(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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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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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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Software Development/ALT.NET I’m probably the only blogger that didn’t link to or comment on Joel’s latest essay, duct tape programmers . I am not going to bother commenting on it either as Joel’s writing tends to just infuriate me and make me wonder why *anyone* is paying attention...
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Windows Azure/WCF Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 9/24/2009+ – The usual great list of Azure links from Roger Jennings First CTP of SQL Azure and Updated Training Kit Now Available! – The first CTP of SQL Azure is available for testing and the Azure training kit for August has...
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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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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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Azure Cloud Services/Oslo/M/WCF David Pallmann, architect of Neudesic's Neuron ESB, has simplified example of using Azure to have a Hello Cloud app that is Twitter like James Clark has some thoughts on the Oslo Modeling Language as well as finding MGrammer having some interesting features Dr. Nick, in...
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I have finished an intense two-month contract with ASP.NET and Castle ActiveRecord. I am now a free agent. Given my Agile background (from the beginning) and extensive .NET Architecture (since 2000), I can help your company get both the architecture and development efforts on-track. I also continue to...
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Welcome to the 11th article in the series . Updated: Nov 23, 2008 In this article, I will take a broad detour from the abstract into the concrete with WCF. The title of this article is "Introduction to WCF: Architecture and the "ABCs" of Indigo." BTW, I have been in the Indigo SDR...
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Today is the day of the announcement . Microsoft has made the WCF REST Starter Kit available on CodePlex ! I have been using a pre-release of this for a few weeks now and it is tremedously useful. The WCF REST Starter Kit is a set of features, Visual Studio templates, samples and guidance that enable...
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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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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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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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.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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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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I will be down in Virginia/Washington DC tomorrow night. Advanced WCF: Asynchronous Messaging and Event-Driven Architectures - Sam Gentile, MVP Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 7:00 PM Many WCF developers start and end with the Request/Response Message Exchange Pattern. In actuality, there is a wide variety...
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BizTalk/WCF/SOA Steve Maines talks about the changes in WCF/WF with .NET 3.5 SP1 Jean-Paul Smit has released a Biztalk Solution Factory on Codeplex . His post about it is here . [ via Santosh – read his post ] Microsoft has a new Whitepaper "Integrating Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 with...
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Enjoying cup of Starbucks and Deep Purple Live in Stockholm 1970 (via Zune marketplace). WCF/WF My good friend Marjan has worked hard with us Influencers (I wish I wasn’t so busy) to come up with a stellar bunch of Webcasts! Must see! One of the key things we are “influencing” is Oslo...
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Along with my series , I have a New and Notable. I have pretty much abandoned N&N in favor of writing original content, especially since Jason and Alvin, among others, are doing such a great job. However, these links go well with the series. SOA/WCF So the biggest news is the beta publication of...
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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...
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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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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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WCF/Security/BizTalk/WF/BPEL There are at least 14 distinct Security Scenarios in WCF. It is easily the most confusing area in WCF in my experience, simply because of the many options available. If you combine that with the current industry focus out there on Identity solutions, Federation, and...
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WCF/Security/BizTalk/WF/BPEL There are at least 14 distinct Security Scenarios in WCF. It is easily the most confusing area in WCF in my experience, simply because of the many options available. If you combine that with the current industry focus out there on Identity solutions, Federation, and SAML...
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So what have I been doing? Lots of things! I gave Advanced WCF talks in Lehigh Valley and Northern Delaware . The message of EDA is starting to resonate with folks who want their communications infrastructure to be taken care of and want to focus on Event Driven communications (i.e. Purchase Order event...
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So what have I been doing? Lots of things! I gave Advanced WCF talks in Lehigh Valley and Northern Delaware . The message of EDA is starting to resonate with folks who want their communications infrastructure to be taken care of and want to focus on Event Driven communications (i.e. Purchase Order event...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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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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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 want to thank the wonderful members of the Findlay Area .NET User's Group in Findlay, Ohio that came out in the cold the other night - it sure was cold! I want to especially thank you for your interest in the Domain Driven Design portion of the talk and your interest in using O/RM, Repositories over...
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I want to thank the wonderful members of the Findlay Area .NET User's Group in Findlay, Ohio that came out in the cold the other night - it sure was cold! I want to especially thank you for your interest in the Domain Driven Design portion of the talk and your interest in using O/RM, Repositories...
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I 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 an...
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I knew it was coming so I stayed up extra late last night but not long enough :) Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite with the .NET Framework 3.5 is available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads ! See Soma's post here . While my copy is on the way, I would like to thank the whole extended team at Microsoft for...
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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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I am Twittering, Facebooking now with my friends. Does that make me a Web 2.0 person, a “Hip With-It Person, or a childish fool? The jury is still out.... ESB/BizTalk My collegue writes Microsoft Patterns and Practices ESB Guidance 1.0 shown, and will be available in a few days . Brian, was instrumental...
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I am Twittering, Facebooking now with my friends. Does that make me a Web 2.0 person, a “Hip With-It Person, or a childish fool? The jury is still out.... ESB/BizTalk My collegue writes Microsoft Patterns and Practices ESB Guidance 1.0 shown, and will be available in a few days . Brian, was instrumental...
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SOA Nick has his fourth post in a series on the impact of the business operating model on Service Oriented Architecture with SOA in the Replication Model Microsoft My collegue Mickey Williams has posted that Microsoft Search Server (MSS) 2008 and MSS Express, two Enterprise Search products are available...
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SOA Nick has his fourth post in a series on the impact of the business operating model on Service Oriented Architecture with SOA in the Replication Model Microsoft My collegue Mickey Williams has posted that Microsoft Search Server (MSS) 2008 and MSS Express, two Enterprise Search products are available...
