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Its suddenly over 80 degrees here today and went off for a drenching run. Team System/Team Foundation Server Big news of the day is that Microsoft has acquired TeamPlain , which makes the popular TeamPlain Web Access for Team Server. Brian Harry says, "Effective today, TeamPlain is available, at...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 03-27-2007
New and Notable 152

Smart Clients/Orcas I am extremely pleased to see the .NET Framework (and Microsoft) finally gain the offline sync services that I have been talking about for quite a few years in my work at Groove and Adesso . You will be able to do synchronization from WinForms and WPF apps that you could do from Groove...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 03-26-2007
New and Notable 150!!

This is it, the big 150! The first New and Notable was on May 19, 2003 , (my first post was March 29, 2002 ) and I paid homage to the master, "I have always admired Mike's ability to look at the world out there and put it all into one great post, The Daily Grind . While I can't pretend to...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 03-22-2007
New and Notable 149

Yup, I'm still stuck in Seattle and I still feel like crap. Tomas just went off to the airport and I feel like the last MVP left in Seattle. Just want to get out of here and home but can't do that until tomorrow night. Lots of stuff stored up Entity Framework/ADO.NET 3/ORM/ASP.NET/MonoRail I...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 03-18-2007
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 this tool and he has a new release out with the beta...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 03-07-2007
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 new. Vista is so one year ago, WCF too, etc. Last...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 03-02-2007
First Experiences with Orcas March CTP VPC Image

So after two days of downloading at broadband speeds, I finally got all the pieces of the Orcas Mrach CTP downloaded. Doublce-clicking on Part1.exe expanded the other 8 RAR files. Once that was done, I used Virtual PC 2007 on top of my Vista Ultimate desktop OS. I left the setting at 1 GB of RAM. I then...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 03-02-2007
It's Out!! Code Name "Orcas" - March Community Technology Preview (CTP)

I am really excited about this drop! Too many great things to mention. Get the installable bits here and the VPC image here . The page shows the very exciting Workflow and WCF new features. I'll have more to say as I play with them. Windows Communication Foundation and Workflow Foundation WF Designer...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 02-28-2007
New and Notable 146

Ah Saturday morning where we can sleep in, ah no wait...I have kids to wake me up at the crack of dawn... Software Architecture The PAG folks continue to deliver their goodness with their first weekly drop of the new version of the Smart Client Software Factory and they looked like they brought over...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 02-24-2007
New and Notable 145

Architecture/SOA Blaine Wastell has posted that PAG planning an update of the Smart Client Software Factory to be released in late April of this year. They are encouraging feedback at http://www.codeplex.com/smartclient and enter critical items into the issue tracker ( http://www.codeplex.com/smartclient...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 02-21-2007

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