A collection of links, not all "new" AppFabric/BizTalk/Identity AppFabric Virtual Launch on May 20th - Save the Date - Microsoft will be conducting an event to launch Windows Server AppFabric and BizTalk Server. They will be kicking off the Application Infrastructure Virtual Launch Event on...
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WF/AppFabric/WCF WF4 Activity Pack CTP1 Available (State Machine, Database) - Matt Winkle announces that the WF4 Activity Pack CTP1 is now available for download. This release consists of two different activities, database activities for interacting with a database and the much anticipated State Machine...
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Silverlight 4 Silverlight 4 Released - ScottGu has the announcement, where to download, and points to some other resources Silverlight 4 released. Availability of tools announcement - One of the resources ScottGu points at is this one which covers what's in the bits, RIA Services, Windows Phone 7 Developer...
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Lots more coverage of the VS2010/.NET Framework 4 launch today in addition to my launch post yesterday VS 2010/.NET Framework 4 Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Released - ScottGu has a very extensive announcement post that very thoroughly covers improvements and new features in all areas of the product...
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VS 2010/.NET Framework 4 Cleaner HTML Markup with ASP.NET 4 Web Forms - Client IDs (VS2010 and .NET Framework Series) - I am behind on these. This is ScottGu's sixteenth in a series of blog posts on the new release. In this installment, he that talks about some of the important changes made to make Web...
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News of the Day ReSharper 5.0 Goes RC! - Exciting news from the JetBrains blog that they have made a ReSharper 5.0 Release Candidate build for download. There are apparently no new features on the build but a ton of performance improvements and VS2010 integration fixes. ReSharper has always been an important...
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MIX10/Silverlight4/WindowsPhone/XNA Big day of announcements at MIX yesterday starting with: The Silverlight 4 Release Candidate - René Schulte highlights the MIX10 announcement of the release of the Silverlight 4 Release candidate, sharing a high level overview of the new features in version...
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Cloud Computing/Azure Should IT Fear the Cloud or Embrace It ? - David Pallmann explores the impact to IT faced with the challenges presented to it by cloud computing, even in the face of a compelling business story Gold Coast .Net SIG Azure Development Talk - Slides and Demo - Steve Nagy shares his...
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Software Development Tools .NET Reflector 6.0 - Lutz himself announced trhat Red Gate Software released a new version of Reflector including .NET 4 support. Pro version adds debugging in Visual Studio. Download here ReSharper 5 Beta 2 Released - Great news - ReSharper has released a Beta 2 with support...
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WCF/WF WF4 runtime performance - The .NET Endpoint begins a series of blog posts on WF4 performance with a post on the core workflow runtime. Performance is a large reason why many people are moving from WF3 to WF4. Discover a New WCF with Discovery! - Kent Brown points to Juval's great article in the...
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Yesterday, I had a short post on the VS 2010/.NET FW 4 RC, but there's a lot more to blog, VS 2010/.NET Framework 4 RC Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate now available - Soma announces the release officially and points to Jason Zander's blog for more information Announcing VS2010...
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First N&N in about 2 months... WCF/Windows Server AppFabric/REST Pretty much the stuff that was REST support in WCF has been relabeled WCF WebHttp Services. This post back on Jan 7th was part one of a twelve part series that introduces the WebHttp Services in .NET 4. Speaking of that relabeling,...
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This is mostly a "catch up" post, so there may be a few items not exactly "new" Windows Azure New training kit for Azure & Identity - The team have been heads down on PDC hands on labs for Azure (there are 13 new labs) as well as a new Channel 9 course for the Windows Azure Platform...
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Windows AppFabric/WF 4.0 Getting Started with Windows Server AppFabric - The AppFabric team in a post to the CSD blog The .NET Endpoint, takes you through the steps of installing AppFabic (including prerequisites) and getting started with tutorials. If you need a review of what AppFabic offers, see this...
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WCF/Azure/BizTalk/Oslo WCF Interoperability Highlighted at PDC and ApacheCon - Kent highlights the work, showcased in the PDC booth, for WCF's interoperability through the WS-* protocols. In particular, they highlighted the Apache project Stonehenge, where Microsoft worked together with WS-* vendors...
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Software Development Tools Linq to Sql Profiler is now in public beta - Ayende announces the public betaof a tool in the fashion of NHibernate Profiler Typemock Isolator 5.4.4 - The newest version of this mocking tool is out, which is mostly a maintanance release, sporting major improvements in Intellitest...
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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 Workflow WF4 Beta 1 => Beta 2 Breaking Changes Document Published – Matt Winkler points to the document on Microsoft.com downloads that lists the major breaking changes that occurred for WF between Beta 1 and Beta 2 My presentations at HDC 09 – Matt Milner’s presentations...
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VS 2010/.NET Framework 4 Beta 2 Add Reference Dialog Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) - The twelfth in ScottGu's series is one a very welcome change - An Add Reference Dialog that loads fast ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET MVC Templates, Part 3: Default Templates - Brad continues his series with a post...
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Software Development Tools TestDriven.Net 3.0 Alpha - Support for Visual Studio 2010 - Yes! My #1 tool of choice has been upgraded with support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2! Typemock Isolator 5.4.3 released - This version fixes some issues raised after releasing Intellitest last week , as well as releasing...
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REST/SOA SharePoint 2010 - access data through ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) - Jon first talks about being super excited about SharePoint 2010. Then Jon talks about SharePoint list data being exposed via ADO.NET Data Services. He also says, "Another really cool part of this integration between...
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The focus continues to be VS 2010/.NET Framework 4 Beta 2 VS 2010/.NET Framework 4 Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit - October Preview - The new release has a wealth of resources including demos, slide decks and labs No Javascript IntelliSense in VS 2010? Reset your Settings? - Rick...
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Agile The vital discussion that I pointed to yesterday initiated by Ted Neward continued today with a well-written follow-up from Phil Haack , and then followed up by Ted . Interesting discussion and comments. Software Development Tools Power Commands for Reflector 1.3 and Introducing Query Editor –...
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First time I have been up at 5AM in a very long time. BTW, the new Starbucks Via Ready Brew coffees are amazing. They are whole bean instant coffees. They say it took them 20 years to come up with it. All I know, is that it is the first instant coffee I have ever had in my life that doesn’t taste...
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Slim pickings today. Software Development Tools My History of Visual Studio (Part 5) - Rico Mariani continues his personal history of the IDE F# in Visual Studio 2010 - Soma writes about F# being a full-fledged first-class citizen in VS2010 and some of the new features it brings to the working programmer...
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Software Design/ALT.NET 200 Page Manual on Inversion of Control (plus or minus 199) - Rob Conery responds to Joel's statement, "IoC containers take a simple, elegant, and useful concept, and make it something you have to study for two days with a 200-page manual" with a short tutorial to show...
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Agile/TDD TDD Triage - The echoes from Joel Spolsky’s Duct Tape blog continue. Uncle Bob, after all the controversy from his last two posts, talks about where TDD works and where it doesn’t Software Development Tools My History of Visual Studio (Part 3) - Rico Mariani continues the story...