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Last day of the conference and suffering from tiredness. BizTalk/CSD/Connected Systems/REST/Oslo My pal, Jon Flanders, who I spent a great deal of quality time with this week, made Workflow to BizTalk (XLANGs) Wizard as been released Jon also spent a lot of time talking REST and his example with BAM...
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Last day of the conference and suffering from tiredness. BizTalk/CSD/Connected Systems/REST/Oslo My pal, Jon Flanders, who I spent a great deal of quality time with this week, made Workflow to BizTalk (XLANGs) Wizard as been released Jon also spent a lot of time talking REST and his example with BAM...
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I only went to one session yesterday, as I spent a lot of time talking to our customers and potential customers as well as three hours with a a potential new hire. I have to say, is there is *huge* interest in our ESB - Neuron. It's a real world need - people are seeing a big gap in the product line...
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I only went to one session yesterday, as I spent a lot of time talking to our customers and potential customers as well as three hours with a a potential new hire. I have to say, is there is *huge* interest in our ESB - Neuron. It's a real world need - people are seeing a big gap in the product line...
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As I met with Don Smith last night coordinating some things related to the Web Services Software Factory last night, he mentioned to look for the release today of Managed Services Engine , a solution that supports service virtualization through a meta data-driven service repository using .NET and Microsoft...
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As I met with Don Smith last night coordinating some things related to the Web Services Software Factory last night, he mentioned to look for the release today of Managed Services Engine , a solution that supports service virtualization through a meta data-driven service repository using .NET and Microsoft...
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Ok, they have said it in public here. What is it? A huge vision from Microsoft for a modern SOA platform. I think its been safe to say, that when people like us have come aggainst IBM or TIBCO with the current Microsoft SOA products and process, it has been, well, challenging, because of the "gaps"...
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Ok, they have said it in public here. What is it? A huge vision from Microsoft for a modern SOA platform. I think its been safe to say, that when people like us have come aggainst IBM or TIBCO with the current Microsoft SOA products and process, it has been, well, challenging, because of the "gaps"...
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5th annual SOA and BPM Conference kicked off proper last night with a party. There was lots of networking. For now, here's a picture with my favorite Microsoft employee :) This morning, there will be some major announcements, which will change the whole way Microsoft does SOA, which I will be permitted...
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5th annual SOA and BPM Conference kicked off proper last night with a party. There was lots of networking. For now, here's a picture with my favorite Microsoft employee :) This morning, there will be some major announcements, which will change the whole way Microsoft does SOA, which I will be permitted...
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This space reserved for a running blog of my week Sunday. This topic will only talk about what is PUBLIC , I can't talk about anything NDA.... Sunday 9AM I am in Building 33 in Pluralsight's 2 day pre-conference with my friends Jon Flanders , Matt Milner , Aaron Skonnard . Aaron is presenting...
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This space reserved for a running blog of my week Sunday. This topic will only talk about what is PUBLIC , I can't talk about anything NDA.... Sunday 9AM I am in Building 33 in Pluralsight's 2 day pre-conference with my friends Jon Flanders , Matt Milner , Aaron Skonnard . Aaron is presenting a great...
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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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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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My co-worker, David Pallmann, answers my good friend Harry's question: A characteristic of ESBs is that they are physically decentralized but logically centralized . What exactly does this mean? To some this may sound like a contradiction. This simply means that a bus is physically more like the...
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My co-worker, David Pallmann, answers my good friend Harry's question: A characteristic of ESBs is that they are physically decentralized but logically centralized . What exactly does this mean? To some this may sound like a contradiction. This simply means that a bus is physically more like the point...
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The presentation from the two INETA presentations is now up on my portal . I will have the code for both the Order and Shipping systems (done with with Domain Driven Design/Repositories/NHibernate, etc) along withh the WCF Service Adapters up soon....
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The presentation from the two INETA presentations is now up on my portal . I will have the code for both the Order and Shipping systems (done with with Domain Driven Design/Repositories/NHibernate, etc) along withh the WCF Service Adapters up soon....
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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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We're (Neudesic) hosting an SOA Infrastructure Webinar with Microsoft on October focusing on our Neuron ESB. The theme is Neuron as an "SOA Accelerator." Chad Thomas, another Pricipal Consultant II in Connected Systems and I have been working on some nice content as well as an extensive...
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My good friend Jesus Rodriguez has a very insightful commentary on Steve Vinoski comments regarding the REST+Dynamic Languages vs. ESB debate . Arnon also disagrees with Steve....
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My good friend Jesus Rodriguez has a very insightful commentary on Steve Vinoski comments regarding the REST+Dynamic Languages vs. ESB debate . Arnon also disagrees with Steve....
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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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Both David Pallmann and Curt Peterson, who work for us, have provided responses to Steve's post after my post. David: Disclosure: My company provides an ESB. Human beings tend to overreact to things they don’t like. I’ve witnessed this my entire life, in every area from religion to technology. The...
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Both David Pallmann and Curt Peterson, who work for us, have provided responses to Steve's post after my post. David: Disclosure: My company provides an ESB. Human beings tend to overreact to things they don’t like. I’ve witnessed this my entire life, in every area from religion to technology...
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Bobby Woolf on Why the ESB is a fundamental part of SOA , which is what we believe as well obviously, in contrast to Steve Vinoski , who now has sworn them off for the whole RESTafarian thing. You know, I have a lot of respect for Steve as the legend he is, but I can't understand him here. SOA is...
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Bobby Woolf on Why the ESB is a fundamental part of SOA , which is what we believe as well obviously, in contrast to Steve Vinoski , who now has sworn them off for the whole RESTafarian thing. You know, I have a lot of respect for Steve as the legend he is, but I can't understand him here. SOA is a comprehensive...
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SOA/WCF/ESB My good friend Jesus Rodriguez picks up on our WCF Tips, notes that they are really SOA tips and adds some very valuable tips to the list! Null transport for WCF CAB/Composite UI/ASP.NET Neudesic's own Steve Saxon had five great talks at Desert Code Camp: Getting scalability from ASP.NET...
