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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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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I get asked a lot what tools I use, and have planned to write a post. As my buddy Harry got there first , I have also taken the title of "non essential" as he did for the same reason - Scott Hanselman keeps *THE* ultimate list of tools , hence my titling this list as "inessential"...
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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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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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Cross-posted from main blog So, since I am out here in Irvine CA for our annual meeting, and I have just pushed out a Plaxo update to everyone, I guess it's time to let you all know that I have joined Neudesic as a Principal Consultant II, heading/responsible for the Connected Systems/SOA practice for...
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Cross-posted from main blog So, since I am out here in Irvine CA for our annual meeting, and I have just pushed out a Plaxo update to everyone, I guess it's time to let you all know that I have joined Neudesic as a Principal Consultant II, heading/responsible for the Connected Systems/SOA practice...
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So I am starting to seriously look into Castle and particularly Microkernel and Winsdor . I would live to look at MonoRail but since I am doing zero web stuff that is less likely. I don't have a lot of time with all the other stuff I am doing but I hope I can create some posts and something out of it...
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So I am starting to seriously look into Castle and particularly Microkernel and Winsdor . I would live to look at MonoRail but since I am doing zero web stuff that is less likely. I don't have a lot of time with all the other stuff I am doing but I hope I can create some posts and something out of...
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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...
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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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We are having some random problems with underlying channels faulting when using Reliable Sessions with the wsHttpBinding in WCF. We have done lots of things to catch channel faults and new up a proxy, as when the channel is faulted there is nothing else you can do but we still continue to have random...
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We are having some random problems with underlying channels faulting when using Reliable Sessions with the wsHttpBinding in WCF. We have done lots of things to catch channel faults and new up a proxy, as when the channel is faulted there is nothing else you can do but we still continue to have random...
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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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Ok, I know I have switched my personal blog more times than Paris Hilton has got arrested but this is the last time, I swear :). To all your feedback, you said you didn't want other sites for both my home and personal blog. I also have totally had it with webhost4life and switched to the wonderful...
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Ok, I know I have switched my personal blog more times than Paris Hilton has got arrested but this is the last time, I swear :). To all your feedback, you said you didn't want other sites for both my home and personal blog. I also have totally had it with webhost4life and switched to the wonderful folks...
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As all of you know, I am a big time Extreme Programmer. My team runs under a full XP process . I have written hundreds of posts on it, blah, blah, blah. I call myself an Agile Architect . But lately, I find myself getting increasingly annoyed with my "own" community, even some on this site...
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As all of you know, I am a big time Extreme Programmer. My team runs under a full XP process . I have written hundreds of posts on it, blah, blah, blah. I call myself an Agile Architect . But lately, I find myself getting increasingly annoyed with my "own" community, even some on this site...
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I finally did it. As promised yesterday, I shaved my head completely down to skin. I'm sure Raymond will be proud. IIS 7.0/Longhorn Server ScottGu announces that IIS 7.0 Ships with a Go-Live License . His post lists the numerous features that IIS 7 has in the recent Beta 3 of longhorn Server over...
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I finally did it. As promised yesterday, I shaved my head completely down to skin. I'm sure Raymond will be proud. IIS 7.0/Longhorn Server ScottGu announces that IIS 7.0 Ships with a Go-Live License . His post lists the numerous features that IIS 7 has in the recent Beta 3 of longhorn Server over those...
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Code Camp 2007.1 Via Bill Wolff , Day 1 of our third annual Code Camp series will be held at the Microsoft Greater PA Office in Malvern, PA on Saturday, May 19 from 8:30-6:00. Morning refreshments are provided courtesy of New Horizons Learning Centers . Lunch is contributed by RDA Consultants . Please...
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Code Camp 2007.1 Via Bill Wolff , Day 1 of our third annual Code Camp series will be held at the Microsoft Greater PA Office in Malvern, PA on Saturday, May 19 from 8:30-6:00. Morning refreshments are provided courtesy of New Horizons Learning Centers . Lunch is contributed by RDA Consultants . Please...
