(Provided by WCF team to me) There are a variety of new features Scalable modern communication stack * WebSockets support: new transport, client & server support. * Interoperable UDP multi-cast channel * TCP support for high-density scenarios (partial trust) * Async.NET integration - ASR generates...
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Wow! Last post was June 4th on Windows 8th. I talked then about the Windows 8 UI and the HTML5/Javascript/CSS3 interface and, that indeed seems like a lot of people are achieving platform independence (more on that soon). So, I am happily still employed (over a year now) at the US Department of Homeland...
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WF/AppFabric/WCF WF4 Activity Pack CTP1 Available (State Machine, Database) - Matt Winkle announces that the WF4 Activity Pack CTP1 is now available for download. This release consists of two different activities, database activities for interacting with a database and the much anticipated State Machine...
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MIX10/Silverlight/Windows Phone/WPF MIX 10 Rollup Post - I didn't really continue with MIX10 Day 2 coverage so I am glad to see Scott's Rollup post which includes the announcement of the IE9 Developer Preview which is available now Install checklist for Silverlight 4 RC, Blend 4 Beta and Windows Phone...
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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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Cloud Computing/Azure Should IT Fear the Cloud or Embrace It ? - David Pallmann explores the impact to IT faced with the challenges presented to it by cloud computing, even in the face of a compelling business story Gold Coast .Net SIG Azure Development Talk - Slides and Demo - Steve Nagy shares his...
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WCF/WF WF4 runtime performance - The .NET Endpoint begins a series of blog posts on WF4 performance with a post on the core workflow runtime. Performance is a large reason why many people are moving from WF3 to WF4. Discover a New WCF with Discovery! - Kent Brown points to Juval's great article in the...
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Big day for Azure announcements Windows Azure/Windows AppFabric/WCF February 2010 release of Windows Azure Tools and SDK - Blog announces the release the February 2010 (v1.1) release of the Tools and SDK today. This release supports a couple of new features in the platform, namely Windows Azure Drives...
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ESB/WCF/REST/BizTalk/Azure/Identity NServiceBus 2.0 Release Candidate 2 Available - Congrats to Udi for shipping 2.0 about a year after 1.9. As he explains it's a service bus, like an ESB - just an open source one which gives you an easy way to integrate transactional messaging into your applications...
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ADO.NET Data Services Data Services Update for .NET 3.5 SP1 - Now Available for Download - The team has been re-released Data Services Update for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 having resolved the issue with the previous update VS2010 and .NET 4.0 Extensible Output Caching with ASP.NET 4 (VS 2010 and .NET 4...
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First N&N in about 2 months... WCF/Windows Server AppFabric/REST Pretty much the stuff that was REST support in WCF has been relabeled WCF WebHttp Services. This post back on Jan 7th was part one of a twelve part series that introduces the WebHttp Services in .NET 4. Speaking of that relabeling,...
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Hosting Enhancements in .NET4 and Windows AppFabric - This blog post drills down on the various hosting capabilities of WCF and WF in .NET 4 and for Window Server AppFabric as introduced in in the Introduction to AppFabric blog entry. Virtual Labs for AppFabric and .NET 4 - Ten labs for AppFabric and...
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WCF/Azure/BizTalk/Oslo WCF Interoperability Highlighted at PDC and ApacheCon - Kent highlights the work, showcased in the PDC booth, for WCF's interoperability through the WS-* protocols. In particular, they highlighted the Apache project Stonehenge, where Microsoft worked together with WS-* vendors...
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Entity Framework ADO.Net Entity Framework Community Technology Preview Released! - The updated CTP includes many requested improvements and added features particuarly in the area of Enhancements to Code Only and Self-Tracking Entities Model First with the Entrity Framework 4 - This post continues an...
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Windows Workflow WF4 Beta 1 => Beta 2 Breaking Changes Document Published – Matt Winkler points to the document on Microsoft.com downloads that lists the major breaking changes that occurred for WF between Beta 1 and Beta 2 My presentations at HDC 09 – Matt Milner’s presentations...
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Software Development Tools TestDriven.Net 3.0 Alpha - Support for Visual Studio 2010 - Yes! My #1 tool of choice has been upgraded with support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2! Typemock Isolator 5.4.3 released - This version fixes some issues raised after releasing Intellitest last week , as well as releasing...
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I will be giving my first presentation in over a year this Thursday to the PhillyNJ group , a branch of the Philly.NET User Group: WF4, WCF4, and Dublin: What's New in Visual Studio 2010 The Microsoft Connected Systems Division (CSD) has been very busy in the VS2010/.NET Framework 4 timeframe. In addition...
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The focus continues to be VS 2010/.NET Framework 4 Beta 2 VS 2010/.NET Framework 4 Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit - October Preview - The new release has a wealth of resources including demos, slide decks and labs No Javascript IntelliSense in VS 2010? Reset your Settings? - Rick...
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Software Design/ALT.NET 200 Page Manual on Inversion of Control (plus or minus 199) - Rob Conery responds to Joel's statement, "IoC containers take a simple, elegant, and useful concept, and make it something you have to study for two days with a 200-page manual" with a short tutorial to show...
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ASP.NET MVC/Web Programming Using Seadragon with ASP.NET MVC - K. Scott Allan shows how to use Seadragon , one of the new controls in the AJAX Control Toolkit from ASP.NET MVC. It gives you all the goodness of Deep Zoom using only JavaScript. ModelValidator in ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 - Part 1 - The first...
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Aaron has blogged about his latest whitepaper posted on MSDN - it’s called A Developer’s Guide to the WCF REST Starter Kit . If you’re unfamiliar with REST concepts or the WCF 3.5 REST programming model, be sure to read A Guide to Designing and Building RESTful Services with WCF 3.5...
