NHibernate/Linq/Entity Framework Ayende has released NHibernate Linq 1.0. LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 7/20/2009+ Data Access Guidance project ASP.NET and Web Programming ARCast.TV - Scott Hanselman on scaling websites with caching ASP.NET Performance - Windows Update - a great example for setting...
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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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Today's new and notable comes from a hotel in Northern NJ, where I am a wedding weekend and sneaking away on the computer :) ALT.NET/Design Patterns Great collection of Ayende's talks . Download the decks, they are great stuff. SOA/ESB/Security Very cool and extremely useful: patterns & practices...
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Today's new and notable comes from a hotel in Northern NJ, where I am a wedding weekend and sneaking away on the computer :) ALT.NET/Design Patterns Great collection of Ayende's talks . Download the decks, they are great stuff. SOA/ESB/Security Very cool and extremely useful: patterns & practices...
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I will be speaking as part of our NuCon 2008 - Denver conference that we are doing together with Microsoft. I am super excited that we have the Scott Kerfoot from Microsoft as our keynote speaker: Keynote: The Future is NOW! The pace of change in technology increases every day. In this keynote you’ll...
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I will be speaking as part of our NuCon 2008 - Denver conference that we are doing together with Microsoft. I am super excited that we have the Scott Kerfoot from Microsoft as our keynote speaker: Keynote: The Future is NOW! The pace of change in technology increases every day. In this keynote you’ll...
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Ok, lets see if I can get in a groove for a few days Agile/Software Development When James Shore worked with my Agile team , he heavily used the concept of Etudes to improve technical skills . It worked extremely well in helping our team learn about our code and how to improve it. I think they can help...
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Ok, lets see if I can get in a groove for a few days Agile/Software Development When James Shore worked with my Agile team , he heavily used the concept of Etudes to improve technical skills . It worked extremely well in helping our team learn about our code and how to improve it. I think they can help...
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Development Tools Snippet Compiler Live 2008 Ultimate Edition for Developers (Alpha) [via Mike ] NAnt 0.86 Beta 1 Release [via Mike ] BizTalk Composite Services using Oracle ESB Routing Services Dealing with cXML based messages in BizTalk WCF/ADFS/Authentication/WF Authenticate Users Across Organizations...
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Development Tools Snippet Compiler Live 2008 Ultimate Edition for Developers (Alpha) [via Mike ] NAnt 0.86 Beta 1 Release [via Mike ] BizTalk Composite Services using Oracle ESB Routing Services Dealing with cXML based messages in BizTalk WCF/ADFS/Authentication/WF Authenticate Users Across Organizations...
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I knew it was coming so I stayed up extra late last night but not long enough :) Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite with the .NET Framework 3.5 is available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads ! See Soma's post here . While my copy is on the way, I would like to thank the whole extended team at Microsoft for...
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I knew it was coming so I stayed up extra late last night but not long enough :) Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite with the .NET Framework 3.5 is available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads ! See Soma's post here . While my copy is on the way, I would like to thank the whole extended team at Microsoft for an...
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So, in the comments on my post about the lack of Resharper 3.0.2 Intellisense for .NET 3.5/LINQ, I made the comment that I actually I use both Resharper and CodeRush!! That's right, I can't live without either :) Both products have distinct advantages - Resharper is the better tool at working...
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So, in the comments on my post about the lack of Resharper 3.0.2 Intellisense for .NET 3.5/LINQ, I made the comment that I actually I use both Resharper and CodeRush!! That's right, I can't live without either :) Both products have distinct advantages - Resharper is the better tool at working in an agile...
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In trying to do any LINQ/.NET 3.5 Beta 2 stuff with Resharper I noticed that the Intellisense is not right: db.Log = Console .Out; IQueryable < Customer > custQuery = from cust in Customers where cust.City == "London" select cust; I confirmed this with this post where people are shutting...
