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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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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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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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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Jeremy, as always, has a lot of interesting things to say in his latest Train of Thought . I agree with most of what he said, in particular with evolutionary design, as Steve Eichert and I practiced it at Algo . It is important to not "allow your design thinking and abstractions get ahead of your...
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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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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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Ayende said Let me start by saying that I absolutely reject this statement: [The] database model is going to support far more than your application The database model is private to the application, and is never shared with the outside world. If you need to access to my data, here is the service URL,...
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Ayende said Let me start by saying that I absolutely reject this statement: [The] database model is going to support far more than your application The database model is private to the application, and is never shared with the outside world. If you need to access to my data, here is the service URL,...
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So far, we have talked about: Symptoms of a Problem, Diagnosis and Why SOA? Dynamic IT to Support the Agile Business and Business Benefits of SOA What is Service Orientation? What is SOA? The Many Definitions, a Working Definition, the Four Tenets What is a Service? The Four Tenets of SOA Service Architectural...
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Last time in Part 3 , I talked about the definitions of SOA, from the Architectural and Business standpoints. Left over, was a discussion of the Four Tenets of SOA. However, we really do need to try to define a Service itself and see if there are any Design Patterns to help guide us in shaping what constitutes...
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Introduction and Context I have been giving an SOA talk, in various forms for several years, where I concentrate on various themes. For the benefit of many who have not gone to such talks, as well as for others, I have always wanted to start a written series based on these talks. Since, I can't sleep...
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Thank you Code Campers! I had 120 out of 400 of you (ASP.NET MVC was at same time) and you were a great group. I had a great time with a new talk. Remember - just say no to RPC and Request/Reply - embrace the diversity of Asynchronous Messaging and Event Driven Architectures! The slides are here and...
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Thank you Code Campers! I had 120 out of 400 of you (ASP.NET MVC was at same time) and you were a great group. I had a great time with a new talk. Remember - just say no to RPC and Request/Reply - embrace the diversity of Asynchronous Messaging and Event Driven Architectures! The slides are here and...
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Arnon responds to my response about his definition of SOA by doing a NOT operation on business being a part of an SOA definition :) I am sorry Sam, but I beg to differ, not about the importance of business drive behind implementing SOA, but about what SOA is. The culprit, in my opinion, is terminology...
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Arnon responds to my response about his definition of SOA by doing a NOT operation on business being a part of an SOA definition :) I am sorry Sam, but I beg to differ, not about the importance of business drive behind implementing SOA, but about what SOA is. The culprit, in my opinion, is terminology...
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Arnon is but one of the latest attempting to define SOA in a more formal sense, stating that SOA is an Architectural style derived from four architectural styles. He presents the first here with Client/Server . That's all well and true, but any definition of SOA must encompass the business drivers...
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Arnon is but one of the latest attempting to define SOA in a more formal sense, stating that SOA is an Architectural style derived from four architectural styles. He presents the first here with Client/Server . That's all well and true, but any definition of SOA must encompass the business drivers and...
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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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I said, way back here , that I was working with another Neudesic Principal Consultant, Chad Thomas , on two WCF demo services/applications for my SOA with WCF and ESB talks. That talk, as many have noticed, spends a whole hour on Architectural, Domain-Driven and Software Patterns that I believe are neccessary...
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I said, way back here , that I was working with another Neudesic Principal Consultant, Chad Thomas , on two WCF demo services/applications for my SOA with WCF and ESB talks. That talk, as many have noticed, spends a whole hour on Architectural, Domain-Driven and Software Patterns that I believe are neccessary...
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So many things to do, so little time, this is what we call a catch-up post SOA Nick starts a new series on Integration with SOA and the CISR Operating Models and adds SOA in the Coordination Models Nick also on a Tale of Two Visions Both Arnon and Nick take on Pete Lacey's " What is SOA ?"...
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So many things to do, so little time, this is what we call a catch-up post SOA Nick starts a new series on Integration with SOA and the CISR Operating Models and adds SOA in the Coordination Models Nick also on a Tale of Two Visions Both Arnon and Nick take on Pete Lacey's " What is SOA ?"...
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A further note about what I just blogged about what our upcoming Webinar and CNUG with the applications Chad and I are developing. I will be showing and giving out to the community tonight a significant portion of our code. These demo applications Chad and I developed are both influenced by our backgrounds...
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A further note about what I just blogged about what our upcoming Webinar and CNUG with the applications Chad and I are developing. I will be showing and giving out to the community tonight a significant portion of our code. These demo applications Chad and I developed are both influenced by our backgrounds...
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WCF/BizTalk Services Brian talks about the new CodeRush 2.5.4 WCF Templates which take the drudgery out of the boilerplate stuff. I have gone personally to a combination of Resharper + CodeRush. I use Resharper for all the Refactoring plus the code analysis and I use CodeRush for the templates and keyboard...
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WCF/BizTalk Services Brian talks about the new CodeRush 2.5.4 WCF Templates which take the drudgery out of the boilerplate stuff. I have gone personally to a combination of Resharper + CodeRush. I use Resharper for all the Refactoring plus the code analysis and I use CodeRush for the templates and keyboard...
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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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Cross-posted from main blog So, since I am out here in Irvine CA for our annual meeting, and I have just pushed out a Plaxo update to everyone, I guess it's time to let you all know that I have joined Neudesic as a Principal Consultant II, heading/responsible for the Connected Systems/SOA practice for...
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Cross-posted from main blog So, since I am out here in Irvine CA for our annual meeting, and I have just pushed out a Plaxo update to everyone, I guess it's time to let you all know that I have joined Neudesic as a Principal Consultant II, heading/responsible for the Connected Systems/SOA practice...
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Writing Maintainable Code Cross-Posted from CB Blog Some very exciting and necessary discussions have broken out in the community about writing maintainable code and the different trade offs in projects. The discussion originated with Ayende's Maintainable, but for whom? post which had the section...
