Entity Framework ADO.Net Entity Framework Community Technology Preview Released! - The updated CTP includes many requested improvements and added features particuarly in the area of Enhancements to Code Only and Self-Tracking Entities Model First with the Entrity Framework 4 - This post continues an...
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Windows Azure Microsoft Revealsd Windows Azure Prices Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 7/13/2009+ Confirming Commercial Availability and Announcing Business Model Some Slides from Microsoft's Partner Conference That Focus on Azure Windows Azure and ISVs: A Guide for Decision Makers CLR/.NET...
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Software Development Tools TestDriven.Net 2.22: Support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Typemock Isolator 5.3.1 is Out! NDepend: Product Review Free Web Hosting to try ASP.NET 4 Beta1, VS2010 Beta 1, and MS Web Deployment Tool RC1 Microsoft Web Platform Installer CLR In-Process Side by Side (Part 1) VS2010...
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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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Its been almost 5 weeks since the last one. I am finding these hard to maintain right now with my job and extended commuting so there probably won't be regular New and Notables or many for that matter going forward. There are now several very good sources for you to turn to for daily updates. I will...
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Otherwise known, as "Return of the Giant Hogweed " Once upon a time , .NET was so new that there wasn't a Visual Studio .NET yet (the beta crashed every 5 minutes so you couldn't use it even if you wanted to), no books, few blogs and one had to use things like the Shared Source CLI or Rotor...
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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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CSD/WF/WCF/Oslo We start today with Cliff Simpkins in CSD at Microsoft who lets us know about a new batch of papers, demos and guides in various downloads, mostly pertaining to WF. Great stuff! Pay particular attention to the release of Patterns & Practices Group : Improving Web Services Security...
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ASP.NET/Silverlight First Preview for new Ajax features , ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 went live on CodePlex Via Brad Abrams , the updating of the very cool ASP.NET Ajax Portal application, DropThings Silverlight Cream for July 22, 2008 -- #332 IronRuby/DLR/IronPython Too many things to list individually but many...
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Service Security/Identity Management/SOA I am super thrilled to see Microsoft roll out " Zermatt ", a .NET developer framework and SDK to help build claims-based applications. I, like Eugenio here , had to roll out my own a couple of months ago in a gig. I made use of Dominick's excellent LeastPrivilege...
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Its about time to clear out the backlog. CLR/.NET/Visual Studio/TDD/ALT.NET Jeremy has a nice piece here, Before you use an IoC tool, some concepts to know first Favorite Visual Studio 2008 Keyboard Shortcuts (Corey Schuman) [via Alvin ] MbUnit in Visual Studio Team System 2008 and MbUnit v3 Beta 3 Updates...
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Enjoying cup of Starbucks and Deep Purple Live in Stockholm 1970 (via Zune marketplace). WCF/WF My good friend Marjan has worked hard with us Influencers (I wish I wasn’t so busy) to come up with a stellar bunch of Webcasts! Must see! One of the key things we are “influencing” is Oslo...
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ScottGu makes it official today. There is a whole lot of stuff here, and I think its safe to say that this is "stretching" the concept of a Service Pack. Scott's post has a lot of detail. The big ticket items are the Entity Framework and Astoria , but there is a lot of additive stuff. See Brad...
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ScottGu makes it official today. There is a whole lot of stuff here, and I think its safe to say that this is "stretching" the concept of a Service Pack. Scott's post has a lot of detail. The big ticket items are the Entity Framework and Astoria , but there is a lot of additive stuff. See...
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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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Seeing Scott's impressive milestone made me realize that I forgot to celebrate my 6th year milestone on March 20th ! Those were heady days. There were only two other .NET bloggers at the time, Simon Fell (who is still going) and Peter Drayton (who isn't). Simon and Peter "convinced" me to start...
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Seeing Scott's impressive milestone made me realize that I forgot to celebrate my 6th year milestone on March 20th ! Those were heady days. There were only two other .NET bloggers at the time, Simon Fell (who is still going) and Peter Drayton (who isn't). Simon and Peter "convinced"...
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I was going to write a separate post on this but I will include it here. I have had the opportunity to work on three different projects with three different Microsoft field groups lately and have come away impressed with both their technical skills as well as professionalism. I have had nothing but great...
