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New and Notable 221

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
Visual Studio 2008 RTM Available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads!!

I knew it was coming so I stayed up extra late last night but not long enough :) Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite with the .NET Framework 3.5 is available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads ! See Soma's post here . While my copy is on the way, I would like to thank the whole extended team at Microsoft for...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 11-19-2007
Going to the Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference

I already said a few months ago that I was going to the SOA and Business Process Conference running October 29 - November 2. I am also going to be in Pluralsight's 2 day pre-conference with my friends Jon Flanders , Matt Milner , Aaron Skonnard . Since Nicholas is asking , I thought I would link...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 10-22-2007
New and Notable 180

So, I am totally thrilled in my new role at Neudesic , where today, I got to spend quite a bit of time with one of our Distinquished Engineer, David Pallmann , the architect of our Neuron ESB . We're doing a lot of thinking and doing with SOA at Neudesic. I am soaking in the BizTalk too...good thing...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 08-14-2007
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 166

TGIF!!! WCF/Indigo Three posts from Steve Maines, one on the WebServiceHostFactory Then Zen of the Web Programming Model Part 1 and Part 2 Great post from Christian - Improving WCF Interoperability - Flattening Your WSDL More on building and hosting the BizTalk Services Omri has a detailed post on what's...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 05-11-2007
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
Windows Workflow 103 or WF Part 3 - Introduction to Workflow

In the last two posts 101 and 102 , I went pretty deep in some areas. I want to step back and do some more tutorial stuff. So the first question out of the gate is what is Workflow itself and where might you use it? In a nutshell, a Workflow describes and automates a Business Process. It can be described...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 03-10-2007

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