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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 151

Thank God, its Friday. Even after a full 32 ounces of strong Starbucks coffee, I still fell asleep on the train on the way in. Entity Framework/OR/M/LINQ The excellent Entity Framework discussions continue with Scott Bellware's fine Entity Framework Challenges Architecture One of my core principles...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 03-23-2007
Update on Tools, Environment, VSTS on Our Agile Project

Posted by sgentile on January 16th, 2006 The single biggest item of feedback on the blog is everyone wanted to see more Agile posts from my personal day to day experience . I had written about the tools and technologies back in this post and several have inquired about Team System. We are using Visual...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 01-16-2007
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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 call Close()/Dispose() if faulted" behavior...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 12-14-2006
A Beasty COM Interop Problem

This is one reason why Scott Hanselman calls me an "Interop Beast" -)). We had a thorny COM Interop issue that was causing a crash in certain machine types. Every single pair on the team had worked on it for many hours for the last three weeks , in our Ship Cycle without success. It should...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 12-02-2006
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Family morning at the Gentiles means the whole family watching Radiohead from 1994 while waiting for the Starbucks to come... Software Development Ayende points to this great list Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money and asks what excites you as a developer? As I said in a Retrospective last night...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 11-04-2006
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Wow, four days in a row, gol darn, I might just be getting predictable and dependable with these posts-). Agile/Extreme Programming The Halloween/Nov Carnival of Agilis ts is up! There is a great section called "What Makes a method Agile" and this which I'll take the liberty of quoting...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 11-03-2006
New and Notable 111

Sipping the first cup of coffee, ah yes, there's a possibility I'll be awake soon...Coffee is God's gift to fathers with three year old girls... Windows Vista The big news is a major new release of Vista, Build 5472 is available now on Connect and I believe its good enough to make a public...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 07-21-2006
New and Notable 110

Welcome new readers! There are a number of great posts that caught my attention today. In addition, I have started my 3rd CAB article to be posted here as well as getting my Syracuse WCF slides up on the site. Agile/Extreme Programming/TDD Now, Scott Ambler has taken the ugly heavyweight monstrosity...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 07-20-2006
New and Notable 109

WCF/SOA Two geat posts by the Hosting man in Indigo, Steve Maines, on the ServiceHostFactory API, and ServiceHostFactory vs. ServiceHostFactoryBase . The ServiceHost is crucial for WCF developers to understand, as it gives WCF a lot of power. It abstracts away the notion of a Host so it'sa fairly...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 07-15-2006

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