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SOA/WCF/ESB My good friend Jesus Rodriguez picks up on our WCF Tips, notes that they are really SOA tips and adds some very valuable tips to the list! Null transport for WCF CAB/Composite UI/ASP.NET Neudesic's own Steve Saxon had five great talks at Desert Code Camp: Getting scalability from ASP...
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Fantastic week here in San Mateo. Weather is nice and there are a lot of Japanese restaurants so I had Sushi 4 times in 3 days. I also had Korean yesterday. Also, unlike the East Coast, where all we have is Colored Sugar Water (Dunkin Donuts), there are plenty of Starbucks but also my fave Pete's...
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Fantastic week here in San Mateo. Weather is nice and there are a lot of Japanese restaurants so I had Sushi 4 times in 3 days. I also had Korean yesterday. Also, unlike the East Coast, where all we have is Colored Sugar Water (Dunkin Donuts), there are plenty of Starbucks but also my fave Pete's!! Great...
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I asked David Pallmann to give me some WCF Tips/Best Practices for a document I was putting together for a client this week. David, is of course, the WCF Rock Star that was on the Indigo team, author of the first Indigo book, and now Neudesic's main Principal on our Neuron ESB . He has put a series...
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I asked David Pallmann to give me some WCF Tips/Best Practices for a document I was putting together for a client this week. David, is of course, the WCF Rock Star that was on the Indigo team, author of the first Indigo book, and now Neudesic's main Principal on our Neuron ESB . He has put a series of...
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Yesterday, it was thank God for coffee. Today, it's thank God for a StarBucks Quad Venti Expresso Frap as I have a boatload of work. TDD/Software Design My very good friends Brad Wilson and Jim Newkirk let me know of their very exciting successor to NUnit, called xUnit.Net . Jim, is of course, the originator...
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Yesterday, it was thank God for coffee. Today, it's thank God for a StarBucks Quad Venti Expresso Frap as I have a boatload of work. TDD/Software Design My very good friends Brad Wilson and Jim Newkirk let me know of their very exciting successor to NUnit, called xUnit.Net . Jim, is of course, the...
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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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New gig subbing for Curt Peterson, our Distinguished Engineer Bringing SOA to Life with ESB & WCF (CNUG - Chicago, IL) Wed., Oct. 17, 2007 - Event Time & Location TBA Chicago .NET Users Group (CNUG) Presenters: Sam Gentile - Principal Consultant II, Neudesic Event Information: There's a lot of...
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New gig subbing for Curt Peterson, our Distinguished Engineer Bringing SOA to Life with ESB & WCF (CNUG - Chicago, IL) Wed., Oct. 17, 2007 - Event Time & Location TBA Chicago .NET Users Group (CNUG) Presenters: Sam Gentile - Principal Consultant II, Neudesic Event Information: There's a lot...
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Here is an edited subset of what I said on that internal thread on my continuing fustration about how technolgyu vendors trying to sell products have hijacked the term SOA. It's NOT about technology at all! My friend Michele Bustamente, while I was tech-editing her O’Reilly WCF book, brought up...
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Here is an edited subset of what I said on that internal thread on my continuing fustration about how technolgyu vendors trying to sell products have hijacked the term SOA. It's NOT about technology at all! My friend Michele Bustamente, while I was tech-editing her O’Reilly WCF book, brought up this...
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The braintrust internally had a great discussion about the recent ZDNet article, ESB: Useless as a Human Appendix? , quotes an article by Bobby Woolf that raises this question. See David Pallmann's post for our discussion and response. It's so amazing to work in a company with so many brilliant...
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The braintrust internally had a great discussion about the recent ZDNet article, ESB: Useless as a Human Appendix? , quotes an article by Bobby Woolf that raises this question. See David Pallmann's post for our discussion and response. It's so amazing to work in a company with so many brilliant SOA/CSD...
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Ah, the StarBucks is starting to kick in... BizTalk/WCF/MSMQ/WF/CSD/Orcas Neudesic's own David Pallmann talks about using the new WCF LOB Adapters with our Neuron ESB Stephen has some helpful tips on processing MSMQ FIFO messages in WCF My friend Michele continues to rock with the code samples from...
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Ah, the StarBucks is starting to kick in... BizTalk/WCF/MSMQ/WF/CSD/Orcas Neudesic's own David Pallmann talks about using the new WCF LOB Adapters with our Neuron ESB Stephen has some helpful tips on processing MSMQ FIFO messages in WCF My friend Michele continues to rock with the code samples from the...
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So, I am trying to gather all the conferences and INETA events that I am speaking at or attending so I can search on it My Code Camps This Saturday, Philly.NET Code Camp (Sold Out!). I will be presenting a brand new talk: Connected Systems: SOA with WCF and ESB at 1:30 PM. We ( Neudesic ) are a Gold...
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So, I am trying to gather all the conferences and INETA events that I am speaking at or attending so I can search on it My Code Camps This Saturday, Philly.NET Code Camp (Sold Out!). I will be presenting a brand new talk: Connected Systems: SOA with WCF and ESB at 1:30 PM. We ( Neudesic ) are a Gold...
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Please note that this blog is no longer on CodeBetter but at http://samgentile.com/blogs/samgentile/default.aspx . You do not need to do a thing as the FeedBurner feed is automagically directing you here. WCF/WF/Orcas/BizTalk/CSD Congrats to all my friends at CSD for shipping BizTalk Server R2 !! This...
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Please note that this blog is no longer on CodeBetter but at http://samgentile.com/blogs/samgentile/default.aspx . You do not need to do a thing as the FeedBurner feed is automagically directing you here. WCF/WF/Orcas/BizTalk/CSD Congrats to all my friends at CSD for shipping BizTalk Server R2 !! This...
