Windows Presentation Foundation - Sam Gentile The World According to MSCOREE

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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

WPF Composite Client Guidance: 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...
Posted 29 October 2007 05:11 PM by Sam Gentile | with no comments
Filed under: Smart Client, CAB, Smart Clients, WinForms and WPF, WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation, PAG, P & P, Windows Presentation Foundation

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 and Notable 132: A special Christmas Eve version to clean out my Feed Demon box as I will be on vacation next week and then in Belgium for a week after that so don't expect much if any blogging. CLR Modeling servers for resource consumption Windows keyed events, critical...
Posted 24 December 2006 03:47 PM by Sam Gentile | with no comments
Filed under: CLR, Windows Communication Foundation, .NET, Microsoft, Workflow, Windows Presentation Foundation

Where We are Going with CAB and CAB/OB Performance (Lack of): 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...
Posted 16 December 2006 03:53 AM by Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, SOA, Smart Clients, Microsoft, Avalon, Windows Presentation Foundation, NET Framework 3

OCC is Full Edge and Synchronized Smart Client: 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...
Posted 15 December 2006 04:51 AM by Sam Gentile | 4 comment(s)
Filed under: CAB, Software Architecture, Smart Clients, Microsoft, Avalon, Windows Presentation Foundation, Occassionally-Connected

New and Notable 131: 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...
Posted 14 December 2006 08:46 PM by Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
Filed under: CLR, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Agile Development, SOA, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, Microsoft, Avalon, Software Development, Windows Presentation Foundation

New and Notable 130: 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...
Posted 30 November 2006 06:51 PM by Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Agile Development, SOA, Software Architecture, Microsoft, Agile, Avalon, Software Development, Windows Presentation Foundation

New and Notable 123: 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...
Posted 08 November 2006 04:51 PM by Sam Gentile | 5 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Agile Development, SOA, Software Architecture, Data, Microsoft, Agile, Avalon, LINQ, Software Development, OR/M, Windows Presentation Foundation

.NET Framework 3 Shipped! Indigo 1.0 is Done!: 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...
Posted 07 November 2006 11:38 AM by Sam Gentile | with no comments
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, SOA, Microsoft, Avalon, Windows Presentation Foundation