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Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta
12 May 08 07:28 PM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
ScottGu makes it official today. There is a whole lot of stuff here, and I think its safe to say that this is "stretching" the concept of a Service Pack. Scott's post has a lot of detail. The big ticket items are the Entity Framework and...
NuCon 2007
20 October 07 04:54 PM | Sam Gentile | 3 comment(s)
Speaking of Visual Studion 2008, we (Neudesic) have developed a great deal of real-world knowledge of it during the last year and we are ready to tell you about it! Along with our friends at Microsoft, K2 and QuickStart, we are hosting NuCon 2007 , with...
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28 April 07 01:34 PM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
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...
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24 April 07 07:16 PM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
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),...
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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...
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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...
Revisiting First WPF Program on Vista
04 February 07 06:54 PM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
Way back on Sep. 7th of last year, I published an entry on writing your first WPF program on Vista . Now, that Vista is really out, and there is a ton of excitement about WPF on blogs lately, I have been ramping up again on WPF. I spent about 4 hours...
Where We are Going with CAB and CAB/OB Performance (Lack of)
16 December 06 03:53 AM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
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...
OCC is Full Edge and Synchronized Smart Client
15 December 06 04:51 AM | Sam Gentile | 4 comment(s)
It's really great to see Don Dodge from Microsoft really get my OCC architecture p ost and what we are doing at Adesso . As Don says, “ Adesso’s secret sauce is a replication and synchronization engine that keeps application data and application logic...
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14 December 06 08:46 PM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
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...
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30 November 06 06:51 PM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
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...
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08 November 06 04:51 PM | Sam Gentile | 5 comment(s)
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...
.NET Framework 3 Shipped! Indigo 1.0 is Done!
07 November 06 11:38 AM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
Very good news indeed! The .NET Framework 3 has RTM and shipped . And yes, this means Indigo 1.0 is Done !! Congrats to all the team. Its been a pleasure being associated with you guys the last 3+ years and helping make this kick-ass piece of software...
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04 November 06 01:41 PM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
Family morning at the Gentiles means the whole family watching Radiohead from 1994 while waiting for the Starbucks to come... Software Development Ayende points to this great list Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money and asks what excites you as...
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02 November 06 12:53 PM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Windows Vista The big news, according to News.com , Steve Ballmer will ring in availability of Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Exchange 2007 at the New York Stock Exchange on November 30th [via Robert ]. This should mean the proper release of WinFX .NET...
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