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I was going to write a separate post on this but I will include it here. I have had the opportunity to work on three different projects with three different Microsoft field groups lately and have come away impressed with both their technical skills as well as professionalism. I have had nothing but great...
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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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I was given this information on the release of the .NET Framework Reference Code to give out: .NET Framework Reference Source Key Messages The developer community response to the .NET Framework Reference Source announcement last October was very positive. Access to the .NET Framework source code helps...
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I was given this information on the release of the .NET Framework Reference Code to give out: .NET Framework Reference Source Key Messages The developer community response to the .NET Framework Reference Source announcement last October was very positive. Access to the .NET Framework source code helps...
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We have an immediate need for three C#/.NET 2.0 developers proficient in C# and forms based development on a large onsite effort for a minimum of six months. There is no relocation. We would prefer people in the PA or NJ local areas if possible. This is an onsite 5 day a week gig. There is no remote...
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I am Twittering, Facebooking now with my friends. Does that make me a Web 2.0 person, a “Hip With-It Person, or a childish fool? The jury is still out.... ESB/BizTalk My collegue writes Microsoft Patterns and Practices ESB Guidance 1.0 shown, and will be available in a few days . Brian, was instrumental...
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I am Twittering, Facebooking now with my friends. Does that make me a Web 2.0 person, a “Hip With-It Person, or a childish fool? The jury is still out.... ESB/BizTalk My collegue writes Microsoft Patterns and Practices ESB Guidance 1.0 shown, and will be available in a few days . Brian, was instrumental...
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SOA Nick has his fourth post in a series on the impact of the business operating model on Service Oriented Architecture with SOA in the Replication Model Microsoft My collegue Mickey Williams has posted that Microsoft Search Server (MSS) 2008 and MSS Express, two Enterprise Search products are available...
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SOA Nick has his fourth post in a series on the impact of the business operating model on Service Oriented Architecture with SOA in the Replication Model Microsoft My collegue Mickey Williams has posted that Microsoft Search Server (MSS) 2008 and MSS Express, two Enterprise Search products are available...
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Getting ready to spend a full 7 days in Redmond starting Saturday and meanwhile trying to bring on two new superstars CLR/F#/C# I have not had the time to blog about the wellcome addition of F# being "producized and becoming a first-class citizen in VS.NET Via Harry , I learned about some other...
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Getting ready to spend a full 7 days in Redmond starting Saturday and meanwhile trying to bring on two new superstars CLR/F#/C# I have not had the time to blog about the wellcome addition of F# being "producized and becoming a first-class citizen in VS.NET Via Harry , I learned about some other...
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Speaking of Visual Studion 2008, we (Neudesic) have developed a great deal of real-world knowledge of it during the last year and we are ready to tell you about it! Along with our friends at Microsoft, K2 and QuickStart, we are hosting NuCon 2007 , with three deep-dive tracks into Visual Studio 2008...
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Us old time MFC/ATL programmers have appreciated having the library source code available to step into, debug with, and study. I've had access to BCL source code at times in NDA but now everyone can have access! ScottGu discusses making the source code to the .NET Framework publicly available . This...
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Us old time MFC/ATL programmers have appreciated having the library source code available to step into, debug with, and study. I've had access to BCL source code at times in NDA but now everyone can have access! ScottGu discusses making the source code to the .NET Framework publicly available . This...
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My news favorite drink: A StarBucks Black Eye . SOA Service Oriented Infrastructure Building Justifying the need for Composite Applications Enterprise Architecture Agility, Feedback, and Enterprise Architecture CLR/Orcas/Silverlight Sharing Code Between Silverlight and Orcas Orcas Gacutil -- Where to...
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My news favorite drink: A StarBucks Black Eye . SOA Service Oriented Infrastructure Building Justifying the need for Composite Applications Enterprise Architecture Agility, Feedback, and Enterprise Architecture CLR/Orcas/Silverlight Sharing Code Between Silverlight and Orcas Orcas Gacutil -- Where to...
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TGIF!!! WCF/Indigo Three posts from Steve Maines, one on the WebServiceHostFactory Then Zen of the Web Programming Model Part 1 and Part 2 Great post from Christian - Improving WCF Interoperability - Flattening Your WSDL More on building and hosting the BizTalk Services Omri has a detailed post on what...