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The conference, INETA, and user group speaking is starting to heat up for the fall. WCF The WCF subset supported by NetCF CLR/Unit Testing Interesting discussion on how they got PEX to be Partial-Trust aware LINQ/Orcas ScottGu continues his excellent series LINQ to SQL (Part 9 - Using a Custom LINQ Expression...
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The conference, INETA, and user group speaking is starting to heat up for the fall. WCF The WCF subset supported by NetCF CLR/Unit Testing Interesting discussion on how they got PEX to be Partial-Trust aware LINQ/Orcas ScottGu continues his excellent series LINQ to SQL (Part 9 - Using a Custom LINQ Expression...
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BizTalk Server Channel 9 interview with Tony Bernard , Senior Program Manager, on EDI/AS2 features of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (which is launching this month). [via BizTalk Server Team Blog ] My friend Marjan notes " InfoQ just published their interview with Dino Chiesa , Director of .Net Marketing...
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BizTalk Server Channel 9 interview with Tony Bernard , Senior Program Manager, on EDI/AS2 features of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (which is launching this month). [via BizTalk Server Team Blog ] My friend Marjan notes " InfoQ just published their interview with Dino Chiesa , Director of .Net Marketing...
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WCF Sending Attachments with WCF BizTalk Server/XML/ESB Marty announces CTP3 of ESB Guidance How the WCF LOB Adapter SDK works with IChannelFactory and IChannelListener The XML Tools Team has just announced the first CTP of the XML Designer, which features the XML Schema Explorer. Finally!! Concurrency...
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WCF Sending Attachments with WCF BizTalk Server/XML/ESB Marty announces CTP3 of ESB Guidance How the WCF LOB Adapter SDK works with IChannelFactory and IChannelListener The XML Tools Team has just announced the first CTP of the XML Designer, which features the XML Schema Explorer. Finally!! Concurrency...
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As Clemens blogs, CSD is conducting the SOA and Business Process Conference running October 29 - November 2. Of course, a bunch of Connected Systems/BizTalk guys from Neudesic are going (including me). Are you?...
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As Clemens blogs, CSD is conducting the SOA and Business Process Conference running October 29 - November 2. Of course, a bunch of Connected Systems/BizTalk guys from Neudesic are going (including me). Are you?...
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Enterprise Architecture Actionable Enterprise Architecture through Feedback Business Case for Integration, part two The One Business Case for Integration Agile Enterprise Architecture Master Data Management: Minimizing the Complexity Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #7 - August 21, 2007 SOA/ESB Bobby...
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Enterprise Architecture Actionable Enterprise Architecture through Feedback Business Case for Integration, part two The One Business Case for Integration Agile Enterprise Architecture Master Data Management: Minimizing the Complexity Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #7 - August 21, 2007 SOA/ESB Bobby...
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My news favorite drink: A StarBucks Black Eye . SOA Service Oriented Infrastructure Building Justifying the need for Composite Applications Enterprise Architecture Agility, Feedback, and Enterprise Architecture CLR/Orcas/Silverlight Sharing Code Between Silverlight and Orcas Orcas Gacutil -- Where to...
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My news favorite drink: A StarBucks Black Eye . SOA Service Oriented Infrastructure Building Justifying the need for Composite Applications Enterprise Architecture Agility, Feedback, and Enterprise Architecture CLR/Orcas/Silverlight Sharing Code Between Silverlight and Orcas Orcas Gacutil -- Where to...
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I could get used to this rolling out of bed into my office thing BizTalk Server The highly anticipated R2 release (the one with WCF Adapters) of BizTalk Server 2006 is coming real soon! Worldwide launches take place in September and October . My very good friend, Tomas, has released Version 1.1 of my...
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I could get used to this rolling out of bed into my office thing BizTalk Server The highly anticipated R2 release (the one with WCF Adapters) of BizTalk Server 2006 is coming real soon! Worldwide launches take place in September and October . My very good friend, Tomas, has released Version 1.1 of my...
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So, I am totally thrilled in my new role at Neudesic , where today, I got to spend quite a bit of time with one of our Distinquished Engineer, David Pallmann , the architect of our Neuron ESB . We're doing a lot of thinking and doing with SOA at Neudesic. I am soaking in the BizTalk too...good thing...
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So, I am totally thrilled in my new role at Neudesic , where today, I got to spend quite a bit of time with one of our Distinquished Engineer, David Pallmann , the architect of our Neuron ESB . We're doing a lot of thinking and doing with SOA at Neudesic. I am soaking in the BizTalk too...good thing...
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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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Temps near 100 F and 100% humidity make for some pretty uncomfortable days Windows Workflow Sometimes you have to go beyond the two root models of WF which are Sequential and State. We needed to and ended up using a hybrid of rules driven and state. Matt Winkler has a post with an ungainly title of Different...
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Temps near 100 F and 100% humidity make for some pretty uncomfortable days Windows Workflow Sometimes you have to go beyond the two root models of WF which are Sequential and State. We needed to and ended up using a hybrid of rules driven and state. Matt Winkler has a post with an ungainly title of Different...
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Michele Bustamente's Indigo book, on which I was a Tech Reviewer for, is out! This book takes a step by step lab approach to learning Indigo. As you might expect, it's filled with expert guidance on best practices from Michele as well....
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Michele Bustamente's Indigo book, on which I was a Tech Reviewer for, is out! This book takes a step by step lab approach to learning Indigo. As you might expect, it's filled with expert guidance on best practices from Michele as well....
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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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Don't know if anyone is reading my personal blog so I will repeat it here. I was thrilled to be part of the Philly Code Camp a few weekends ago. I put up my slides on WCF and WF in my files area on my site. Enjoy!...
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Don't know if anyone is reading my personal blog so I will repeat it here. I was thrilled to be part of the Philly Code Camp a few weekends ago. I put up my slides on WCF and WF in my files area on my site. Enjoy!...
