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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 - Intermediate Rule Events

LINQ/XLINQ/DLINQ/PLINQ/ALINQ/ZLINQ

• Ok, I made up the last two but Steve continues his *LINQ obsession with his post on PLINQ
• LinqToSql: Joins
• Paul Gielens has a great series on ADO.NET vNext Future Directions Part 1,Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. Great stuff!!

Software Architecture/Design

• Jon Kern dishes on Getting Started with Domain Modeling
• Eric Sink advocates the use of Code Coverage which is great but I want to know how his 100% unit test coverage helped him drive his design and keep his code refactored
• MSF has now become part of PAG which holds out the hope that Peter and crew can have the necessary influences to make MSF-Agile, well, Agile
• The very useful VSCmdShell 1.1 has been released to Codeplex
• Should my Visual Studio go dark? Scott and Brad make good cases for it

Other

• Finally, the Office 2007 Beta 2 Refresh is out and one of its best features is that it works better on Vista RC1