The big news of the week was the release of ASP.NET MVC 2. ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET MVC 2 Released - First of the announcements, points to ScottGu's announcement, also provides extensive list of resources ASP.NET MVC 2 Released - ScottGu provides the formal announcement with a list of new features ASP.NET...
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BizTalk/Identity/SOA Announcing Tellago DevLabs on CodePlex - Jesus Rodriguez announces the new by announcing the availability of Tellago DevLabs on CodePlex . The workspace will publish several open source projects led by members of Telligo staff BizTalk Data Services: Making BizTalk more RESTful with...
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Number 400! SOA/REST/M/Oslo SOA in a Nutshell - A new JP Morgenthal’s post “The Busy Executive’s Service Oriented Architecture Reference Guide” is a great starting point for gaining a quick understanding of what SOA is without getting too deep into technology jargon and hype Don...
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PDC PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Steven Sinofsky - Sasha covers the keynote which talked about the development process of Windows 7 and what it means to develop for Windows 7. Internet Explorer was also announced. PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Scott Guthrie - Coverage by Sasha. Scott announced Silverlight 4 with...
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PDC PDC09 - A Call to a Dream - Nikhil Kothari finds Roy Ozzie's keynote inspiring. I find this statement spot on, "For a developer, what Microsoft brings is a consistent experience developing for this broad platform with Azure on the back-end, Windows, Internet Explorer and Silverlight on the front...
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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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From "Oslo" to SQL Server Modeling - It seems like Oslo has evolved their direction again. Doug Purdy announces the change from "Oslo" to SQL Server Modeling and a SQL Server Modeling CTP which will consist of: “M” is a highly productive, developer friendly, textual language...
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Oslo From "Oslo" to SQL Server Modeling - It seems like Oslo has evolved their direction again. Doug Purdy announces the change from "Oslo" to SQL Server Modeling and a SQL Server Modeling CTP which will consist of: “M” is a highly productive, developer friendly, textual...
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My blog has these nice "blocks" on the top like "Oslo", "New and Notable", "WCF" and others. The problem is that I wrap things so well with New and Notable, that some of these categories don't get any "posts" for a long time. For instance, Oslo. It's...
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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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Agile/ALT.NET Zen and the Art of Software Development Acceptance Test "Lifecycle" DevLink 2009 - Good News Everyone! Some nice observations on conference organization in general Refactoring Day 17: Extract Superclass Fluent NHibernate 1.0RC CSD - WCF/Oslo/Azure What's New in WCF 4: Performance...
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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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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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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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This video demonstrates loading a custom Common Language Runtime (CLR) assembly into the Microsoft code name "Oslo" repository and browsing the resulting metadata using Microsoft code name "Quadrant". The focus of this demo are the capabilities of the CLR model and LoadAssembly.exe...
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"Quadrant" is the newest and long-awaited addition to the "Oslo" CTP, offering many unique ways to view and edit data in customizable viewers To help you understand the features of "Quadrant", the "Oslo" Library has over twenty individual tutorials, starting with...
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Oslo About the "Oslo" May 2009 CTP Channel 9 - Chris Sells: On the History of DevCon, DSLs and Oslo Expert to Expert: Martin Fowler and Chris Sells - Perspectives on Domain Specific Languages...
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The Oslo May 2009 CTP did not ship with samples. They are separate downloads at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/oslo/cc748654.aspx . Docuementation is online only at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709420.aspx ....
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As Chris Sells announces . the The May 2009 CTP of "Oslo" available on the Developer Center . The focus of most people's attention will be that this is the first public release that includes Oslo....
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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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Development Tools Michele has put together a machine configuration document that she uses for her technology roadmap seminar which pretty much includes every Microsoft technology and CTP I can think of SOA/ESB/Oslo/Identity Managment/WCF/Azure Congrats to Udi for NServiceBus 1.9 RTM Why Service Virtualization...
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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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CSD/Oslo/M/WCF First, in the CSD family of technologies, Aaron has another screencast for Ajax-enabling your WCF services Arnon shows Implementing a WCF service firewall, Part 1 and Part 2 of N Jon Flanders shows how to program against M (M Schema) ASP.NET MVC Phil Haacked on Troubleshooting Windows...
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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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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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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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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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Martin has a must-read post on Oslo, the M Language, and Quadrant, all in the language of his DSL book .Some highlights: Oslo has three main components: a modeling language (currently code-named M ) for textual DSLs a design surface (named Quadrant ) for graphical DSLs a repository (without a name) that...