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ASP.NET MVC/Web Programming Using Seadragon with ASP.NET MVC - K. Scott Allan shows how to use Seadragon , one of the new controls in the AJAX Control Toolkit from ASP.NET MVC. It gives you all the goodness of Deep Zoom using only JavaScript. ModelValidator in ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 - Part 1 - The first...
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ASP.NET MVC/ASP.NET AJAX ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 – Phil Haack announces the release of ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (and ASP.NET 3.5 SP1), which builds on top of the work done in Preview 1 released two months ago . Some of the new cool features include Client-Side Validation...
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Software Development/ALT.NET I’m probably the only blogger that didn’t link to or comment on Joel’s latest essay, duct tape programmers . I am not going to bother commenting on it either as Joel’s writing tends to just infuriate me and make me wonder why *anyone* is paying attention...
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Windows Azure/WCF Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 9/24/2009+ – The usual great list of Azure links from Roger Jennings First CTP of SQL Azure and Updated Training Kit Now Available! – The first CTP of SQL Azure is available for testing and the Azure training kit for August has...
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Agile/ALT.NET/Software Design Two Chapters from Agile Estimating & Planning Available – Mike Cohn, the master of Agile Estimation and planning has made two chapters from his upcoming book available Make It Easy to Refactor – Jak gives some tips to make sure your code is in a good state...
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ASP.NET and Web Programming Auto-Start ASP.NET Applications (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) - ScottGu produces his 7th in the series and the first covering a few runtime features. This particular one is pretty cool: the ability to automatically startup and proactively initialize a web application without...
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ALT.NET Slides of my NHibernate Talk - Davy Brion shares his slides for a talk he is giving on NHibernate Agile is never 'no process" - Ian agrees with David that agile is about discipline and how Agile is getting a bad name because some are choosing Agile to give an excuse for "we don't want...
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REST/Azure Services/Astoria/WCF Building a RESTful application with SQL Azure Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 9/7/2009+ ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 Feature: Projections Big Huge Objects and WCF Software Development Tools MonoDevelop 2.2 Beta 1: We go cross-platform - Miguel de Icaza announces...
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SOA/Indigo/WCF/Oslo SOA Patterns - Reservations Client Configuration in WCF 4.0 Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 4 - The last part in this series is to bring the history of the named pipe up to the named pipe implementation in WCF. WOW ! *The* guy I learned COM from originally is back at Microsoft...
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Assorted Review: Three Technical Podcasts I Subscribe To - Steve Sanderson, of ASP.NET MVC book fame, reviews three great technical podcasts Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package - Part 4 - In this fourth part, Keyvan covers the differences between an add-in and an integration package, and highlight...
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Software Tools The big news of the day which is quite welcome, is the new 2009 version of Scott Hanselman's " Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tools List for Windows ." Code Optimized Web Development Profile (VS2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) Why Declarative UIs are Important ADO.NET Data Services...
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Azure Services/Astoria/Service Oriented Design ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP Now Available Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8/3/2009+ WSCF.blue Beta-2 Other Rhino Mocks 3.6 Multi-Monitor Support (VS2010 and .NET 3 Series)...
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Agile/ALT.NET/Software Design A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: The Session Level Cache Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Lazy Loading A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: Laxy Loading Building Your Own Data Access Layer: Executing Custom Queries A guide into OR/M implementation challenges...
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Agile/ALT.NET/Software Design Building Your Own Data Access Layer: Hydrating Entities A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: Hydrating Entities Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Session Level Cache Talking about StoryTeller and Executable Requirements Measuring Agile Performance with the Agile...
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Agile/ALT.NET James Shore provides a Introduction to Agile for QA People This is late but Davy Brion has started a series on Build Your Own Data Access Layer Series . Some posts include Out of the Box CRUD Functionality , Mapping Classes to Tables , and Hydrating Entities . Ayende seems to be having...
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Agile/ALT.NET/Software Design Moving to Kanban: A Mentoring Session A Conversation On Adopting Kanban Refactoring Day 20: Extract Subclass Herding code on MVVM and other presentation patterns in WPF & Silverlight Entity Framework/Oslo Julie has more on Oslo & Data Programability Merger Julie...
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Software Design Refactoring Day 18: Replace exception with condtional Refactoring Day 19: Extract Factory Class WCF/Azure Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8/19/2009+ One Minute Survey: WCF PDC Topics - your inputs are needed Other My good friend Jason has updated his Reflector.Babel Addin OAuth in...
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Silverlight 3/RIA Building Line of Business Applications with Silverlight 3 - Pros and Cons Moonlight 2 Beta 1 Moonlight 2.0 Beta 1 Contains Features from Silverlight 3.0 - Moonlight, the open source implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight for Linux and Unix/X11 systems, has reached version 2...
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Silverlight LinqToSQL A Detailed Review - Jesse continues his Silverlight Turing project Software Design/Refactoring Refactoring Day 15: Remove Duplication Refactoring Day 16: Encapsulate C onditional WCF What's New in WCF 4: Alternative List Conference Talks Brian Noyes has slides and code for 2 INETA...
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Software Development Tools/Agile One of the best tools in the world , and one I install just after VS on a new machine has received a new update. In the first post on TestDriven.NET 2.23 Beta , Jamie talks about how if you are using TD.NET 2.23 on a 64-bit system, running tests is almost twice as fast...
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Pluralsight On-Demand! I plan to have a full post on Pluralsight On- Demand! very soon. I became a subscriber recently and have found it to be an amazing training tool. Its just ike being in the classroom with the best instructors in the business and the courses cover the bulk of the current and upcoming...
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Windows Azure New Storage Feature: Signed Access Signature Summary and Transcript: First Windows Azure Lounge Chat Software Design Refactoring Day 11: Switch to Strategy Software/Silverlight SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP Available Today StyleCop update 4.3.2.1 is released Business Apps Example for Silverlight...
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Software Design The Presentation Patterns Wiki is live! Refactoring Day 6: Push Down Field Refactoring Day 7: Rename (method, class, parameter) Refactoring Day 8: Replace Inheritance with Delegation Refactoring Day 9: Extract Interface Refactoring Day 10: Extract Method xUnit.net 1.5 Beta Released Windows...
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ASP.NET AJAX/ASP.NET 4.0/ASP.NET MVC Get early access to ASP.NET AJAX in Action, Second Edition - This was THE ASP.NET AJAX book per ScottGu and others in the original ASP.NET 4.0 Series Index Post ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX Enhancements Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 available on Amazon Windows Azure/WF/WCF/Identity...
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WCF/WF/Azure Developer Introductions to WCF and WF in .NET 4 Beta 1 Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8/3/09+ Agile Refactoring Day 3: Pull Up Method Silverlight Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update Summary Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM...
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Software Design/Fundamentals Foundations of Programming - Small Update What's hard about activating screens? Fluent Domain Methods Refactoring Day 1: Encapsulate Collection Refactoring Day 2: Move Method LINQ/Entity Framework LINQ To Entities, SQL and performance LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 7...