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TGIF!!! WCF/Indigo Three posts from Steve Maines, one on the WebServiceHostFactory Then Zen of the Web Programming Model Part 1 and Part 2 Great post from Christian - Improving WCF Interoperability - Flattening Your WSDL More on building and hosting the BizTalk Services Omri has a detailed post on what's...
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Introduction to .NET Languages In other sections previous to this, we have examined the runtime and the Common Type System . Essentially then, a .NET application can be thought of some code to manipulate these types and call methods in the Base Class Library , along with the application's logic....
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Introduction to .NET Languages In other sections previous to this, we have examined the runtime and the Common Type System . Essentially then, a .NET application can be thought of some code to manipulate these types and call methods in the Base Class Library , along with the application's logic. .NET...
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Well, after so many happy posts from Peter and Ingo, and John Lam, I just had to jump in. After all, this was my chance to really learn about .NET, my baby, that I had spent the last two years with. What is Rotor? Rotor is the nickname foer the Microsoft Shared Source CLI Implementation. This is the...
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Well, after so many happy posts from Peter and Ingo, and John Lam, I just had to jump in. After all, this was my chance to really learn about .NET, my baby, that I had spent the last two years with. What is Rotor? Rotor is the nickname foer the Microsoft Shared Source CLI Implementation. This is the...
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It’s The Runtime Stupid Just got off the phone with my friend Peter Drayton who”encouraged” me to post more of my original content that I have been holding back. I have been holding back this particular one, because I wanted my radio to stay completly technical and not offer any rants...
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It’s The Runtime Stupid Just got off the phone with my friend Peter Drayton who”encouraged” me to post more of my original content that I have been holding back. I have been holding back this particular one, because I wanted my radio to stay completly technical and not offer any rants or such things...
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It's time for a New and Notable Update when my flagged posts in FeedDemon gets past a screenfull. Hurry, hurry before Iteration Planning starts... IronRuby/DLR/CLR John introduces IronRuby here and collects opinions here Meanwhile Jim posts on the video as well as two insightful topics: The One True...
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It's time for a New and Notable Update when my flagged posts in FeedDemon gets past a screenfull. Hurry, hurry before Iteration Planning starts... IronRuby/DLR/CLR John introduces IronRuby here and collects opinions here Meanwhile Jim posts on the video as well as two insightful topics: The One True...
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I have been preaching for 7 years now about that the CLI/CLR was designed for cross-platform and the rest was packaging. Today, the news from MIX ‘07 was very exciting on the CLR front as well as many other fronts (to be covered later). Today that become concrete with the announcement of full CLR support...
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I have been preaching for 7 years now about that the CLI/CLR was designed for cross-platform and the rest was packaging. Today, the news from MIX ‘07 was very exciting on the CLR front as well as many other fronts (to be covered later). Today that become concrete with the announcement of full CLR...
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Microsoft has definitely hit one out of the park this week at MIX. I have been talking with both Microsoft fans and "non Microsoft fans" and I have not seen this level of excitement in a long time. In fact, I think that this is the first time I have been excited about the CLR since the heady...
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Microsoft has definitely hit one out of the park this week at MIX. I have been talking with both Microsoft fans and "non Microsoft fans" and I have not seen this level of excitement in a long time. In fact, I think that this is the first time I have been excited about the CLR since the heady...
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Given all the announcements and implications from the Mix'07 conference, I am writing this N&N attempting to capture in a list what it all means, at least what I think it means. I'm going to skip categories since the announcements span technologies. I already talked about the Cross-Platform CLR announced...
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Trying to squeeze this in before yet another gym workout. As I have been talking about on my personal blog , I have really amped up my running as well as my weight-lifting programs. I joined a 2nd gym at work since it's cheap and on the same floor as the office so I work out every day. Also possibly...
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Trying to squeeze this in before yet another gym workout. As I have been talking about on my personal blog , I have really amped up my running as well as my weight-lifting programs. I joined a 2nd gym at work since it's cheap and on the same floor as the office so I work out every day. Also possibly...
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A light day out there for the Holiday weekend. LINQ Bart has another series going with The IQueryable Tales - LINQ to LDAP. Part 1 is Key Concepts and Part 2 is Getting Started with IQueryable . CLR Jason continues Disassembling .NET with Appendix B , a walkthrough of storing byte arrays in the User...
