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31 January 08 09:07 AM | Sam Gentile | 3 comment(s)
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...
Speaking Next Two Nights - Community Domain Driven WCF Best Practice Demos
09 October 07 03:32 PM | Sam Gentile | 4 comment(s)
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...
New and Notable 168
03 June 07 02:37 PM | Sam Gentile | 3 comment(s)
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...
Presentations from Philly Code Camp
02 June 07 08:58 PM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
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!
Windows Workflow 104 or WF Part 4
26 May 07 10:57 PM | Sam Gentile | 4 comment(s)
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...
New and Notable 164
02 May 07 01:26 PM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
Microsoft has definitely hit one out of the park this week at MIX. I have been talking with both Microsoft fans and "non Microsoft fans" and I have not seen this level of excitement in a long time. In fact, I think that this is the first time...
New and Notable 153
27 March 07 06:51 PM | Sam Gentile | 11 comment(s)
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...
New and Notable 152
26 March 07 12:08 PM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
Smart Clients/Orcas I am extremely pleased to see the .NET Framework (and Microsoft) finally gain the offline sync services that I have been talking about for quite a few years in my work at Groove and Adesso . You will be able to do synchronization from...
More Specifics on the WF Issue
23 March 07 11:59 AM | Sam Gentile | 9 comment(s)
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...
New and Notable 150!!
22 March 07 02:24 AM | Sam Gentile | 8 comment(s)
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...
New and Notable 149
18 March 07 01:02 AM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
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...
New and Notable 148
07 March 07 04:08 PM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
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...
New and Notable 147
02 March 07 06:57 PM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
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...
First Experiences with Orcas March CTP VPC Image
02 March 07 05:14 AM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
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...
It's Out!! Code Name "Orcas" - March Community Technology Preview (CTP)
28 February 07 03:12 PM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
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...
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