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ASP.NET MVC Single Project Areas with ASP.NET MVC Preview 1 WCF/Oslo Client Certificate Credential Verification Polling Duplex Sample with Silverlight 3 What's So Compelling about "Quadrant" Anyway? Silverlight Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part...
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ASP.NET MVC The big news today is the detailed announcement by ScottGu about the ASP.NET MVC V2 Preview 1 release. Phil Haack also has an announcement post. There is also Hanselminutes on 9 on the preview release.The pose post includes some additional links. CSD Stuff (MSE, WCF, REST, Oslo, M, BizTalk...
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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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Had extensive sinus surgery Monday and healing all week. There may be few blog posts. Ioc/WCF/WF/Azure Via Jeremy, Introducing the Common Service Factory - IoC and WCF Living in Harmony New walkthroughs for the July CTP of Windows Azure Tools Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 7/20/2009+ Migration...
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Silverlight 3 Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 8: WCF Based Data Source Building Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 from Visual Studio 2008 New in Silverlight 3: Perspective Transforms What's New in SL3 - Based On Styles What's New in Silverlight 3 - Validation...
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WCF/REST/Windows Azure This is really cool - Litware Training sample Mashup app - They have taken the WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2 and built a Web 2.0 Mashup with it Tuning ConnectionBufferSize WPC09 - My Windows Azure Session Silverlight Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services...
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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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Entity Framework Entity Framework 4.0: How to use POCOs Entity Framework 4.0: POCOs and table-per-type inheritance mapping LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 7/16/2009+ Silverlight 3 Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update Part 1: Navigation Basics Business Apps...
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Agile Launch of the PMI Agile Community Relearning: The Productivitry Problem We're Not Supposed to Talk About Web Programming Event Aggregation with jQuery Rounded Corner Rendering in newer Browsers Azure/BizTalk/Oslo/SOA/WOA Microsoft .NET Services July 2009 CTP Release Windows Azure and Cloud Computing...
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Software Releases Subsonic 3.0 is Released - with a new LINQ engine, templating system, and SimpleRepository Data Access Guidance Drops Available Finally! DinnerNow.net 3.0 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 jQuery jQuery.noConflict - Resolving conflicts with other javascript libraries...
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ASP.NET/Web Programming Three IIS Concepts ASP.NET Developers Should Know JavaScript for the ASP.NET Developer WPF Rick Strahl's WPF Localization Guidance Paper Posted on CodePlex Connected Systems (WCF, WF, Azure Services, etc) Windows Azure, A conversation with David Chappell Using FindBySubjectDistinguishedName...
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ASP.NET MVC/Web Programming How we do MVC - View Models VS2010 Beta 1 Web Application Project Database package and SMO Options ASP.NET 4.0 Enhancements to Data Controls C# Community Convergence LI Connected Systems (Azure, WF, WCF, etc) Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 6/29/09+ Passing data...
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SOA/WCF/REST/WF Jesus Rodriguez has his slide deck on WOA from SOAWorld 2009 available Also, he has Using WCF 4.0 XAML Services in the real world: Activating WCF Services from a Central Repository SOA Security Testing - XML Gateways WCF Load Test Tool 3.0 Beta Disposing a WCF Proxy A Bad Idea, EF Entities...
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Connected Systems (Azure Services Platform, .NET Services, WCF, WF, BizTalk) Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Links for 6/22/09+ "Joint Venture": New Azure Multi-Business Enterprise Application (MEBA) The Microsoft Application Platform: A Perspective NDC 2009 - Get the Code ! - various CSD...
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Visual Studio 2010/.NET 4 Visual Studio 2010 .net debugging resource Visual Studio 2010: Web application packaging and publishing WPF Data Binding: Lookup Tables Software Development Tools NHibernate: Handling the Special Cases TestDriven.Net 2.22: What's New? Oslo MSDN: New "Quadrant" Videos...
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ASP.NET/VS2010 and NETFW 4 Updates to FTP publishing in Visual Studio 2010 WF/WCF/REST/Identity Management Learning by example with 4 - All about the code samples you can download for WF/WCF 4.0 Transactions are bad for REST Announcing FabrikamShipping, in-depth semi-realistic sample for the Geneva Framework...
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WF/Orcas Sequential and Flowchart modeling styles Introduction to Workflow Tracking in .NET 4.0 Beta 1 Building Applications for Orcas - With the "Oslo" May 09 CTP, the MSDN Library now contains a number of additional topics covering more of the "big picture" of model-driven developmenr...
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Playing around quite a bit with jQuery while re-learning JavaScript. It's easy to see why people fall in love with it. WCF/WF Breaking All The Rules with WCF - Scott Hanselman reminds us that true Interop is hard even using WCF Metadata Client Behaviors Mocking the Console ASP.NET/ASP.NET MVC/jQuery...
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BizTalk/Oslo/Windows Azure Announcing the Availability of the BizTalk ESB 2.0 Toolkit MGraph Object Model - This paper describes the newly revised object model for dynamic (programmatic) parsing of MGraph output as it exists in the "Oslo" May 2009 CTP. It is the lowest-level runtime model to...
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Silverlight What is Expression? SOA Is SOA governance also its own silo? VS10/.NETFW 4 What's New in Globalization in .NET Beta 4? Windows 7 7 Tools for Tweaking Windows 7 Software Architecture/REST Craig Morris on Mobile Application Architectures REST is a style -- WOA is the Architecture Injecting...
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VS2010 and .NET Framework 4 In-Process Side by Side Part 2 - Common in-proc SxS scenarios Achieving Speedups with Small Parallel Loop Boodies Visual Studio 2010 Performance Part 2: Text Editor A scalable reader/writer scheme with optimistic retry Deploying Silverlight Projects using VS10 Software Design...
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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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ASP.NET/ASP.NET AJAX/ASP.NET MVC/jQuery Creating a Simple .NET 4.0 Web App using Visual Studio 2010 ScottGu's May 30 Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio Azure Sample Code for New Windows Azure Blob Features An Update to Introducing the Azure Services Platform Entity Framework POCO in the Entity...
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Software Design/Architecture Jeremy Miller - The Joys and Pains of a Long Lived Codebase - The Video Jeremy Miller - More Persistence Patterns in MSDN Interviewed by Scott Hanselman on Software Metrics Why Occasional Connectivity Could Affect Scalability and How to Deal With It CSD - Oslo/WF/WCF/Azure...
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Agile Agility at Scale: Become as Agile as You Can Be: Scott Ambler talks about his new ebook; The goal of the Agility at Scale: Become as Agile as You Can Be ebook is to get people thinking outside of the box a bit when it comes to agile development strategies and see that they really are ready for...
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C#/VS2010 Null is Not Empty VS2010: On Triangles and Performance - It sure looks like the *very* soon Beta 1 will exhibit some great work on Outlining and Performance Parallel Tasks - new Visual Studio 2010 debugger window ASP.NET Tip #61: Did you know...How to create an ASP.NET Dynamic Data Site? Entity...