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REST/Azure Services/Astoria/WCF Building a RESTful application with SQL Azure Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 9/7/2009+ ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 Feature: Projections Big Huge Objects and WCF Software Development Tools MonoDevelop 2.2 Beta 1: We go cross-platform - Miguel de Icaza announces...
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SOA/Indigo/WCF/Oslo SOA Patterns - Reservations Client Configuration in WCF 4.0 Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 4 - The last part in this series is to bring the history of the named pipe up to the named pipe implementation in WCF. WOW ! *The* guy I learned COM from originally is back at Microsoft...
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Agile/ALT.NET James Shore provides a Introduction to Agile for QA People This is late but Davy Brion has started a series on Build Your Own Data Access Layer Series . Some posts include Out of the Box CRUD Functionality , Mapping Classes to Tables , and Hydrating Entities . Ayende seems to be having...
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Agile/ALT.NET/Software Design Moving to Kanban: A Mentoring Session A Conversation On Adopting Kanban Refactoring Day 20: Extract Subclass Herding code on MVVM and other presentation patterns in WPF & Silverlight Entity Framework/Oslo Julie has more on Oslo & Data Programability Merger Julie...
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Software Design Refactoring Day 18: Replace exception with condtional Refactoring Day 19: Extract Factory Class WCF/Azure Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8/19/2009+ One Minute Survey: WCF PDC Topics - your inputs are needed Other My good friend Jason has updated his Reflector.Babel Addin OAuth in...
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Silverlight 3/RIA Building Line of Business Applications with Silverlight 3 - Pros and Cons Moonlight 2 Beta 1 Moonlight 2.0 Beta 1 Contains Features from Silverlight 3.0 - Moonlight, the open source implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight for Linux and Unix/X11 systems, has reached version 2...
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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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Silverlight LinqToSQL A Detailed Review - Jesse continues his Silverlight Turing project Software Design/Refactoring Refactoring Day 15: Remove Duplication Refactoring Day 16: Encapsulate C onditional WCF What's New in WCF 4: Alternative List Conference Talks Brian Noyes has slides and code for 2 INETA...
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Pluralsight On-Demand! I plan to have a full post on Pluralsight On- Demand! very soon. I became a subscriber recently and have found it to be an amazing training tool. Its just ike being in the classroom with the best instructors in the business and the courses cover the bulk of the current and upcoming...
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WCF/WF/Azure Developer Introductions to WCF and WF in .NET 4 Beta 1 Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8/3/09+ Agile Refactoring Day 3: Pull Up Method Silverlight Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update Summary Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM...
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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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Kent Brown writes tonight of a New "WCF Essentials" best practices series that they are releasing to the WCF Dev Center called WCF Essentials . The goal of this series is to give you “best practices” guidance on the big things to think about so you can apply WCF “correctly”...
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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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Had extensive sinus surgery Monday and healing all week. There may be few blog posts. Ioc/WCF/WF/Azure Via Jeremy, Introducing the Common Service Factory - IoC and WCF Living in Harmony New walkthroughs for the July CTP of Windows Azure Tools Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 7/20/2009+ Migration...
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WCF/REST/Windows Azure This is really cool - Litware Training sample Mashup app - They have taken the WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2 and built a Web 2.0 Mashup with it Tuning ConnectionBufferSize WPC09 - My Windows Azure Session Silverlight Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services...
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Entity Framework Entity Framework 4.0: How to use POCOs Entity Framework 4.0: POCOs and table-per-type inheritance mapping LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 7/16/2009+ Silverlight 3 Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update Part 1: Navigation Basics Business Apps...
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Software Releases Subsonic 3.0 is Released - with a new LINQ engine, templating system, and SimpleRepository Data Access Guidance Drops Available Finally! DinnerNow.net 3.0 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 jQuery jQuery.noConflict - Resolving conflicts with other javascript libraries...
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Great news from Christian as he has, after an acknowledged too long period of time, updated his fantastic tool - Web Services Contract First (WSCF). Originally built for ASMX (barf!), the tool and add-in has finally been updated for a real Web Services runtime, WCF. It is the premise of this tool, that...
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ASP.NET/Web Programming Three IIS Concepts ASP.NET Developers Should Know JavaScript for the ASP.NET Developer WPF Rick Strahl's WPF Localization Guidance Paper Posted on CodePlex Connected Systems (WCF, WF, Azure Services, etc) Windows Azure, A conversation with David Chappell Using FindBySubjectDistinguishedName...
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SOA/WCF/REST/WF Jesus Rodriguez has his slide deck on WOA from SOAWorld 2009 available Also, he has Using WCF 4.0 XAML Services in the real world: Activating WCF Services from a Central Repository SOA Security Testing - XML Gateways WCF Load Test Tool 3.0 Beta Disposing a WCF Proxy A Bad Idea, EF Entities...
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Connected Systems (Azure Services Platform, .NET Services, WCF, WF, BizTalk) Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Links for 6/22/09+ "Joint Venture": New Azure Multi-Business Enterprise Application (MEBA) The Microsoft Application Platform: A Perspective NDC 2009 - Get the Code ! - various CSD...
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ASP.NET/VS2010 and NETFW 4 Updates to FTP publishing in Visual Studio 2010 WF/WCF/REST/Identity Management Learning by example with 4 - All about the code samples you can download for WF/WCF 4.0 Transactions are bad for REST Announcing FabrikamShipping, in-depth semi-realistic sample for the Geneva Framework...
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Playing around quite a bit with jQuery while re-learning JavaScript. It's easy to see why people fall in love with it. WCF/WF Breaking All The Rules with WCF - Scott Hanselman reminds us that true Interop is hard even using WCF Metadata Client Behaviors Mocking the Console ASP.NET/ASP.NET MVC/jQuery...
