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I was going to write a separate post on this but I will include it here. I have had the opportunity to work on three different projects with three different Microsoft field groups lately and have come away impressed with both their technical skills as well as professionalism. I have had nothing but great...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 01-31-2008
New and Notable 168

My four year old daughter, Heather, had her first ballet recital last night. It was a very proud moment for me. She had to wear a little makeup for the lights and with hair up, she looked beautiful but older and that was emotional. I have some things saved up. Architecture/Software Design I am so tired...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 06-03-2007
Windows Workflow 104 or WF Part 4

Last time around in Part 3 , I promised to return for a part 4 on Services and Hosting. One of the best features of WF is that the runtime is very lightweight and simple. WF was designed to be hosted by your application. It's host can be as simple or complex as you want (or need). It just needs to...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 05-26-2007
New and Notable 153

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
More Specifics on the WF Issue

I asked Tomas to expand on the details of the issue we faced last Sunday and it's this: What’s going is that you wanted to create a custom, reusable composite StateActivity-derived activity. While WF allows you to create an StateActivity-derived class, it restricts a bit what you can actually do...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 03-23-2007
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

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