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Windows Azure/Azure Service Framework (including .NET Services)/BizTalk David Pallmann has released 2.1 of Azure Storage Explorer with the new feature of modifying what is in storage including create or delete blob containers, blob items, queues, queue messages, tables, and table items. Microsoft has...
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ASP.NET/ASP.NET MVC More ASP.NET MVC Best Practices ASP.NET 4.0 Webforms Enhancements Creating jQuery plug-ins from MicrosoftAJAX components CSD/WCF/Azure Cliff Simpkins does for WCF what he did for WF last week, and covers the WCF Changes between Beta 1 and CTP. Meanwhile, Chistian Weyer has done an...
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Windows 7 The Windows 7 RC is now available to all . Software Development and Tools Great news from Ayende that Castle Windsor has been released as a 2.0 RTM despite never having a 1.0 release. I would love to see Castle ActiveRecord released. Jeremy has great pratical advice on Revitalizing a Technical...
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Can't sleep, so may as well ship another one of these. Software Development Tools TestDriven.Net 2,21: Now includes NUnit 2.5 - One of my most essential toools has been upgraded includes a major new NUnit release as well as some other new features Windows Azure/SOA/WF Windows Azure Storage - An Introduction...
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Windows 7 Of course, the big news is the availability today of Windows 7 on MSDN and TechNet. The bad news is that the MSDN servers are so overloaded, no one can even log into subscriptions ASP.NET MVC Chad Meyers summarizes the discussion so far and links to others in his post To MVC or to WinForms...
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Azure/Cloud Computing I was just getting ready to blog David Pallmann's Grid Computing on the Azure Cloud Computing Platform, Part 2: Developing a Grid Application and Part 3: Running a Grid Application when... ... David announced the release of Neudesic's Grid Computing Framework, Azure Grid , the community...
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Oslo/BizTalk/EDA Using "MUrl" - A textual Oslo DSL for REST Clients - Cesar explains what it is and how to use it Saravana Kumar, a BizTalk MVP, let me know about his fantastic new site http://blogdoc.biztalk247.com . BlogDoc is a site which contains more than 800 blog articles related to BizTalk...
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Windows Azure/Azure Services Platform/WCF Christian Weyer has his slides and demos from his Windows Azure and Azure Services Platform talk at DevWeek He also his slides and demos for WCF Tips and Tricks The CSD folks just published a set of WCF samples on Azure + wiki with known issues/workarounds at...
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.NET Services/Windows Azure Clemens continues with The .NET Service Bus REST Protocol - Some Questions, Some Answers and . NET Services March 2009 CTP - Service Bus Routers and Queues - Part 4: The REST Queue Protocol in Code Snippets , and .NET Services March 2009 CTP - Service Bus Routers and Queues...
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.NET Services/CSD/WCF/Oslo .NET Services March 2009 CTP Is Released - There are many exciting improvements in cross-platform interoperability, Services Bus and Workflow Service capabilities and the developer experience. Speaking of said release, Clemens has a number of posts on the Service Bus portion...
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Oslo/CSD/.NET Services Awesome! My friend Kris Horrocks, who has been a huge part of other CSD efforts like BizTalk and WCF, and is now part of Oslo, is now blogging! Via Chis Sells, also on the Oslo team, news that nice folks over at InfoQ have been building up some Oslo content and reporting on Oslo...
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Windows Azure/Cloud Computing Dave Pallmann's Azure Application Monitor is now on CodePlex Windows Azure Mix '09 Videos Cloud Computing Links March 25, 2009 Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 3/23/2009+ Christian Weyers slides and app from DevWeek 2009: Azure Services Platform Mix '09/ASP.NET...
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Windows Azure/Cloud Computing The Azure Fabric Controller - read What Is: The Azure Fabric and the Development Fabric first Cloud Computing Links March 22, 2009 Silverlight Mix09: Silverlight for Business Apps and .NET RIA Services talks posted Introducing the New Silverlight Blog - new team blog REST...
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Lots of catching up to do. Windows Azure/Cloud Computing Windows Azure Tools and SDK March 2009 CTP Released David Chappell has a new whitepaper on Introducing Windows Azure ASP.NET MVC/AJAX ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is Now Live! Phill Haack's post ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released! Microsoft Ajax 4.0 Preview 4 now available...
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Windows Azure and Cloud Computing April CTP update of the Live Framework SDK and Tools Connecting to Live Mesh with the Live ID Client SDK Live Services - List Cloud Computing Links March 14, 2009 The Anatomy of Cloud Computing Software Architecture/Software Design S#arp Architecture 1.0 RC2 Released...
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ASP.NET MVC Scott Hanselman, among other authors of their upcoming ASP.NET MVC book, announce the inclusion of ScottGu as an author on the book, the first 185 pages of the book as a free PDF download licensed as Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives . They also announce releasing the NerdDinner...
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Windows Azure/Cloud Computing Cloud Computing Links March 10, 2009 Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 3/9/2009+ Agile/Mocks/Software Design/Software Development Tools Moq 3.0 RTM!!! Scott Ambler shares the the Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship which extends the Agile Manifesto . Framework...
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A milestone of sorts today with #300!! Windows Azure/Cloud Computing What is the "Cloud?" - Steve defines what the cloud means for him and how it impacts the "Above the Cloud" blog. Steve also spends some time fleshing out the differences between the Live Mesh Beta, Live Mesh CTP...
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Almost #300 after all these years! Lots of ASP.NET MVC activity after the release yesterday of RC2. ASP.NET MVC How to Learn ASP.NET MVC from Keyvan Nayyeri covers some of the key principles and concepts ASP.NET MVC Domain-Driven Design is a new series and uses the following tools and libraries: NHibernate...
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ASP.NET MVC Phil Haacked announces that the Release Candidate 2 for ASP.NET MVC available for download. Stephen Walter releases Chapter 6 - Understanding HTML Helpers from his MVC book Windows Azure/Cloud Computing Avanade: 2009 Global Survey of Cloud Computing Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts...
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We got clobbered with over a foot of snow. ALT.NET There is some great coverage of ALT.NET Seattle 2009: Phil Haack : ALT.NET Seattle Day One ALT.NET Seattle Day Two ALT.NET Seattle Day Three Glenn Block Scott Hanselman - Experiencing ALT.NET Seattle Open Spaces ALT.NET Seattle — Keynote [Ward...
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Dublin/WCF/Windows Azure (Red Dog) Jesus Rodriguez on Extending Dublin's Forwarding Service with a custom WCF message filter Mary Jo Foley - Red Dog: Ray Ozzie Casts a Long Shadow Earlier in the week, she landed an (email) interview with one of my personal heros: Dave Cutler ASP.NET MVC Steven continues...
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Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 2/23/09+ Azure Service Platform Webcast Series Agile Martin talks about TechnicalDebt Oslo/REST Jon has his Oslo and REST demos from VSLive jQuery VSDoc for jQuery 1.3.2 Now Available...