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Along with my posts on Oslo's Coming Out Party at the PDC and the Oslo Developer Center and CTP Download , I thought I would have this direct, simple post on what exactly Oslo is at this point, and exactly what parts of Oslo have been announced at the PDC. This is an info-only topic. I will have analysis...
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The Oslo Developer Center is live on MSDN and Doug says , "We have a hyper early CTP available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/oslo." Also see http://modelsremixed.com/ Also see Chris Sells/Kent Sharkey The Oslo Development Center: Letter from the Editors which goes into a bit of detail about...
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I am not going to be able to go to the PDC this time which is a shame because, although there will be other huge announcements, this PDC is really Oslo's coming out party and the things I have been seeing in SDRs and other internal events for the last couple of years, we will all be able to view and...
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Steve Martin, Senior Director of Product Management in Microsoft's Connected Systems Division (CSD), made an pre-announcement yesterday on some technologies a bunch of us outside folks have been looking at the last year or so in development in CSD. They are a quite exciting bunch of technologies that...
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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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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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That's all I am allowed to say but I am very encouraged. Also, as one of my Connected Systems collegues, Rick Garibay, states , there is a lot of sheer talent in the room like Juval Lowy, Brian Loesgen, Brian Noyes, Michele Leroux Bustamante, Roman Kiss, Don Box, the Sells brothers. Also check out...
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That's all I am allowed to say but I am very encouraged. Also, as one of my Connected Systems collegues, Rick Garibay, states , there is a lot of sheer talent in the room like Juval Lowy, Brian Loesgen, Brian Noyes, Michele Leroux Bustamante, Roman Kiss, Don Box, the Sells brothers. Also check out Roman...
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For the NuCon events we have been running with Microsoft to launch the 2008 Launch Wave, we have been giving out these Neudesic/Microsoft shirts that, IMHO, are really cool - they have this cool timeline on the back on how we see we got to here and shows a lot of the things we focus on (i.e. We use Agile...
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For the NuCon events we have been running with Microsoft to launch the 2008 Launch Wave, we have been giving out these Neudesic/Microsoft shirts that, IMHO, are really cool - they have this cool timeline on the back on how we see we got to here and shows a lot of the things we focus on (i.e. We use Agile...
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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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Last day of the conference and suffering from tiredness. BizTalk/CSD/Connected Systems/REST/Oslo My pal, Jon Flanders, who I spent a great deal of quality time with this week, made Workflow to BizTalk (XLANGs) Wizard as been released Jon also spent a lot of time talking REST and his example with BAM...
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Last day of the conference and suffering from tiredness. BizTalk/CSD/Connected Systems/REST/Oslo My pal, Jon Flanders, who I spent a great deal of quality time with this week, made Workflow to BizTalk (XLANGs) Wizard as been released Jon also spent a lot of time talking REST and his example with BAM...
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I only went to one session yesterday, as I spent a lot of time talking to our customers and potential customers as well as three hours with a a potential new hire. I have to say, is there is *huge* interest in our ESB - Neuron. It's a real world need - people are seeing a big gap in the product line...
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I only went to one session yesterday, as I spent a lot of time talking to our customers and potential customers as well as three hours with a a potential new hire. I have to say, is there is *huge* interest in our ESB - Neuron. It's a real world need - people are seeing a big gap in the product line...
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As I met with Don Smith last night coordinating some things related to the Web Services Software Factory last night, he mentioned to look for the release today of Managed Services Engine , a solution that supports service virtualization through a meta data-driven service repository using .NET and Microsoft...
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As I met with Don Smith last night coordinating some things related to the Web Services Software Factory last night, he mentioned to look for the release today of Managed Services Engine , a solution that supports service virtualization through a meta data-driven service repository using .NET and Microsoft...
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Ok, they have said it in public here. What is it? A huge vision from Microsoft for a modern SOA platform. I think its been safe to say, that when people like us have come aggainst IBM or TIBCO with the current Microsoft SOA products and process, it has been, well, challenging, because of the "gaps"...
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Ok, they have said it in public here. What is it? A huge vision from Microsoft for a modern SOA platform. I think its been safe to say, that when people like us have come aggainst IBM or TIBCO with the current Microsoft SOA products and process, it has been, well, challenging, because of the "gaps"...
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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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