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Writing Maintainable Code Cross-Posted from CB Blog Some very exciting and necessary discussions have broken out in the community about writing maintainable code and the different trade offs in projects. The discussion originated with Ayende's Maintainable, but for whom? post which had the section I...
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I said this in response to jdn on Ayende's blog: > In a perfect world, you can build a better architecture, teach people along the way, etc. I am on a 2 million dollar large software product. I would call that the real world. A year ago, 6 out of the 8 developers had never heard of TDD, DDD, O...
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I said this in response to jdn on Ayende's blog: > In a perfect world, you can build a better architecture, teach people along the way, etc. I am on a 2 million dollar large software product. I would call that the real world. A year ago, 6 out of the 8 developers had never heard of TDD, DDD, O/RM...
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Cross-posted from CB Blog What Ayende said here that is, " Building the application using TDD, IoC, OR/M, etc would create a maintainable application, but it wouldn't be maintainable by someone who doesn't know all that. Building an application application using proven bad practices will ensure...
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Cross-posted from CB Blog What Ayende said here that is, " Building the application using TDD, IoC, OR/M, etc would create a maintainable application, but it wouldn't be maintainable by someone who doesn't know all that. Building an application application using proven bad practices will...
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My four year old daughter, Heather, had her first ballet recital last night. It was a very proud moment for me. She had to wear a little makeup for the lights and with hair up, she looked beautiful but older and that was emotional. I have some things saved up. Architecture/Software Design I am so tired...
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My four year old daughter, Heather, had her first ballet recital last night. It was a very proud moment for me. She had to wear a little makeup for the lights and with hair up, she looked beautiful but older and that was emotional. I have some things saved up. Architecture/Software Design I am so tired...
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Trying to squeeze this in before yet another gym workout. As I have been talking about on my personal blog , I have really amped up my running as well as my weight-lifting programs. I joined a 2nd gym at work since it's cheap and on the same floor as the office so I work out every day. Also possibly...
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Trying to squeeze this in before yet another gym workout. As I have been talking about on my personal blog , I have really amped up my running as well as my weight-lifting programs. I joined a 2nd gym at work since it's cheap and on the same floor as the office so I work out every day. Also possibly...
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The Heat of the Moment reached 83 degrees here yesterday after days of 50 degrees and rain. Who heard of getting a sun burn in New England in mid April? Blogging/Blogsphere My friend Korby introduced Tagspace , a concept he presented to Scott Hanselman and I back at Palermo's party. I am happy to see...
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The Heat of the Moment reached 83 degrees here yesterday after days of 50 degrees and rain. Who heard of getting a sun burn in New England in mid April? Blogging/Blogsphere My friend Korby introduced Tagspace , a concept he presented to Scott Hanselman and I back at Palermo's party. I am happy to...
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I heard a lot of feedback back when I started my new personal blog and before when I started a new home portal on Office Live, that I should consolidate my web properties back around samgentile.com. To this point. it has been rather difficult because of the way we set up it was convoluted. An old version...
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CLR/Tools An excellent post from Scott Hanselman on Managing Change with .NET Assembly Diff Tools . As I said , during the MVP Summit I spent time with Patrick Smachia and Scott Hanselman looking at the absolutely amazing new beta of NDepend . Microsoft/Ajax/Web 2.0 is Bull**** Ayende already took Paul...
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CLR/Tools An excellent post from Scott Hanselman on Managing Change with .NET Assembly Diff Tools . As I said , during the MVP Summit I spent time with Patrick Smachia and Scott Hanselman looking at the absolutely amazing new beta of NDepend . Microsoft/Ajax/Web 2.0 is Bull**** Ayende already took Paul...
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Smart Clients/Orcas I am extremely pleased to see the .NET Framework (and Microsoft) finally gain the offline sync services that I have been talking about for quite a few years in my work at Groove and Adesso . You will be able to do synchronization from WinForms and WPF apps that you could do from Groove...
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Smart Clients/Orcas I am extremely pleased to see the .NET Framework (and Microsoft) finally gain the offline sync services that I have been talking about for quite a few years in my work at Groove and Adesso . You will be able to do synchronization from WinForms and WPF apps that you could do from Groove...
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Thank God, its Friday. Even after a full 32 ounces of strong Starbucks coffee, I still fell asleep on the train on the way in. Entity Framework/OR/M/LINQ The excellent Entity Framework discussions continue with Scott Bellware's fine Entity Framework Challenges Architecture One of my core principles...
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Thank God, its Friday. Even after a full 32 ounces of strong Starbucks coffee, I still fell asleep on the train on the way in. Entity Framework/OR/M/LINQ The excellent Entity Framework discussions continue with Scott Bellware's fine Entity Framework Challenges Architecture One of my core principles of...
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This is it, the big 150! The first New and Notable was on May 19, 2003 , (my first post was March 29, 2002 ) and I paid homage to the master, "I have always admired Mike's ability to look at the world out there and put it all into one great post, The Daily Grind . While I can't pretend to have Mike...
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This is it, the big 150! The first New and Notable was on May 19, 2003 , (my first post was March 29, 2002 ) and I paid homage to the master, "I have always admired Mike's ability to look at the world out there and put it all into one great post, The Daily Grind . While I can't pretend to...
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I have been working with the Office Live Services Beta for some months now. They just went live with my site over the weekend (although I still have to work on the domain name transfer) and it looks pretty good! I have a new Header and Home Page design. I have added my How-To STS/Window Authentication...
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Yup, I'm still stuck in Seattle and I still feel like crap. Tomas just went off to the airport and I feel like the last MVP left in Seattle. Just want to get out of here and home but can't do that until tomorrow night. Lots of stuff stored up Entity Framework/ADO.NET 3/ORM/ASP.NET/MonoRail I 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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Today, the "breakout" sessions begun. In other words, we started drilling down with the product groups; for me that is Solution Architect. Some of the sessions I can't even name as even the code words are not public but I did want to mention that we had a great session and discussion (on the...
