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New and Notable 212: BizTalk Services This is one way to find out that the BizTalk Services hosted at http://biztalk.net have been updated :) WCF/Web Service Software Factory/Oslo/Neudesic I really love the new Web Services Software Factory and the Contract Modeling capabilities...
Posted 23 December 2007 09:02 AM by Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
Filed under: Silverlight, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Microsoft .NET, ASP.NET, SOA, WCF/Indigo, New and Notable, Microsoft, BizTalk, BizTalk Server, BizTalk Services, Connected Systems, CSD, Neudesic, NeuronESB, Service Oriented Architecture, WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation, Neuron ESB, Neuron, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio 2008, VS 2008, ASP.NET MVC

New and Notable 192: 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...
Posted 19 September 2007 09:48 AM by Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
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

New and Notable 148: 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...
Posted 07 March 2007 04:08 PM by Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Agile Development, .NET, WF, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, TDD, Extreme Programming, Windows Vista, Microsoft, Agile, .NET Framework 3, Avalon, Orcas, WPF, PAG, REST

New and Notable 147: 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...
Posted 02 March 2007 06:57 PM by Sam Gentile | with no comments
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, .NET, WF, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3, Avalon, Orcas, WPF, BPEL, PAG, REST

New and Notable 140: 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...
Posted 11 February 2007 01:39 PM by Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
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

New and Notable 139: Winter has finally set in with single digit temps and minus degrees wind chills but still no snow. WPF/Avalon Adam's WPF book is out and flying off the shelves apparently ! I have been looking forward to this one as his COM Interop book is the bible...
Posted 05 February 2007 11:02 PM by Sam Gentile | 4 comment(s)
Filed under: .NET, Software Architecture, Windows Vista, Vista, Microsoft, ADO.NET, Banking, Financial, LINQ, Orcas, WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation

Revisiting First WPF Program on Vista: 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...
Posted 04 February 2007 06:54 PM by Sam Gentile | with no comments
Filed under: .NET, Windows Vista, Microsoft, Avalon, WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation

New and Notable 135: WPF/Avalon One thing I had forgotten about in Avalon is the XAML Browser Apps (XBAPS) sandboxed in the browser. Karen Corby has two posts here on features and the second on security levels . [Found via Lester's WPF Blog ] One of the things I am looking...
Posted 15 January 2007 11:04 PM by Sam Gentile | with no comments
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, .NET, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, Microsoft, WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation

New and Notable 134: Completely buried with two projects and the main one is going to CTP #2 at a major back in Paris/London next week so going to scrape this together quickly. I have also been pairing with Steve back on the main project on solving performance problems -...
Posted 10 January 2007 05:46 PM by Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Agile Development, .NET, Software Architecture, Microsoft, Agile, WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation

New and Notable 133: A N&N from Brussels Belgium where I am up in the middle of the night (again I wake up at 3AM!) with my sleep hours all screwed up. I am enjoying my week here nonetheless. I don't know quite what to make of Brussels. Some parts remind me quite...
Posted 04 January 2007 02:37 AM by Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, .NET, Software Architecture, Microsoft, WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation

New Expression Tools and WPF/E: Some exciting announcements and tools from Microsoft today. Michael Swanson's got all the information here . Of big interest to me is the first Community CTP of WPF/E .
Posted 04 December 2006 07:26 PM by Sam Gentile | with no comments
Filed under: WPF/E, Microsoft, WPF, Software Development, Expression

Sept .NET FW 3 Installed on Vista RC1 (5600): Ok after all this confus ion (a bunch of questions still remain), I was able to install the whole bunch on Vista 5600 and I got my first Avalon program working there from VS2005. .NET 3 Runtime Components (already installed in box) Microsoft Windows SDK...
Posted 01 October 2006 05:16 AM by Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, Indigo, WCF, Windows Vista, Vista, Microsoft, Avalon, WPF

September CTP, Orcas Tools, I'm So Confused!: As I said in my Vista post, "As you know from all my posts about our project we are not exactly using old technology but everything bleeding that pushes the edge (.NET 3, WCF, etc)." That and having over 20 years of alpha and beta program experience...
Posted 30 September 2006 07:41 PM by Sam Gentile | 6 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, Indigo, WCF, Windows Vista, Vista, Microsoft, Avalon, WPF

Vista RC1 Experiences Highly Variable: I don't know what to title this post. My friend Scott Hanselman is having all sorts of legitimate problems with Vista RC1 and finds the experience painful, which have led at least some to not install. He lists a bunch of things that either don't...
Posted 21 September 2006 06:33 PM by Sam Gentile | 12 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Vista, Vista, Microsoft, Avalon, WPF

New and Notable 114: Too busy to comment. Here is what I'm reading... SOA/WCF/BPM/Workflow My good friend Tomas has a sample on implementing IWsdlExportExtension for WCF which can be used to customize the WSDL generation process for a given service contract or service...
Posted 19 September 2006 04:16 PM by Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: WCF, SOA, Microsoft, Avalon, BPM, Workflow, WPF, NET Framework 3, Windows CommunicationFoundation