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A reminder that I will be at the Philly Code Camp tomorrow. It's all "sold out" with all the seats gone in a 1/2 day but if you are coming, please fill in your sessions here so we can figure out room sizes. See you tomorrow!...
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A reminder that I will be at the Philly Code Camp tomorrow. It's all "sold out" with all the seats gone in a 1/2 day but if you are coming, please fill in your sessions here so we can figure out room sizes. See you tomorrow!...
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I have spent a good chunk of yesterday and today writing new demos and slides for the upcoming Philly.Net Code Camp. I will be giving a talk on WCF and another on WF. I was going to do everything in Orcas until half way yesterday, Orcas decided to stop allowing me to see and design workflows (: And I...
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I have spent a good chunk of yesterday and today writing new demos and slides for the upcoming Philly.Net Code Camp. I will be giving a talk on WCF and another on WF. I was going to do everything in Orcas until half way yesterday, Orcas decided to stop allowing me to see and design workflows (: And I'm...
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TGIF!!! WCF/Indigo Three posts from Steve Maines, one on the WebServiceHostFactory Then Zen of the Web Programming Model Part 1 and Part 2 Great post from Christian - Improving WCF Interoperability - Flattening Your WSDL More on building and hosting the BizTalk Services Omri has a detailed post on what's...
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TGIF!!! WCF/Indigo Three posts from Steve Maines, one on the WebServiceHostFactory Then Zen of the Web Programming Model Part 1 and Part 2 Great post from Christian - Improving WCF Interoperability - Flattening Your WSDL More on building and hosting the BizTalk Services Omri has a detailed post on what...
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We are having some random problems with underlying channels faulting when using Reliable Sessions with the wsHttpBinding in WCF. We have done lots of things to catch channel faults and new up a proxy, as when the channel is faulted there is nothing else you can do but we still continue to have random...
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We are having some random problems with underlying channels faulting when using Reliable Sessions with the wsHttpBinding in WCF. We have done lots of things to catch channel faults and new up a proxy, as when the channel is faulted there is nothing else you can do but we still continue to have random...
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I finally did it. As promised yesterday, I shaved my head completely down to skin. I'm sure Raymond will be proud. IIS 7.0/Longhorn Server ScottGu announces that IIS 7.0 Ships with a Go-Live License . His post lists the numerous features that IIS 7 has in the recent Beta 3 of longhorn Server over...
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I finally did it. As promised yesterday, I shaved my head completely down to skin. I'm sure Raymond will be proud. IIS 7.0/Longhorn Server ScottGu announces that IIS 7.0 Ships with a Go-Live License . His post lists the numerous features that IIS 7 has in the recent Beta 3 of longhorn Server over those...
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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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Financial and Banking I work with a bunch of people that used to work in Collateral at ABN Amro, so it was interesting to see Mike's news that ABN Amro agreed Monday to be acquired by Barclays of Britain for 67 billion euros (nearly $91 billion), creating one of the world’s largest banks SOA/Software...
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Financial and Banking I work with a bunch of people that used to work in Collateral at ABN Amro, so it was interesting to see Mike's news that ABN Amro agreed Monday to be acquired by Barclays of Britain for 67 billion euros (nearly $91 billion), creating one of the world’s largest banks SOA/Software...
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Its suddenly over 80 degrees here today and went off for a drenching run. Team System/Team Foundation Server Big news of the day is that Microsoft has acquired TeamPlain , which makes the popular TeamPlain Web Access for Team Server. Brian Harry says, "Effective today, TeamPlain is available, at...
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Its suddenly over 80 degrees here today and went off for a drenching run. Team System/Team Foundation Server Big news of the day is that Microsoft has acquired TeamPlain , which makes the popular TeamPlain Web Access for Team Server. Brian Harry says, "Effective today, TeamPlain is available, at...
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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...
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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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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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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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I spent my day off reviewing chapters from Michele's Indigo book and Steve's LINQ book. Meanwhile, my 4 year old daughter has fed our (expensive!) premium Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream we got at Whole Foods to Angus the Bulldog exclaiming "but Dad! He's a part of the family!" Data/SQL Server...
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I spent my day off reviewing chapters from Michele's Indigo book and Steve's LINQ book. Meanwhile, my 4 year old daughter has fed our (expensive!) premium Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream we got at Whole Foods to Angus the Bulldog exclaiming "but Dad! He's a part of the family!"...
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Data/ADO.NET Orcas Two from the ADO.NET team: Entity Client and Nulls - LINQ to DataSets Part 3 Software Architecture/SOA/CAB Udi answers, Can or should SOA be implemented without Web Services? David Chappell on The Three Faces of SOA Eric Newcomer: WS-* vs. REST is not the question Another architect...
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Data/ADO.NET Orcas Two from the ADO.NET team: Entity Client and Nulls - LINQ to DataSets Part 3 Software Architecture/SOA/CAB Udi answers, Can or should SOA be implemented without Web Services? David Chappell on The Three Faces of SOA Eric Newcomer: WS-* vs. REST is not the question Another architect...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Steve has two posts. The first describes how I (and others) are pushing to integrate WPF into CAB on our project. The way I see it architecturally, is that we need to have the "Grand Convergence" of the Smart Client UI and the Browser based client built with the same exact framework with integrated...
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Steve has two posts. The first describes how I (and others) are pushing to integrate WPF into CAB on our project. The way I see it architecturally, is that we need to have the "Grand Convergence" of the Smart Client UI and the Browser based client built with the same exact framework with integrated...
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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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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 of...
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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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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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This is one show I am really looking forward to! WS-* is one of my favorite topics as I benefit from it's real world use in WCF (simple to configure) as applied to real-world Bank Services (there WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Security and the like are huge) as well as often reminiding detractors that there...