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Today, the "breakout" sessions begun. In other words, we started drilling down with the product groups; for me that is Solution Architect. Some of the sessions I can't even name as even the code words are not public but I did want to mention that we had a great session and discussion (on...
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In the last two posts 101 and 102 , I went pretty deep in some areas. I want to step back and do some more tutorial stuff. So the first question out of the gate is what is Workflow itself and where might you use it? In a nutshell, a Workflow describes and automates a Business Process. It can be described...
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In the last two posts 101 and 102 , I went pretty deep in some areas. I want to step back and do some more tutorial stuff. So the first question out of the gate is what is Workflow itself and where might you use it? In a nutshell, a Workflow describes and automates a Business Process. It can be described...
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So, last time around , I left off at the issue about my struggles with the ExternalDataService that ships in WF and purports to be the general mechanism to get data in and out of a workflow. Harry responded that he didn't like EDS and that I get real intimate with the WorkflowQueuingService which is...
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So, last time around , I left off at the issue about my struggles with the ExternalDataService that ships in WF and purports to be the general mechanism to get data in and out of a workflow. Harry responded that he didn't like EDS and that I get real intimate with the WorkflowQueuingService which...
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Still real tired from my Oklahoma trip , partying with Raymond sure is exhausting-). Agile/Development Tools On my short list for some time now, is to switch from NUnit to the definitely superior MbUnit. My friend Andrew has done some great work with this tool and he has a new release out with the beta...
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Still real tired from my Oklahoma trip , partying with Raymond sure is exhausting-). Agile/Development Tools On my short list for some time now, is to switch from NUnit to the definitely superior MbUnit. My friend Andrew has done some great work with this tool and he has a new release out with the beta...
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Thanks Oklahoma City and especially Raymond for a great 2 days in the city! It was 76 degrees and I had a blast. Raymond was the best host a speaker could ever wish for and the group was great. One thing that is different from other groups is that they have both a lunch meeting (hour and 15 minutes)...
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Thanks Oklahoma City and especially Raymond for a great 2 days in the city! It was 76 degrees and I had a blast. Raymond was the best host a speaker could ever wish for and the group was great. One thing that is different from other groups is that they have both a lunch meeting (hour and 15 minutes)...
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Harry wonders if it has been a slow week. It started that way for me but its certainly not now with both work and the Orcas CTP release. I was getting so bored with .NET in general and even WCF/WF lately. Its really been a long time for me with something new. Vista is so one year ago, WCF too, etc. Last...
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Harry wonders if it has been a slow week. It started that way for me but its certainly not now with both work and the Orcas CTP release. I was getting so bored with .NET in general and even WCF/WF lately. Its really been a long time for me with something new. Vista is so one year ago, WCF too, etc. Last...
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So after two days of downloading at broadband speeds, I finally got all the pieces of the Orcas Mrach CTP downloaded. Doublce-clicking on Part1.exe expanded the other 8 RAR files. Once that was done, I used Virtual PC 2007 on top of my Vista Ultimate desktop OS. I left the setting at 1 GB of RAM. I then...
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So after two days of downloading at broadband speeds, I finally got all the pieces of the Orcas Mrach CTP downloaded. Doublce-clicking on Part1.exe expanded the other 8 RAR files. Once that was done, I used Virtual PC 2007 on top of my Vista Ultimate desktop OS. I left the setting at 1 GB of RAM. I then...
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As fellow CodeBetter Blogger Raymond notes, in his very gracious post , I will be giving two talks on WCF for INETA this coming Monday in Oklahoma City. The deck is being refined once again with my latest Indigo learnings especially as we deploy in Financial Banks. I also hope to have new demos, perhaps...
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As fellow CodeBetter Blogger Raymond notes, in his very gracious post , I will be giving two talks on WCF for INETA this coming Monday in Oklahoma City. The deck is being refined once again with my latest Indigo learnings especially as we deploy in Financial Banks. I also hope to have new demos, perhaps...
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I am really excited about this drop! Too many great things to mention. Get the installable bits here and the VPC image here . The page shows the very exciting Workflow and WCF new features. I'll have more to say as I play with them. Windows Communication Foundation and Workflow Foundation WF Designer...
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I am really excited about this drop! Too many great things to mention. Get the installable bits here and the VPC image here . The page shows the very exciting Workflow and WCF new features. I'll have more to say as I play with them. Windows Communication Foundation and Workflow Foundation WF Designer...
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I don't really know what to call this post. I'm not as good as Palermo in doing 101 posts and I like to talk about the context and issues. And, I'm not just a pretty link-blogger so away we go :). Way back in October, I talked about Re-Hosting the Windows Workflow Designer in our application . So the...
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I don't really know what to call this post. I'm not as good as Palermo in doing 101 posts and I like to talk about the context and issues. And, I'm not just a pretty link-blogger so away we go :). Way back in October, I talked about Re-Hosting the Windows Workflow Designer in our application...
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Ah Saturday morning where we can sleep in, ah no wait...I have kids to wake me up at the crack of dawn... Software Architecture The PAG folks continue to deliver their goodness with their first weekly drop of the new version of the Smart Client Software Factory and they looked like they brought over...
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Ah Saturday morning where we can sleep in, ah no wait...I have kids to wake me up at the crack of dawn... Software Architecture The PAG folks continue to deliver their goodness with their first weekly drop of the new version of the Smart Client Software Factory and they looked like they brought over...
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Architecture/SOA Blaine Wastell has posted that PAG planning an update of the Smart Client Software Factory to be released in late April of this year. They are encouraging feedback at http://www.codeplex.com/smartclient and enter critical items into the issue tracker ( http://www.codeplex.com/smartclient...
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Architecture/SOA Blaine Wastell has posted that PAG planning an update of the Smart Client Software Factory to be released in late April of this year. They are encouraging feedback at http://www.codeplex.com/smartclient and enter critical items into the issue tracker ( http://www.codeplex.com/smartclient...
