance. This follows after the Acropolis team just announced that the core Acropolis concepts will be rolled into future .NET Framework releases. They have learned...
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Glenn asked me to keep this quiet until today. As Glenn just announced, the patterns & practices team will develop WPF Composite Client guidance. This follows after the Acropolis team just announced that the core Acropolis concepts will be rolled into future .NET Framework releases. They have learned...
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SOA/WCF/ESB My good friend Jesus Rodriguez picks up on our WCF Tips, notes that they are really SOA tips and adds some very valuable tips to the list! Null transport for WCF CAB/Composite UI/ASP.NET Neudesic's own Steve Saxon had five great talks at Desert Code Camp: Getting scalability from ASP.NET...
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SOA/WCF/ESB My good friend Jesus Rodriguez picks up on our WCF Tips, notes that they are really SOA tips and adds some very valuable tips to the list! Null transport for WCF CAB/Composite UI/ASP.NET Neudesic's own Steve Saxon had five great talks at Desert Code Camp: Getting scalability from ASP...
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So I said I didn't want to write that last post and I probably shouldn't have judging by some of your reactions :) I'm in the middle of being at the lake with my family on this Memorial Day Weekend but I did want to say something better than what I said in the last post. I guess that wouldn't be too...
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So I said I didn't want to write that last post and I probably shouldn't have judging by some of your reactions :) I'm in the middle of being at the lake with my family on this Memorial Day Weekend but I did want to say something better than what I said in the last post. I guess that wouldn't...
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I didn't want to have to write this post . I've been disapointed for well over a week about this and I've phoned Jeremy Miller twice to discuss my displeasure. A ways back, Ayende decides to bash the entire P&P team at Microsoft and specifically CAB. Then Jeremy comes in as well although he at least...
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I didn't want to have to write this post . I've been disapointed for well over a week about this and I've phoned Jeremy Miller twice to discuss my displeasure. A ways back, Ayende decides to bash the entire P&P team at Microsoft and specifically CAB. Then Jeremy comes in as well although...
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I wanted to wait until I did some more CAB 101 posts before I got to this, but one of the exciting things we have been working with the last 3 days is the GAT and it's use in SCBAT . As you saw from my posts, CAB is two things: very hard to understand at first and two, there are many ways to do things...
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I wanted to wait until I did some more CAB 101 posts before I got to this, but one of the exciting things we have been working with the last 3 days is the GAT and it's use in SCBAT . As you saw from my posts, CAB is two things: very hard to understand at first and two, there are many ways to do things...
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So I was going to show how to tame this CAB beast by sharing what I learned on that “CAB Spike” about a month and 1/2 ago. Again, from Part 1 of this series , the Spike is when you have no clue what you are doing, have to leave the schedule of User Stories to go investigate some technical subject, understand...
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So I was going to show how to tame this CAB beast by sharing what I learned on that “CAB Spike” about a month and 1/2 ago. Again, from Part 1 of this series , the Spike is when you have no clue what you are doing, have to leave the schedule of User Stories to go investigate some technical...
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This is the first part, I hope, of a multi-part series on how I come to conquer my fears, learn to love the Composite UI Application Block (CAB) and bring into an Agile project while minimising the associated risks. So what is CAB? So it turns out that many of today’s Smart LOB Clients, ours included...
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This is the first part, I hope, of a multi-part series on how I come to conquer my fears, learn to love the Composite UI Application Block (CAB) and bring into an Agile project while minimising the associated risks. So what is CAB? So it turns out that many of today’s Smart LOB Clients, ours included...
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Ah Saturday morning where we can sleep in, ah no wait...I have kids to wake me up at the crack of dawn... Software Architecture The PAG folks continue to deliver their goodness with their first weekly drop of the new version of the Smart Client Software Factory and they looked like they brought over...
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Ah Saturday morning where we can sleep in, ah no wait...I have kids to wake me up at the crack of dawn... Software Architecture The PAG folks continue to deliver their goodness with their first weekly drop of the new version of the Smart Client Software Factory and they looked like they brought over...
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Architecture/SOA Blaine Wastell has posted that PAG planning an update of the Smart Client Software Factory to be released in late April of this year. They are encouraging feedback at http://www.codeplex.com/smartclient and enter critical items into the issue tracker ( http://www.codeplex.com/smartclient...
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Architecture/SOA Blaine Wastell has posted that PAG planning an update of the Smart Client Software Factory to be released in late April of this year. They are encouraging feedback at http://www.codeplex.com/smartclient and enter critical items into the issue tracker ( http://www.codeplex.com/smartclient...
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Data/ADO.NET Orcas Two from the ADO.NET team: Entity Client and Nulls - LINQ to DataSets Part 3 Software Architecture/SOA/CAB Udi answers, Can or should SOA be implemented without Web Services? David Chappell on The Three Faces of SOA Eric Newcomer: WS-* vs. REST is not the question Another architect...
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Data/ADO.NET Orcas Two from the ADO.NET team: Entity Client and Nulls - LINQ to DataSets Part 3 Software Architecture/SOA/CAB Udi answers, Can or should SOA be implemented without Web Services? David Chappell on The Three Faces of SOA Eric Newcomer: WS-* vs. REST is not the question Another architect...
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Found some time to blog. Smart Client/UI Architecture V2 of the User Interface Process Application Block (UIPAB) is out from PAG [via Mike ]. I must confess to being confused on how this is different than CAB as "designed to abstract the control flow and state management out of the user interface...
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Found some time to blog. Smart Client/UI Architecture V2 of the User Interface Process Application Block (UIPAB) is out from PAG [via Mike ]. I must confess to being confused on how this is different than CAB as "designed to abstract the control flow and state management out of the user interface...