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This edition comes from near Washington DC, where Sue and I, proud parents of son Jonathan have brought him down for the People to People World Leadership Forum for students that his school recomended him for. He gets to spend the week in Washington DC! Windows Azure David Pallmann with Introduction...
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Cloud Computing/Windows Azure Pat Helland recomends the folks at UC Berkeley RAD Lab who have written a wonderful paper on Cloud Computing. It can be found (with a video interview and some other stuff) at http://abovetheclouds.cs.berkeley.edu . Steve Marx reports on What Happens When You Deploy on Windows...
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CLR/Framework/WPF Brad Abrams continues the book excerpts with Framework Design Guidelines: Serialization Technology Scott Hansleman on Porting WPF Applications to the Microsoft Surface Prism/Silverlight Shawn reports that Prism now supports Silverlight 2 Windows Azure/Cloud Computing Azure and Cloud...
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DDD/ALT.NET Casey has written a bunch more in his DDD series since my last update 4) DDD: There Is No Database 5) DDD: Command Query Separation as an Architectural Concept 6) DDD: Entities and Value Objects 7) DDD: Where is the Code? 8) DDD: Download an eBook of the Series Aggregates and Aggregate Roots...
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WCF/CSD/Azure I know I wrote about the "broken WCF and IDisposable" problem before and how we dealt with it at Neudesic but I can't find it/them with Google. Here is a pointer to David Barrett's (Neudesic) post about how we talked about it and one possible solution. Then I pointed to Jesse...
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ASP.NET MVC Chapter 1 of Steven Walter's upcoming book ASP.NET MVC Unleashed, in rough draft, is available Shawn continues with Building Agiltrain: Part 3 Data Validation Silverlight Rocky - Why Silverlight is the Future WCF Message Framing, Part 7...
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ALT.NET Derek has Dimecast #83 - Learning to use Fluent NHibernate: Getting Started w/ Your First Mappings Software Architecture The Open Group have announced the release of TOGAF 9.0 . TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) has been in development since the mid 90's and is "a standard for...
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Finally got enough snow to delay school for a couple of hours. Oslo/CSD/Queing/Azure/WCF Charles Young takes a closer look at the new CTP of Oslo that I reported the other day He also references this post for what's new and changed in the Oslo CTP Brian Prince has an extensive post on Queues in Azure...
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Just came back from Jonathan's Cub Scout Pinewood Derby. The original car was so light (2.6 ounces instead of 5) that we had to gle so much metal to it and he won an original award for "Most Armor Plated" car ASP.NET MVC Not even a day old and there is a refresh for the ASP.NET MVC RC ASP.NET...
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Architecture Presentation: REST: A Pragmatic Introduction to the Web's Architecture - In this presentation recorded during QCon London 2008, Stefan Tilkov introduces the audience to REST seen as an architectural style. He thinks that REST is not an alternative to SOA but it can serve SOA to reach its...
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DDD/Architecture Udi on DDD & Many to Many Object Relational Mapping Udi also on Building Super Scalable Web Systems with REST Web Programming jQuery 1.3.1 released Tools Matt talks about two of my favorite tools: SnagIt and Camtasia . In addition, if you are an MVP, you can get these tools as part...
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Agile/ALT.NET Scott Ambler on Criteria for a Disciplined Agile Team Scott Bellware - Good Design is Easily Learned Mike Cohn on Establishing a Common Baseline for Story Points Hanselminutes Podcast 146 - Test Driven Development is Design - The Last Word on TDD Windows Azure/.NET Services/BizTalk/CSD...
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WCF/Azure Cloud Services/BizTalk/CSD/Dublin Both Marjan and Steve Martin point to the Beta release of BizTalk Server 2009 and the GA of RFID Mobile Meanwhile, Richard posts on what is actually in it Jesus talks about implementing Content Based routing using the Dublin Application Server Matt Milner has...
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Azure Cloud Services/Oslo/M/WCF David Pallmann, architect of Neudesic's Neuron ESB, has simplified example of using Azure to have a Hello Cloud app that is Twitter like James Clark has some thoughts on the Oslo Modeling Language as well as finding MGrammer having some interesting features Dr. Nick, in...
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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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Haven't wrote much because I am saving up for a big post on Castle Active Record, which I am just really, really enjoying right now in my work. I know we made a good choice. More on that soon. NHibernate/Castle Chad Meyers has posted source/binaries for his recent NHibernate Intro screencasts that are...
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Kids go back to school tomorrow - yay! Web So the big news of the day is Google's beta of “Chrome ” it's attempt at a web browser. I have to say, I am *completely* under whelmed. There is little there except for the name and is nothing other than an effort from Google to continue their ways...
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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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Agile/Software Development/ALT.NET The Art of Agile Development: Collective Code Ownership Raymond provides an entry into lean methodologies Jeffery was on the Software Quality Isn't Optional panel and the video is available The StyleCop team announced the release of a version 4.3 of the StyleCop tool...
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Agile/Software Development/ALT.NET The Art of Agile Development: Collective Code Ownership Raymond provides an entry into lean methodologies Jeffery was on the Software Quality Isn't Optional panel and the video is available The StyleCop team announced the release of a version 4.3 of the StyleCop tool...
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SOA/REST/WOA [REST] What's Missing in REST? RESTful JSON: Bringing REST and RPC Closer Together Malik's Laws of Service Oriented Architecture Also read the response here and then all the comments back and forth above. Great dialogue. Technorati Tags: SOA , REST , WOA...
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Visual Studio Visual Studio 2008 SDK is available here for download David Kean announces FxCop 1.36 Release SaaS/Cloud Computing/REST/WCF David Chappell has published A Short Introduction to Cloud Platforms Scott Hanselman looks at Atom, AtomPub and BlogSvc, an AtomPubServer in WCF Technorati Tags: New...
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ASP.NET MVC Lots of activity on the http://www.ASP.net/mvc website. First, I heard from Scott Hanselman on Twitter, about the 5 free chapters to 5 new MVC books Then, via Steven , the addition of 15 new ASP.NET MVC videos and tutorials. Of special interest, is his pairing with Charlie Poole to use TDD...
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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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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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Of course, this is so much more than a Service Pack with the release now of ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) and the Entity Framework among others. In my area of interest, CSD, there are some significant changes for REST programming (1st class citizen now) as well as some other additions: There were several...
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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 Via Brad Abrams , The Visual Web Development team has started a “Tips of the Week” blog series where they will share some great ideas at http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevelopertips/default.aspx . Did You Know… Tip #1 – Powerful CSS Tools to Create, Manage and Apply Styles...
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As Jon notes , the BizTalk course in NYC that he taught is over. I want to thank Jon for a great course. If you want to take the best BizTalk (or WF or WCF) courses around, you want to see Jon and Pluralsight. I also really enjoyed hanging out with Jon all week, and going to his NYC REST talk . SQL Server...