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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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ASP.NET/ASP.NET MVC More ASP.NET MVC Best Practices ASP.NET 4.0 Webforms Enhancements Creating jQuery plug-ins from MicrosoftAJAX components CSD/WCF/Azure Cliff Simpkins does for WCF what he did for WF last week, and covers the WCF Changes between Beta 1 and CTP. Meanwhile, Chistian Weyer has done an...
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Can't sleep, so may as well ship another one of these. Software Development Tools TestDriven.Net 2,21: Now includes NUnit 2.5 - One of my most essential toools has been upgraded includes a major new NUnit release as well as some other new features Windows Azure/SOA/WF Windows Azure Storage - An Introduction...
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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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A new version of the REST Starter Kit, Preview 2, is out on CodePlex . One of the new features is a dynamite client side library. Also, be sure to check out Ron Jacob's Labs for Preview 2....
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Windows Azure/Cloud Computing Cloud Computing Links March 10, 2009 Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 3/9/2009+ Agile/Mocks/Software Design/Software Development Tools Moq 3.0 RTM!!! Scott Ambler shares the the Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship which extends the Agile Manifesto . Framework...
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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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WCF/CSD/Azure I know I wrote about the "broken WCF and IDisposable" problem before and how we dealt with it at Neudesic but I can't find it/them with Google. Here is a pointer to David Barrett's (Neudesic) post about how we talked about it and one possible solution. Then I pointed to Jesse...
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ASP.NET MVC Chapter 1 of Steven Walter's upcoming book ASP.NET MVC Unleashed, in rough draft, is available Shawn continues with Building Agiltrain: Part 3 Data Validation Silverlight Rocky - Why Silverlight is the Future WCF Message Framing, Part 7...
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ALT.NET Derek has Dimecast #83 - Learning to use Fluent NHibernate: Getting Started w/ Your First Mappings Software Architecture The Open Group have announced the release of TOGAF 9.0 . TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) has been in development since the mid 90's and is "a standard for...
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Finally got enough snow to delay school for a couple of hours. Oslo/CSD/Queing/Azure/WCF Charles Young takes a closer look at the new CTP of Oslo that I reported the other day He also references this post for what's new and changed in the Oslo CTP Brian Prince has an extensive post on Queues in Azure...
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Part 5 – Itinerary Based Routing Message Pattern in Neuron Introduction In the last installment, I discussed the Publish-Subscribe Message Exchange Pattern. We looked at classical definitions of the MEP, and then looked at how this pattern is the very base of the internal architecture of Neuron...
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Architecture Presentation: REST: A Pragmatic Introduction to the Web's Architecture - In this presentation recorded during QCon London 2008, Stefan Tilkov introduces the audience to REST seen as an architectural style. He thinks that REST is not an alternative to SOA but it can serve SOA to reach its...
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It's snowing again. Like every other time in Southern-most NJ (near Philly) if it accumulates more than an inch, I will be astonished. Very unlike where we used to live in New Hampshire, where for 2 years, they have at least weekly snow storms of 8 or more inches. Software Design K. Scott Allen has #21...
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DDD/Architecture Udi on DDD & Many to Many Object Relational Mapping Udi also on Building Super Scalable Web Systems with REST Web Programming jQuery 1.3.1 released Tools Matt talks about two of my favorite tools: SnagIt and Camtasia . In addition, if you are an MVP, you can get these tools as part...
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Blog Post 4 – Publish-Subscribe Messaging and Neuron Topic Networks Introduction In the last installment, I took a very high-level look at the Neuron architecture. In particular, I spoke of the “internal view” of the bus: Neuron’s internal publish-subscribe messaging model. Most...
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Series – Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs) Drive SOA Adoption Blog Post 2 – Neuron as an ESB - Connectivity Introduction Last time around, in the first installment of this series, I began by giving my rationale for looking deeper at the Neuron ESB, particularly around it being the only packaged...
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WCF/Azure Cloud Services/BizTalk/CSD/Dublin Both Marjan and Steve Martin point to the Beta release of BizTalk Server 2009 and the GA of RFID Mobile Meanwhile, Richard posts on what is actually in it Jesus talks about implementing Content Based routing using the Dublin Application Server Matt Milner has...
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Introduction to ESBs: What are ESBs and Why Would You Need One? Introduction to the Series I am starting a new series that takes a deeper look at what Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs) are, and the benefits they bring to both integration as well as driving SOA adoption. I am going to focus on the Neuron...
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First new and notable with the new Graffiti blog. WCF/Cloud Services Aaron has his latest in his series of WCF screencasts , this time showing how to host WCF services within traditional Windows services Aaron also has a geekSpeak webcast on Cloud Services today Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008 According...
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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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Thanks to all of those who attended my REST session yesterday at the Philly Code Camp. The slides are posted here . The 10 demos are here. Enjoy! P.S. Wow ! 405 downloads already! My most popular presentation already over some that have been there for a year or more accumulating downloads. Technorati...
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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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And that's it, summer is over. ASP.NET MVC ScottGu returns with ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 and Form Posting Scenarios Jeff Palermo has published another excerpt from his upcoming ASP.NET MVC in Action book, this time the Basics of MVC Routes LINQ K. Scott Allen on Stupid LINQ Tricks ALT Languages F# Releases...
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Agile/Software Development/ALT.NET The Art of Agile Development: Collective Code Ownership Raymond provides an entry into lean methodologies Jeffery was on the Software Quality Isn't Optional panel and the video is available The StyleCop team announced the release of a version 4.3 of the StyleCop tool...
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Agile/Software Development/ALT.NET The Art of Agile Development: Collective Code Ownership Raymond provides an entry into lean methodologies Jeffery was on the Software Quality Isn't Optional panel and the video is available The StyleCop team announced the release of a version 4.3 of the StyleCop tool...