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The Heat of the Moment reached 83 degrees here yesterday after days of 50 degrees and rain. Who heard of getting a sun burn in New England in mid April? Blogging/Blogsphere My friend Korby introduced Tagspace , a concept he presented to Scott Hanselman and I back at Palermo's party. I am happy to see...
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The Heat of the Moment reached 83 degrees here yesterday after days of 50 degrees and rain. Who heard of getting a sun burn in New England in mid April? Blogging/Blogsphere My friend Korby introduced Tagspace , a concept he presented to Scott Hanselman and I back at Palermo's party. I am happy to...
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I heard a lot of feedback back when I started my new personal blog and before when I started a new home portal on Office Live, that I should consolidate my web properties back around samgentile.com. To this point. it has been rather difficult because of the way we set up it was convoluted. An old version...
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CLR/Tools An excellent post from Scott Hanselman on Managing Change with .NET Assembly Diff Tools . As I said , during the MVP Summit I spent time with Patrick Smachia and Scott Hanselman looking at the absolutely amazing new beta of NDepend . Microsoft/Ajax/Web 2.0 is Bull**** Ayende already took Paul...
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CLR/Tools An excellent post from Scott Hanselman on Managing Change with .NET Assembly Diff Tools . As I said , during the MVP Summit I spent time with Patrick Smachia and Scott Hanselman looking at the absolutely amazing new beta of NDepend . Microsoft/Ajax/Web 2.0 is Bull**** Ayende already took Paul...
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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 have spent a lot of time through the night and some today to try to get my personal blog in order after the Mac options didn't pan out. We have a really important, large external release going out to two external banks next Friday but we stopped this week's Iteration to fix bugs that had been...
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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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Sitting here on Saturday morning with a nice cup of Kona coffee. There just is no better coffee in the world. Strong but deceivingly smooth. I really miss our former annual trips to the Big Island that we used to take with my Father-In-Law and family before he got ill. We used to go up in the hills and...
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Sitting here on Saturday morning with a nice cup of Kona coffee. There just is no better coffee in the world. Strong but deceivingly smooth. I really miss our former annual trips to the Big Island that we used to take with my Father-In-Law and family before he got ill. We used to go up in the hills and...
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Its suddenly over 80 degrees here today and went off for a drenching run. Team System/Team Foundation Server Big news of the day is that Microsoft has acquired TeamPlain , which makes the popular TeamPlain Web Access for Team Server. Brian Harry says, "Effective today, TeamPlain is available, at...
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Its suddenly over 80 degrees here today and went off for a drenching run. Team System/Team Foundation Server Big news of the day is that Microsoft has acquired TeamPlain , which makes the popular TeamPlain Web Access for Team Server. Brian Harry says, "Effective today, TeamPlain is available, at...
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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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This is it, the big 150! The first New and Notable was on May 19, 2003 , (my first post was March 29, 2002 ) and I paid homage to the master, "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...
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This is it, the big 150! The first New and Notable was on May 19, 2003 , (my first post was March 29, 2002 ) and I paid homage to the master, "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...
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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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Yup, I'm still stuck in Seattle and I still feel like crap. Tomas just went off to the airport and I feel like the last MVP left in Seattle. Just want to get out of here and home but can't do that until tomorrow night. Lots of stuff stored up Entity Framework/ADO.NET 3/ORM/ASP.NET/MonoRail I...
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Yup, I'm still stuck in Seattle and I still feel like crap. Tomas just went off to the airport and I feel like the last MVP left in Seattle. Just want to get out of here and home but can't do that until tomorrow night. Lots of stuff stored up Entity Framework/ADO.NET 3/ORM/ASP.NET/MonoRail I consider...
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A great treat today was the Architect MVPs having a tour of the PAG Agile facilities with my very good friend Peter Provost. What they have accomplished, especially within the Microsoft office system, is pretty amazing. I will publish pictures later as this information is alll public. They have constructed...
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A great treat today was the Architect MVPs having a tour of the PAG Agile facilities with my very good friend Peter Provost. What they have accomplished, especially within the Microsoft office system, is pretty amazing. I will publish pictures later as this information is alll public. They have constructed...
