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05 May 08 07:30 AM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
Identity Management/OpenID/Security/P2P/WCF Scott Hanselman has a great post on OpenId P2P and WCF: Some Resources - part of a great series. We use Peer Channel in Neuron by default. It's fast! Pablo: GetReady for OpenID Using IdentityModel: Converting...
WPF Composite Client Guidance
29 October 07 05:11 PM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
Glenn asked me to keep this quiet until today. As Glenn just announced, the patterns & practices team will develop WPF Composite Client guidance. This follows after the Acropolis team just announced that the core Acropolis concepts will be rolled...
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...
More on CAB and PAG
26 May 07 07:46 PM | Sam Gentile | 6 comment(s)
So I said I didn't want to write that last post and I probably shouldn't have judging by some of your reactions :) I'm in the middle of being at the lake with my family on this Memorial Day Weekend but I did want to say something better than...
On CAB and P and P
25 May 07 05:33 PM | Sam Gentile | 27 comment(s)
I didn't want to have to write this post . I've been disapointed for well over a week about this and I've phoned Jeremy Miller twice to discuss my displeasure. A ways back, Ayende decides to bash the entire P&P team at Microsoft and specifically...
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...
Agile Project Use of CAB
04 December 06 03:11 PM | Sam Gentile | 3 comment(s)
Note 12/11/07 Reader reporting broken links. These have now been updated In comments to my post about our Agile project entering ship mode, a reader asked for more information about our use of CAB. While I intend to write more about OB and performance...
The Cabana Project and CAB
27 October 06 02:01 PM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
Via Mike , this is very interesting and very cool: The Cabana Project is dedicated to DevForce developers who want to build upon the Composite UI Application Block (CAB) from the Microsoft Patterns and Practices Group. More as I look into this!
Fowler Begins to Update Patterns of Enterprise Architecture
20 July 06 07:01 PM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
IMHO, Martin Fowler's book, Patterns of Enterprise Architecture, is the best and most useful book ever written on Software Architecture. My copy is used almost daily and now he has finally begun to update further patterns on this site . This is a...
Reminder of (old) Publications and Articles
26 March 06 02:49 PM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
There may be some new readers that are not aware of my old blogs on samgentile.com, dotnetweblogs and radio back in the day. In short, I have been blogging and writing on .NET since 2000. This post lists my publications and articles over the years. The...
CAB, SCBAT and GAT
15 March 06 06:03 PM | Sam Gentile | 17 comment(s)
I wanted to wait until I did some more CAB 101 posts before I got to this, but one of the exciting things we have been working with the last 3 days is the GAT and it's use in SCBAT . As you saw from my posts, CAB is two things: very hard to understand...
CAB Smart Clients in an Agile World Part 2
14 March 06 06:57 AM | Sam Gentile | 15 comment(s)
So I was going to show how to tame this CAB beast by sharing what I learned on that “CAB Spike” about a month and 1/2 ago. Again, from Part 1 of this series , the Spike is when you have no clue what you are doing, have to leave the schedule of User Stories...
CAB Smart Clients in an Agile World Part 1
14 March 06 06:14 AM | Sam Gentile | 18 comment(s)
This is the first part, I hope, of a multi-part series on how I come to conquer my fears, learn to love the Composite UI Application Block (CAB) and bring into an Agile project while minimising the associated risks. So what is CAB? So it turns out that...
In Redmond Sunday-Wednesday - SCBAT, CAB and Bloggers
11 March 06 05:09 PM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
I, and a collegue of mine from work, are in Redmond from Sunday-Wednesday for the SCBAT workshop in Building 20. The Smart Client Baseline Architecture Toolkit sessions here are being recorded!! I have already sent email to a bunch of my buddies at MSFT...
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