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I have been real busy, among other things, doing a full review and change cycle on my Asynchronous Messaging and Event-Driven Architecture talk that I am doing tonight . The entire deck has changed. There has been even more strides towards full asynchronous messaging. To that end, I have worked with...
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WF/CSD WF can be a tricky thing. As Cliff blogs , the CSD folks have added two great prescriptive guidance articles for WF to the MSDN Online Library : an article by Jon Flanders to help choose between sequential workflows and state machines, and a major article by Michele Leroux Bustamante explaining...
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Silverlight/WPF Silverlight Games today and more on the way Hanselminutes Podcast 122 - BabySmash! Tip of the Day #21 - How to work with Shapes, Brushes and Gradients Silverlight Cream for July 25, 2008 -- #334 New version of Silverlight Spy Web 2.0/Social Networking Hanselminutes Podcast 123- Dare Obasanjo...
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Iron Ruby/DLR Part 3 and 4 of the excellent series, Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# IronRuby at OSCON - John has some announcements Visual Studio/Development Tools In the latest version of Visual Studio Hacks Toolbox Screencast , James shows some of the cool features of SlickEdit Versioning Toolbox...
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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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Ruby/Iron Ruby Nice pair of posts from Justin: Getting IronRuby Up and Running , and Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 1 ASP.NET MVC/Silverlight ASP.NET MVC Tip #21 - Fake the Data Context Shawn had finished delivering ADO.NET support to NHibernate.LINQ Also Shawn has a post Animating Brushes with...
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C#/.NET Programming/WPF Jimmy has a nice post on the differences between Expressions and Lambdas Scott continues to learn WPF Learning WPF with BabySmash - Customer Feedback and a WPF Font ComboBox Learning WPF with BabySmash and Back to Basics - Making Assumptions and When to Turn to Books Learning...
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Just got back from a 10 day vacation with my family from lovely LA. We went to Universal and then spent 2 and 1/2 days at Disneyland, which Heather and Jonathan loved. I also got to spent some quality time with my very good friend Jon Flanders . ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 of ASP.NET MVC is out on CodePlex...
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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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Visual Studio Peter says he is hooked on Brad Wilson's Dark Visual Studio color scheme and so am I! I am using it 100% now. An Amazing Introduction to NDepend BizTalk/WCF/WF/SOA My friend Jesus Rodriguez has a WCF extensibility deep dive on MSDN this Friday I listened in to Jon Flanders Workflow Services...
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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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BizTalk/WCF/SOA Steve Maines talks about the changes in WCF/WF with .NET 3.5 SP1 Jean-Paul Smit has released a Biztalk Solution Factory on Codeplex . His post about it is here . [ via Santosh – read his post ] Microsoft has a new Whitepaper "Integrating Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 with...
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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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Along with my series , I have a New and Notable. I have pretty much abandoned N&N in favor of writing original content, especially since Jason and Alvin, among others, are doing such a great job. However, these links go well with the series. SOA/WCF So the biggest news is the beta publication of...
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Co-Workers Mark Bosley is finding out that Reflector is the Swiss Knife of Workflow programming Meanwhile, resident Neuron genius David Pallmann goes through the story of being " Licensed to WSDL " :) Computer Languages/Functional Languages/IronRuby My former alma mata, CodeBetter.com, seems...
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ALT.NET/Mocks Jim Shore The Art of Agile Development: Coding Standards Unit Tests for WCF (and Moq) Part II ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, .NET, Visual Studio, Silverlight, WPF ScottGu delivers again - May 20th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, .NET, Visual Studio, Silverlight, WPF Visual Studio Links #30 More later...
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P&P/Design Patterns I have been in a customer situation where I have been using a combination of the SAB+VAB+LAB from EntLib in order to create a custom Claims-Based identity system configured with SAB rules expressed with VAB expressions. It had just come up Friday that I couldn't use Ent Lib 4...
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.NET/Visual Studio 2008 How to Download all of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 The Release of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 will Install over SP1 Beta XLinq’n in the New World - Speed Comparison with Xml/XPath (Derik Whittaker) [via Alvin ] Did you know… You can hide or show hidden members and types in...
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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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Trying to get in a habit of doing these when I get up and before getting into work. Design Patterns/DI/IOC Command-Query Separation and Immutable Builders Castle demo app: ActiveRecord basics and unit testing Prism Vs. Framework XXXX General Christian notes that we will have 12-Core Processors in 2010...
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Trying to get in a habit of doing these when I get up and before getting into work. Design Patterns/DI/IOC Command-Query Separation and Immutable Builders Castle demo app: ActiveRecord basics and unit testing Prism Vs. Framework XXXX General Christian notes that we will have 12-Core Processors in 2010...
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Identity Management/OpenID/Security/P2P/WCF Scott Hanselman has a great post on OpenId P2P and WCF: Some Resources - part of a great series. We use Peer Channel in Neuron by default. It's fast! Pablo: GetReady for OpenID Using IdentityModel: Converting ADFS Security Properties to Claims Software...
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Identity Management/OpenID/Security/P2P/WCF Scott Hanselman has a great post on OpenId P2P and WCF: Some Resources - part of a great series. We use Peer Channel in Neuron by default. It's fast! Pablo: GetReady for OpenID Using IdentityModel: Converting ADFS Security Properties to Claims Software Development...
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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 am having a blast on my latest gig which has me using many different technologies at the same time from Ent Lib/SAB/WAB to WCF to Nunit to Oracle and so on. I love it. ALT.NET/DDD/TDD Greg has altdotnet seattle session video He also has his 9th is his DDD series DDDD 9 [Producers and Consumers] Jeremy...
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I am having a blast on my latest gig which has me using many different technologies at the same time from Ent Lib/SAB/WAB to WCF to Nunit to Oracle and so on. I love it. ALT.NET/DDD/TDD Greg has altdotnet seattle session video He also has his 9th is his DDD series DDDD 9 [Producers and Consumers] Jeremy...
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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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WCF/Security/BizTalk/WF/BPEL There are at least 14 distinct Security Scenarios in WCF. It is easily the most confusing area in WCF in my experience, simply because of the many options available. If you combine that with the current industry focus out there on Identity solutions, Federation, and...
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WCF/Security/BizTalk/WF/BPEL There are at least 14 distinct Security Scenarios in WCF. It is easily the most confusing area in WCF in my experience, simply because of the many options available. If you combine that with the current industry focus out there on Identity solutions, Federation, and SAML...
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So what have I been doing? Lots of things! I gave Advanced WCF talks in Lehigh Valley and Northern Delaware . The message of EDA is starting to resonate with folks who want their communications infrastructure to be taken care of and want to focus on Event Driven communications (i.e. Purchase Order event...
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So what have I been doing? Lots of things! I gave Advanced WCF talks in Lehigh Valley and Northern Delaware . The message of EDA is starting to resonate with folks who want their communications infrastructure to be taken care of and want to focus on Event Driven communications (i.e. Purchase Order event...
