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I have been real busy, among other things, doing a full review and change cycle on my Asynchronous Messaging and Event-Driven Architecture talk that I am doing tonight. The entire deck has changed. There has been even more strides towards full asynchronous messaging. To that end, I have worked with the CSD folks to truly understand the behavior of the One Way messaging and its implications on blocking/asynchronous behavior. I will present those findings tonight. I will be be taking my Advanced WCF: Asynchronous Messaging and Event-Driven Architectures talk to the July 31st meeting of PhillyNJ, which is a sub-chapter of the excellent Philly.NET group . I am real pleased, that my friend, Hilary Cotter, is speaking first on SQL Replication for Developers. Come on out!! Hilary Cotter - SQL Replication for Developers In this session SQL Server MVP and replication guru Hilary Cotter explains the essentials of SQL Server replication for developers. Hilary covers replication concepts, what technology is a best fit for data distribution, application considerations, and the new Sync Services in VS/SQL 2008. This is a high level session designed to help you get productive and presents material in both tsql and c# code. Hilary has been involved in IT for over 20 years. He is a SQL Server consultant specializing in search and replication solutions. He wrote a book on SQL Server replication and is currently working on a SQL Server 2008 Administration book and another book on SQL Server Read More...
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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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Welcome to the 11th article in the series. In this article, I will take a broad detour from the abstract into the concrete with WCF. The title of this article is "Introduction to WCF: Architecture and the "ABCs" of Indigo." BTW, I have been in the Indigo SDR program for over 4 years and the term Indigo has stuck in my mind, so I will use the terms interchangeably. Plus, as I think Don Box said in a presentation, It's spelled W-C-F and pronounced Indigo. The WCF is silent." :) Hello Indigo Step by Step I am going to show you WCF step by step and make it as easy as possible. To that end, I am put both the Sender and Receiver in the same console application and I am not going to use either generated proxies or config files. You would never do this in the real world, but it makes it easy to describe the "ABCs" of WCF. So, let's start with a shell console application that should be totally familiar to you. Run VS2008 and Create a new C# Console application and replace the code with the following. using System; using System.ServiceModel; namespace HelloIndigo { class Program { static void Main() { } } } A Service is a Set of Endpoints A WCF service is a set of endpoints that provide Read More...
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Sorry to everyone that I couldn't make it. Vicious Sinus Infection and fever. I did want to give you guys something before I go back to bed. Here the slides I would have given and the demos . Please direct your questions and comments here but it might be 2 days before I get to them. Your patience is appreciated. Technorati Tags: Philly.NET , Code Camp , Sam Gentile , SOA , WCF , ESB , Neudesoc , Neuron ESB Read More...
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I did say we had a bigger announcement and we did. In the last post, I gave the "official" announcement. However, I have a personal and professional relationship with the product and I would like to start a series of posts on it now, as David, the Neuron Architect is doing . His post gives a detailed paragraph of major features, and indeed, there are a lot! 2.0 has over 60 new features over 1.0 and Neuron is a powerful product that enables various scenarios. In designing the product, we didn't want to get religious about what an ESB was. There are plenty of people doing that as well as whether or not an ESB is needed or not. Instead, we wanted to take a practical approach and solve our Microsoft customer problems. So Neuron came out of real customer scenarios in trying to use the .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF) and other Microsoft technologies. For the purposes One thing we saw was a lack of WCF adoption due to the steep learning curve. People like myself, find it incredibly simpler then the mess of distributed stacks we had to deal with before, but I am in the minority. Moreover, most IT shops don't have developers experienced in this kind of programming. What they have is C# and VB ASP.NET developers, who, as they should be, are focused on delivering business value. We saw similar pain points in SOA adoption. There are real benefits in SOA but people are either off on vendor exercises or writing a ton of infrastructure code. In either case, the real benefit of Business Read More...
