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I mentioned that I was looking for new opportunitie s but I have decided to concentrate my independent Microsoft .NET consulting on all things Connected Systems and Messaging. I see many shops around the country struggling with WCF and WF. In this area, I have been a part of the WCF and WF SDRs for 4 years now since the beginning and part of the large 2-year WCF and WF effort at Algorithmics. I am available, on a consulting basis , to help you with your WCF, WF and BizTalk needs. In addition, I believe that WCF is too low-level and difficult for many shops that are pursuing Services and SOA beyond a few causal services. To that end, I am an authorized representative for Neuron ESB and it's place in accelerating your WCF and SOA efforts. Using my 26 years in the industry, I can help you look at your Architecture and find ways to make it better. Not only that, but I can help ensure you are on the right path for Oslo. If you are interested, please respond here or email to managedcode44 AT hotmail. Please do not use that email for unrelated questions - that's what the comments and newsgroups are for. Technorati Tags: Sam Gentile , WCF , WF , BizTalk , Software Architecture , Neuron ESB , ESB , SOA Read More...
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We are running our developer conference again three times this year. This is all on Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 technologies you need in order to be productive like LINQ, Silverlight, ADO.NET Entity Framework, WCF, and SQL Server 2008. I will be speaking at the NYC event on Real World SOA, WCF and WF. When Thursday, February 21st, 2008 8:30am-5:00pm Breakfast and lunch will be provided Where New York Marriott East Side 525 Lexington Ave. at 49th St. New York, NY 10017 [see map] Cost $75 per person Includes sessions, attendee bag, t-shirt, breakfast, lunch, and raffle tickets <>Break </> Three Tracks: Visual Studio 2008 SQL 2008 IO 9:45a -11:00a Session 1 LINQ The upcoming release of Visual Studio 2008 includes significant updates to the Visual Basic and C# languages. The most significant of these enhancements is Language Integrated Query (LINQ), which adds general-purpose query syntax to the Visual Basic and C# languages. Using LINQ, you can query collections, databases, and XML content using a clear and consistent syntax. This talk will describe LINQ, including LINQ to SQL, LINQ to XML, and LINQ to Objects. We’ll also spend some time on some fundamental changes to C# that enable LINQ, such as anonymous types, extension methods, and Lambda expressions. Presented by: Mickey Williams, Technical Director, Neudesic Enterprise Data Platform Microsoft has cast a new vision for data management. They are looking to harness, secure, and keep available all Read More...
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BizTalk Services This is one way to find out that the BizTalk Services hosted at http://biztalk.net have been updated :) WCF/Web Service Software Factory/Oslo/Neudesic I really love the new Web Services Software Factory and the Contract Modeling capabilities. They just recently released the WCF Security Guidance Package which automates applying security settings and guidance. After the last four years with Indigo, it is really the security that is the toughest part, simply because there are *so* many options to choose from. This really helps. Pablo has a nice post on WCF Dependency Injection Marty makes it official After almost 3 years of the one talk SOA with WCF that I have been doing (its been changed every time though), I am going for a very deep, advanced WCF talk on Pub-Sub and advanced MEP concepts and then showing how to get that advanced capability out of the box with our Neuron ESB at the upcoming Philly Code Camp . I am going to leap in at the place my other talks have ended and spend a lot more time on what you can achieve with WCF. I'm happy to announce that again, Neudesic will be a Gold Sponsor at the event UX Speaking of us, UX is one of our up and coming Practices and they recently impressed at the Phizzpop Design Challenge in Austin. Josh Holmes had this to say, " Neudesic actually worked out of the room that I was hanging out at to be available the entire time. They had three team members, two devs and a pure designer. It was great to watch how Read More...