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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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As Cliff announces , CSD is partnering up with my friends Aaron and the PluralSight folks on a new weekly .NET developer screencast series to show how to accomplish tasks in WF/WCF 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. This week, for the inaugural screencast, CSD MVP Aaron Skonnard walks you through how to create...
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As I listed in this post on the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 , there are a bunch of significant additions to WCF in SP1. The list looks pretty focused towards REST services and the Web. It's no secret that many developers are looking to REST and the simpler programming model for Web applications. In this regard...
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Of course, this is so much more than a Service Pack with the release now of ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) and the Entity Framework among others. In my area of interest, CSD, there are some significant changes for REST programming (1st class citizen now) as well as some other additions: There were several...
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I thought today may be a good topic for my audience as it go well together with my 3 part WF series just as some of yesterday augments this post on WCF 101 . WF Windows Workflow Foundation WF is a Framework for building Workflow-enabled applications It is NOT a Workflow "product" CLR-based...
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WCF Send Adapters Each receive adapter has a corresponding Send adapter Except WCF-CustomIsolated Send Adapters build up a channel stack dynamically Using generic contract definitions and ChannelFactory Channel Stack built based on Send Port config No way (or need) to specify contract Outbound message...
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BizTalk AND WCF WCF fits nicely into the BT architecture Both have pluggable protocol stacks WCF Receieve Adapters expose WCF endpoints Messages routed to BT via BT Adapter API HTTP based binding are isolated (run in W3WP.exe) Send Adapters build a dynamic Channel Stack No proxy needed in Orchestration...
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DataContract Attribute which controls serialization/deserialization between .NET and XML New serialization layer Hmm, ClientViaBehavior allows us to use tracing tools like TcpTrace and make it cool with WS-Addressing (didn't know about this) Behaviors Objects that change the semantics of the *service...
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What is WCF? Again, Microsoft's next way of distributed dev technology "open up your mind" - not just WS-* - universal framework to communicate with anything Reminiscing about DCOM :) ah, DCOMCONFIG If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) - love it! Stack extremely pluggable...
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I am going to try to do a live blog as I did for the 2 day at PDC for this four-day course that I am taking with Jon Flanders in NYC. Looks like today will have a lot of WCF so that's good for me. Instead of doing the labs on the provided machines, Jon has encouraged me to go ahead and do them on this...
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Tonight's slide deck is up here . After the presentation, Steve Andrews was kind enough to come all the way out to my house, and help fix some workgroup edition permission issues with TFS on Windows Server 2003, and now all the code is checked in as well. I'll put that up later. Resources WCF 101 Blog...
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I have been real busy, among other things, doing a full review and change cycle on my Asynchronous Messaging and Event-Driven Architecture talk that I am doing tonight. The entire deck has changed. There has been even more strides towards full asynchronous messaging. To that end, I have worked with the...
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WF/CSD WF can be a tricky thing. As Cliff blogs , the CSD folks have added two great prescriptive guidance articles for WF to the MSDN Online Library : an article by Jon Flanders to help choose between sequential workflows and state machines, and a major article by Michele Leroux Bustamante explaining...
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I finally put up all the demo code (except Neuron) for the Capital Area .NET UG presentation that I did on 6/24. So: Code here Presentation here Questions, ask Technorati Tags: INETA , EDA , Event Driven Architecture , SOA , Service Oriented Architecture , WCF...
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I will be be taking my Advanced WCF: Asynchronous Messaging and Event-Driven Architectures talk to the July 31st meeting of PhillyNJ, which is a sub-chapter of the excellent Philly.NET group . I am real pleased, that my friend, Hilary Cotter, is speaking first on SQL Replication for Developers. Come...
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.NET/C#/Functional Programming The very useful CR_Documentor 2.0 has been released with Sandcastle Preview and is now open source code Mathew has a boatload of links, resources, slide deck and code in Aspects of Functional Programming in C# Presentation and Code Video: Meet the C# Design Team with Anders...
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Visual Studio Peter says he is hooked on Brad Wilson's Dark Visual Studio color scheme and so am I! I am using it 100% now. An Amazing Introduction to NDepend BizTalk/WCF/WF/SOA My friend Jesus Rodriguez has a WCF extensibility deep dive on MSDN this Friday I listened in to Jon Flanders Workflow Services...
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Its about time to clear out the backlog. CLR/.NET/Visual Studio/TDD/ALT.NET Jeremy has a nice piece here, Before you use an IoC tool, some concepts to know first Favorite Visual Studio 2008 Keyboard Shortcuts (Corey Schuman) [via Alvin ] MbUnit in Visual Studio Team System 2008 and MbUnit v3 Beta 3 Updates...
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This is the 10th article in the series. I should mention that much of the series so far has been geared at a high level and strategic focus for IT Decision Makers rather than for those writing code. This is deliberate as much of SOA is an "Enterprise IT" activity. There has been a fair amount...
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A most excellent turnout tonight at the Capital Area .NET UG tonight with lots of great questions on WCF, nServiceBus and Neuron. Presentation is here . Links WCF Home http://netfx3.com/content/WCFHome.aspx Enterprise Solution Patterns Using Microsoft .NET http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998469...
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BizTalk/WCF/SOA Steve Maines talks about the changes in WCF/WF with .NET 3.5 SP1 Jean-Paul Smit has released a Biztalk Solution Factory on Codeplex . His post about it is here . [ via Santosh – read his post ] Microsoft has a new Whitepaper "Integrating Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 with...
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This is 9th of a series. I haven’t really received much feedback. Please let me know if this is useful, if posts too long, too abstract, your thoughts. Symptoms of a Problem, Diagnosis and Why SOA? Dynamic IT to Support the Agile Business and Business Benefits of SOA What is Service Orientation...