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In trying to do any LINQ/.NET 3.5 Beta 2 stuff with Resharper I noticed that the Intellisense is not right: db.Log = Console .Out; IQueryable < Customer > custQuery = from cust in Customers where cust.City == "London" select cust; I confirmed this with this post where people are shutting...
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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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Thank God for coffee.... Astoria/Orcas/Data Services The Astoria September 2007 CTP is now available for download and it works with Orcas Beta 2. [via ADO.NET team blog ] SOA Nick Mallik details the things you need before SOA reuse starts to become feasable Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on REST and the Magic of...
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Thank God for coffee.... Astoria/Orcas/Data Services The Astoria September 2007 CTP is now available for download and it works with Orcas Beta 2. [via ADO.NET team blog ] SOA Nick Mallik details the things you need before SOA reuse starts to become feasable Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on REST and the Magic of...
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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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So after two days of downloading at broadband speeds, I finally got all the pieces of the Orcas Mrach CTP downloaded. Doublce-clicking on Part1.exe expanded the other 8 RAR files. Once that was done, I used Virtual PC 2007 on top of my Vista Ultimate desktop OS. I left the setting at 1 GB of RAM. I then...
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So after two days of downloading at broadband speeds, I finally got all the pieces of the Orcas Mrach CTP downloaded. Doublce-clicking on Part1.exe expanded the other 8 RAR files. Once that was done, I used Virtual PC 2007 on top of my Vista Ultimate desktop OS. I left the setting at 1 GB of RAM. I then...
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I am really excited about this drop! Too many great things to mention. Get the installable bits here and the VPC image here . The page shows the very exciting Workflow and WCF new features. I'll have more to say as I play with them. Windows Communication Foundation and Workflow Foundation WF Designer...
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I am really excited about this drop! Too many great things to mention. Get the installable bits here and the VPC image here . The page shows the very exciting Workflow and WCF new features. I'll have more to say as I play with them. Windows Communication Foundation and Workflow Foundation WF Designer...
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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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Winter has finally set in with single digit temps and minus degrees wind chills but still no snow. WPF/Avalon Adam's WPF book is out and flying off the shelves apparently ! I have been looking forward to this one as his COM Interop book is the bible there. Feb CTP of WPF/E! New Docs, SDK and QuickStarts...
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Winter has finally set in with single digit temps and minus degrees wind chills but still no snow. WPF/Avalon Adam's WPF book is out and flying off the shelves apparently ! I have been looking forward to this one as his COM Interop book is the bible there. Feb CTP of WPF/E! New Docs, SDK and QuickStarts...
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I have already said my piece on the Vista launch but also Office 2007 launches today which really rocks. The much better Outlook 2007 is worth the price of admission alone IMHO. Vista and Office Launches Vista Launch Page Bill Gates Keynote European Launch Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor Office 2007 Launch...
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I have already said my piece on the Vista launch but also Office 2007 launches today which really rocks. The much better Outlook 2007 is worth the price of admission alone IMHO. Vista and Office Launches Vista Launch Page Bill Gates Keynote European Launch Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor Office 2007 Launch...
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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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A very good day to leave the country and find a new one... WCF/Indigo/SOA/Workflow/.NET Framework 3 Here are the separate download links for the parts of .NET Framework 3 RTM that I blogged about yesterday: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable Package Microsoft® Windows® Software Development...
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A very good day to leave the country and find a new one... WCF/Indigo/SOA/Workflow/.NET Framework 3 Here are the separate download links for the parts of .NET Framework 3 RTM that I blogged about yesterday: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable Package Microsoft® Windows® Software Development...
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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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We have a new addition to our house - a 60 pound 2-year old English Bulldog! Agile/TDD The big news of the day is my good friend Jamie Cansdale's TestDriven.Net - Check here for download . To say this product is indispensable is an understatement. I sit inside Visual Studio all day writing NUnit...