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Mocks/Software Development Tools/ASP.NET MVC Phil Compares Moq to Rhino Mocks Simplified Asp.net MVC Controller Testing with Moq C#/.NET Sample Code for Games, P2P Apps, Vista Tools, Web Services for Flickr, MySpace, Digg and YouTube DLR/IronRuby/IronPython John Lam and Martin Maly: Deep DLR WF ReceiveActivity...
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Mocks/Software Development Tools/ASP.NET MVC Phil Compares Moq to Rhino Mocks Simplified Asp.net MVC Controller Testing with Moq C#/.NET Sample Code for Games, P2P Apps, Vista Tools, Web Services for Flickr, MySpace, Digg and YouTube DLR/IronRuby/IronPython John Lam and Martin Maly: Deep DLR WF ReceiveActivity...
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SOA/Service Bus/Design Patterns/SaaS Ayende - NServiceBus Review Ayende - NServiceBus Distributor Review SQL Server Data Services - SSDS - New version of LitwareHR LitwareHR on SSDS - Part II - the data access layer TDD/Software Design/Design Patterns MVC or MVA? Or, What Do Controllers *Do* Anyway?...
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SOA/Service Bus/Design Patterns/SaaS Ayende - NServiceBus Review Ayende - NServiceBus Distributor Review SQL Server Data Services - SSDS - New version of LitwareHR LitwareHR on SSDS - Part II - the data access layer TDD/Software Design/Design Patterns MVC or MVA? Or, What Do Controllers *Do* Anyway?...
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Onto the 2nd cup of coffee. Looking at a whole weekend of work.... ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC and .NET My good friend Joe Stagner has a theory on how ScottGu gets so much work done :) as well as resources on Getting up to speed with ASP.NET and the 3.5 Extensions Speaking of the Man himself,...
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Onto the 2nd cup of coffee. Looking at a whole weekend of work.... ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC and .NET My good friend Joe Stagner has a theory on how ScottGu gets so much work done :) as well as resources on Getting up to speed with ASP.NET and the 3.5 Extensions Speaking of the Man himself,...
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ASP.NET MVC Scott Hanselman's ASP.NET MVC Cheesy Northwind Sample Code WPF/Silverlight 'Prism' launches on CodePlex Single source code base for Silverlight and WPF solutions Wonderful WPF Applications : bTwitter C#/.NET/DLR/IronPython Community Convergence XLI Congrats to my good friend Harry...
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ASP.NET MVC Scott Hanselman's ASP.NET MVC Cheesy Northwind Sample Code WPF/Silverlight 'Prism' launches on CodePlex Single source code base for Silverlight and WPF solutions Wonderful WPF Applications : bTwitter C#/.NET/DLR/IronPython Community Convergence XLI Congrats to my good friend Harry on joining...
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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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UX We have a new, really good UX Practice and Rich Weston from the practice talks about Neudesic's entry into the Phizzpop Design Challenge He also talks about Silverlight 1.0 3D vs. 3D in Flash Windows Server 2008 It's Shipped! The Windows Server 2008 Team celebrates from the Build Lab . Good...
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UX We have a new, really good UX Practice and Rich Weston from the practice talks about Neudesic's entry into the Phizzpop Design Challenge He also talks about Silverlight 1.0 3D vs. 3D in Flash Windows Server 2008 It's Shipped! The Windows Server 2008 Team celebrates from the Build Lab . Good going...
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WCF/SOA/Neuron I recently had the opportunity to do some development work for our Neuron ESB and two giants of the field Marty Wasznicky and David Pallmann. Dave talks about the WCF Security Hydra by connecting 28 WCF services and clients that use each of the 14 common WCF security scenarios to the same...
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WCF/SOA/Neuron I recently had the opportunity to do some development work for our Neuron ESB and two giants of the field Marty Wasznicky and David Pallmann. Dave talks about the WCF Security Hydra by connecting 28 WCF services and clients that use each of the 14 common WCF security scenarios to the same...
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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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WCF/SQL Server/SaaS Our own Shaun Collett on Full and Partial Caching Pattern in WCF and SQL Server This looks very promising!! Load Testing Windows Communication Foundation Applications David Chappell has a new paper on Software + Services in a Microsoft World Local .NET Community My friend Mitch Ruebush...
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WCF/SQL Server/SaaS Our own Shaun Collett on Full and Partial Caching Pattern in WCF and SQL Server This looks very promising!! Load Testing Windows Communication Foundation Applications David Chappell has a new paper on Software + Services in a Microsoft World Local .NET Community My friend Mitch Ruebush...
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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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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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Last N&N was on the 9th and I don't know if I will able to maintain the series. I am extremely busy, and traveling on multiple projects. I also am not sure that my interests are what the current .NET blogging climate and community want to hear about but I will see how it goes for now. If you...
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Last N&N was on the 9th and I don't know if I will able to maintain the series. I am extremely busy, and traveling on multiple projects. I also am not sure that my interests are what the current .NET blogging climate and community want to hear about but I will see how it goes for now. If you would...
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I haven't found much in the last 5 days that is New and Notable but here is a few items of interest. BizTalk Server/Connected Systems/WCF/CSD/WF Our own Brian Loesgen did a presentation on a deck that he had been circulating internally (it is cool to work with these people in our Connected Systems...
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I haven't found much in the last 5 days that is New and Notable but here is a few items of interest. BizTalk Server/Connected Systems/WCF/CSD/WF Our own Brian Loesgen did a presentation on a deck that he had been circulating internally (it is cool to work with these people in our Connected Systems!)...
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ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, IIS7 Another in ScottGu's series: Jan 4th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, IIS7 ScottGu on Using VS 2008 to Create New ASP.NET 2.0 with ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Projects ADO.NET, Astoria Mike Taulty has a series ADO.NET Data Services...
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ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, IIS7 Another in ScottGu's series: Jan 4th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, IIS7 ScottGu on Using VS 2008 to Create New ASP.NET 2.0 with ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Projects ADO.NET, Astoria Mike Taulty has a series ADO.NET Data Services...
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Too much work to do today but wanted to make sure to note with sadness the last edition of Mike Gunderloy's The Daily Grind . Mike set an impeccable standard for the community and will be missed (in the Microsoft world) but be sure to read his ongoing Fresh Cup . And, Happy New Year! Maybe I can...
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Too much work to do today but wanted to make sure to note with sadness the last edition of Mike Gunderloy's The Daily Grind . Mike set an impeccable standard for the community and will be missed (in the Microsoft world) but be sure to read his ongoing Fresh Cup . And, Happy New Year! Maybe I can resolve...
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Celebrated the Christmas holidays with Sue's folks in snow-bound Nashua NH (also where we used to live) with two feet of stacked snow. Not much out in blog-land to pick from. Software Development Tools/Resharper/Refactor! Its good to see a new Resharper 3.1 c ome out although it remains quite behind...
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Celebrated the Christmas holidays with Sue's folks in snow-bound Nashua NH (also where we used to live) with two feet of stacked snow. Not much out in blog-land to pick from. Software Development Tools/Resharper/Refactor! Its good to see a new Resharper 3.1 c ome out although it remains quite behind...