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Today, the "breakout" sessions begun. In other words, we started drilling down with the product groups; for me that is Solution Architect. Some of the sessions I can't even name as even the code words are not public but I did want to mention that we had a great session and discussion (on...
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Today, the "breakout" sessions begun. In other words, we started drilling down with the product groups; for me that is Solution Architect. Some of the sessions I can't even name as even the code words are not public but I did want to mention that we had a great session and discussion (on the...
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Ayende says, " Here is an interesting discussion about this topic. Apperantly you will not be able to just take any object and persist it using the Entity Framework. You need to either inherit from a base class, or (in the future) implement a set of interfaces. I can't figure out what the reason...
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Ayende says, " Here is an interesting discussion about this topic. Apperantly you will not be able to just take any object and persist it using the Entity Framework. You need to either inherit from a base class, or (in the future) implement a set of interfaces. I can't figure out what the reason...
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Yesterday was registration today. I got to spend some time with Patrick Smachia and Scott Hanselman looked at the absolutely amazing new beta of NDepend . Patrick has built a new powerful query language and some great visualizations into the tool that absolutely convinced me I need to use this for myself...
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Yesterday was registration today. I got to spend some time with Patrick Smachia and Scott Hanselman looked at the absolutely amazing new beta of NDepend . Patrick has built a new powerful query language and some great visualizations into the tool that absolutely convinced me I need to use this for myself...
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Like Tomas and so many others, I am in seattle this week for the MVP Summit. After seeing Tomas' post, I IM'd him and went down for coffee. I only get to see my good friend once a year in person as Tomas lives in Columbia. That's the greatest thing about the MVP Summit for me, the connections and friendships...
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Like Tomas and so many others, I am in seattle this week for the MVP Summit. After seeing Tomas' post, I IM'd him and went down for coffee. I only get to see my good friend once a year in person as Tomas lives in Columbia. That's the greatest thing about the MVP Summit for me, the connections...
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In the last two posts 101 and 102 , I went pretty deep in some areas. I want to step back and do some more tutorial stuff. So the first question out of the gate is what is Workflow itself and where might you use it? In a nutshell, a Workflow describes and automates a Business Process. It can be described...
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In the last two posts 101 and 102 , I went pretty deep in some areas. I want to step back and do some more tutorial stuff. So the first question out of the gate is what is Workflow itself and where might you use it? In a nutshell, a Workflow describes and automates a Business Process. It can be described...
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So, last time around , I left off at the issue about my struggles with the ExternalDataService that ships in WF and purports to be the general mechanism to get data in and out of a workflow. Harry responded that he didn't like EDS and that I get real intimate with the WorkflowQueuingService which...
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So, last time around , I left off at the issue about my struggles with the ExternalDataService that ships in WF and purports to be the general mechanism to get data in and out of a workflow. Harry responded that he didn't like EDS and that I get real intimate with the WorkflowQueuingService which is...
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Still real tired from my Oklahoma trip , partying with Raymond sure is exhausting-). Agile/Development Tools On my short list for some time now, is to switch from NUnit to the definitely superior MbUnit. My friend Andrew has done some great work with this tool and he has a new release out with the beta...
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Still real tired from my Oklahoma trip , partying with Raymond sure is exhausting-). Agile/Development Tools On my short list for some time now, is to switch from NUnit to the definitely superior MbUnit. My friend Andrew has done some great work with this tool and he has a new release out with the beta...
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Thanks Oklahoma City and especially Raymond for a great 2 days in the city! It was 76 degrees and I had a blast. Raymond was the best host a speaker could ever wish for and the group was great. One thing that is different from other groups is that they have both a lunch meeting (hour and 15 minutes)...
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Thanks Oklahoma City and especially Raymond for a great 2 days in the city! It was 76 degrees and I had a blast. Raymond was the best host a speaker could ever wish for and the group was great. One thing that is different from other groups is that they have both a lunch meeting (hour and 15 minutes)...