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A light day out there for the Holiday weekend. LINQ Bart has another series going with The IQueryable Tales - LINQ to LDAP. Part 1 is Key Concepts and Part 2 is Getting Started with IQueryable . CLR Jason continues Disassembling .NET with Appendix B , a walkthrough of storing byte arrays in the User...
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I've been presuaded to bring out my Hardcore .NET (CLR Internals) out of retirement for DevTeach again this year. This post will be a record of trying to get an environment up and going..... Will it work on Vista? Does he still have his CLR chops? Stay tuned... Rotor You need to install ActivePerl 5...
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I've been presuaded to bring out my Hardcore .NET (CLR Internals) out of retirement for DevTeach again this year. This post will be a record of trying to get an environment up and going..... Will it work on Vista? Does he still have his CLR chops? Stay tuned... Rotor You need to install ActivePerl...
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Smart Clients/Orcas I am extremely pleased to see the .NET Framework (and Microsoft) finally gain the offline sync services that I have been talking about for quite a few years in my work at Groove and Adesso . You will be able to do synchronization from WinForms and WPF apps that you could do from Groove...
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Smart Clients/Orcas I am extremely pleased to see the .NET Framework (and Microsoft) finally gain the offline sync services that I have been talking about for quite a few years in my work at Groove and Adesso . You will be able to do synchronization from WinForms and WPF apps that you could do from Groove...
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Thank God, its Friday. Even after a full 32 ounces of strong Starbucks coffee, I still fell asleep on the train on the way in. Entity Framework/OR/M/LINQ The excellent Entity Framework discussions continue with Scott Bellware's fine Entity Framework Challenges Architecture One of my core principles...
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Thank God, its Friday. Even after a full 32 ounces of strong Starbucks coffee, I still fell asleep on the train on the way in. Entity Framework/OR/M/LINQ The excellent Entity Framework discussions continue with Scott Bellware's fine Entity Framework Challenges Architecture One of my core principles of...
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Posted by sgentile on January 16th, 2006 The single biggest item of feedback on the blog is everyone wanted to see more Agile posts from my personal day to day experience . I had written about the tools and technologies back in this post and several have inquired about Team System. We are using Visual...
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Posted by sgentile on January 16th, 2006 The single biggest item of feedback on the blog is everyone wanted to see more Agile posts from my personal day to day experience . I had written about the tools and technologies back in this post and several have inquired about Team System. We are using Visual...
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A special Christmas Eve version to clean out my Feed Demon box as I will be on vacation next week and then in Belgium for a week after that so don't expect much if any blogging. CLR Modeling servers for resource consumption Windows keyed events, critical sections, and new Vista synchronization features...
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A special Christmas Eve version to clean out my Feed Demon box as I will be on vacation next week and then in Belgium for a week after that so don't expect much if any blogging. CLR Modeling servers for resource consumption Windows keyed events, critical sections, and new Vista synchronization features...
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I am SO busy with INETA trips and tons to do at work. Here is what I have stored up for the last week or so. WCF/SOA/Workflow/WF Tomas blogs about something I face every day in WCF with WCF ServiceHost Failures and IDisposable with "The "don't call Close()/Dispose() if faulted" behavior...
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I am SO busy with INETA trips and tons to do at work. Here is what I have stored up for the last week or so. WCF/SOA/Workflow/WF Tomas blogs about something I face every day in WCF with WCF ServiceHost Failures and IDisposable with "The "don't call Close()/Dispose() if faulted" behavior...
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This is one reason why Scott Hanselman calls me an "Interop Beast" -)). We had a thorny COM Interop issue that was causing a crash in certain machine types. Every single pair on the team had worked on it for many hours for the last three weeks , in our Ship Cycle without success. It should...
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This is one reason why Scott Hanselman calls me an "Interop Beast" -)). We had a thorny COM Interop issue that was causing a crash in certain machine types. Every single pair on the team had worked on it for many hours for the last three weeks , in our Ship Cycle without success. It should...
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Workflow/BPM/WCF/SOA David Chappell presents arguments both pro and con as to whether Microsoft qualifies as a BPM vendor. Personally, I think the answer is yes, especially when WF is intergrated into BizTalk 200x and other products. Nicholas Allan continues the excellent Indigo WCF posts with Controlling...