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Enjoying cup of Starbucks and Deep Purple Live in Stockholm 1970 (via Zune marketplace). WCF/WF My good friend Marjan has worked hard with us Influencers (I wish I wasn’t so busy) to come up with a stellar bunch of Webcasts! Must see! One of the key things we are “influencing” is Oslo...
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Along with my series , I have a New and Notable. I have pretty much abandoned N&N in favor of writing original content, especially since Jason and Alvin, among others, are doing such a great job. However, these links go well with the series. SOA/WCF So the biggest news is the beta publication of...
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While I write Part 4, I wanted to write a little note. I did caution against that SOA “couldn’t be bought in a box” and that got picked up by at least one blog . I stand by that. If you “buy” Indigo or IBM or Neuron or NServiceBus or whatever, you are not necessarily going...
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Co-Workers Mark Bosley is finding out that Reflector is the Swiss Knife of Workflow programming Meanwhile, resident Neuron genius David Pallmann goes through the story of being " Licensed to WSDL " :) Computer Languages/Functional Languages/IronRuby My former alma mata, CodeBetter.com, seems...
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Sorry to everyone that I couldn't make it. Vicious Sinus Infection and fever. I did want to give you guys something before I go back to bed. Here the slides I would have given and the demos . Please direct your questions and comments here but it might be 2 days before I get to them. Your patience is...
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WCF/DI/BizTalk Nice pair of posts: Dependency Injection in WCF Services and Dependency Injection in WCF Services Part 2 Article Series on BizTalk and WCF: Part VIII, BizTalk Adapter Pack Service Model Patterns ASP.NET/OR/M/ASP.NET MVC EntitySpaces and Silverlight Demo (Part 1) MVC Storefront,...
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WCF/DI/BizTalk Nice pair of posts: Dependency Injection in WCF Services and Dependency Injection in WCF Services Part 2 Article Series on BizTalk and WCF: Part VIII, BizTalk Adapter Pack Service Model Patterns ASP.NET/OR/M/ASP.NET MVC EntitySpaces and Silverlight Demo (Part 1) MVC Storefront, Part 8...
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Dave continues his seri es, "Today I’d like to talk about how you can store your WCF configuration information centrally with Neuron ESB . While it’s great that WCF allows you to move details such as endpoint, binding, and other information out of code and into config file settings,...
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Identity Management/OpenID/Security/P2P/WCF Scott Hanselman has a great post on OpenId P2P and WCF: Some Resources - part of a great series. We use Peer Channel in Neuron by default. It's fast! Pablo: GetReady for OpenID Using IdentityModel: Converting ADFS Security Properties to Claims Software Development...
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Identity Management/OpenID/Security/P2P/WCF Scott Hanselman has a great post on OpenId P2P and WCF: Some Resources - part of a great series. We use Peer Channel in Neuron by default. It's fast! Pablo: GetReady for OpenID Using IdentityModel: Converting ADFS Security Properties to Claims Software...
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Architect David Pallmann, " Today I’d like to provide a very high level view of the Neuron ESB architecture. Understanding this will help put individual features and concepts in context as I describe them in upcoming articles." Technorati Tags: Neuron , Neuron ESB.EDA , ESB , WCF , Neudesic...
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Architect David Pallmann, " Today I’d like to provide a very high level view of the Neuron ESB architecture. Understanding this will help put individual features and concepts in context as I describe them in upcoming articles." Technorati Tags: Neuron , Neuron ESB.EDA , ESB , WCF , Neudesic...
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New version of Enterprise Service Bus software extends the Microsoft .NET Platform IRVINE, CALIF. – April 29, 2008 - Neudesic, a leading provider of business solutions that leverage the capabilities of the Microsoft product line, announced today the release of version 2.0 of Neuron-ESB. Neuron...
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New version of Enterprise Service Bus software extends the Microsoft .NET Platform IRVINE, CALIF. – April 29, 2008 - Neudesic, a leading provider of business solutions that leverage the capabilities of the Microsoft product line, announced today the release of version 2.0 of Neuron-ESB. Neuron...
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Last time, I talked a bit about SAML and Federated Identity . It turns out this is a subset of a general area, an area commonly referred to as Identity Management . The issue is how to protect and manage credentials across a wide array of network applications that have different authentication methods...
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Last time, I talked a bit about SAML and Federated Identity . It turns out this is a subset of a general area, an area commonly referred to as Identity Management . The issue is how to protect and manage credentials across a wide array of network applications that have different authentication methods...
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Yesterday's big announcement was just a start. We have an even bigger one, hopefully today. Meanwhile, my Neudesic East team celebrated our big 1st year in the East by going to the Tropicana in Atlantic City. We had 36 people, gosh I remember when there were only 6 people. WCF/ADFS/Federated Security...
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Yesterday's big announcement was just a start. We have an even bigger one, hopefully today. Meanwhile, my Neudesic East team celebrated our big 1st year in the East by going to the Tropicana in Atlantic City. We had 36 people, gosh I remember when there were only 6 people. WCF/ADFS/Federated Security...
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I am dealing with some tough SAML issues, with Michele's help, and I thought I would put in some review notes on SAML for other people to benefit as well. Reference for this material was the book: Securing Web Services with WS-Security. Introduction In the past, there was no real need to share identities...
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I am dealing with some tough SAML issues, with Michele's help, and I thought I would put in some review notes on SAML for other people to benefit as well. Reference for this material was the book: Securing Web Services with WS-Security. Introduction In the past, there was no real need to share identities...
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So what have I been doing? Lots of things! I gave Advanced WCF talks in Lehigh Valley and Northern Delaware . The message of EDA is starting to resonate with folks who want their communications infrastructure to be taken care of and want to focus on Event Driven communications (i.e. Purchase Order event...