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In a post on January 25th , I said, "I posted yesterday that we had shipped our Enterprise Collateral Management solution based on our new architecture. As I said, we still have a lot more to do ." I provided a concise list of the methodologies, technologies and tools that we used in our 14...
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In a post on January 25th , I said, "I posted yesterday that we had shipped our Enterprise Collateral Management solution based on our new architecture. As I said, we still have a lot more to do ." I provided a concise list of the methodologies, technologies and tools that we used in our 14...
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Data/ADO.NET Orcas Two from the ADO.NET team: Entity Client and Nulls - LINQ to DataSets Part 3 Software Architecture/SOA/CAB Udi answers, Can or should SOA be implemented without Web Services? David Chappell on The Three Faces of SOA Eric Newcomer: WS-* vs. REST is not the question Another architect...
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Data/ADO.NET Orcas Two from the ADO.NET team: Entity Client and Nulls - LINQ to DataSets Part 3 Software Architecture/SOA/CAB Udi answers, Can or should SOA be implemented without Web Services? David Chappell on The Three Faces of SOA Eric Newcomer: WS-* vs. REST is not the question Another architect...
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Found some time to blog. Smart Client/UI Architecture V2 of the User Interface Process Application Block (UIPAB) is out from PAG [via Mike ]. I must confess to being confused on how this is different than CAB as "designed to abstract the control flow and state management out of the user interface...
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Found some time to blog. Smart Client/UI Architecture V2 of the User Interface Process Application Block (UIPAB) is out from PAG [via Mike ]. I must confess to being confused on how this is different than CAB as "designed to abstract the control flow and state management out of the user interface...
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I haven't felt like blogging much lately. Some of that is due to how much is going on at work (much more on that when I feel like it) but I have also haven't really felt jazzed about blogging lately. I want to, and am starting to devote more time to get myself into the gym and my family, both...
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I haven't felt like blogging much lately. Some of that is due to how much is going on at work (much more on that when I feel like it) but I have also haven't really felt jazzed about blogging lately. I want to, and am starting to devote more time to get myself into the gym and my family, both of which...
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Winter has finally set in with single digit temps and minus degrees wind chills but still no snow. WPF/Avalon Adam's WPF book is out and flying off the shelves apparently ! I have been looking forward to this one as his COM Interop book is the bible there. Feb CTP of WPF/E! New Docs, SDK and QuickStarts...
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Winter has finally set in with single digit temps and minus degrees wind chills but still no snow. WPF/Avalon Adam's WPF book is out and flying off the shelves apparently ! I have been looking forward to this one as his COM Interop book is the bible there. Feb CTP of WPF/E! New Docs, SDK and QuickStarts...
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I have already said my piece on the Vista launch but also Office 2007 launches today which really rocks. The much better Outlook 2007 is worth the price of admission alone IMHO. Vista and Office Launches Vista Launch Page Bill Gates Keynote European Launch Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor Office 2007 Launch...
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I have already said my piece on the Vista launch but also Office 2007 launches today which really rocks. The much better Outlook 2007 is worth the price of admission alone IMHO. Vista and Office Launches Vista Launch Page Bill Gates Keynote European Launch Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor Office 2007 Launch...
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I posted yesterday that we had shipped our Enterprise Collateral Management solution based on our new architecture. As I said, we still have a lot more to do. Several people have asked and many have been interested in the continuing blog posts that I have had on our 14 month development cycle. This post...
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I posted yesterday that we had shipped our Enterprise Collateral Management solution based on our new architecture. As I said, we still have a lot more to do. Several people have asked and many have been interested in the continuing blog posts that I have had on our 14 month development cycle. This post...
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We finally saw some snow here but it was under an inch. Today, my team has a release party. After 14 months and over 80 iterations, we have shipped on top of our architecture an enterprise collateral management solution and deployed in a large bank in Paris and London and they have accepted it. We have...
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We finally saw some snow here but it was under an inch. Today, my team has a release party. After 14 months and over 80 iterations, we have shipped on top of our architecture an enterprise collateral management solution and deployed in a large bank in Paris and London and they have accepted it. We have...
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Architecture More competition! No, I am very glad to see my good friend and Architect Harry start a series like mine and Mike's with his Morning Coffee 10 . I'm going to have to quicken the pace-) Software Development/Tools JetBrains has released their 1 .2 version of their new CI and build solution...
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Architecture More competition! No, I am very glad to see my good friend and Architect Harry start a series like mine and Mike's with his Morning Coffee 10 . I'm going to have to quicken the pace-) Software Development/Tools JetBrains has released their 1 .2 version of their new CI and build solution...
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Posted by sgentile on January 16th, 2006 The single biggest item of feedback on the blog is everyone wanted to see more Agile posts from my personal day to day experience . I had written about the tools and technologies back in this post and several have inquired about Team System. We are using Visual...
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Posted by sgentile on January 16th, 2006 The single biggest item of feedback on the blog is everyone wanted to see more Agile posts from my personal day to day experience . I had written about the tools and technologies back in this post and several have inquired about Team System. We are using Visual...
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WPF/Avalon One thing I had forgotten about in Avalon is the XAML Browser Apps (XBAPS) sandboxed in the browser. Karen Corby has two posts here on features and the second on security levels . [Found via Lester's WPF Blog ] One of the things I am looking at architecturally for 2007, is rationalizing...
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WPF/Avalon One thing I had forgotten about in Avalon is the XAML Browser Apps (XBAPS) sandboxed in the browser. Karen Corby has two posts here on features and the second on security levels . [Found via Lester's WPF Blog ] One of the things I am looking at architecturally for 2007, is rationalizing the...
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More awesome news today on something we use on our project and I really love from Christian : It is here . The Web Service Software Factory (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of tools, patterns, source code and prescriptive guidance that helps our customers quickly and consistently...
