I will be speaking as part of our NuCon 2008 - Denver conference that we are doing together with Microsoft. I am super excited that we have the Scott Kerfoot from Microsoft as our keynote speaker: Keynote: The Future is NOW! The pace of change in technology increases every day. In this keynote you’ll...
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I will be speaking as part of our NuCon 2008 - Denver conference that we are doing together with Microsoft. I am super excited that we have the Scott Kerfoot from Microsoft as our keynote speaker: Keynote: The Future is NOW! The pace of change in technology increases every day. In this keynote you’ll...
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I want to thank the wonderful members of the Findlay Area .NET User's Group in Findlay, Ohio that came out in the cold the other night - it sure was cold! I want to especially thank you for your interest in the Domain Driven Design portion of the talk and your interest in using O/RM, Repositories over...
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I want to thank the wonderful members of the Findlay Area .NET User's Group in Findlay, Ohio that came out in the cold the other night - it sure was cold! I want to especially thank you for your interest in the Domain Driven Design portion of the talk and your interest in using O/RM, Repositories...
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I knew it was coming so I stayed up extra late last night but not long enough :) Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite with the .NET Framework 3.5 is available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads ! See Soma's post here . While my copy is on the way, I would like to thank the whole extended team at Microsoft for an...
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I knew it was coming so I stayed up extra late last night but not long enough :) Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite with the .NET Framework 3.5 is available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads ! See Soma's post here . While my copy is on the way, I would like to thank the whole extended team at Microsoft for...
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So sayeth Don ? Soma's announced that Orcas will RTM this month . Lots of .NET families will have something extra to be thankful for next thursday...
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So sayeth Don ? Soma's announced that Orcas will RTM this month . Lots of .NET families will have something extra to be thankful for next thursday...
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5th annual SOA and BPM Conference kicked off proper last night with a party. There was lots of networking. For now, here's a picture with my favorite Microsoft employee :) This morning, there will be some major announcements, which will change the whole way Microsoft does SOA, which I will be permitted...
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5th annual SOA and BPM Conference kicked off proper last night with a party. There was lots of networking. For now, here's a picture with my favorite Microsoft employee :) This morning, there will be some major announcements, which will change the whole way Microsoft does SOA, which I will be permitted...
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This space reserved for a running blog of my week Sunday. This topic will only talk about what is PUBLIC , I can't talk about anything NDA.... Sunday 9AM I am in Building 33 in Pluralsight's 2 day pre-conference with my friends Jon Flanders , Matt Milner , Aaron Skonnard . Aaron is presenting a great...
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This space reserved for a running blog of my week Sunday. This topic will only talk about what is PUBLIC , I can't talk about anything NDA.... Sunday 9AM I am in Building 33 in Pluralsight's 2 day pre-conference with my friends Jon Flanders , Matt Milner , Aaron Skonnard . Aaron is presenting...
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So, in the comments on my post about the lack of Resharper 3.0.2 Intellisense for .NET 3.5/LINQ, I made the comment that I actually I use both Resharper and CodeRush!! That's right, I can't live without either :) Both products have distinct advantages - Resharper is the better tool at working in an agile...
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So, in the comments on my post about the lack of Resharper 3.0.2 Intellisense for .NET 3.5/LINQ, I made the comment that I actually I use both Resharper and CodeRush!! That's right, I can't live without either :) Both products have distinct advantages - Resharper is the better tool at working...
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In trying to do any LINQ/.NET 3.5 Beta 2 stuff with Resharper I noticed that the Intellisense is not right: db.Log = Console .Out; IQueryable < Customer > custQuery = from cust in Customers where cust.City == "London" select cust; I confirmed this with this post where people are shutting...
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In trying to do any LINQ/.NET 3.5 Beta 2 stuff with Resharper I noticed that the Intellisense is not right: db.Log = Console .Out; IQueryable < Customer > custQuery = from cust in Customers where cust.City == "London" select cust; I confirmed this with this post where people are shutting...
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Speaking of Visual Studion 2008, we (Neudesic) have developed a great deal of real-world knowledge of it during the last year and we are ready to tell you about it! Along with our friends at Microsoft, K2 and QuickStart, we are hosting NuCon 2007 , with three deep-dive tracks into Visual Studio 2008...
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Ah, the StarBucks is starting to kick in... BizTalk/WCF/MSMQ/WF/CSD/Orcas Neudesic's own David Pallmann talks about using the new WCF LOB Adapters with our Neuron ESB Stephen has some helpful tips on processing MSMQ FIFO messages in WCF My friend Michele continues to rock with the code samples from the...
