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New and Notable 192
19 September 07 09:48 AM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)

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...

Filed under: WCF, Blogs, ASP.NET, SOA, Software Architecture, Blogsphere, WCF/Indigo, New and Notable, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3.5, Connected Systems, Featured, LINQ, LINQ and OR/M, O/RM and Entity Framework, Service Oriented Architecture, WPF, Domain Driven Design, Visual Studio, Expression, REST, ADO.NET 3.0, Communication Foundation, Windows&nbsp, CommunicationFoundation, Presentation Foundation

All I Can Say is a Big Amen!
15 March 07 04:22 PM | Sam Gentile | with no comments

This says it all.

Filed under: Agile Development, .NET, Extreme Programming, Data, Microsoft, Agile, MVP, Entity Framework, Orcas, VSTS, Visual Studio, Team System, ADO.NET 3.0, ORM

New and Notable 140
11 February 07 01:39 PM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)

I haven't felt like blogging much lately. Some of that is due to how much is going on at work (much more on that when I feel like it) but I have also haven't really felt jazzed about blogging lately. I want to, and am starting to devote more time...

Filed under: .NET, Software Architecture, TDD, Windows Vista, Vista, Microsoft, Agile, ADO.NET, Banking, Financial, Orcas, WPF, Visual Studio, Windows Presentation Foundation, Data Dude, SQL Server

Orcas Jan CTP Available!
11 January 07 12:36 PM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)

Via Rob Caron , the news that the Jan CTP of Visual Studio code name "Orcas" is available for download as a self-extracting install, or installed in a Virtual PC image. Check out the Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" Related CTP Downloads...

Filed under: .NET, Microsoft, Orcas, VSTS, Visual Studio

Best Post of the Year
25 April 06 03:01 PM | Sam Gentile | 15 comment(s)

I recently spent a couple of days down in Austin driving around with Scott Bellware discussing many of the ideas that he just put in his brilliant essay, " Mort or Elvis: A Question for a Bygone Era . " I agree with just about all of it and...

Filed under: Agile Development, .NET, Microsoft, Agile, Visual Studio, Software Development