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More awesome news today on something we use on our project and I really love from Christian : It is here . The Web Service Software Factory (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of tools, patterns, source code and prescriptive guidance that helps our customers quickly and consistently...
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Completely buried with two projects and the main one is going to CTP #2 at a major back in Paris/London next week so going to scrape this together quickly. I have also been pairing with Steve back on the main project on solving performance problems - yesterday, he and I optimized a section of the system...
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A N&N from Brussels Belgium where I am up in the middle of the night (again I wake up at 3AM!) with my sleep hours all screwed up. I am enjoying my week here nonetheless. I don't know quite what to make of Brussels. Some parts remind me quite a bit of Paris but there is this weird mix of "modern"...
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A N&N from Brussels Belgium where I am up in the middle of the night (again I wake up at 3AM!) with my sleep hours all screwed up. I am enjoying my week here nonetheless. I don't know quite what to make of Brussels. Some parts remind me quite a bit of Paris but there is this weird mix of "modern"...
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A nice Christmas present from the PAG team: the first CTP of the 3.0 Ent Lib and they have put it on CodePlex . See Tom's blog post for features but my list made it in: Strong-Naming, Config Tool, Validation Block and the App;ication Block Software Factory. I'm pretty pleased....
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A nice Christmas present from the PAG team: the first CTP of the 3.0 Ent Lib and they have put it on CodePlex . See Tom's blog post for features but my list made it in: Strong-Naming, Config Tool, Validation Block and the App;ication Block Software Factory. I'm pretty pleased....
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ISDA - International Swaps and Derivatives Association SWIFT Home Product descriptions of swaps and other OTC derivatives, along with some frequently asked questions regarding derivatives. Microsoft Financial Services Microsoft Financial Services Developer Conference 2006 Session Presentations Windows...
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ISDA - International Swaps and Derivatives Association SWIFT Home Product descriptions of swaps and other OTC derivatives, along with some frequently asked questions regarding derivatives. Microsoft Financial Services Microsoft Financial Services Developer Conference 2006 Session Presentations Windows...
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I haven't talked a lot about what we do . We do work in the Financial and especially Banking sectors as our product is sold into at least 64 of the world's largest banks. As I develop more into my role here as a division/Enterprise Architect, I meet more and more with key CTOs and others at large instutions...
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I haven't talked a lot about what we do . We do work in the Financial and especially Banking sectors as our product is sold into at least 64 of the world's largest banks. As I develop more into my role here as a division/Enterprise Architect, I meet more and more with key CTOs and others at large...
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The thing about the RESTefarian Jihad is that they never stop. They take some simple good ideas and try to apply them everywhere, dominate discussions everywhere, basically take on all the characteristics of a bad religous bigot to the point of sickness and generally not answer the relevant questions...
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The thing about the RESTefarian Jihad is that they never stop. They take some simple good ideas and try to apply them everywhere, dominate discussions everywhere, basically take on all the characteristics of a bad religous bigot to the point of sickness and generally not answer the relevant questions...
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Clemens sets straight on the nonsense that Google has killed SOAP even as the RESTefarian Jihad celebrates : " What I find striking are the differences in the licenses between the AJAX API and the SOAP API. That's where the beef is....the AJAX API is constrained to use with web sites with the...
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Clemens sets straight on the nonsense that Google has killed SOAP even as the RESTefarian Jihad celebrates : " What I find striking are the differences in the licenses between the AJAX API and the SOAP API. That's where the beef is....the AJAX API is constrained to use with web sites with the terms...
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Last night of the Winter 2006 tour was great. I did do some new things so the slides and code are up on my Presentations site . My family and I enjoyed the Sayre Mansion ....
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Last night of the Winter 2006 tour was great. I did do some new things so the slides and code are up on my Presentations site . My family and I enjoyed the Sayre Mansion ....
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It's really great to see Don Dodge from Microsoft really get my OCC architecture p ost and what we are doing at Adesso . As Don says, “ Adesso’s secret sauce is a replication and synchronization engine that keeps application data and application logic synchronized across all devices. The...
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It's really great to see Don Dodge from Microsoft really get my OCC architecture p ost and what we are doing at Adesso . As Don says, “ Adesso’s secret sauce is a replication and synchronization engine that keeps application data and application logic synchronized across all devices. The Adesso platform...
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I am SO busy with INETA trips and tons to do at work. Here is what I have stored up for the last week or so. WCF/SOA/Workflow/WF Tomas blogs about something I face every day in WCF with WCF ServiceHost Failures and IDisposable with "The "don't call Close()/Dispose() if faulted" behavior...
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I am SO busy with INETA trips and tons to do at work. Here is what I have stored up for the last week or so. WCF/SOA/Workflow/WF Tomas blogs about something I face every day in WCF with WCF ServiceHost Failures and IDisposable with "The "don't call Close()/Dispose() if faulted" behavior...
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With apologies to Wille Nelson, I will be on the road again for INETA. Monday night will be a brand new area and talk for me on WF. With the increasing use of it in my architecture for the next phase at work, I have developed quite a love affair with WF. 12/11/06 Cedar Rapids INETA - Introduction to...
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With apologies to Wille Nelson, I will be on the road again for INETA. Monday night will be a brand new area and talk for me on WF. With the increasing use of it in my architecture for the next phase at work, I have developed quite a love affair with WF. 12/11/06 Cedar Rapids INETA - Introduction to...
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Note 12/11/07 Reader reporting broken links. These have now been updated In comments to my post about our Agile project entering ship mode, a reader asked for more information about our use of CAB. While I intend to write more about OB and performance, here is a bunch of posts about CAB and our use of...
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Note 12/11/07 Reader reporting broken links. These have now been updated In comments to my post about our Agile project entering ship mode, a reader asked for more information about our use of CAB. While I intend to write more about OB and performance, here is a bunch of posts about CAB and our use of...