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Harry wonders if it has been a slow week. It started that way for me but its certainly not now with both work and the Orcas CTP release. I was getting so bored with .NET in general and even WCF/WF lately. Its really been a long time for me with something new. Vista is so one year ago, WCF too, etc. Last...
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Harry wonders if it has been a slow week. It started that way for me but its certainly not now with both work and the Orcas CTP release. I was getting so bored with .NET in general and even WCF/WF lately. Its really been a long time for me with something new. Vista is so one year ago, WCF too, etc. Last...
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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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As fellow CodeBetter Blogger Raymond notes, in his very gracious post , I will be giving two talks on WCF for INETA this coming Monday in Oklahoma City. The deck is being refined once again with my latest Indigo learnings especially as we deploy in Financial Banks. I also hope to have new demos, perhaps...
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As fellow CodeBetter Blogger Raymond notes, in his very gracious post , I will be giving two talks on WCF for INETA this coming Monday in Oklahoma City. The deck is being refined once again with my latest Indigo learnings especially as we deploy in Financial Banks. I also hope to have new demos, perhaps...
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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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I don't really know what to call this post. I'm not as good as Palermo in doing 101 posts and I like to talk about the context and issues. And, I'm not just a pretty link-blogger so away we go :). Way back in October, I talked about Re-Hosting the Windows Workflow Designer in our application . So the...
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I don't really know what to call this post. I'm not as good as Palermo in doing 101 posts and I like to talk about the context and issues. And, I'm not just a pretty link-blogger so away we go :). Way back in October, I talked about Re-Hosting the Windows Workflow Designer in our application...
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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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In a post on January 25th , I said, "I posted yesterday that we had shipped our Enterprise Collateral Management solution based on our new architecture. As I said, we still have a lot more to do ." I provided a concise list of the methodologies, technologies and tools that we used in our 14...
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In a post on January 25th , I said, "I posted yesterday that we had shipped our Enterprise Collateral Management solution based on our new architecture. As I said, we still have a lot more to do ." I provided a concise list of the methodologies, technologies and tools that we used in our 14...
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I spent my day off reviewing chapters from Michele's Indigo book and Steve's LINQ book. Meanwhile, my 4 year old daughter has fed our (expensive!) premium Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream we got at Whole Foods to Angus the Bulldog exclaiming "but Dad! He's a part of the family!" Data/SQL Server...
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I spent my day off reviewing chapters from Michele's Indigo book and Steve's LINQ book. Meanwhile, my 4 year old daughter has fed our (expensive!) premium Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream we got at Whole Foods to Angus the Bulldog exclaiming "but Dad! He's a part of the family!"...
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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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I haven't felt like blogging much lately. Some of that is due to how much is going on at work (much more on that when I feel like it) but I have also haven't really felt jazzed about blogging lately. I want to, and am starting to devote more time to get myself into the gym and my family, both...
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I haven't felt like blogging much lately. Some of that is due to how much is going on at work (much more on that when I feel like it) but I have also haven't really felt jazzed about blogging lately. I want to, and am starting to devote more time to get myself into the gym and my family, both of which...
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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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Way back on Sep. 7th of last year, I published an entry on writing your first WPF program on Vista . Now, that Vista is really out, and there is a ton of excitement about WPF on blogs lately, I have been ramping up again on WPF. I spent about 4 hours this morning from 1-4 AM (yes that's when there's...
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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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I posted yesterday that we had shipped our Enterprise Collateral Management solution based on our new architecture. As I said, we still have a lot more to do. Several people have asked and many have been interested in the continuing blog posts that I have had on our 14 month development cycle. This post...
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I posted yesterday that we had shipped our Enterprise Collateral Management solution based on our new architecture. As I said, we still have a lot more to do. Several people have asked and many have been interested in the continuing blog posts that I have had on our 14 month development cycle. This post...
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We finally saw some snow here but it was under an inch. Today, my team has a release party. After 14 months and over 80 iterations, we have shipped on top of our architecture an enterprise collateral management solution and deployed in a large bank in Paris and London and they have accepted it. We have...