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So what have I been doing? Lots of things! I gave Advanced WCF talks in Lehigh Valley and Northern Delaware . The message of EDA is starting to resonate with folks who want their communications infrastructure to be taken care of and want to focus on Event Driven communications (i.e. Purchase Order event...
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My slides for my Advanced WCF and MEPs talk is now up on my portal Technorati Tags: Neudesic , WCF , SOA , Neuron ESB.EDA...
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My slides for my Advanced WCF and MEPs talk is now up on my portal Technorati Tags: Neudesic , WCF , SOA , Neuron ESB.EDA...
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Meeting Reminder 27 March 2008 5:30 – 7:30 pm Diamond Technologies, Inc Sam Gentile Advanced WCF: Asynchronous Messaging and Event-Driven Architectures Sponsored by: Diamond Technologies, Inc. Directions Many WCF developers start and...
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Meeting Reminder 27 March 2008 5:30 – 7:30 pm Diamond Technologies, Inc Sam Gentile Advanced WCF: Asynchronous Messaging and Event-Driven Architectures Sponsored by: Diamond Technologies, Inc. Directions Many WCF developers start and end with the Request/Response Message Exchange Pattern. In actuality...
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I have posted the Slides and the Source Code for the 3/17/2008 Lehigh Valley .NET presentation on Advanced WCF - Asynchronous Messaging and EDA. The code is all VS2008/.NET 3.5. The last demo with Neuron does NOT include the ESB.dll but the code is all there to indicate how many lines of code needed...
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I have posted the Slides and the Source Code for the 3/17/2008 Lehigh Valley .NET presentation on Advanced WCF - Asynchronous Messaging and EDA. The code is all VS2008/.NET 3.5. The last demo with Neuron does NOT include the ESB.dll but the code is all there to indicate how many lines of code needed...
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So three people in a row have asked for WCF Tips and Gotchas. Systems and Neuron teams have posted these on Dave Pallman's blog, our Neuron Architect. We discussed these internally and David put them up. They are on his blog: WCF Tips #1 - Service Interface Design WCF Tips #2 - Service Class Design WCF...
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So three people in a row have asked for WCF Tips and Gotchas. Systems and Neuron teams have posted these on Dave Pallman's blog, our Neuron Architect. We discussed these internally and David put them up. They are on his blog: WCF Tips #1 - Service Interface Design WCF Tips #2 - Service Class Design...
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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 am so far behind at this point that I don't know how much of this is "new." MIX08/ASP.NET/ASP.NET MVCAJAX/Silverlight Mix 08 Sessions Published A bunch of posts from ScottGu ASP.NET MVC Framework Road-Map Update Feb 17th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET .NET 3.5 Client Product...
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I am so far behind at this point that I don't know how much of this is "new." MIX08/ASP.NET/ASP.NET MVCAJAX/Silverlight Mix 08 Sessions Published A bunch of posts from ScottGu ASP.NET MVC Framework Road-Map Update Feb 17th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET .NET 3.5 Client...
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WCF/SOA/Neuron I recently had the opportunity to do some development work for our Neuron ESB and two giants of the field Marty Wasznicky and David Pallmann. Dave talks about the WCF Security Hydra by connecting 28 WCF services and clients that use each of the 14 common WCF security scenarios to the same...
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WCF/SOA/Neuron I recently had the opportunity to do some development work for our Neuron ESB and two giants of the field Marty Wasznicky and David Pallmann. Dave talks about the WCF Security Hydra by connecting 28 WCF services and clients that use each of the 14 common WCF security scenarios to the same...
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WCF/SQL Server/SaaS Our own Shaun Collett on Full and Partial Caching Pattern in WCF and SQL Server This looks very promising!! Load Testing Windows Communication Foundation Applications David Chappell has a new paper on Software + Services in a Microsoft World Local .NET Community My friend Mitch Ruebush...
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WCF/SQL Server/SaaS Our own Shaun Collett on Full and Partial Caching Pattern in WCF and SQL Server This looks very promising!! Load Testing Windows Communication Foundation Applications David Chappell has a new paper on Software + Services in a Microsoft World Local .NET Community My friend Mitch Ruebush...
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3 states in travel last week, 3 more this week. I'm now Silver on US Despair and headed up on Southwest... ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio 2008 ScottGu continues his link blog posts with Jan 24th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET, IIS Source Code Outliner 1.0 PowerToy for Visual...
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3 states in travel last week, 3 more this week. I'm now Silver on US Despair and headed up on Southwest... ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio 2008 ScottGu continues his link blog posts with Jan 24th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET, IIS Source Code Outliner 1.0 PowerToy for Visual...
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Last N&N was on the 9th and I don't know if I will able to maintain the series. I am extremely busy, and traveling on multiple projects. I also am not sure that my interests are what the current .NET blogging climate and community want to hear about but I will see how it goes for now. If you...
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Last N&N was on the 9th and I don't know if I will able to maintain the series. I am extremely busy, and traveling on multiple projects. I also am not sure that my interests are what the current .NET blogging climate and community want to hear about but I will see how it goes for now. If you would...
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We are running our developer conference again three times this year. This is all on Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 technologies you need in order to be productive like LINQ, Silverlight, ADO.NET Entity Framework, WCF, and SQL Server 2008. I will be speaking at the NYC event on Real World SOA...
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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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I haven't found much in the last 5 days that is New and Notable but here is a few items of interest. BizTalk Server/Connected Systems/WCF/CSD/WF Our own Brian Loesgen did a presentation on a deck that he had been circulating internally (it is cool to work with these people in our Connected Systems...
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I haven't found much in the last 5 days that is New and Notable but here is a few items of interest. BizTalk Server/Connected Systems/WCF/CSD/WF Our own Brian Loesgen did a presentation on a deck that he had been circulating internally (it is cool to work with these people in our Connected Systems!)...