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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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Ok after all this confus ion (a bunch of questions still remain), I was able to install the whole bunch on Vista 5600 and I got my first Avalon program working there from VS2005. .NET 3 Runtime Components (already installed in box) Microsoft Windows SDK Sept CTP Orcas Tools for .NET Framework 3 Windows...
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Ok after all this confus ion (a bunch of questions still remain), I was able to install the whole bunch on Vista 5600 and I got my first Avalon program working there from VS2005. .NET 3 Runtime Components (already installed in box) Microsoft Windows SDK Sept CTP Orcas Tools for .NET Framework 3 Windows...
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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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As I said in my Vista post, "As you know from all my posts about our project we are not exactly using old technology but everything bleeding that pushes the edge (.NET 3, WCF, etc)." That and having over 20 years of alpha and beta program experience at Microsoft (Building 20 is my 2nd home...
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As I said in my Vista post, "As you know from all my posts about our project we are not exactly using old technology but everything bleeding that pushes the edge (.NET 3, WCF, etc)." That and having over 20 years of alpha and beta program experience at Microsoft (Building 20 is my 2nd home...
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Too busy to comment. Here is what I'm reading... SOA/WCF/BPM/Workflow My good friend Tomas has a sample on implementing IWsdlExportExtension for WCF which can be used to customize the WSDL generation process for a given service contract or service endpoint And again with Testing Code That Invokes...
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Too busy to comment. Here is what I'm reading... SOA/WCF/BPM/Workflow My good friend Tomas has a sample on implementing IWsdlExportExtension for WCF which can be used to customize the WSDL generation process for a given service contract or service endpoint And again with Testing Code That Invokes WebServices...
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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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Finally, after being MIA for over a week, the Orcas RC Tools are up [H]. The Development Tools for .NET Framework (RC1) provides developers with support for building .NET Framework 3.0 applications using the final released version of Visual Studio 2005. This support includes XAML Intellisense support...
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Finally, after being MIA for over a week, the Orcas RC Tools are up [H]. The Development Tools for .NET Framework (RC1) provides developers with support for building .NET Framework 3.0 applications using the final released version of Visual Studio 2005. This support includes XAML Intellisense support...
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This is a big day. After being associated with Indigo for the better part of four+ years now, I am ecstatic that the whole Microsoft .NET Framework 3 RC has reached RC today!! I spoke to my friends Richard Turner and Craig McLuckie just the other day as we did a progress check on our project and WCF...
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This is a big day. After being associated with Indigo for the better part of four+ years now, I am ecstatic that the whole Microsoft .NET Framework 3 RC has reached RC today!! I spoke to my friends Richard Turner and Craig McLuckie just the other day as we did a progress check on our project and WCF's...
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So, in the last post , I talked about our problems identified during the CTP. This second part is an instructive solution-oriented post about what we did to fix things. So, as I went off on vacation for a week, I pretty much obbessed on the issues during the CTP and proper exception handling! -) Truth...
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So, in the last post , I talked about our problems identified during the CTP. This second part is an instructive solution-oriented post about what we did to fix things. So, as I went off on vacation for a week, I pretty much obbessed on the issues during the CTP and proper exception handling! -) Truth...
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In the last post , I talked about how we had reached Iteration 33 and gone to CTP with a large International bank. I alluded to some problems. Of course, one of the CTP's main purposes was to find problems and learn from them. We ended up having a variety of problems. There were initial problems in the...
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Sipping the first cup of coffee, ah yes, there's a possibility I'll be awake soon...Coffee is God's gift to fathers with three year old girls... Windows Vista The big news is a major new release of Vista, Build 5472 is available now on Connect and I believe its good enough to make a public release on...
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Sipping the first cup of coffee, ah yes, there's a possibility I'll be awake soon...Coffee is God's gift to fathers with three year old girls... Windows Vista The big news is a major new release of Vista, Build 5472 is available now on Connect and I believe its good enough to make a public...
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Welcome new readers! There are a number of great posts that caught my attention today. In addition, I have started my 3rd CAB article to be posted here as well as getting my Syracuse WCF slides up on the site. Agile/Extreme Programming/TDD Now, Scott Ambler has taken the ugly heavyweight monstrosity...
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Welcome new readers! There are a number of great posts that caught my attention today. In addition, I have started my 3rd CAB article to be posted here as well as getting my Syracuse WCF slides up on the site. Agile/Extreme Programming/TDD Now, Scott Ambler has taken the ugly heavyweight monstrosity...
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My ongoing SOA with WCF speaking tour for INETA touches down in East Syracuse for the CNY.NET User Group tomorrow night after stops in Philly, Toledo, Dayton and Iselin. If all goes well today with the demos, I will be using the July CTP of WCF....
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My ongoing SOA with WCF speaking tour for INETA touches down in East Syracuse for the CNY.NET User Group tomorrow night after stops in Philly, Toledo, Dayton and Iselin. If all goes well today with the demos, I will be using the July CTP of WCF....
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..and July is out already! I was telling the team just this morning in our Iteration meeting that we needed to move to the June CTP and before we got out it was superceded by the July CTP! -). Hmm, I just noticed that " "Orcas" .NET Framework 3.0 Development Tools - Is not available for...
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..and July is out already! I was telling the team just this morning in our Iteration meeting that we needed to move to the June CTP and before we got out it was superceded by the July CTP! -). Hmm, I just noticed that " "Orcas" .NET Framework 3.0 Development Tools - Is not available for...
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WCF/SOA Two geat posts by the Hosting man in Indigo, Steve Maines, on the ServiceHostFactory API, and ServiceHostFactory vs. ServiceHostFactoryBase . The ServiceHost is crucial for WCF developers to understand, as it gives WCF a lot of power. It abstracts away the notion of a Host so it'sa fairly simple...