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BizTalk Services This is one way to find out that the BizTalk Services hosted at http://biztalk.net have been updated :) WCF/Web Service Software Factory/Oslo/Neudesic I really love the new Web Services Software Factory and the Contract Modeling capabilities. They just recently released the WCF Security...
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BizTalk Services This is one way to find out that the BizTalk Services hosted at http://biztalk.net have been updated :) WCF/Web Service Software Factory/Oslo/Neudesic I really love the new Web Services Software Factory and the Contract Modeling capabilities. They just recently released the WCF Security...
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Coffee in hand, the Clash is playing, here we go BizTalk/WCF/BizTalk WCF Adapters Aaron has This short demo which illustrates how to take advantage of the message template feature made available by WCF send ports in BizTalk Server 2006 R2. Design Patterns/PAG/Software Architecture PAG continues to do...
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Prodded by Mike to pick up the slack, I am trying to get one of these out each morning before all my work REST/Astoria/Web Programming/Web Services Christian shows how to access SSDL (ADO.NET Entity Framework's s tore s chema d efinition l anguage and generate client-side code He also states the...
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Prodded by Mike to pick up the slack, I am trying to get one of these out each morning before all my work REST/Astoria/Web Programming/Web Services Christian shows how to access SSDL (ADO.NET Entity Framework's s tore s chema d efinition l anguage and generate client-side code He also states the latest...
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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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Lots to catch up on. ASP.NET 3.5/AJAX/MVC It's out! ScottGu details the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP , This release brings additional runtime functionality to ASP.NET and .NET 3.5. You can download it here (if you are using the MVC features also click here to download the MVC Toolkit extras)...
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Lots to catch up on. ASP.NET 3.5/AJAX/MVC It's out! ScottGu details the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP , This release brings additional runtime functionality to ASP.NET and .NET 3.5. You can download it here (if you are using the MVC features also click here to download the MVC Toolkit extras). ScottGu also...
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I hope, for those that celebrate Thanksgiving, had a great holiday. For me, it is time for me to realize my blessings again. I only have to look in Heather and Jonathan's faces to remind me as well as Sue. I am truly blessed with a beautiful and wonderful family, the best job I have ever had, in a company...
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I hope, for those that celebrate Thanksgiving, had a great holiday. For me, it is time for me to realize my blessings again. I only have to look in Heather and Jonathan's faces to remind me as well as Sue. I am truly blessed with a beautiful and wonderful family, the best job I have ever had, in...
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ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2008, .NET 3.5, IIS7, Silverlight Nov 17th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2008, .NET 3.5, IIS7, Silverlight - latest in a nice link series from ScottGu SharePoint Arpan has his Top 5 SharePoint Resources to Bookmark SOA/Software Architecture/Enterprise...
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ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2008, .NET 3.5, IIS7, Silverlight Nov 17th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2008, .NET 3.5, IIS7, Silverlight - latest in a nice link series from ScottGu SharePoint Arpan has his Top 5 SharePoint Resources to Bookmark SOA/Software Architecture/Enterprise...
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ASP.NET/.NET 3/CardSpace/WCF My good friend, Michele Bustamante, returned from DevConnections with her usual slew of great demos: Introduction to C# 3.0 C# 3.0 Samples ADO.NET 3.5 Samples Exploring Windows CardSpace Cardspace Samples ASP.NET and WCF: Meet Your New Web Service See code from my book Learning...
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ASP.NET/.NET 3/CardSpace/WCF My good friend, Michele Bustamante, returned from DevConnections with her usual slew of great demos: Introduction to C# 3.0 C# 3.0 Samples ADO.NET 3.5 Samples Exploring Windows CardSpace Cardspace Samples ASP.NET and WCF: Meet Your New Web Service See code from my book Learning...
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I took Heather and the family up into Manhattan so that Heather could go to the American Girl Doll store. What a mob scene! The things a Dad has to do for his daughter :)). We did get to Rockfeller Center, and my personal fave, Cannoli and Double Espresso at Ferrara in Little Italy. SOA/ISB/BizTalk Services...
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I took Heather and the family up into Manhattan so that Heather could go to the American Girl Doll store. What a mob scene! The things a Dad has to do for his daughter :)). We did get to Rockfeller Center, and my personal fave, Cannoli and Double Espresso at Ferrara in Little Italy. SOA/ISB/BizTalk Services...
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Taking a brief break on what has been a nonstop busy work day since the minute I woke up (and that's how I like it!) TDD/Software Development/Tools Free MbUnit and NUnit Test Templates for ReSharper DDD/Software Architecture/Software Design As you regular readers of this blog know, I am a...
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Taking a brief break on what has been a nonstop busy work day since the minute I woke up (and that's how I like it!) TDD/Software Development/Tools Free MbUnit and NUnit Test Templates for ReSharper DDD/Software Architecture/Software Design As you regular readers of this blog know, I am a huge fan and...
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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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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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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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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 last N&N was Feb 20, a month and 1/2 ago. I'm too busy being productive adding business value to our product to blog much considering I am still close to a intra-state move and dealing with the sale of one house and purchase of another. Meanwhile, the weekly plane flight commutes are just no...
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The last N&N was Feb 20, a month and 1/2 ago. I'm too busy being productive adding business value to our product to blog much considering I am still close to a intra-state move and dealing with the sale of one house and purchase of another. Meanwhile, the weekly plane flight commutes are just...
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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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Way too much to do as always. There is a lot that I have seen as interesting and time limits what I can say. Jamie Cansdale is on a tear with his Test With…Coverage , NCover 1.33 + .NET 1.1 , and NCoverExplorer v1.3.1 . Agile Advice on Timeboxing: A Critical Agile Work Practice . He talks about SNL a...
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Way too much to do as always. There is a lot that I have seen as interesting and time limits what I can say. Jamie Cansdale is on a tear with his Test With…Coverage , NCover 1.33 + .NET 1.1 , and NCoverExplorer v1.3.1 . Agile Advice on Timeboxing: A Critical Agile Work Practice . He talks about...
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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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I am so swamped with work that I have not been able to blog. I have a ton of stuff I want to write about but it will take some time to do them justice, so I will continue my New and Notable for now. One of the most used and important tools in my arsenal is SysInternal's Process Explorer. The v10...
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I am so swamped with work that I have not been able to blog. I have a ton of stuff I want to write about but it will take some time to do them justice, so I will continue my New and Notable for now. One of the most used and important tools in my arsenal is SysInternal's Process Explorer. The v10.02 is...
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I have finally reached number 90 as this series has been going for years although its the first one here. Today is a big day for me/us - its Heather's Birthday! My daughter turns 3 today! I'm already thinking of the teenage years I am going to have to keep her locked up away from the boys Robert Hurlbut...
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I have finally reached number 90 as this series has been going for years although its the first one here. Today is a big day for me/us - its Heather's Birthday! My daughter turns 3 today! I'm already thinking of the teenage years I am going to have to keep her locked up away from the boys Robert...
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