A quick one while I am on vacation. .NET 3.5 SP1 Mr. Hanselman has come out with the mother of all .NET 3.5 SP1 posts with Hidden Gems - Not the same old 3.5 SP1 post , which includes coverage of all the areas including my WCF changes . Announcing Entity Framework & ADO.NET Data Services RTM! Orcas...
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As I listed in this post on the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 , there are a bunch of significant additions to WCF in SP1. The list looks pretty focused towards REST services and the Web. It's no secret that many developers are looking to REST and the simpler programming model for Web applications. In this regard...
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Patrick uses the awesome power of the assembly comparison feature of the tool NDepend to show exactly how much more there is in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1: Summary: # Assemblies 112 # Namespaces 919 to 935 (+16 +1.7%) # Types 39 988 to 40 513 (+525 +1.3%) # Methods 387 421 to 386 790 (-631 -0.2%) # Fields...
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I finally put up all the demo code (except Neuron) for the Capital Area .NET UG presentation that I did on 6/24. So: Code here Presentation here Questions, ask Technorati Tags: INETA , EDA , Event Driven Architecture , SOA , Service Oriented Architecture , WCF...
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I will be be taking my Advanced WCF: Asynchronous Messaging and Event-Driven Architectures talk to the July 31st meeting of PhillyNJ, which is a sub-chapter of the excellent Philly.NET group . I am real pleased, that my friend, Hilary Cotter, is speaking first on SQL Replication for Developers. Come...
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.NET/C#/Functional Programming The very useful CR_Documentor 2.0 has been released with Sandcastle Preview and is now open source code Mathew has a boatload of links, resources, slide deck and code in Aspects of Functional Programming in C# Presentation and Code Video: Meet the C# Design Team with Anders...
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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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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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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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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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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 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 are running our developer conference again three times this year. This is all on Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 technologies you need in order to be productive like LINQ, Silverlight, ADO.NET Entity Framework, WCF, and SQL Server 2008. I will be speaking at the NYC event on Real World SOA...
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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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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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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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So sayeth Don ? Soma's announced that Orcas will RTM this month . Lots of .NET families will have something extra to be thankful for next thursday...
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So sayeth Don ? Soma's announced that Orcas will RTM this month . Lots of .NET families will have something extra to be thankful for next thursday...
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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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Ah, the StarBucks is starting to kick in... BizTalk/WCF/MSMQ/WF/CSD/Orcas Neudesic's own David Pallmann talks about using the new WCF LOB Adapters with our Neuron ESB Stephen has some helpful tips on processing MSMQ FIFO messages in WCF My friend Michele continues to rock with the code samples from the...
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Ah, the StarBucks is starting to kick in... BizTalk/WCF/MSMQ/WF/CSD/Orcas Neudesic's own David Pallmann talks about using the new WCF LOB Adapters with our Neuron ESB Stephen has some helpful tips on processing MSMQ FIFO messages in WCF My friend Michele continues to rock with the code samples from...
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So, I am trying to gather all the conferences and INETA events that I am speaking at or attending so I can search on it My Code Camps This Saturday, Philly.NET Code Camp (Sold Out!). I will be presenting a brand new talk: Connected Systems: SOA with WCF and ESB at 1:30 PM. We ( Neudesic ) are a Gold...
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So, I am trying to gather all the conferences and INETA events that I am speaking at or attending so I can search on it My Code Camps This Saturday, Philly.NET Code Camp (Sold Out!). I will be presenting a brand new talk: Connected Systems: SOA with WCF and ESB at 1:30 PM. We ( Neudesic ) are a Gold...
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Please note that this blog is no longer on CodeBetter but at http://samgentile.com/blogs/samgentile/default.aspx . You do not need to do a thing as the FeedBurner feed is automagically directing you here. WCF/WF/Orcas/BizTalk/CSD Congrats to all my friends at CSD for shipping BizTalk Server R2 !! This...
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Please note that this blog is no longer on CodeBetter but at http://samgentile.com/blogs/samgentile/default.aspx . You do not need to do a thing as the FeedBurner feed is automagically directing you here. WCF/WF/Orcas/BizTalk/CSD Congrats to all my friends at CSD for shipping BizTalk Server R2 !! This...