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Workflow/BPM/WCF/SOA David Chappell presents arguments both pro and con as to whether Microsoft qualifies as a BPM vendor. Personally, I think the answer is yes, especially when WF is intergrated into BizTalk 200x and other products. Nicholas Allan continues the excellent Indigo WCF posts with Controlling...
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I thought Thanksgiving morning is for adults to be sleeping in. Instead, not only are the kids up at the crack at dawn but one (the eight year old) is playing games on Vista and asking for Starbucks, while the nearly 4 year old is clamoring for princess attention. And Angus is eating hats and everything...
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I thought Thanksgiving morning is for adults to be sleeping in. Instead, not only are the kids up at the crack at dawn but one (the eight year old) is playing games on Vista and asking for Starbucks, while the nearly 4 year old is clamoring for princess attention. And Angus is eating hats and everything...
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Family morning at the Gentiles means the whole family watching Radiohead from 1994 while waiting for the Starbucks to come... Software Development Ayende points to this great list Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money and asks what excites you as a developer? As I said in a Retrospective last night...
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Family morning at the Gentiles means the whole family watching Radiohead from 1994 while waiting for the Starbucks to come... Software Development Ayende points to this great list Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money and asks what excites you as a developer? As I said in a Retrospective last night...
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Wow, four days in a row, gol darn, I might just be getting predictable and dependable with these posts-). Agile/Extreme Programming The Halloween/Nov Carnival of Agilis ts is up! There is a great section called "What Makes a method Agile" and this which I'll take the liberty of quoting...
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Wow, four days in a row, gol darn, I might just be getting predictable and dependable with these posts-). Agile/Extreme Programming The Halloween/Nov Carnival of Agilis ts is up! There is a great section called "What Makes a method Agile" and this which I'll take the liberty of quoting in its...
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Sipping the first cup of coffee, ah yes, there's a possibility I'll be awake soon...Coffee is God's gift to fathers with three year old girls... Windows Vista The big news is a major new release of Vista, Build 5472 is available now on Connect and I believe its good enough to make a public...
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Sipping the first cup of coffee, ah yes, there's a possibility I'll be awake soon...Coffee is God's gift to fathers with three year old girls... Windows Vista The big news is a major new release of Vista, Build 5472 is available now on Connect and I believe its good enough to make a public release on...
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Welcome new readers! There are a number of great posts that caught my attention today. In addition, I have started my 3rd CAB article to be posted here as well as getting my Syracuse WCF slides up on the site. Agile/Extreme Programming/TDD Now, Scott Ambler has taken the ugly heavyweight monstrosity...
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Welcome new readers! There are a number of great posts that caught my attention today. In addition, I have started my 3rd CAB article to be posted here as well as getting my Syracuse WCF slides up on the site. Agile/Extreme Programming/TDD Now, Scott Ambler has taken the ugly heavyweight monstrosity...
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WCF/SOA Two geat posts by the Hosting man in Indigo, Steve Maines, on the ServiceHostFactory API, and ServiceHostFactory vs. ServiceHostFactoryBase . The ServiceHost is crucial for WCF developers to understand, as it gives WCF a lot of power. It abstracts away the notion of a Host so it'sa fairly...
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WCF/SOA Two geat posts by the Hosting man in Indigo, Steve Maines, on the ServiceHostFactory API, and ServiceHostFactory vs. ServiceHostFactoryBase . The ServiceHost is crucial for WCF developers to understand, as it gives WCF a lot of power. It abstracts away the notion of a Host so it'sa fairly simple...
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Geez, we just installed WinFX Beta 2 this Iteration and immediately had to deal with a hard to find configuration issue. However, we're also always grateful for new bits that advance WCF closer to shipping. Omri says : Check it out here . This build is based on our "RC1" tree. It's...
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Geez, we just installed WinFX Beta 2 this Iteration and immediately had to deal with a hard to find configuration issue. However, we're also always grateful for new bits that advance WCF closer to shipping. Omri says : Check it out here . This build is based on our "RC1" tree. It's not a final...