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WCF/SOA Two geat posts by the Hosting man in Indigo, Steve Maines, on the ServiceHostFactory API, and ServiceHostFactory vs. ServiceHostFactoryBase . The ServiceHost is crucial for WCF developers to understand, as it gives WCF a lot of power. It abstracts away the notion of a Host so it'sa fairly...
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I am very pleased that two of my good friends, James Avery and Jim Hol mes are working on a most excellent book, Windows Developer Power Tools. I was helping Jim with some WCF stuff and now I am a full fledged Tech Reviewer with all the benefits such as lack of sleep that come with it-). Anyhow, I can't...
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I am very pleased that two of my good friends, James Avery and Jim Hol mes are working on a most excellent book, Windows Developer Power Tools. I was helping Jim with some WCF stuff and now I am a full fledged Tech Reviewer with all the benefits such as lack of sleep that come with it-). Anyhow, I can...
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Sorry about the DNS problems that took out http://samgentile.com just when I posted decks to it (it was out of my control). If you tried the download the PDF decks for Philly, Toledo, Dayton or Iselin, please try again at http://samgentile.com/Default.aspx?tabid=39 where most of my INETA and other Presentations...
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Sorry about the DNS problems that took out http://samgentile.com just when I posted decks to it (it was out of my control). If you tried the download the PDF decks for Philly, Toledo, Dayton or Iselin, please try again at http://samgentile.com/Default.aspx?tabid=39 where most of my INETA and other Presentations...
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Thanks to the 35 or so people that came out in Iselin NJ tonight to hear the newly updated SOA with WCF talk! I feel that all my talks this year on this have been excellent but tonight was ultra special. After a complete laptop meltdown and hard disk crash, last minute scrambling to use the Steve Eichert's...
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Thanks to the 35 or so people that came out in Iselin NJ tonight to hear the newly updated SOA with WCF talk! I feel that all my talks this year on this have been excellent but tonight was ultra special. After a complete laptop meltdown and hard disk crash, last minute scrambling to use the Steve Eichert...
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Ruby/Rails Martin notes that a video of his keynote at RailsConf is online and the rest are starting to appear (PragDave is up there). John Lam talks about why Ruby (and a little bit about RubyCLR), on NET Rocks . LINQ/Data Daniel Cazzulino on how upcoming C# 3.0 features can be used to provide a strongly...
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Ruby/Rails Martin notes that a video of his keynote at RailsConf is online and the rest are starting to appear (PragDave is up there). John Lam talks about why Ruby (and a little bit about RubyCLR), on NET Rocks . LINQ/Data Daniel Cazzulino on how upcoming C# 3.0 features can be used to provide a strongly...
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I had yesterday's N&N cut short with a trip to the Jersey Shore. After a fine cookout day yesterday, I'm back at work because of the rain this afternoon. I have all my flagged items still at home because Feed Demon still is working on syncing these items. Thanks to all the people who responded...
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I had yesterday's N&N cut short with a trip to the Jersey Shore. After a fine cookout day yesterday, I'm back at work because of the rain this afternoon. I have all my flagged items still at home because Feed Demon still is working on syncing these items. Thanks to all the people who responded yesterday...
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First of all, Happy Independence Day to all in the US! I have a lot to list here but I will likely get interrupted any minute to go to the Shore and do holiday type stuff. Before, I start, I wanted to ask the readers a question. I am trying to get together some posts I want to do in the longer category...
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First of all, Happy Independence Day to all in the US! I have a lot to list here but I will likely get interrupted any minute to go to the Shore and do holiday type stuff. Before, I start, I wanted to ask the readers a question. I am trying to get together some posts I want to do in the longer category...
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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 go to Ohio tommorrow morning for a mini-tour for INETA Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday, I will be in Toldeo for the Northwest Ohio .NET User's Group and then Wednesday I will be driving to Dayton for the Dayton .NET User's Group. Come on out and learn about Service-Orientation and a deep dive into Indigo...
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I go to Ohio tommorrow morning for a mini-tour for INETA Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday, I will be in Toldeo for the Northwest Ohio .NET User's Group and then Wednesday I will be driving to Dayton for the Dayton .NET User's Group. Come on out and learn about Service-Orientation and a deep dive...
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I want to thank Bill Wolff and the 75 or so people who came to my WCF talk at Philly.NET . I plan to issue the slides and code soon, as I get the slides converted to PDF. The code will include the WPF/WCF integration demos. I also discussed with Bill the issue, for a lot of people with Philly.NET, in...
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I want to thank Bill Wolff and the 75 or so people who came to my WCF talk at Philly.NET . I plan to issue the slides and code soon, as I get the slides converted to PDF. The code will include the WPF/WCF integration demos. I also discussed with Bill the issue, for a lot of people with Philly.NET, in...
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Geez, we just installed WinFX Beta 2 this Iteration and immediately had to deal with a hard to find configuration issue. However, we're also always grateful for new bits that advance WCF closer to shipping. Omri says : Check it out here . This build is based on our "RC1" tree. It's...
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Geez, we just installed WinFX Beta 2 this Iteration and immediately had to deal with a hard to find configuration issue. However, we're also always grateful for new bits that advance WCF closer to shipping. Omri says : Check it out here . This build is based on our "RC1" tree. It's not a final...
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A quick reminder while I sit here polishing up my new demos and slides, that I will be speaking on SOA with Indigo tonight at Philly.NET . This is a new talk, even revised from the DevTeach one which got all 10 out of 10's. The demos take on Indigo from the ground up with just TextPad and the WinFX...
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A quick reminder while I sit here polishing up my new demos and slides, that I will be speaking on SOA with Indigo tonight at Philly.NET . This is a new talk, even revised from the DevTeach one which got all 10 out of 10's. The demos take on Indigo from the ground up with just TextPad and the WinFX err...
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Happy Father's Day to all other Fathers! My son made me breakfast and in a letter said "I was smarter than Einstein" and "are you sure you didn't invent E = mc2 and Albert E. copied you?" -)) Data/ORM/ADO.NET 3 Ayende has been reading the docs for the ADO.Net Entities Framework...