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The conference, INETA, and user group speaking is starting to heat up for the fall. WCF The WCF subset supported by NetCF CLR/Unit Testing Interesting discussion on how they got PEX to be Partial-Trust aware LINQ/Orcas ScottGu continues his excellent series LINQ to SQL (Part 9 - Using a Custom LINQ Expression...
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The conference, INETA, and user group speaking is starting to heat up for the fall. WCF The WCF subset supported by NetCF CLR/Unit Testing Interesting discussion on how they got PEX to be Partial-Trust aware LINQ/Orcas ScottGu continues his excellent series LINQ to SQL (Part 9 - Using a Custom LINQ Expression...
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BizTalk Server Channel 9 interview with Tony Bernard , Senior Program Manager, on EDI/AS2 features of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (which is launching this month). [via BizTalk Server Team Blog ] My friend Marjan notes " InfoQ just published their interview with Dino Chiesa , Director of .Net Marketing...
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BizTalk Server Channel 9 interview with Tony Bernard , Senior Program Manager, on EDI/AS2 features of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (which is launching this month). [via BizTalk Server Team Blog ] My friend Marjan notes " InfoQ just published their interview with Dino Chiesa , Director of .Net Marketing...
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WCF Sending Attachments with WCF BizTalk Server/XML/ESB Marty announces CTP3 of ESB Guidance How the WCF LOB Adapter SDK works with IChannelFactory and IChannelListener The XML Tools Team has just announced the first CTP of the XML Designer, which features the XML Schema Explorer. Finally!! Concurrency...
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WCF Sending Attachments with WCF BizTalk Server/XML/ESB Marty announces CTP3 of ESB Guidance How the WCF LOB Adapter SDK works with IChannelFactory and IChannelListener The XML Tools Team has just announced the first CTP of the XML Designer, which features the XML Schema Explorer. Finally!! Concurrency...
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As Clemens blogs, CSD is conducting the SOA and Business Process Conference running October 29 - November 2. Of course, a bunch of Connected Systems/BizTalk guys from Neudesic are going (including me). Are you?...
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As Clemens blogs, CSD is conducting the SOA and Business Process Conference running October 29 - November 2. Of course, a bunch of Connected Systems/BizTalk guys from Neudesic are going (including me). Are you?...
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Enterprise Architecture Actionable Enterprise Architecture through Feedback Business Case for Integration, part two The One Business Case for Integration Agile Enterprise Architecture Master Data Management: Minimizing the Complexity Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #7 - August 21, 2007 SOA/ESB Bobby...
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Enterprise Architecture Actionable Enterprise Architecture through Feedback Business Case for Integration, part two The One Business Case for Integration Agile Enterprise Architecture Master Data Management: Minimizing the Complexity Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #7 - August 21, 2007 SOA/ESB Bobby...
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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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I could get used to this rolling out of bed into my office thing BizTalk Server The highly anticipated R2 release (the one with WCF Adapters) of BizTalk Server 2006 is coming real soon! Worldwide launches take place in September and October . My very good friend, Tomas, has released Version 1.1 of my...
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I could get used to this rolling out of bed into my office thing BizTalk Server The highly anticipated R2 release (the one with WCF Adapters) of BizTalk Server 2006 is coming real soon! Worldwide launches take place in September and October . My very good friend, Tomas, has released Version 1.1 of my...
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My time for blogging is rapidly dwindling down to zero SOA Microsoft SOA Webcasts Online [via BizTalk Community Blogs ] SOA is not a disruptive technology (selling SOA, part three) A Maturity Model for Data Integration BizTalk Int roduction to the BizTalk Adapters for Host Systems Microsoft Biztalk Server...
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My time for blogging is rapidly dwindling down to zero SOA Microsoft SOA Webcasts Online [via BizTalk Community Blogs ] SOA is not a disruptive technology (selling SOA, part three) A Maturity Model for Data Integration BizTalk Int roduction to the BizTalk Adapters for Host Systems Microsoft Biztalk Server...
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I have been working with the Office Live Services Beta for some months now. They just went live with my site over the weekend (although I still have to work on the domain name transfer) and it looks pretty good! I have a new Header and Home Page design. I have added my How-To STS/Window Authentication...
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