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Cross-posted from main blog So, since I am out here in Irvine CA for our annual meeting, and I have just pushed out a Plaxo update to everyone, I guess it's time to let you all know that I have joined Neudesic as a Principal Consultant II, heading/responsible for the Connected Systems/SOA practice...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 08-10-2007
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
Windows Workflow 102 or WF Part 2

So, last time around , I left off at the issue about my struggles with the ExternalDataService that ships in WF and purports to be the general mechanism to get data in and out of a workflow. Harry responded that he didn't like EDS and that I get real intimate with the WorkflowQueuingService which...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 03-09-2007
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
Sam Gentile INETA in Oklahoma City March 5th on WCF

As fellow CodeBetter Blogger Raymond notes, in his very gracious post , I will be giving two talks on WCF for INETA this coming Monday in Oklahoma City. The deck is being refined once again with my latest Indigo learnings especially as we deploy in Financial Banks. I also hope to have new demos, perhaps...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 02-28-2007
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

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