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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VS 2010/.NET Framework 4 Cleaner HTML Markup with ASP.NET 4 Web Forms - Client IDs (VS2010 and .NET Framework Series) - I am behind on these. This is ScottGu's sixteenth in a series of blog posts on the new release. In this installment, he that talks about some of the important changes made to make Web...
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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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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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Windows AppFabric/WF 4.0 Getting Started with Windows Server AppFabric - The AppFabric team in a post to the CSD blog The .NET Endpoint, takes you through the steps of installing AppFabic (including prerequisites) and getting started with tutorials. If you need a review of what AppFabic offers, see this...
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Oslo From "Oslo" to SQL Server Modeling - It seems like Oslo has evolved their direction again. Doug Purdy announces the change from "Oslo" to SQL Server Modeling and a SQL Server Modeling CTP which will consist of: “M” is a highly productive, developer friendly, textual...
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Design time expression editing 101 - Cathy continues to talk about deep designer issues. In this post, she talks about the basic implementation details you should know about the design time editing experience in the WF designer Implementing a custom expression editor - Cathy talks about scenarios on...
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Windows Workflow WF4 Beta 1 => Beta 2 Breaking Changes Document Published – Matt Winkler points to the document on Microsoft.com downloads that lists the major breaking changes that occurred for WF between Beta 1 and Beta 2 My presentations at HDC 09 – Matt Milner’s presentations...
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VS 2010/.NET Framework 4 Beta 2 Add Reference Dialog Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) - The twelfth in ScottGu's series is one a very welcome change - An Add Reference Dialog that loads fast ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET MVC Templates, Part 3: Default Templates - Brad continues his series with a post...
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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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I have been working a lot with VS2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 for quite a while now, so I will continue to have it be one of the main focuses of this blog. Here are some more links and information in a New and Notable style. VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 2 - ScottGu has yet another post that lists VS...
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I had VS2010 Beta 1 installed. When Beta 2 came out today , I found I needed to uninstall Beta 1.Here are some things you have to watch out for: You have to, of course, uninstall any extras installed after the Beta 1 install. This includes MVC, which is now in the boix. The main uninstall of Beta 1 will...
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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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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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ASP.NET MVC/Web Programming How we do MVC - View Models VS2010 Beta 1 Web Application Project Database package and SMO Options ASP.NET 4.0 Enhancements to Data Controls C# Community Convergence LI Connected Systems (Azure, WF, WCF, etc) Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 6/29/09+ Passing data...
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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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WF/Orcas Sequential and Flowchart modeling styles Introduction to Workflow Tracking in .NET 4.0 Beta 1 Building Applications for Orcas - With the "Oslo" May 09 CTP, the MSDN Library now contains a number of additional topics covering more of the "big picture" of model-driven developmenr...
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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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VS2010 and .NET Framework 4 In-Process Side by Side Part 2 - Common in-proc SxS scenarios Achieving Speedups with Small Parallel Loop Boodies Visual Studio 2010 Performance Part 2: Text Editor A scalable reader/writer scheme with optimistic retry Deploying Silverlight Projects using VS10 Software Design...
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From Cliff's blog , "This morning, I’m pleased to announce that the team has posted four initial Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) migration guidance documents to help current WF developers evaluate the new WF programming model that is being introduced in .NET Framework 4."...
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Agile Agility at Scale: Become as Agile as You Can Be: Scott Ambler talks about his new ebook; The goal of the Agility at Scale: Become as Agile as You Can Be ebook is to get people thinking outside of the box a bit when it comes to agile development strategies and see that they really are ready for...
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Visual Studio 2010/.NET Framework 4.0 Scott Hanselman - CLR and DLR and BCL, oh my! - Whirlwind Tour Around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1 Scott Hanselman - Demo Dashboard and IDE Extensions - Whirlwind Tour Around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1 Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4.0 (Beta...
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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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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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CSD/WF/WCF/Oslo We start today with Cliff Simpkins in CSD at Microsoft who lets us know about a new batch of papers, demos and guides in various downloads, mostly pertaining to WF. Great stuff! Pay particular attention to the release of Patterns & Practices Group : Improving Web Services Security...
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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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Iron Ruby/DLR Part 3 and 4 of the excellent series, Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# IronRuby at OSCON - John has some announcements Visual Studio/Development Tools In the latest version of Visual Studio Hacks Toolbox Screencast , James shows some of the cool features of SlickEdit Versioning Toolbox...
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While, I was looking at the outline for my SOA/WCF/ESB series , I noticed I had put down Workflow at the end. In the meantime, I have a somewhat old four-part real-world as I did it series on WF from last year. Enjoy. Windows Workflow 101 or 2 Months with WF Windows Workflow 102 or WF Part 2 Windows...
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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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Mocks/Software Development Tools/ASP.NET MVC Phil Compares Moq to Rhino Mocks Simplified Asp.net MVC Controller Testing with Moq C#/.NET Sample Code for Games, P2P Apps, Vista Tools, Web Services for Flickr, MySpace, Digg and YouTube DLR/IronRuby/IronPython John Lam and Martin Maly: Deep DLR WF ReceiveActivity...
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Mocks/Software Development Tools/ASP.NET MVC Phil Compares Moq to Rhino Mocks Simplified Asp.net MVC Controller Testing with Moq C#/.NET Sample Code for Games, P2P Apps, Vista Tools, Web Services for Flickr, MySpace, Digg and YouTube DLR/IronRuby/IronPython John Lam and Martin Maly: Deep DLR WF ReceiveActivity...
