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I have already said my piece on the Vista launch but also Office 2007 launches today which really rocks. The much better Outlook 2007 is worth the price of admission alone IMHO. Vista and Office Launches Vista Launch Page Bill Gates Keynote European Launch Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor Office 2007 Launch...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 01-30-2007
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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 If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 12-14-2006
On the Road Again

With apologies to Wille Nelson, I will be on the road again for INETA. Monday night will be a brand new area and talk for me on WF. With the increasing use of it in my architecture for the next phase at work, I have developed quite a love affair with WF. 12/11/06 Cedar Rapids INETA - Introduction to...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 12-10-2006
Our Agile Project Goes into Ship/Performance Mode

So, I have been writing a bunch of posts over the last 14 months, how we have been using Agile, actually full Extreme Programming practices to build a multi-million dollar Enterprise Software platform and application for the banking sector. We certainly have seriously stressed Extreme Programming/Agile...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 12-02-2006
New and Notable 130

Lots of great stuff this time. CLR/Interop There has always been a ton of confusion about CLR assembly version numbers since 1999 and a lot of people don't understand all the different version numbers. Luckily, Richard is starting a series on them with the first being the Native File Version which...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 11-30-2006
New and Notable 126

I have lots of stuff collected up today. Software Architecture/SOA Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz has made available his wonderful SOA deck which makes a nice complement to mine (BTW, while there, please take a look at the start of my new home site and tell me what you think here!!) Nick Mallik makes the point of...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 11-18-2006
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A very good day to leave the country and find a new one... WCF/Indigo/SOA/Workflow/.NET Framework 3 Here are the separate download links for the parts of .NET Framework 3 RTM that I blogged about yesterday: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable Package Microsoft® Windows® Software Development...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 11-08-2006
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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 If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 11-03-2006
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Windows Vista The big news, according to News.com , Steve Ballmer will ring in availability of Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Exchange 2007 at the New York Stock Exchange on November 30th [via Robert ]. This should mean the proper release of WinFX .NET Framework 3 with WCXF, WPF, WF. It will be good...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 11-02-2006
Two Types of Service Architects?

I was going to respond to Harry's responses made to Tomas and mine, but Tomas already responded and said everything I would have said: I agree with Tomas that I consider Service Broker a good match for applications with code only in the database, even though it supports more than code completly in...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 11-02-2006

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