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Ah, the StarBucks is starting to kick in... BizTalk/WCF/MSMQ/WF/CSD/Orcas Neudesic's own David Pallmann talks about using the new WCF LOB Adapters with our Neuron ESB Stephen has some helpful tips on processing MSMQ FIFO messages in WCF My friend Michele continues to rock with the code samples from...
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So, I am trying to gather all the conferences and INETA events that I am speaking at or attending so I can search on it My Code Camps This Saturday, Philly.NET Code Camp (Sold Out!). I will be presenting a brand new talk: Connected Systems: SOA with WCF and ESB at 1:30 PM. We ( Neudesic ) are a Gold...
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So, I am trying to gather all the conferences and INETA events that I am speaking at or attending so I can search on it My Code Camps This Saturday, Philly.NET Code Camp (Sold Out!). I will be presenting a brand new talk: Connected Systems: SOA with WCF and ESB at 1:30 PM. We ( Neudesic ) are a Gold...
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Please note that this blog is no longer on CodeBetter but at http://samgentile.com/blogs/samgentile/default.aspx . You do not need to do a thing as the FeedBurner feed is automagically directing you here. WCF/WF/Orcas/BizTalk/CSD Congrats to all my friends at CSD for shipping BizTalk Server R2 !! This...
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Please note that this blog is no longer on CodeBetter but at http://samgentile.com/blogs/samgentile/default.aspx . You do not need to do a thing as the FeedBurner feed is automagically directing you here. WCF/WF/Orcas/BizTalk/CSD Congrats to all my friends at CSD for shipping BizTalk Server R2 !! This...
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The conference, INETA, and user group speaking is starting to heat up for the fall. WCF The WCF subset supported by NetCF CLR/Unit Testing Interesting discussion on how they got PEX to be Partial-Trust aware LINQ/Orcas ScottGu continues his excellent series LINQ to SQL (Part 9 - Using a Custom LINQ Expression...
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The conference, INETA, and user group speaking is starting to heat up for the fall. WCF The WCF subset supported by NetCF CLR/Unit Testing Interesting discussion on how they got PEX to be Partial-Trust aware LINQ/Orcas ScottGu continues his excellent series LINQ to SQL (Part 9 - Using a Custom LINQ Expression...
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BizTalk Server Channel 9 interview with Tony Bernard , Senior Program Manager, on EDI/AS2 features of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (which is launching this month). [via BizTalk Server Team Blog ] My friend Marjan notes " InfoQ just published their interview with Dino Chiesa , Director of .Net Marketing...
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BizTalk Server Channel 9 interview with Tony Bernard , Senior Program Manager, on EDI/AS2 features of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (which is launching this month). [via BizTalk Server Team Blog ] My friend Marjan notes " InfoQ just published their interview with Dino Chiesa , Director of .Net Marketing...
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WCF Sending Attachments with WCF BizTalk Server/XML/ESB Marty announces CTP3 of ESB Guidance How the WCF LOB Adapter SDK works with IChannelFactory and IChannelListener The XML Tools Team has just announced the first CTP of the XML Designer, which features the XML Schema Explorer. Finally!! Concurrency...
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WCF Sending Attachments with WCF BizTalk Server/XML/ESB Marty announces CTP3 of ESB Guidance How the WCF LOB Adapter SDK works with IChannelFactory and IChannelListener The XML Tools Team has just announced the first CTP of the XML Designer, which features the XML Schema Explorer. Finally!! Concurrency...
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As Clemens blogs, CSD is conducting the SOA and Business Process Conference running October 29 - November 2. Of course, a bunch of Connected Systems/BizTalk guys from Neudesic are going (including me). Are you?...
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As Clemens blogs, CSD is conducting the SOA and Business Process Conference running October 29 - November 2. Of course, a bunch of Connected Systems/BizTalk guys from Neudesic are going (including me). Are you?...
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Enterprise Architecture Actionable Enterprise Architecture through Feedback Business Case for Integration, part two The One Business Case for Integration Agile Enterprise Architecture Master Data Management: Minimizing the Complexity Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #7 - August 21, 2007 SOA/ESB Bobby...
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Enterprise Architecture Actionable Enterprise Architecture through Feedback Business Case for Integration, part two The One Business Case for Integration Agile Enterprise Architecture Master Data Management: Minimizing the Complexity Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #7 - August 21, 2007 SOA/ESB Bobby...