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This is one reason why Scott Hanselman calls me an "Interop Beast" -)). We had a thorny COM Interop issue that was causing a crash in certain machine types. Every single pair on the team had worked on it for many hours for the last three weeks , in our Ship Cycle without success. It should...
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This is one reason why Scott Hanselman calls me an "Interop Beast" -)). We had a thorny COM Interop issue that was causing a crash in certain machine types. Every single pair on the team had worked on it for many hours for the last three weeks , in our Ship Cycle without success. It should...
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So, I have been writing a bunch of posts over the last 14 months, how we have been using Agile, actually full Extreme Programming practices to build a multi-million dollar Enterprise Software platform and application for the banking sector. We certainly have seriously stressed Extreme Programming/Agile...
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So, I have been writing a bunch of posts over the last 14 months, how we have been using Agile, actually full Extreme Programming practices to build a multi-million dollar Enterprise Software platform and application for the banking sector. We certainly have seriously stressed Extreme Programming/Agile...
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Lots of great stuff this time. CLR/Interop There has always been a ton of confusion about CLR assembly version numbers since 1999 and a lot of people don't understand all the different version numbers. Luckily, Richard is starting a series on them with the first being the Native File Version which...
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Lots of great stuff this time. CLR/Interop There has always been a ton of confusion about CLR assembly version numbers since 1999 and a lot of people don't understand all the different version numbers. Luckily, Richard is starting a series on them with the first being the Native File Version which of...
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Workflow/BPM/WCF/SOA David Chappell presents arguments both pro and con as to whether Microsoft qualifies as a BPM vendor. Personally, I think the answer is yes, especially when WF is intergrated into BizTalk 200x and other products. Nicholas Allan continues the excellent Indigo WCF posts with Controlling...
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Workflow/BPM/WCF/SOA David Chappell presents arguments both pro and con as to whether Microsoft qualifies as a BPM vendor. Personally, I think the answer is yes, especially when WF is intergrated into BizTalk 200x and other products. Nicholas Allan continues the excellent Indigo WCF posts with Controlling...
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I have lots of stuff collected up today. Software Architecture/SOA Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz has made available his wonderful SOA deck which makes a nice complement to mine (BTW, while there, please take a look at the start of my new home site and tell me what you think here!!) Nick Mallik makes the point of...
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I have lots of stuff collected up today. Software Architecture/SOA Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz has made available his wonderful SOA deck which makes a nice complement to mine (BTW, while there, please take a look at the start of my new home site and tell me what you think here!!) Nick Mallik makes the point of...
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A very good day to leave the country and find a new one... WCF/Indigo/SOA/Workflow/.NET Framework 3 Here are the separate download links for the parts of .NET Framework 3 RTM that I blogged about yesterday: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable Package Microsoft® Windows® Software Development...
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A very good day to leave the country and find a new one... WCF/Indigo/SOA/Workflow/.NET Framework 3 Here are the separate download links for the parts of .NET Framework 3 RTM that I blogged about yesterday: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable Package Microsoft® Windows® Software Development...
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Family morning at the Gentiles means the whole family watching Radiohead from 1994 while waiting for the Starbucks to come... Software Development Ayende points to this great list Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money and asks what excites you as a developer? As I said in a Retrospective last night...
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Family morning at the Gentiles means the whole family watching Radiohead from 1994 while waiting for the Starbucks to come... Software Development Ayende points to this great list Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money and asks what excites you as a developer? As I said in a Retrospective last night...
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Wow, four days in a row, gol darn, I might just be getting predictable and dependable with these posts-). Agile/Extreme Programming The Halloween/Nov Carnival of Agilis ts is up! There is a great section called "What Makes a method Agile" and this which I'll take the liberty of quoting...
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Wow, four days in a row, gol darn, I might just be getting predictable and dependable with these posts-). Agile/Extreme Programming The Halloween/Nov Carnival of Agilis ts is up! There is a great section called "What Makes a method Agile" and this which I'll take the liberty of quoting in its...
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Windows Vista The big news, according to News.com , Steve Ballmer will ring in availability of Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Exchange 2007 at the New York Stock Exchange on November 30th [via Robert ]. This should mean the proper release of WinFX .NET Framework 3 with WCXF, WPF, WF. It will be good...
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Windows Vista The big news, according to News.com , Steve Ballmer will ring in availability of Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Exchange 2007 at the New York Stock Exchange on November 30th [via Robert ]. This should mean the proper release of WinFX .NET Framework 3 with WCXF, WPF, WF. It will be good...
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I was going to respond to Harry's responses made to Tomas and mine, but Tomas already responded and said everything I would have said: I agree with Tomas that I consider Service Broker a good match for applications with code only in the database, even though it supports more than code completly in the...
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I was going to respond to Harry's responses made to Tomas and mine, but Tomas already responded and said everything I would have said: I agree with Tomas that I consider Service Broker a good match for applications with code only in the database, even though it supports more than code completly in...
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Angus, the bulldog has so taken over the house. At least, it's made us more popular with the neighbors. Agile/Extreme Programming I always appreciate the care Jeremy Miller takes in articulating his points and his latest is no exception. In stating his Programming Manifesto , he makes reference to the...
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Angus, the bulldog has so taken over the house. At least, it's made us more popular with the neighbors. Agile/Extreme Programming I always appreciate the care Jeremy Miller takes in articulating his points and his latest is no exception. In stating his Programming Manifesto , he makes reference to...
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We have a new addition to our house - a 60 pound 2-year old English Bulldog! Agile/TDD The big news of the day is my good friend Jamie Cansdale's TestDriven.Net - Check here for download . To say this product is indispensable is an understatement. I sit inside Visual Studio all day writing NUnit tests...
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We have a new addition to our house - a 60 pound 2-year old English Bulldog! Agile/TDD The big news of the day is my good friend Jamie Cansdale's TestDriven.Net - Check here for download . To say this product is indispensable is an understatement. I sit inside Visual Studio all day writing NUnit...