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It's really great to see Don Dodge from Microsoft really get my OCC architecture p ost and what we are doing at Adesso . As Don says, “ Adesso’s secret sauce is a replication and synchronization engine that keeps application data and application logic synchronized across all devices. The...
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It's really great to see Don Dodge from Microsoft really get my OCC architecture p ost and what we are doing at Adesso . As Don says, “ Adesso’s secret sauce is a replication and synchronization engine that keeps application data and application logic synchronized across all devices. The Adesso platform...
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Occasionally Connected Service Oriented Smart Clients Another blast from the past... I'm reminded again of OCC here at the MVP Summit with the lack of connectivity. I can't even maintain a cellular connection two flights up to Robert's room never mind create business logic to depend on it. Connectivity...
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Note 12/11/07 Reader reporting broken links. These have now been updated In comments to my post about our Agile project entering ship mode, a reader asked for more information about our use of CAB. While I intend to write more about OB and performance, here is a bunch of posts about CAB and our use of...
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Note 12/11/07 Reader reporting broken links. These have now been updated In comments to my post about our Agile project entering ship mode, a reader asked for more information about our use of CAB. While I intend to write more about OB and performance, here is a bunch of posts about CAB and our use of...
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Via Mike , this is very interesting and very cool: The Cabana Project is dedicated to DevForce developers who want to build upon the Composite UI Application Block (CAB) from the Microsoft Patterns and Practices Group. More as I look into this!...
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Via Mike , this is very interesting and very cool: The Cabana Project is dedicated to DevForce developers who want to build upon the Composite UI Application Block (CAB) from the Microsoft Patterns and Practices Group. More as I look into this!...
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Both the July drop of the Web Service Factory or Service BAT is out and the June SCBAT are out. I am super excited about this as it is nearing V1 and we are using both of these in production code. I have been blogging about the Service Bat since the begining . I talked about my SCBAT experiences here...
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Both the July drop of the Web Service Factory or Service BAT is out and the June SCBAT are out. I am super excited about this as it is nearing V1 and we are using both of these in production code. I have been blogging about the Service Bat since the begining . I talked about my SCBAT experiences here...
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Matias Woloski has managed to create a CAB workspace that has navigation like Microsoft's Outlook bar. I know this comes up often; our customer has asked for something like this more than once. Nice! [tags: CAB , .NET, Composite Application Block, Smart Client, Microsoft]...
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I am in the middle of moving States with my family today but wanted to get one more post out. Daniel Cazzulino presented a webcast on p&p ObjectBuilder (OB), the underpinning framework powering CAB and EntLib v2.0 . As he says, its an underpinning framework and its very important if you are doing...
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I am in the middle of moving States with my family today but wanted to get one more post out. Daniel Cazzulino presented a webcast on p&p ObjectBuilder (OB), the underpinning framework powering CAB and EntLib v2.0 . As he says, its an underpinning framework and its very important if you are doing...
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Well, here we are busy as hell in Iteration 19 of the project . As I said here , we are now on weekly Iterations instead of 3 week Iterations . I have to admit we have been sinners; we have not been using Indigo in a Contract-First or even Service-Oriented way. We have been sort of concerned with whatever...
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Well, here we are busy as hell in Iteration 19 of the project . As I said here , we are now on weekly Iterations instead of 3 week Iterations . I have to admit we have been sinners; we have not been using Indigo in a Contract-First or even Service-Oriented way. We have been sort of concerned with whatever...
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A few weeks ago, I wrote on the goodness of SCBAT and GAT . At the workshop, we talked about what we would want to see in the new milestone. Is nice to see this announcement of yesterday's drop : " The p&p Client Team will post weekly drops on Monday's going forward. Today's drop...
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A few weeks ago, I wrote on the goodness of SCBAT and GAT . At the workshop, we talked about what we would want to see in the new milestone. Is nice to see this announcement of yesterday's drop : " The p&p Client Team will post weekly drops on Monday's going forward. Today's drop includes the...
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My coworker and I just flew across country (to Redmond) and we pair programmed a lot of the way at 33,000 feet. We were in a large part of our codebase that utilises CAB. We have been looking at some of the stuff in SCBAT particularly with the CAB folks starting to use Controller classes to allow CAB...
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My coworker and I just flew across country (to Redmond) and we pair programmed a lot of the way at 33,000 feet. We were in a large part of our codebase that utilises CAB. We have been looking at some of the stuff in SCBAT particularly with the CAB folks starting to use Controller classes to allow CAB...
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I, and a collegue of mine from work, are in Redmond from Sunday-Wednesday for the SCBAT workshop in Building 20. The Smart Client Baseline Architecture Toolkit sessions here are being recorded!! I have already sent email to a bunch of my buddies at MSFT, especially Scoble to see if we could get together...
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I, and a collegue of mine from work, are in Redmond from Sunday-Wednesday for the SCBAT workshop in Building 20. The Smart Client Baseline Architecture Toolkit sessions here are being recorded!! I have already sent email to a bunch of my buddies at MSFT, especially Scoble to see if we could get together...
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Way too much to do as always. There is a lot that I have seen as interesting and time limits what I can say. Jamie Cansdale is on a tear with his Test With…Coverage , NCover 1.33 + .NET 1.1 , and NCoverExplorer v1.3.1 . Agile Advice on Timeboxing: A Critical Agile Work Practice . He talks about SNL a...
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Way too much to do as always. There is a lot that I have seen as interesting and time limits what I can say. Jamie Cansdale is on a tear with his Test With…Coverage , NCover 1.33 + .NET 1.1 , and NCoverExplorer v1.3.1 . Agile Advice on Timeboxing: A Critical Agile Work Practice . He talks about...
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