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A quick reminder while I sit here polishing up my new demos and slides, that I will be speaking on SOA with Indigo tonight at Philly.NET . This is a new talk, even revised from the DevTeach one which got all 10 out of 10's. The demos take on Indigo from the ground up with just TextPad and the WinFX err...
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A quick reminder while I sit here polishing up my new demos and slides, that I will be speaking on SOA with Indigo tonight at Philly.NET . This is a new talk, even revised from the DevTeach one which got all 10 out of 10's. The demos take on Indigo from the ground up with just TextPad and the WinFX...
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Happy Father's Day to all other Fathers! My son made me breakfast and in a letter said "I was smarter than Einstein" and "are you sure you didn't invent E = mc2 and Albert E. copied you?" -)) Data/ORM/ADO.NET 3 Ayende has been reading the docs for the ADO.Net Entities Framework...
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Happy Father's Day to all other Fathers! My son made me breakfast and in a letter said "I was smarter than Einstein" and "are you sure you didn't invent E = mc2 and Albert E. copied you?" -)) Data/ORM/ADO.NET 3 Ayende has been reading the docs for the ADO.Net Entities Framework and...
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Of course the huge news everywhere is that Bill Gates is stepping down at Microsoft. Its truly the end of an era. WCF/SOA Clemens has posted the sample code from his TechEd session about selecting WCF bindings CLR My buddy Jason continues to take over as "Godfather of the CLR" with his most...
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Of course the huge news everywhere is that Bill Gates is stepping down at Microsoft. Its truly the end of an era. WCF/SOA Clemens has posted the sample code from his TechEd session about selecting WCF bindings CLR My buddy Jason continues to take over as "Godfather of the CLR" with his most...
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Not much today. WCF/SOA/WSE The WCF RSS Toolkit is a Windows Communication Foundation-based framework for generating RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 content feeds Steve Maine on the WCF RSS Toolkit The latest WCF Documentation CTP (June 2 release) is now available for download . Microsoft today announced the creation...
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Not much today. WCF/SOA/WSE The WCF RSS Toolkit is a Windows Communication Foundation-based framework for generating RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 content feeds Steve Maine on the WCF RSS Toolkit The latest WCF Documentation CTP (June 2 release) is now available for download . Microsoft today announced the creation...
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On May 19, 2003 , I said " I have always admired Mike's ability to look at the world out there and put it all into one great post, The Daily Grind . While I can't pretend to have Mike's writing ability, I would like to start moving to something similar instead of multiple separate posts...
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On May 19, 2003 , I said " I have always admired Mike's ability to look at the world out there and put it all into one great post, The Daily Grind . While I can't pretend to have Mike's writing ability, I would like to start moving to something similar instead of multiple separate posts ."...
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You've got to be kidding me . "The .NET Framework has always been at the core of WinFX, but the WinFX brand didn’t convey this. The WinFX brand helped us introduce the incredible innovations in terms of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow...
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You've got to be kidding me . "The .NET Framework has always been at the core of WinFX, but the WinFX brand didn’t convey this. The WinFX brand helped us introduce the incredible innovations in terms of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows...
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Only one more to go and I'll hit the magic 100 - only took three years to get there-). The Master, Mike Gunderloy (who everyone should read and I ripped off) has hit Number 900 (Congrats Mike!) and has announced a new contest Windows Vista Beta 2 has been released into the general wild I have been...
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Only one more to go and I'll hit the magic 100 - only took three years to get there-). The Master, Mike Gunderloy (who everyone should read and I ripped off) has hit Number 900 (Congrats Mike!) and has announced a new contest Windows Vista Beta 2 has been released into the general wild I have been meaning...
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I had a nice New and Notable yesterday but the web ate it – I hate having done an hour’s worth of work assembling a good bunch of links and then submitting it and the server can’t service the request! So, I am going to write this one (and maybe every other one) from Word 2007’s blog support which I rather...
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I had a nice New and Notable yesterday but the web ate it – I hate having done an hour’s worth of work assembling a good bunch of links and then submitting it and the server can’t service the request! So, I am going to write this one (and maybe every other one) from Word 2007’s...
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The FxCop Blog reports that the 1.35 RC is on gotdotnet and they want feedback on the RC on the forum ....
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The FxCop Blog reports that the 1.35 RC is on gotdotnet and they want feedback on the RC on the forum ....