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A reminder for those in the area is that I will be doing an Advanced WCF talk at Philly Code Camp 2008.1 will be held on Saturday, January 12th at DeVry University in Fort Washington, PA . We have 8 tracks and 48 sessions!! It's all sold out but at least I know one guy who is looking forward to hearing...
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A reminder for those in the area is that I will be doing an Advanced WCF talk at Philly Code Camp 2008.1 will be held on Saturday, January 12th at DeVry University in Fort Washington, PA . We have 8 tracks and 48 sessions!! It's all sold out but at least I know one guy who is looking forward to hearing...
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I want to thank the Microsoft folks for a fourth consecutive MVP award. This year I switched over to Connected Systems, which more accurately reflects my community service. Technorati Tags: Sam Gentile , MVP , Microsoft MVP , Connected Systems , WCF , Neudesic...
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I want to thank the Microsoft folks for a fourth consecutive MVP award. This year I switched over to Connected Systems, which more accurately reflects my community service. Technorati Tags: Sam Gentile , MVP , Microsoft MVP , Connected Systems , WCF , Neudesic...
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My colleague, Brian already wrote about the Neuron team growth and openings, but I wanted to add my bits, as both a Neuron user/consumer and influencer/developer. As the SOA Practice Lead in Neudesic, I have been exposed to many areas of the Microsoft technology stack and their use in SOA and other Connected...
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My colleague, Brian already wrote about the Neuron team growth and openings, but I wanted to add my bits, as both a Neuron user/consumer and influencer/developer. As the SOA Practice Lead in Neudesic, I have been exposed to many areas of the Microsoft technology stack and their use in SOA and other Connected...
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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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BizTalk Services This is one way to find out that the BizTalk Services hosted at http://biztalk.net have been updated :) WCF/Web Service Software Factory/Oslo/Neudesic I really love the new Web Services Software Factory and the Contract Modeling capabilities. They just recently released the WCF Security...
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BizTalk Services This is one way to find out that the BizTalk Services hosted at http://biztalk.net have been updated :) WCF/Web Service Software Factory/Oslo/Neudesic I really love the new Web Services Software Factory and the Contract Modeling capabilities. They just recently released the WCF Security...
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We, the Connected Systems Community have a new community site started by Microsoft called "BizTalk Blogs ." Don't let the name fool you :) It's not really about BizTalk, which has expanded into a marketing name, but all things CSD like WCF, WF, CardSpace, BizTalk Server, BizTalk Services...
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We, the Connected Systems Community have a new community site started by Microsoft called "BizTalk Blogs ." Don't let the name fool you :) It's not really about BizTalk, which has expanded into a marketing name, but all things CSD like WCF, WF, CardSpace, BizTalk Server, BizTalk Services. I...
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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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Development Tools Snippet Compiler Live 2008 Ultimate Edition for Developers (Alpha) [via Mike ] NAnt 0.86 Beta 1 Release [via Mike ] BizTalk Composite Services using Oracle ESB Routing Services Dealing with cXML based messages in BizTalk WCF/ADFS/Authentication/WF Authenticate Users Across Organizations...
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Development Tools Snippet Compiler Live 2008 Ultimate Edition for Developers (Alpha) [via Mike ] NAnt 0.86 Beta 1 Release [via Mike ] BizTalk Composite Services using Oracle ESB Routing Services Dealing with cXML based messages in BizTalk WCF/ADFS/Authentication/WF Authenticate Users Across Organizations...
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I hope, for those that celebrate Thanksgiving, had a great holiday. For me, it is time for me to realize my blessings again. I only have to look in Heather and Jonathan's faces to remind me as well as Sue. I am truly blessed with a beautiful and wonderful family, the best job I have ever had, in a company...
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I hope, for those that celebrate Thanksgiving, had a great holiday. For me, it is time for me to realize my blessings again. I only have to look in Heather and Jonathan's faces to remind me as well as Sue. I am truly blessed with a beautiful and wonderful family, the best job I have ever had, in...
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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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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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ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2008, .NET 3.5, IIS7, Silverlight Nov 17th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2008, .NET 3.5, IIS7, Silverlight - latest in a nice link series from ScottGu SharePoint Arpan has his Top 5 SharePoint Resources to Bookmark SOA/Software Architecture/Enterprise...
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ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2008, .NET 3.5, IIS7, Silverlight Nov 17th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2008, .NET 3.5, IIS7, Silverlight - latest in a nice link series from ScottGu SharePoint Arpan has his Top 5 SharePoint Resources to Bookmark SOA/Software Architecture/Enterprise...
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ASP.NET/.NET 3/CardSpace/WCF My good friend, Michele Bustamante, returned from DevConnections with her usual slew of great demos: Introduction to C# 3.0 C# 3.0 Samples ADO.NET 3.5 Samples Exploring Windows CardSpace Cardspace Samples ASP.NET and WCF: Meet Your New Web Service See code from my book Learning...
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ASP.NET/.NET 3/CardSpace/WCF My good friend, Michele Bustamante, returned from DevConnections with her usual slew of great demos: Introduction to C# 3.0 C# 3.0 Samples ADO.NET 3.5 Samples Exploring Windows CardSpace Cardspace Samples ASP.NET and WCF: Meet Your New Web Service See code from my book Learning...
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I took Heather and the family up into Manhattan so that Heather could go to the American Girl Doll store. What a mob scene! The things a Dad has to do for his daughter :)). We did get to Rockfeller Center, and my personal fave, Cannoli and Double Espresso at Ferrara in Little Italy. SOA/ISB/BizTalk Services...