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Via Mike , this is very interesting and very cool: The Cabana Project is dedicated to DevForce developers who want to build upon the Composite UI Application Block (CAB) from the Microsoft Patterns and Practices Group. More as I look into this!...
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Via Mike , this is very interesting and very cool: The Cabana Project is dedicated to DevForce developers who want to build upon the Composite UI Application Block (CAB) from the Microsoft Patterns and Practices Group. More as I look into this!...
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I am still reeling from seeing the Red Hot Chili Peppers with Mars Volta 2 nights ago in Philly at the Wachovia Center. The Peppers were beyond grea t with Frusciante taking a very active lead role. Many of the songs contained a full-out Hendrix-type feedback solo in it that showed the depth of his talents...
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I am still reeling from seeing the Red Hot Chili Peppers with Mars Volta 2 nights ago in Philly at the Wachovia Center. The Peppers were beyond grea t with Frusciante taking a very active lead role. Many of the songs contained a full-out Hendrix-type feedback solo in it that showed the depth of his talents...
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I have a bunch of upcoming winter INETA dates: 12/05/06 San Diego .NET Developer's Group - Service-Oriented Architecture with the WCF 12/11/06 Cedar Rapids INETA - Introduction to Windows Workflow (WF) NEW Talk!! 12/12/06 Cleveland .NET Special Interest Group - Service-Oriented Architecture with...
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I have a bunch of upcoming winter INETA dates: 12/05/06 San Diego .NET Developer's Group - Service-Oriented Architecture with the WCF 12/11/06 Cedar Rapids INETA - Introduction to Windows Workflow (WF) NEW Talk!! 12/12/06 Cleveland .NET Special Interest Group - Service-Oriented Architecture with the...
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I mentioned a couple of days back that we are depending on Windows Workflow as well as WCF. We did a form of proprietary workflow years ago in the legacy version of our Financial application that works somewhat well for the banks that use it. In the new architecture I am designing, we are doing way more...
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I mentioned a couple of days back that we are depending on Windows Workflow as well as WCF. We did a form of proprietary workflow years ago in the legacy version of our Financial application that works somewhat well for the banks that use it. In the new architecture I am designing, we are doing way more...
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Now that I got my Feed Demon back, I actually have some stuff in the queue that is not so "new" but perhaps still "notable." Architecture/CAB/Smart Client Oldie but goodie: Eugenio has compiled a list of CAB and Smart Client Software Factory Resources You can also see my mini-tutorial...
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Now that I got my Feed Demon back, I actually have some stuff in the queue that is not so "new" but perhaps still "notable." Architecture/CAB/Smart Client Oldie but goodie: Eugenio has compiled a list of CAB and Smart Client Software Factory Resources You can also see my mini-tutorial...
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There is so much I want to say about important topics like Rocky's well-written, thought provoking Semantic Coupling: The Elephant in the SOA Room and Udi Dahan's excellent response but I don't have time to write a good response but hopefully soon. SOA/Services/WCF/Indigo/Workflow As mentioned...
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There is so much I want to say about important topics like Rocky's well-written, thought provoking Semantic Coupling: The Elephant in the SOA Room and Udi Dahan's excellent response but I don't have time to write a good response but hopefully soon. SOA/Services/WCF/Indigo/Workflow As mentioned, Rocky...
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Anonymous asked a real good question on my last post that I think I need to share my answer with all of you. Well Sam, have you ever thought why you're always on the 'bleeding edge'? You see to me, if you're a trainer, you need to "sell" to your customers. But if you try and...
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Anonymous asked a real good question on my last post that I think I need to share my answer with all of you. Well Sam, have you ever thought why you're always on the 'bleeding edge'? You see to me, if you're a trainer, you need to "sell" to your customers. But if you try and earn a living and...
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Rain and more rain, makes me just want to sleep. SOA/WCF/Workflow/BPM Richard Turner reports from Digital Identity World & Identity in 2006 William Tay on Windows Workflow: Scheduler and Threads Tomas collects some BizTalk news Pablo has updated WS-Compression for WCF RC1 Tyler Blaine on BPMN Diagrams...
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Rain and more rain, makes me just want to sleep. SOA/WCF/Workflow/BPM Richard Turner reports from Digital Identity World & Identity in 2006 William Tay on Windows Workflow: Scheduler and Threads Tomas collects some BizTalk news Pablo has updated WS-Compression for WCF RC1 Tyler Blaine on BPMN Diagrams...
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IMHO, Martin Fowler's book, Patterns of Enterprise Architecture, is the best and most useful book ever written on Software Architecture. My copy is used almost daily and now he has finally begun to update further patterns on this site . This is a must read! Of particular relevance to me with my daily...
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IMHO, Martin Fowler's book, Patterns of Enterprise Architecture, is the best and most useful book ever written on Software Architecture. My copy is used almost daily and now he has finally begun to update further patterns on this site . This is a must read! Of particular relevance to me with my daily...
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Both the July drop of the Web Service Factory or Service BAT is out and the June SCBAT are out. I am super excited about this as it is nearing V1 and we are using both of these in production code. I have been blogging about the Service Bat since the begining . I talked about my SCBAT experiences here...
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Both the July drop of the Web Service Factory or Service BAT is out and the June SCBAT are out. I am super excited about this as it is nearing V1 and we are using both of these in production code. I have been blogging about the Service Bat since the begining . I talked about my SCBAT experiences here...
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I am in the middle of moving States with my family today but wanted to get one more post out. Daniel Cazzulino presented a webcast on p&p ObjectBuilder (OB), the underpinning framework powering CAB and EntLib v2.0 . As he says, its an underpinning framework and its very important if you are doing...
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I am in the middle of moving States with my family today but wanted to get one more post out. Daniel Cazzulino presented a webcast on p&p ObjectBuilder (OB), the underpinning framework powering CAB and EntLib v2.0 . As he says, its an underpinning framework and its very important if you are doing...