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Development Tools Snippet Compiler Live 2008 Ultimate Edition for Developers (Alpha) [via Mike ] NAnt 0.86 Beta 1 Release [via Mike ] BizTalk Composite Services using Oracle ESB Routing Services Dealing with cXML based messages in BizTalk WCF/ADFS/Authentication/WF Authenticate Users Across Organizations Using ADFS LINQ/ADO.NET Next LINQ to Active Directory (formerly known as LINQ to LDAP) is here Entity Providers Update ADO.NET Data Services and Idempotence Domain Driven Design Nice fundamentals deck from Dave Laribee Sharepoint/MOSS Creating a MOSS virtual machine from scratch Monday Morning SharePoint MUST Reads MOSS 2007 SP1 Would be Release On December 11th Link Blogs The Daily Grind 1292 Link Listing - December 10, 2007 Interesting Finds: December 10, 2007 [Via: Jason Haley ] links for 2007-12-10 [Via: Scott ] Monday (12-10-07) edition of the d’bug link farm [Via: Brian ] 4 Links Today (2007-12-10) [Via: Matt ] LINKBLOG for December 10, 2007 [Via: Arjan Zuidhof ] Morning Coffee 129 [Via: Harry Pierson ] Good Stuff #3 [Via: James Avery ] Technorati Tags: Sharepoint , MOSS , ADFS , Authentication , LINQ , ADO.NET , ASP.NET MVC , DDD , Domain Driven Design , New and Notable , Sam Gentile , NANT Read More...
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Weeks ago, I stated that we had some real "big name rock star" names coming into Neudesic. I am extremely delighted and proud to announce the first of these. The one and only Marty Wasznicky has joined Neudesic from Microsoft!!! Marty worked for 6 years for the BizTalk/CSD team and is of course, the man behind the recently released ESB Guidance . He also created the BizTalk Virtual Technologist (VTS) program, of which we have 5 members at Neudesic. Marty is going to be leading our Neuron ESB Product Development, where he will join David Pallmann, also from Microsoft CSD (Indigo) group. We have been one of the "go to" partners for Microsoft on BizTalk and all things SOA/CSD and Marty will still be working with BizTalk, with a focus on incorporating all the great Oslo technologies as they emerge. I truly believe that we have something very exciting in our Neuron ESB product that really accelerates .NET 3.0 development from 6-12 months down to days. As an accelerator for WCF, we are truly working with Microsoft to increase adoption of .NET 3 and to make the ramp up curve much less. I know, that I will be making it a major focus of my SOA practice. To say I am excited would be an understatement! Look for another big name announcement very soon :) [tags: Marty Wasznicky , .NET 3.0, Neudesic, Neuron, ESB, SOA, SAS, Service Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Software Architecture, Indigo, WCF, Windows Communication Foundation, Microsoft, CSD] Read More...
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Finally! Its taken me like 5 years to get to 200. I sometimes I wish I was prolific like Mike Gunderloy. The really sad part is the first 3+ years of my blogs are not even up on the net right now as they are buried in a SQL Server database on an old host and in .TEXT format. Windows Workflow Windows Workflow Foundation Web Workflows Starter Kit - A starter kit Web application that includes task-oriented workflow using Windows Workflow Foundation. Simple Human Workflow QuickStart Sample Code - for Windows Workflow Foundation in .NET Framework 3.0/3.5 - Simple Human Workflow Quickstart Sample Code associated with an MSDN article Simple Human Workflow Quickstart woth WF, AD, Exchange, and IM WF Persistence and Tracking Services for Oracle and MySQL Orcas/Visual Studio 2008/.NET Framework 3.5 Soma confirmed , at TechEd Europe, what many of us know already; that VS2008 and .NET Framework will ship by Thanksgiving Daniel Moth presents The Top Ten Things to Know About Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 .NET Framework 3.5 Namespace poster Tip/Trick: Hard Drive Speed and Visual Studio Performance [via Mike ] WCF/BizTalk/CSD/Connected Systems My good friend, Jesus Rodriguez, who I spent a lot of time with last week, has his demos from last week's WCF Adapter session My friend Aaron also has WCF Adapters Deep Dive demos from the conference My collegue, David Pallmann, has his first report from the SOA conference and says it was the "People First." He's exactly right Read More...