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We finally saw some snow here but it was under an inch. Today, my team has a release party. After 14 months and over 80 iterations, we have shipped on top of our architecture an enterprise collateral management solution and deployed in a large bank in Paris and London and they have accepted it. We have...
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Architecture More competition! No, I am very glad to see my good friend and Architect Harry start a series like mine and Mike's with his Morning Coffee 10 . I'm going to have to quicken the pace-) Software Development/Tools JetBrains has released their 1 .2 version of their new CI and build solution...
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Architecture More competition! No, I am very glad to see my good friend and Architect Harry start a series like mine and Mike's with his Morning Coffee 10 . I'm going to have to quicken the pace-) Software Development/Tools JetBrains has released their 1 .2 version of their new CI and build solution...
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WPF/Avalon One thing I had forgotten about in Avalon is the XAML Browser Apps (XBAPS) sandboxed in the browser. Karen Corby has two posts here on features and the second on security levels . [Found via Lester's WPF Blog ] One of the things I am looking at architecturally for 2007, is rationalizing...
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WPF/Avalon One thing I had forgotten about in Avalon is the XAML Browser Apps (XBAPS) sandboxed in the browser. Karen Corby has two posts here on features and the second on security levels . [Found via Lester's WPF Blog ] One of the things I am looking at architecturally for 2007, is rationalizing the...
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More awesome news today on something we use on our project and I really love from Christian : It is here . The Web Service Software Factory (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of tools, patterns, source code and prescriptive guidance that helps our customers quickly and consistently...
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More awesome news today on something we use on our project and I really love from Christian : It is here . The Web Service Software Factory (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of tools, patterns, source code and prescriptive guidance that helps our customers quickly and consistently...
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Via Rob Caron , the news that the Jan CTP of Visual Studio code name "Orcas" is available for download as a self-extracting install, or installed in a Virtual PC image. Check out the Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" Related CTP Downloads page. That page has a whole list of mouth watering...
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Via Rob Caron , the news that the Jan CTP of Visual Studio code name "Orcas" is available for download as a self-extracting install, or installed in a Virtual PC image. Check out the Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" Related CTP Downloads page. That page has a whole list of mouth watering...
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Completely buried with two projects and the main one is going to CTP #2 at a major back in Paris/London next week so going to scrape this together quickly. I have also been pairing with Steve back on the main project on solving performance problems - yesterday, he and I optimized a section of the system...
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A N&N from Brussels Belgium where I am up in the middle of the night (again I wake up at 3AM!) with my sleep hours all screwed up. I am enjoying my week here nonetheless. I don't know quite what to make of Brussels. Some parts remind me quite a bit of Paris but there is this weird mix of "modern"...
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A N&N from Brussels Belgium where I am up in the middle of the night (again I wake up at 3AM!) with my sleep hours all screwed up. I am enjoying my week here nonetheless. I don't know quite what to make of Brussels. Some parts remind me quite a bit of Paris but there is this weird mix of "modern"...
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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 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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I cannot get Visual Studio 2005 Retail (Full Edition) to install on Vista 5456 as the documents and web site say I can do with the June .NET Framework 3.0 deliverables? Setup.exe just closes with an unknown error (or crash). I hate to ask this here but I am desperate! Has anyone gotten Visual Studio...
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I cannot get Visual Studio 2005 Retail (Full Edition) to install on Vista 5456 as the documents and web site say I can do with the June .NET Framework 3.0 delieverables? Setup.exe just closes with an unknown error (or crash). I hate to ask this here but I am desperate! Has anyone gotten Visual Studio...
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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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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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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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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 meaning...
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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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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 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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I recently spent a couple of days down in Austin driving around with Scott Bellware discussing many of the ideas that he just put in his brilliant essay, " Mort or Elvis: A Question for a Bygone Era . " I agree with just about all of it and feel just as strongly. I would go as far as saying...
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I recently spent a couple of days down in Austin driving around with Scott Bellware discussing many of the ideas that he just put in his brilliant essay, " Mort or Elvis: A Question for a Bygone Era . " I agree with just about all of it and feel just as strongly. I would go as far as saying...
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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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