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I find the Microsoft Architecture Journal full of excellent information and perspectives. The latest issue is online and contains Jesus Rodriguez's must-read article E xplore Human Workflow Architectures. It doesn't seem like the whole issue is online yet so make sure you s ubscribe to the Print...
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I find the Microsoft Architecture Journal full of excellent information and perspectives. The latest issue is online and contains Jesus Rodriguez's must-read article E xplore Human Workflow Architectures. It doesn't seem like the whole issue is online yet so make sure you s ubscribe to the Print edition...
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My buddy Jim Shore has produced a very important article that, in my opinion, really moves forward the discussion of what constitutues good software design from an abstract sense to some concrete observable elements. What do I mean by abstract? When I used to hang around Ward's Wiki and the Patterns...
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My buddy Jim Shore has produced a very important article that, in my opinion, really moves forward the discussion of what constitutues good software design from an abstract sense to some concrete observable elements. What do I mean by abstract? When I used to hang around Ward's Wiki and the Patterns...
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A few weeks ago, I wrote on the goodness of SCBAT and GAT . At the workshop, we talked about what we would want to see in the new milestone. Is nice to see this announcement of yesterday's drop : " The p&p Client Team will post weekly drops on Monday's going forward. Today's drop includes the...
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A few weeks ago, I wrote on the goodness of SCBAT and GAT . At the workshop, we talked about what we would want to see in the new milestone. Is nice to see this announcement of yesterday's drop : " The p&p Client Team will post weekly drops on Monday's going forward. Today's drop...
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Oh no, here he goes again with one of those Agile posts, he must be on a religious fervor again, yah, I'm gonna need you to come in on Sunday, Peter... how dare you use something that works so predictably for you.. yah Anyhow, I mentioned our continuing fustrations with our Agile Estimating (lack...
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Oh no, here he goes again with one of those Agile posts, he must be on a religious fervor again, yah, I'm gonna need you to come in on Sunday, Peter... how dare you use something that works so predictably for you.. yah Anyhow, I mentioned our continuing fustrations with our Agile Estimating (lack of...
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Announcement: HP, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft have published a roadmap to describe ongoing work to reconcile and converge currently overlapping standards and specifications. The result will eventually provide an industry-wide set of standards for resources access and eventing that will be useful for many...
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Announcement: HP, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft have published a roadmap to describe ongoing work to reconcile and converge currently overlapping standards and specifications. The result will eventually provide an industry-wide set of standards for resources access and eventing that will be useful for many...
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There may be some new readers that are not aware of my old blogs on samgentile.com, dotnetweblogs and radio back in the day. In short, I have been blogging and writing on .NET since 2000. Revisiting all this stuff it absolutely blows me away how productive I was in 2002 and 2003, when the CLR and .NET...
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There may be some new readers that are not aware of my old blogs on samgentile.com, dotnetweblogs and radio back in the day. In short, I have been blogging and writing on .NET since 2000. Revisiting all this stuff it absolutely blows me away how productive I was in 2002 and 2003, when the CLR and .NET...
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There may be some new readers that are not aware of my old blogs on samgentile.com, dotnetweblogs and radio back in the day. In short, I have been blogging and writing on .NET since 2000. This post lists my publications and articles over the years. The next post will attempt to gather my most popular...
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As most of you and the VSTS team know, I have been posting on TFS and VSTS for the better part of two years no w. I have been meaning to post on the VSTS ship. As Rob announced , TFS shipped yesterday and is available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads! I spent some really good quality time with my two pals...
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As most of you and the VSTS team know, I have been posting on TFS and VSTS for the better part of two years no w. I have been meaning to post on the VSTS ship. As Rob announced , TFS shipped yesterday and is available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads! I spent some really good quality time with my two pals...
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I just found out that my Feb 23, 2006 Drexel University, Philly PA, Topic: N-Tier Development, at 5 PM is open to the first 15 Philly.NET people (non-students) that register at the Philly.NET site NET-Based N-Tier Architecture and Design Thursday Meeting: Drexel University Philadelphia, PA This is a...
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I just found out that my Feb 23, 2006 Drexel University, Philly PA, Topic: N-Tier Development, at 5 PM is open to the first 15 Philly.NET people (non-students) that register at the Philly.NET site NET-Based N-Tier Architecture and Design Thursday Meeting: Drexel University Philadelphia, PA This is 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 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...
Continue reading "New and Notable 92"
Another blast from the past... I'm reminded again of OCC here at the MVP Summit with the lack of connectivity. I can't even maintain a cellular connection two flights up to Robert's room never mind create business logic to depend on it. Connectivity is very elusive here as in much of the...
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Another blast from the past... I'm reminded again of OCC here at the MVP Summit with the lack of connectivity. I can't even maintain a cellular connection two flights up to Robert's room never mind create business logic to depend on it. Connectivity is very elusive here as in much of the the USA and...
Continue reading "Occasionally Connected Service Oriented Smart Clients"
Steve Maines : "Today also marks the launch of the community site for WCF: http://www.windowscommunication.net/ ." Very cool. I have been with the SDR and such for over 2 years and they have been working on this quite a bit more. Its real cool to know its getting much closer to shipping!!...
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Steve Maines : "Today also marks the launch of the community site for WCF: http://www.windowscommunication.net/ ." Very cool. I have been with the SDR and such for over 2 years and they have been working on this quite a bit more. Its real cool to know its getting much closer to shipping!!...
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So today begun our 12th 3-week Iteration on our Agile project. Our 1st Monday of an Iteration is exhausting. We start with a demo to Business and other interested stakeholders around the globe on all the stories we finished the previous Iteration. We recently got in the habit of doing this as this proves...
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Ok, the confusion is over back on my old .TEXT blog. I tried WordPress . I liked it. However, I recieved a gracious invitation from Scott Belleware and Brendan Tompkins via email to join the CodeBetter community. Based on messages from their/our community, they felt my proper home was here. I agree....
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