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Happy Father's Day to all other Fathers! My son made me breakfast and in a letter said "I was smarter than Einstein" and "are you sure you didn't invent E = mc2 and Albert E. copied you?" -)) Data/ORM/ADO.NET 3 Ayende has been reading the docs for the ADO.Net Entities Framework and...
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Of course the huge news everywhere is that Bill Gates is stepping down at Microsoft. Its truly the end of an era. WCF/SOA Clemens has posted the sample code from his TechEd session about selecting WCF bindings CLR My buddy Jason continues to take over as "Godfather of the CLR" with his most...
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Of course the huge news everywhere is that Bill Gates is stepping down at Microsoft. Its truly the end of an era. WCF/SOA Clemens has posted the sample code from his TechEd session about selecting WCF bindings CLR My buddy Jason continues to take over as "Godfather of the CLR" with his most...
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Not much today. WCF/SOA/WSE The WCF RSS Toolkit is a Windows Communication Foundation-based framework for generating RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 content feeds Steve Maine on the WCF RSS Toolkit The latest WCF Documentation CTP (June 2 release) is now available for download . Microsoft today announced the creation...
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Not much today. WCF/SOA/WSE The WCF RSS Toolkit is a Windows Communication Foundation-based framework for generating RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 content feeds Steve Maine on the WCF RSS Toolkit The latest WCF Documentation CTP (June 2 release) is now available for download . Microsoft today announced the creation...
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On May 19, 2003 , I said " I have always admired Mike's ability to look at the world out there and put it all into one great post, The Daily Grind . While I can't pretend to have Mike's writing ability, I would like to start moving to something similar instead of multiple separate posts ."...
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On May 19, 2003 , I said " I have always admired Mike's ability to look at the world out there and put it all into one great post, The Daily Grind . While I can't pretend to have Mike's writing ability, I would like to start moving to something similar instead of multiple separate posts...
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Only one more to go and I'll hit the magic 100 - only took three years to get there-). The Master, Mike Gunderloy (who everyone should read and I ripped off) has hit Number 900 (Congrats Mike!) and has announced a new contest Windows Vista Beta 2 has been released into the general wild I have been...
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Only one more to go and I'll hit the magic 100 - only took three years to get there-). The Master, Mike Gunderloy (who everyone should read and I ripped off) has hit Number 900 (Congrats Mike!) and has announced a new contest Windows Vista Beta 2 has been released into the general wild I have been meaning...
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As I mentioned in my post on how do to do an STS based on Windows Authentication and AzMan Roles, there was an Indigo behavior that Steve and I developed to make things easier. Check out his post for full details. Also see our team-member Aaron's post on Declarative Security with AzMan and CAB for...
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As I mentioned in my post on how do to do an STS based on Windows Authentication and AzMan Roles, there was an Indigo behavior that Steve and I developed to make things easier. Check out his post for full details. Also see our team-member Aaron's post on Declarative Security with AzMan and CAB for the...
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The last week I have been playing with how to have seamless Single-Sign On with Indigo Services. This would be together with a Role Based System in ADAM with Indigo/WCF Services. Here’s what you need to know… First of all, these are the assumptions for now: Everything is in the same Windows...
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The last week I have been playing with how to have seamless Single-Sign On with Indigo Services. This would be together with a Role Based System in ADAM with Indigo/WCF Services. Here’s what you need to know… First of all, these are the assumptions for now: Everything is in the same Windows Domain i...
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Ok, one last DevTeach post and then I will be back to posting about CAB, SCBAT and the new Services BAT drop. I am really amazed that I ended up #1 overall speaker out of about 40+ speakers (almost all tens across the board)! When you do that with legends like Brian Noyes and Ted Neward, it’s really...
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Ok, one last DevTeach post and then I will be back to posting about CAB, SCBAT and the new Services BAT drop. I am really amazed that I ended up #1 overall speaker out of about 40+ speakers (almost all tens across the board)! When you do that with legends like Brian Noyes and Ted Neward, it’s really...
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InfoCard is a very interesting technology that we are considering using as an identity management/single-sign on for our Indigo services as we see it getting some siginificant traction in banks already. David Chappell, one of the best technology writers in the business has this to say in his post, along...
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Well, here we are busy as hell in Iteration 19 of the project . As I said here , we are now on weekly Iterations instead of 3 week Iterations . I have to admit we have been sinners; we have not been using Indigo in a Contract-First or even Service-Oriented way. We have been sort of concerned with whatever...
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Well, here we are busy as hell in Iteration 19 of the project . As I said here , we are now on weekly Iterations instead of 3 week Iterations . I have to admit we have been sinners; we have not been using Indigo in a Contract-First or even Service-Oriented way. We have been sort of concerned with whatever...
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I started to work with the new Web Service Factory or Service BAT tonight, err this morning. I can see where this will be a huge help with designing and implementing WCF Services. For instance, take a look at my screen shot here of the GAT template for Creating a New WCF Service. This generates this...
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I started to work with the new Web Service Factory or Service BAT tonight, err this morning. I can see where this will be a huge help with designing and implementing WCF Services. For instance, take a look at my screen shot here of the GAT template for Creating a New WCF Service. This generates this...
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I have blogged about the impact SCBAT has had with our project and CAB. Upon coming back from Redmond, we implemented SCBAT and saw a 6 to 1 cost and time reduction in completing user stories and tasks that involved CAB! I am really pleased to see Christian Weyer and others work with PAG to create the...
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I have blogged about the impact SCBAT has had with our project and CAB. Upon coming back from Redmond, we implemented SCBAT and saw a 6 to 1 cost and time reduction in completing user stories and tasks that involved CAB! I am really pleased to see Christian Weyer and others work with PAG to create the...
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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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