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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...
New and Notable 147
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...
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...
New and Notable 131
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...
New and Notable 130
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...
New and Notable 123
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...
New and Notable 120
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...
New and Notable 119
01 November 06 02:36 PM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Angus, the bulldog has so taken over the house. At least, it's made us more popular with the neighbors. Agile/Extreme Programming I always appreciate the care Jeremy Miller takes in articulating his points and his latest is no exception. In stating...
New and Notable 117
26 October 06 04:29 PM | Sam Gentile | 4 comment(s)
I am still reeling from seeing the Red Hot Chili Peppers with Mars Volta 2 nights ago in Philly at the Wachovia Center. The Peppers were beyond grea t with Frusciante taking a very active lead role. Many of the songs contained a full-out Hendrix-type...
Sept .NET FW 3 Installed on Vista RC1 (5600)
01 October 06 05:16 AM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
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...
September CTP, Orcas Tools, I'm So Confused!
30 September 06 07:41 PM | Sam Gentile | 6 comment(s)
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...
Finally the Orcas RC Tools
08 September 06 05:41 PM | Sam Gentile | 3 comment(s)
Finally, after being MIA for over a week, the Orcas RC Tools are up [H]. The Development Tools for .NET Framework (RC1) provides developers with support for building .NET Framework 3.0 applications using the final released version of Visual Studio 2005...
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18 June 06 02:45 PM | Sam Gentile | 8 comment(s)
Happy Father's Day to all other Fathers! My son made me breakfast and in a letter said "I was smarter than Einstein" and "are you sure you didn't invent E = mc2 and Albert E. copied you?" -)) Data/ORM/ADO.NET 3 Ayende has been...
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