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I took Heather and the family up into Manhattan so that Heather could go to the American Girl Doll store. What a mob scene! The things a Dad has to do for his daughter :)). We did get to Rockfeller Center, and my personal fave, Cannoli and Double Espresso at Ferrara in Little Italy. SOA/ISB/BizTalk Services...
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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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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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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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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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I already said a few months ago that I was going to the SOA and Business Process Conference running October 29 - November 2. I am also going to be in Pluralsight's 2 day pre-conference with my friends Jon Flanders , Matt Milner , Aaron Skonnard . Since Nicholas is asking , I thought I would link to his...
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I already said a few months ago that I was going to the SOA and Business Process Conference running October 29 - November 2. I am also going to be in Pluralsight's 2 day pre-conference with my friends Jon Flanders , Matt Milner , Aaron Skonnard . Since Nicholas is asking , I thought I would link...
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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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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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I am proud to announce that my group at Neudesic will be one of the three Gold Sponsors for the upcoming Philly.NET Code Camp ! I will be doing my thing on Connected Systems with SOA/ESB/WCF with some emphasis on ESB's. We will have lots of cool Neudesic swag :) and we are looking forward to meeting...
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I am proud to announce that my group at Neudesic will be one of the three Gold Sponsors for the upcoming Philly.NET Code Camp ! I will be doing my thing on Connected Systems with SOA/ESB/WCF with some emphasis on ESB's. We will have lots of cool Neudesic swag :) and we are looking forward to meeting...
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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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The last N&N was Feb 20, a month and 1/2 ago. I'm too busy being productive adding business value to our product to blog much considering I am still close to a intra-state move and dealing with the sale of one house and purchase of another. Meanwhile, the weekly plane flight commutes are just no...
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The last N&N was Feb 20, a month and 1/2 ago. I'm too busy being productive adding business value to our product to blog much considering I am still close to a intra-state move and dealing with the sale of one house and purchase of another. Meanwhile, the weekly plane flight commutes are just...
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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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More good news on the WS-* front from Jeff Schlimmer's post which quotes the importance and value of these specs, " As the W3C notes "WS-Transfer can therefore be seen as an underlying protocol-independent version of HTTP, i.e. bringing the capabilities and properties of the Web and HTTP...
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More good news on the WS-* front from Jeff Schlimmer's post which quotes the importance and value of these specs, " As the W3C notes "WS-Transfer can therefore be seen as an underlying protocol-independent version of HTTP, i.e. bringing the capabilities and properties of the Web and HTTP in...
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WinFX Runtime Components WinFX SDK VS integration Orcas Development Tools VS Extensions for Windows Workflow Readme Shoot, unlike Jan, there are breaking changes in Indigo detailed here Now playing: The Doors - Bright Midnight: Live In America - Five To One ( Live Pittsburgh May 1970 Version )...
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WinFX Runtime Components WinFX SDK VS integration Orcas Development Tools VS Extensions for Windows Workflow Readme Shoot, unlike Jan, there are breaking changes in Indigo detailed here Now playing: The Doors - Bright Midnight: Live In America - Five To One ( Live Pittsburgh May 1970 Version )...
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Via Doug’s blog , I learned about Partial Trust will not make the WCF V1 cutoff. I can say, having been part of the 2 year Indigo SDR, watching all the hard work, I believe Doug and Clemens that they wanted to do it, ran out of time, and “that partial trust is incredibly hard (and very time consuming...
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Via Doug’s blog , I learned about Partial Trust will not make the WCF V1 cutoff. I can say, having been part of the 2 year Indigo SDR, watching all the hard work, I believe Doug and Clemens that they wanted to do it, ran out of time, and “that partial trust is incredibly hard (and very time...
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My apologies to my readers and my CodeBetter colleagues on one more link posting without original material. I still promise to have my CAB and Spikes post up real soon-) My Microsoft buddy Joe Stagner takes Stallman down a peg or two-) Chris Frazier links to a Microsoft hot-fix for WinForms designer...
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My apologies to my readers and my CodeBetter colleagues on one more link posting without original material. I still promise to have my CAB and Spikes post up real soon-) My Microsoft buddy Joe Stagner takes Stallman down a peg or two-) Chris Frazier links to a Microsoft hot-fix for WinForms designer...
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Time to empty the FeedDemon flagged list. Jeff Key updated the indispensable Snippet Compiler a few weeks back. Mr. Agile Configuration Management, Brad Appleton has put up a very valuable page of Iterative Development Resources. Make sure you bookmark this. Mike Stall, of the CLR Team has a post on...
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Time to empty the FeedDemon flagged list. Jeff Key updated the indispensable Snippet Compiler a few weeks back. Mr. Agile Configuration Management, Brad Appleton has put up a very valuable page of Iterative Development Resources. Make sure you bookmark this. Mike Stall, of the CLR Team has a post on...
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I have finally reached number 90 as this series has been going for years although its the first one here. Today is a big day for me/us - its Heather's Birthday! My daughter turns 3 today! I'm already thinking of the teenage years I am going to have to keep her locked up away from the boys Robert...
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I have finally reached number 90 as this series has been going for years although its the first one here. Today is a big day for me/us - its Heather's Birthday! My daughter turns 3 today! I'm already thinking of the teenage years I am going to have to keep her locked up away from the boys Robert Hurlbut...
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Mike Swanson blogs : " We released the WinFX January CTP this morning along with some associated Go-Live licenses. As Karsten mentions in his post , there are no changes to WPF between the December and January CTPs, and in fact, they're binary compatible. Here are links to the bits: WinFX Runtime...
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Mike Swanson blogs : " We released the WinFX January CTP this morning along with some associated Go-Live licenses. As Karsten mentions in his post , there are no changes to WPF between the December and January CTPs, and in fact, they're binary compatible. Here are links to the bits: WinFX Runtime...
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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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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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