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Last day of the conference and suffering from tiredness. BizTalk/CSD/Connected Systems/REST/Oslo My pal, Jon Flanders, who I spent a great deal of quality time with this week, made Workflow to BizTalk (XLANGs) Wizard as been released Jon also spent a lot of time talking REST and his example with BAM is a perfect example of why REST is so powerful and should be used in many scenarios like that. Some people seem to confuse me with being anti-REST. The only thing I am anti is the REST zealots (not at all Jon). If I have learned anything in the last 25 years in this field, it is that there are no absolutes, no black and whites. There are REST situations, there are SOAP situations but in the end there is still an SOA, or at least an architecture that organizes loosely coupled business resources/processes behind service interfaces Getting Started with HL7 V3 and BizTalk Server 2006 - This paper provides developers with an overview of HL7 version 3 Messaging (HL7 v3) concepts, how to build HL7 v3 solutions with Microsoft® BizTalk® Server 2006, and how to convert message format from HL7 v3 to HL7 Version 2 Messaging (HL7 v2). Low Latency Messaging in BizTalk? I'll believe when I see it but Tim Rayburn says that Oliver Sharp has committed to it being part of BizTalk Oslo. I think it is safe to say that this is our biggest pain point with BizTalk SOA Aligning Business and IT for Greater Corporate Agility (through SOA) - This 65-page PPT (in 22 page 3 slide format) explores Microsoft's Read More...
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As I stated yesterday, this is an exciting session. This is the first time in the Microsoft stack that we have been given what us Service designers have wanted - Contract First (Christian Weyer's tool was a first step) because, as Christian says, "It's All About Agreements!" Its the Contract that matters, period. The modeling capabilities go a long way in V3 and you DON'T have to wait 2-3 years for Oslo for this portion on it. I am sitting here next to my collegue David Pallmann, who of course helped build Indigo in Building 42 so it's kind of sureal :) Live blog: Crazy week as Don as been trying to ship this week plus prepare for the conference Take-away's Modeling services is here and here to stay The Service Factory can be bent to your will Development tools and automation are continuing to gain popularity in the .NET community · Software Factories o Help you build a specific kind of application o Imply a process for the dev team o Incorporate various content types of guidance § Readables § Reusables § Executables § Actionables · Target Audiences o Teams building Web Services § Different team roles may have different tasks § Clear distinction between design and implementation § Encourages a layered service architecture o Teams building development tools § A growing trend in .NET development § Guidance: Captures and reuses the “rockstar” § Code Gen: Isolate unit testing and increase predictability · Goals, Motivations and Scope o For Web Service Read More...
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I only went to one session yesterday, as I spent a lot of time talking to our customers and potential customers as well as three hours with a a potential new hire. I have to say, is there is *huge* interest in our ESB - Neuron. It's a real world need - people are seeing a big gap in the product line and it fills it. Its that simple. Here are rough notes on a good session I attended on SOA Governance. SOA Governance and the Microsoft Ecosystem Governance Types Corp Governance IT Governance SOX, Codes/Rules of Conduct Enterprise Architecture IT Portfolio Mgmt Project Governance SOA Governance (specialization of existing governance) - Design time - Runtime We want to look at Governance along the entire Service Lifecycle Map lifecycle to MSF Microsoft Philosophy MSBA across Envisioning and planning - id key capabilities - great entry point MOF across Runtime Governance across Run time Governance MSF overall end to end guidance - baked into VS VS 2005 across 4 out of 5 Windows Server (UDDI, etc) SCOM 2007 across last .NET 3 (WCF) across all 5 Partners - SOA Software and AmberPoint Overall Portfolio and Project Management SOA Design Time Governance Applies across Envisioning, Planning and Developing Design time includes capabilities Microsoft Approach SOA Roadmap Management Microsoft Project Portfolio Server = Service Capability Determination - MSBA - Shared Service ID MSBA (formerly Microsoft Motion) Looks at it from capability rather than process value Create Service Model from Read More...
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Ok, they have said it in public here. What is it? A huge vision from Microsoft for a modern SOA platform. I think its been safe to say, that when people like us have come aggainst IBM or TIBCO with the current Microsoft SOA products and process, it has been, well, challenging, because of the "gaps". That is all changing today. What we're seeing here changes everything! Oslo in a Nutshell Services - Extending services from the client to the cloud Models - Making models a mainstream part of the development The public press release is here . This multiyear, multiproduct effort utilizes the company’s top engineering talent to build on the model-driven and service-enabled principles of Microsoft Dynamic IT ( http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/jun07/06-04TechED07PR.mspx ) and extend the benefits of service-oriented architecture (SOA) beyond the firewall. The “Oslo” technology innovations further Microsoft software-plus-services efforts by providing extensions to the application platform to help developers bridge between on-premise and off-premise projects. As part of a technical road map, Microsoft made available new tools and guidance to help organizations take advantage of “real-world SOA” today, including new SOA resources from Microsoft and a host of industry partners. Oslo Products - izTalk Server "6", BizTalk Services "1", Visual Studio "10", System Center "5", .NET Framework "4" 1. create models 2. store Read More...