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We have a new addition to our house - a 60 pound 2-year old English Bulldog! Agile/TDD The big news of the day is my good friend Jamie Cansdale's TestDriven.Net - Check here for download . To say this product is indispensable is an understatement. I sit inside Visual Studio all day writing NUnit tests...
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Rain and more rain, makes me just want to sleep. SOA/WCF/Workflow/BPM Richard Turner reports from Digital Identity World & Identity in 2006 William Tay on Windows Workflow: Scheduler and Threads Tomas collects some BizTalk news Pablo has updated WS-Compression for WCF RC1 Tyler Blaine on BPMN Diagrams...
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Rain and more rain, makes me just want to sleep. SOA/WCF/Workflow/BPM Richard Turner reports from Digital Identity World & Identity in 2006 William Tay on Windows Workflow: Scheduler and Threads Tomas collects some BizTalk news Pablo has updated WS-Compression for WCF RC1 Tyler Blaine on BPMN Diagrams...
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My co-worker Steve sure will be excited by the arrivial of the first CTP BITS (as am I)! The specs were promising as I commented on. I am excited to dive into the bits now! I just looked at my installed bits and it includes an updated August 2006 document on the ADO.NET Entity Framwork as well as some...
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My co-worker Steve sure will be excited by the arrivial of the first CTP BITS (as am I)! The specs were promising as I commented on. I am excited to dive into the bits now! I just looked at my installed bits and it includes an updated August 2006 document on the ADO.NET Entity Framwork as well as some...
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Ruby/Rails Martin notes that a video of his keynote at RailsConf is online and the rest are starting to appear (PragDave is up there). John Lam talks about why Ruby (and a little bit about RubyCLR), on NET Rocks . LINQ/Data Daniel Cazzulino on how upcoming C# 3.0 features can be used to provide a strongly...
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Ruby/Rails Martin notes that a video of his keynote at RailsConf is online and the rest are starting to appear (PragDave is up there). John Lam talks about why Ruby (and a little bit about RubyCLR), on NET Rocks . LINQ/Data Daniel Cazzulino on how upcoming C# 3.0 features can be used to provide a strongly...
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Vista What's New in Vista - Creating dump files in Vista What's New in Vista - Complete PC Backup Data/OR/M Everyone's been pointing to Ted's long post on OR/M - The Vietnam of Computer Science. I personally find the analogy week, orthogonal and perhaps bordering on troublesome. Ayende even invokes Goodwin...
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Vista What's New in Vista - Creating dump files in Vista What's New in Vista - Complete PC Backup Data/OR/M Everyone's been pointing to Ted's long post on OR/M - The Vietnam of Computer Science. I personally find the analogy week, orthogonal and perhaps bordering on troublesome. Ayende...
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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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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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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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Again another month and change since the last one so this issue will be a collection of everything marked in my Feed Demon box, some of it not so new-) Andy of the Pragmatic Programmers announces , " long-awaited Practices of an Agile Developer is now available from our website and from bookstores...
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Again another month and change since the last one so this issue will be a collection of everything marked in my Feed Demon box, some of it not so new-) Andy of the Pragmatic Programmers announces , " long-awaited Practices of an Agile Developer is now available from our website and from bookstores...
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The new LINQ CTP Alan was talking about yesterday is now out!! Following the vision setting preview released at the 2005 PDC, the May 2006 preview of Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) shows the progress made towards realizing that vision, and sets the trajectory for Visual Studio code name “Orcas”...
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The new LINQ CTP Alan was talking about yesterday is now out!! Following the vision setting preview released at the 2005 PDC, the May 2006 preview of Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) shows the progress made towards realizing that vision, and sets the trajectory for Visual Studio code name “Orcas”...
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This is an attempt to real-time blog Markus session after Alan's keynote on LINQ. What is LINQ? LINQ is query language that is directly integrated in C# and VB Conceptually, LINQ is similar to: SQL Server (SELECT...) Visual FoxPro and other dBase langs Except: LINQ is much more powerful! See article...
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