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I was going to write a separate post on this but I will include it here. I have had the opportunity to work on three different projects with three different Microsoft field groups lately and have come away impressed with both their technical skills as well as professionalism. I have had nothing but great...
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I was going to write a separate post on this but I will include it here. I have had the opportunity to work on three different projects with three different Microsoft field groups lately and have come away impressed with both their technical skills as well as professionalism. I have had nothing but great...
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Ok, lets see if I can get in a groove for a few days Agile/Software Development When James Shore worked with my Agile team , he heavily used the concept of Etudes to improve technical skills . It worked extremely well in helping our team learn about our code and how to improve it. I think they can help...
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Ok, lets see if I can get in a groove for a few days Agile/Software Development When James Shore worked with my Agile team , he heavily used the concept of Etudes to improve technical skills . It worked extremely well in helping our team learn about our code and how to improve it. I think they can help...
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Last time around in Part 3 , I promised to return for a part 4 on Services and Hosting. One of the best features of WF is that the runtime is very lightweight and simple. WF was designed to be hosted by your application. It's host can be as simple or complex as you want (or need). It just needs to...
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Last time around in Part 3 , I promised to return for a part 4 on Services and Hosting. One of the best features of WF is that the runtime is very lightweight and simple. WF was designed to be hosted by your application. It's host can be as simple or complex as you want (or need). It just needs to be...
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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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I finally did it. As promised yesterday, I shaved my head completely down to skin. I'm sure Raymond will be proud. IIS 7.0/Longhorn Server ScottGu announces that IIS 7.0 Ships with a Go-Live License . His post lists the numerous features that IIS 7 has in the recent Beta 3 of longhorn Server over...
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I finally did it. As promised yesterday, I shaved my head completely down to skin. I'm sure Raymond will be proud. IIS 7.0/Longhorn Server ScottGu announces that IIS 7.0 Ships with a Go-Live License . His post lists the numerous features that IIS 7 has in the recent Beta 3 of longhorn Server over those...
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I asked Tomas to expand on the details of the issue we faced last Sunday and it's this: What’s going is that you wanted to create a custom, reusable composite StateActivity-derived activity. While WF allows you to create an StateActivity-derived class, it restricts a bit what you can actually do...
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I asked Tomas to expand on the details of the issue we faced last Sunday and it's this: What’s going is that you wanted to create a custom, reusable composite StateActivity-derived activity. While WF allows you to create an StateActivity-derived class, it restricts a bit what you can actually do...
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This is it, the big 150! The first New and Notable was on May 19, 2003 , (my first post was March 29, 2002 ) and I paid homage to the master, "I have always admired Mike's ability to look at the world out there and put it all into one great post, The Daily Grind . While I can't pretend to...
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This is it, the big 150! The first New and Notable was on May 19, 2003 , (my first post was March 29, 2002 ) and I paid homage to the master, "I have always admired Mike's ability to look at the world out there and put it all into one great post, The Daily Grind . While I can't pretend to have Mike...
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Yup, I'm still stuck in Seattle and I still feel like crap. Tomas just went off to the airport and I feel like the last MVP left in Seattle. Just want to get out of here and home but can't do that until tomorrow night. Lots of stuff stored up Entity Framework/ADO.NET 3/ORM/ASP.NET/MonoRail I consider...
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Yup, I'm still stuck in Seattle and I still feel like crap. Tomas just went off to the airport and I feel like the last MVP left in Seattle. Just want to get out of here and home but can't do that until tomorrow night. Lots of stuff stored up Entity Framework/ADO.NET 3/ORM/ASP.NET/MonoRail I...
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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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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...
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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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In a post on January 25th , I said, "I posted yesterday that we had shipped our Enterprise Collateral Management solution based on our new architecture. As I said, we still have a lot more to do ." I provided a concise list of the methodologies, technologies and tools that we used in our 14...
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In a post on January 25th , I said, "I posted yesterday that we had shipped our Enterprise Collateral Management solution based on our new architecture. As I said, we still have a lot more to do ." I provided a concise list of the methodologies, technologies and tools that we used in our 14...
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Data/ADO.NET Orcas Two from the ADO.NET team: Entity Client and Nulls - LINQ to DataSets Part 3 Software Architecture/SOA/CAB Udi answers, Can or should SOA be implemented without Web Services? David Chappell on The Three Faces of SOA Eric Newcomer: WS-* vs. REST is not the question Another architect...
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Data/ADO.NET Orcas Two from the ADO.NET team: Entity Client and Nulls - LINQ to DataSets Part 3 Software Architecture/SOA/CAB Udi answers, Can or should SOA be implemented without Web Services? David Chappell on The Three Faces of SOA Eric Newcomer: WS-* vs. REST is not the question Another architect...
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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...
Continue reading "Our .NET 3.0 Enterprise Application and Architecture Shipped"
We finally saw some snow here but it was under an inch. Today, my team has a release party. After 14 months and over 80 iterations, we have shipped on top of our architecture an enterprise collateral management solution and deployed in a large bank in Paris and London and they have accepted it. We have...
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We finally saw some snow here but it was under an inch. Today, my team has a release party. After 14 months and over 80 iterations, we have shipped on top of our architecture an enterprise collateral management solution and deployed in a large bank in Paris and London and they have accepted it. We have...
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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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