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5th annual SOA and BPM Conference kicked off proper last night with a party. There was lots of networking. For now, here's a picture with my favorite Microsoft employee :) This morning, there will be some major announcements, which will change the whole way Microsoft does SOA, which I will be permitted (finally!) later to blog so stay tuned here. First up was Don Ferguson , who used to be an IBM Fellow, and created Web Sphere is giving the first keynote. Why did you leave IBM and come to Microsoft? " The reality - We helped change the world of enterprise apps and use of the web" (WebSphere) I helped change the world of interoperability with Microsoft by Web Services I want to change the world again 1. Next up is Robert Wahbe, Corporate VP, who is responsible for CSD - 1000 people - Sold out! - 72 Sessions - Real World SOA It's Time to change the game Maybe we can make these apps faster by assembling services in a model-driven way - dialogue between IT and business Improving the s/w dev lifecycle Integrating w existing apps and services What is We Going to Do? We have been a leader. WE are going to double down on Services ,extend from the client all the way to the cloud, hosted (Software +Services) - Problem is also Relationships - End to End View - Skill Set - Ecosystem 2nd BIG BET investment is a Model-Driven Platform - We think we can increase 10X in TCO, Productivity, Agility Product Roadmap Microsoft ESB Guidance - Arch guidance - Reusable components - Sample Read More...
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Aaron's WCF Adapters in BizTalk Server R2 paper is up! Read More...
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Day 2 of the course. Discovered Twitter last night but having problems with my account (currently cannot log in and can't reset password) so here goes. Last night, had a great dinner with Tim Rayburn and a bunch of BizTalk MVPs. Lots of great discussions. Aaron has been shuttling me around with Jon and Matt, so I am getting to spend great quality time with the Pluralsight guys. This course rocks BTW and I would highly recommend it! Today, we start with what’s New in BizTalk Server R2. I have to get much deeper in BizTalk so this is going to be great! I am really excited about the new WCF Adapters - should make writing adapters much easier and standard EDI baked into R2 will help a lot of my customers - huge in health care I have noticed, HIPAA WCF is Microsoft's distributed computing technology Similar to SOAP Adapter in 2004/2006 although WCF Adapter can run in-proc and get new protocols (TCP, Named Pipes, MSMQ) + WS-* EDI is a core feature of R2, no more Covast needed Support for both X12 and EDIFACT EDI never goes away!! We all want it to be "XML" Supplants HIPAA accelerator Over 8,000 EDI schemas (4.39 GB unpacked!!) Drummond Group certified AS2 (HTTP EDIINT) Implemented in the Pipeline - no Adapters EDI screens look scary :) Man, there is a lot of stuff! BAM = distributed infrastructure for declarative extraction of business/operational data Interceptors/API allow data extract Tools for viewing and Alerts Two new BAM Interceptors for WCF/WF They don't Read More...
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This space reserved for a running blog of my week Sunday. This topic will only talk about what is PUBLIC , I can't talk about anything NDA.... Sunday 9AM I am in Building 33 in Pluralsight's 2 day pre-conference with my friends Jon Flanders , Matt Milner , Aaron Skonnard . Aaron is presenting a great history and goals ofd CSD. Great to see Jon again!!! Great presentation of what's new in Orcas for CSD type people. Good idea for an article :) Jon and I had our first "intense" discussion at the break about REST. Jon seems to be falling more on the REST style on things...hmm Aaron, when presenting the new Web Programming POX/REST features in 3.5 asked me for comment. I refrained, telling him "that I just gotten it out with Jon." :) Aaron introduced me to the class and my blog talking about a lot of this... Jon and I agree that Astoria rocks ! Very powerful!! It's safe to say the SOAP folks largely ignored the importance of HTTP GET Powerful REST style but there's room for both - I can do both with Orcas 3.5 POX/REST or WS-* with same ServiceHost so why should it matter anymore ? Its all good :) Is it fair to say REST is best for CRUD mostly read Web-site driven services and SOAP for Enterprise services where need Dist Tx, winodws security, Federation?? Maybe... Its not that simple....architectural considerations but surely REST becoming more important StarBucks quantity staring to climb high already... Need to re-look at UriTemplate class as Read More...
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