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SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 11 of N: Welcome to the 11th article in the series . Updated: Nov 23, 2008 In this article, I will take a broad detour from the abstract into the concrete with WCF. The title of this article is "Introduction to WCF: Architecture and the "ABCs"...
Posted 23 November 2008 04:58 PM by Sam Gentile | 13 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Sam Gentile, SOA, Software Architecture, WCF/Indigo, Connected Systems, Enterprise Architecture, ESB, Service Oriented Architecture, Web Programming, Web Services, SOAP. Google. Web 2.0, Enterprise Service Bus, SOAP

Oslo's Coming Out Party at the PDC: I am not going to be able to go to the PDC this time which is a shame because, although there will be other huge announcements, this PDC is really Oslo's coming out party and the things I have been seeing in SDRs and other internal events for the...
Posted 26 October 2008 10:10 AM by Sam Gentile | 5 comment(s)
Filed under: WCF, SOA, Software Architecture, WCF/Indigo, Connected Systems, CSD, Enterprise Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, Software Development Tools, Software Development, Oslo, Quadrant, M

Thoughts on Evolutionary Design: Jeremy, as always, has a lot of interesting things to say in his latest Train of Thought . I agree with most of what he said, in particular with evolutionary design, as Steve Eichert and I practiced it at Algo . It is important to not "allow your...
Posted 25 August 2008 11:40 AM by Sam Gentile
Filed under: Software Architecture, Software Design, Agile and Extreme Programming, Agile Design, Agile Programming, ALT.NET

New and Notable 265: A quick one while I am on vacation. .NET 3.5 SP1 Mr. Hanselman has come out with the mother of all .NET 3.5 SP1 posts with Hidden Gems - Not the same old 3.5 SP1 post , which includes coverage of all the areas including my WCF changes . Announcing Entity...
Posted 15 August 2008 10:15 AM by Sam Gentile
Filed under: WCF, Software Architecture, WCF/Indigo, New and Notable, .NET Framework 3.5, Enterprise Architecture, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services

New and Notable 262: ASP.NET Via Brad Abrams , The Visual Web Development team has started a “Tips of the Week” blog series where they will share some great ideas at http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevelopertips/default.aspx . Did You Know… Tip #1 – Powerful...
Posted 09 August 2008 10:45 AM by Sam Gentile
Filed under: ASP.NET, Software Architecture, New and Notable, ALT.NET, ASP.NET AJAX

He Couldn't Have Said it Better: Ayende said Let me start by saying that I absolutely reject this statement: [The] database model is going to support far more than your application The database model is private to the application, and is never shared with the outside world. If you need...
Posted 26 July 2008 11:55 AM by Sam Gentile | 6 comment(s)
Filed under: Software Architecture, Software Design, Data, Domain Driven Design

SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 7 of N: So far, we have talked about: Symptoms of a Problem, Diagnosis and Why SOA? Dynamic IT to Support the Agile Business and Business Benefits of SOA What is Service Orientation? What is SOA? The Many Definitions, a Working Definition, the Four Tenets What...
Posted 06 June 2008 09:33 AM by Sam Gentile | 7 comment(s)
Filed under: SOA, Software Architecture, Connected Systems, EDA, Enterprise Architecture, ESB, Neudesic, Service Oriented Architecture, Neuron ESB, Neuron, Enterprise Service Bus

SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 4 of N: Last time in Part 3 , I talked about the definitions of SOA, from the Architectural and Business standpoints. Left over, was a discussion of the Four Tenets of SOA. However, we really do need to try to define a Service itself and see if there are any...
Posted 03 June 2008 04:40 PM by Sam Gentile | 11 comment(s)
Filed under: SOA, Software Architecture, Neudesic, Service Oriented Architecture

SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 1 of N: Introduction and Context I have been giving an SOA talk, in various forms for several years, where I concentrate on various themes. For the benefit of many who have not gone to such talks, as well as for others, I have always wanted to start a written...
Posted 01 June 2008 04:56 AM by Sam Gentile | 14 comment(s)
Filed under: SOA, Software Architecture, Neudesic, Service Oriented Architecture

Advanced WCF Code Camp Slides and Code: Thank you Code Campers! I had 120 out of 400 of you (ASP.NET MVC was at same time) and you were a great group. I had a great time with a new talk. Remember - just say no to RPC and Request/Reply - embrace the diversity of Asynchronous Messaging and Event...
Posted 12 January 2008 08:07 PM by Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: WCF, SOA, Software Architecture, Design Patterns, Agile and Extreme Programming, WCF/Indigo, Code Camp, CSD, ESB, Neudesic, NeuronESB, Philly.NET, Service Oriented Architecture, Web Services, Neuron ESB, Neuron, ALT.NET, Visual Studio 2008, ISB

SOA: It's An And Not an OR: Arnon responds to my response about his definition of SOA by doing a NOT operation on business being a part of an SOA definition :) I am sorry Sam, but I beg to differ, not about the importance of business drive behind implementing SOA, but about what...
Posted 01 January 2008 05:54 PM by Sam Gentile | 3 comment(s)
Filed under: Sam Gentile, SOA, Software Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, Agile Architecture, SCA

SOA is About Business: Arnon is but one of the latest attempting to define SOA in a more formal sense, stating that SOA is an Architectural style derived from four architectural styles. He presents the first here with Client/Server . That's all well and true, but any definition...
Posted 27 December 2007 12:16 PM by Sam Gentile | 9 comment(s)
Filed under: WCF, SOA, Software Architecture, Design Patterns, Software Design, Agile and Extreme Programming, WCF/Indigo, Service Oriented Architecture, Software Development

New and Notable 211: Coffee in hand, the Clash is playing, here we go BizTalk/WCF/BizTalk WCF Adapters Aaron has This short demo which illustrates how to take advantage of the message template feature made available by WCF send ports in BizTalk Server 2006 R2. Design Patterns...
Posted 13 December 2007 08:22 AM by Sam Gentile | 6 comment(s)
Filed under: WCF, ASP.NET, Software Architecture, Design Patterns, WCF/Indigo, New and Notable, BizTalk, Development Tools, PAG, ASP.NET MVC

Partial Demo Code - Neuparts.Shipping WCF Domain-Driven Service: I said, way back here , that I was working with another Neudesic Principal Consultant, Chad Thomas , on two WCF demo services/applications for my SOA with WCF and ESB talks. That talk, as many have noticed, spends a whole hour on Architectural, Domain...
Posted 25 October 2007 03:05 PM by Sam Gentile | 19 comment(s)
Filed under: Blog, Sam Gentile, SOA, Windsor, Software Architecture, Design Patterns, Agile and Extreme Programming, WCF/Indigo, INETA, Data, Agile, MVP, Microsoft MVP, Neudesic, Domain Driven Design, Software Development, Domain-Driven Design, SQL Server, O/RM, Neuron ESB, Neuron, ALT.NET, Software Archiitecture, SQL, Windows&nbsp

New and Notable 197: So many things to do, so little time, this is what we call a catch-up post SOA Nick starts a new series on Integration with SOA and the CISR Operating Models and adds SOA in the Coordination Models Nick also on a Tale of Two Visions Both Arnon and Nick...
Posted 21 October 2007 12:11 PM by Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
Filed under: SOA, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, TDD, BizTalk, BizTalk Server, Code Camp, Connected Systems, Service Oriented Architecture, Resharper