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There may be some new readers that are not aware of my old blogs on samgentile.com, dotnetweblogs and radio back in the day. In short, I have been blogging and writing on .NET since 2000. Revisiting all this stuff it absolutely blows me away how productive I was in 2002 and 2003, when the CLR and .NET...
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There may be some new readers that are not aware of my old blogs on samgentile.com, dotnetweblogs and radio back in the day. In short, I have been blogging and writing on .NET since 2000. Revisiting all this stuff it absolutely blows me away how productive I was in 2002 and 2003, when the CLR and .NET...
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There may be some new readers that are not aware of my old blogs on samgentile.com, dotnetweblogs and radio back in the day. In short, I have been blogging and writing on .NET since 2000. This post lists my publications and articles over the years. The next post will attempt to gather my most popular...
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While I was in Redmond , I ran into my good friend Jim Miller , the CLR Architect in Building 20. He wanted to sit down and talk. He hinted that there would be a big announcement out of the MIX conference and when asked on Rotor "it was still going." I asked if it would be a good time to become...
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While I was in Redmond , I ran into my good friend Jim Miller , the CLR Architect in Building 20. He wanted to sit down and talk. He hinted that there would be a big announcement out of the MIX conference and when asked on Rotor "it was still going." I asked if it would be a good time to become...
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My apologies to my readers and my CodeBetter colleagues on one more link posting without original material. I still promise to have my CAB and Spikes post up real soon-) My Microsoft buddy Joe Stagner takes Stallman down a peg or two-) Chris Frazier links to a Microsoft hot-fix for WinForms designer...
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My apologies to my readers and my CodeBetter colleagues on one more link posting without original material. I still promise to have my CAB and Spikes post up real soon-) My Microsoft buddy Joe Stagner takes Stallman down a peg or two-) Chris Frazier links to a Microsoft hot-fix for WinForms designer...
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Time to empty the FeedDemon flagged list. Jeff Key updated the indispensable Snippet Compiler a few weeks back. Mr. Agile Configuration Management, Brad Appleton has put up a very valuable page of Iterative Development Resources. Make sure you bookmark this. Mike Stall, of the CLR Team has a post on...
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Time to empty the FeedDemon flagged list. Jeff Key updated the indispensable Snippet Compiler a few weeks back. Mr. Agile Configuration Management, Brad Appleton has put up a very valuable page of Iterative Development Resources. Make sure you bookmark this. Mike Stall, of the CLR Team has a post on...
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.NET Reflector 4.2 Mon, 23 January 2006 Web Proxy support, String search, Fonts, Generics fixes. Download here ....
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.NET Reflector 4.2 Mon, 23 January 2006 Web Proxy support, String search, Fonts, Generics fixes. Download here ....
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9:29:02 PM GACUtil Add-in GACUtil Add-In . I needed a simple way to invoke GACUtil as a custom build step. Utility makefiles were clunky, NAnt was too extensive (but cool) and the BuildRules sample wasn't quite extensive enough. So I built my own. [ sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News ] At work...
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9:29:02 PM GACUtil Add-in GACUtil Add-In . I needed a simple way to invoke GACUtil as a custom build step. Utility makefiles were clunky, NAnt was too extensive (but cool) and the BuildRules sample wasn't quite extensive enough. So I built my own. [ sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News ] At...
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Rotor Comes to Linux . Shaun Bangay has ported the shared source .NET CLI project, Rotor, to Linux. It's not just for FreeBSD anymore. [ O'Reilly Network Articles ] It looks that this has gotten even further, Very cool!...
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Rotor Comes to Linux . Shaun Bangay has ported the shared source .NET CLI project, Rotor, to Linux. It's not just for FreeBSD anymore. [ O'Reilly Network Articles ] It looks that this has gotten even further, Very cool!...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2002 Jashua Allen Nails It On GPL and Its Prophets Joshua Allen nails it on the contraditons of the GPL and its prophets: One cranky coder has taken exception to this particular argument in my " No Love for GPL " post, replying, "insuring that something you give as a...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2002 Jashua Allen Nails It On GPL and Its Prophets Joshua Allen nails it on the contraditons of the GPL and its prophets: One cranky coder has taken exception to this particular argument in my " No Love for GPL " post, replying, "insuring that something you give as a...
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