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My news favorite drink: A StarBucks Black Eye . SOA Service Oriented Infrastructure Building Justifying the need for Composite Applications Enterprise Architecture Agility, Feedback, and Enterprise Architecture CLR/Orcas/Silverlight Sharing Code Between Silverlight and Orcas Orcas Gacutil -- Where to...
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My news favorite drink: A StarBucks Black Eye . SOA Service Oriented Infrastructure Building Justifying the need for Composite Applications Enterprise Architecture Agility, Feedback, and Enterprise Architecture CLR/Orcas/Silverlight Sharing Code Between Silverlight and Orcas Orcas Gacutil -- Where to...
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I could get used to this rolling out of bed into my office thing BizTalk Server The highly anticipated R2 release (the one with WCF Adapters) of BizTalk Server 2006 is coming real soon! Worldwide launches take place in September and October . My very good friend, Tomas, has released Version 1.1 of my...
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I could get used to this rolling out of bed into my office thing BizTalk Server The highly anticipated R2 release (the one with WCF Adapters) of BizTalk Server 2006 is coming real soon! Worldwide launches take place in September and October . My very good friend, Tomas, has released Version 1.1 of my...
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My time for blogging is rapidly dwindling down to zero SOA Microsoft SOA Webcasts Online [via BizTalk Community Blogs ] SOA is not a disruptive technology (selling SOA, part three) A Maturity Model for Data Integration BizTalk Int roduction to the BizTalk Adapters for Host Systems Microsoft Biztalk Server...
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My time for blogging is rapidly dwindling down to zero SOA Microsoft SOA Webcasts Online [via BizTalk Community Blogs ] SOA is not a disruptive technology (selling SOA, part three) A Maturity Model for Data Integration BizTalk Int roduction to the BizTalk Adapters for Host Systems Microsoft Biztalk Server...
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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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I have been preaching for 7 years now about that the CLI/CLR was designed for cross-platform and the rest was packaging. Today, the news from MIX ‘07 was very exciting on the CLR front as well as many other fronts (to be covered later). Today that become concrete with the announcement of full CLR support...
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I have been preaching for 7 years now about that the CLI/CLR was designed for cross-platform and the rest was packaging. Today, the news from MIX ‘07 was very exciting on the CLR front as well as many other fronts (to be covered later). Today that become concrete with the announcement of full CLR...
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Microsoft has definitely hit one out of the park this week at MIX. I have been talking with both Microsoft fans and "non Microsoft fans" and I have not seen this level of excitement in a long time. In fact, I think that this is the first time I have been excited about the CLR since the heady...
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Microsoft has definitely hit one out of the park this week at MIX. I have been talking with both Microsoft fans and "non Microsoft fans" and I have not seen this level of excitement in a long time. In fact, I think that this is the first time I have been excited about the CLR since the heady...
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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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I finally got Orcas Professional downloaded (I am SO switching to Verizon FiOS on May 1st from Comcast). I got it installed on my Alienware laptop with Vista Ultimate RTM. It imported my settings from VS2005 it seems good so far. The first place I headed, of course, is Walkthrough: Simple Object Model...
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Orcas Beta 1 is now available . If you have MSDN Subscriber y ou can get the Installation Media ISO images including VSTS Team System and Professional; if you don't you can get the VPC images....
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Orcas Beta 1 is now available . If you have MSDN Subscriber y ou can get the Installation Media ISO images including VSTS Team System and Professional; if you don't you can get the VPC images....
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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 of...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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I might as well combine my last 2 posts. Today's New and Notable is focused on the major beta releases today. Vista and Longhorn Beta 2 are finally available on Connect and MSDN, and NVIDIA and ATI both have released new drivers to coincide with the release of Windows Vista Beta 2. Fetch! Wow! WinFX...
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I might as well combine my last 2 posts. Today's New and Notable is focused on the major beta releases today. Vista and Longhorn Beta 2 are finally available on Connect and MSDN, and NVIDIA and ATI both have released new drivers to coincide with the release of Windows Vista Beta 2. Fetch! Wow! WinFX...
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Again another month and change since the last one so this issue will be a collection of everything marked in my Feed Demon box, some of it not so new-) Andy of the Pragmatic Programmers announces , " long-awaited Practices of an Agile Developer is now available from our website and from bookstores...
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Again another month and change since the last one so this issue will be a collection of everything marked in my Feed Demon box, some of it not so new-) Andy of the Pragmatic Programmers announces , " long-awaited Practices of an Agile Developer is now available from our website and from bookstores...
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