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So what have I been doing? Lots of things! I gave Advanced WCF talks in Lehigh Valley and Northern Delaware . The message of EDA is starting to resonate with folks who want their communications infrastructure to be taken care of and want to focus on Event Driven communications (i.e. Purchase Order event published by Order system and subscribed by Microsoft CRM and GP) and not having to write that Raw WCF code anymore. Basic Pub/Sub is 470 lines of code in the WCF sample. It is 3 lines in Neuron (or probably any event-driven bus). It doesn't make business sense in an Agile world to spend all your time writing infrastructure code instead of delivering business value stories. I have also been doing a lot of work out of the Microsoft Reston MTC where I met a new friend, Matt Podwysocki, who also works there, and I met via Twitter. Great guy who feels very passionately about ALT.NET and making positive contributions. At Reston, I helped Microsoft open up their new SOA Resource Center . If you are a Microsoft customer struggling with SOA and making it deliver real business value rather than hype, come bring your problems to the MTC and we'll help you. There is a great bunch of folks there. I also worked on an "ESB Study" for a branch of the military where us (Microsoft) used an ESB for a couple of months together with folks from BEA Web Logic and Cape Clear, culminating in a cross-vendor ESB demo which was a blast. Made some great new friends with our "competitors." Read More...
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I am stepping back into my INETA gigs and have the following dates confirmed: March 17, 2008 Lehigh Valley .NET March 27, 2008 Northern Delaware .Net User Group April 2, 2008 NuCon 08 with Microsoft, SetFocus May 20, 2008 Central Pennsylvania .NET Users Group August 26, 2008 Capital Area .NET Users Group Technorati Tags: INETA , Sam Gentile , Microsoft MVP , Connected Systems , Microsoft IO , WCF Read More...
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A reminder for those in the area is that I will be doing an Advanced WCF talk at Philly Code Camp 2008.1 will be held on Saturday, January 12th at DeVry University in Fort Washington, PA . We have 8 tracks and 48 sessions!! It's all sold out but at least I know one guy who is looking forward to hearing me speak :) Neudesic is a Gold Sponsor again. Please come see our booth and talk to us. Not only do we want to be active in the local community but we also want to talk to developers that want to join our fast growing team! Title : Advanced WCF: Asynchronous Messaging and Event-Driven Architectures Abstract: Many WCF developers start and end with the Request/Response Message Exchange Pattern. In actuality, there is a wide variety of Message Exchange Patterns cataloged by Hohpe and Woolfe in books like “Enterprise Integration Patterns” and Pattern & Practices “Integration Patterns.” In this advanced talk, that starts where most WCF talks leave off, we will show you how to build more loosely-coupled services and systems via these MEPs and with WCF. We will then focus on the powerful List-Based Publish/Subscribe Design Pattern. Upon showing how many lines of WCF code are required to implement the pattern in WCF, we will show the pattern as the basis for the Neuron ESB and achieve the same results with zero code. We will then focus on Mediation and how ESBs help mediate between disparate services. Bio: Sam Gentile is the SOA Practice Lead for Neudesic, Read More...
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I want to thank the Microsoft folks for a fourth consecutive MVP award. This year I switched over to Connected Systems, which more accurately reflects my community service. Technorati Tags: Sam Gentile , MVP , Microsoft MVP , Connected Systems , WCF , Neudesic Read More...
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My colleague, Brian already wrote about the Neuron team growth and openings, but I wanted to add my bits, as both a Neuron user/consumer and influencer/developer. As the SOA Practice Lead in Neudesic, I have been exposed to many areas of the Microsoft technology stack and their use in SOA and other Connected Systems in companies ranging from SMB's to large Fortune 100 accounts. One of the things I see, more and more is it takes a lot of effort to take the raw .NET Framework 3.0/3.5 and make them function in an SOA. I have seen a large upswing in using Neuron to enable WCF and WF. In other words, companies are very interested in not having to take 6 months and write pieces of a Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI) with the raw WCF bits. I am using Neuron myself in several projects and I continue to be blown away by the continued innovation that comes from the team! 2007 was a banner year for Neuron and now we are staffing aggressively in order to help us develop a world class ESB product. As Brian pointed out , Neuron is a pure Microsoft ESB, built from the ground up on WCF. We are looking for some highly talented engineers to come on board and make it even better! And yes, you would be working for the one and only Marty Wasznicky, who, as I posted here , joined Neudesic as VP Product Development for Neuron. The positions are in Irvine CA only. If you are interested, please drop me a note, or through this blog. Senior Software Design Engineer (SDE) Are you a senior SDE looking 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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I want to thank the wonderful members of the Findlay Area .NET User's Group in Findlay, Ohio that came out in the cold the other night - it sure was cold! I want to especially thank you for your interest in the Domain Driven Design portion of the talk and your interest in using O/RM, Repositories over stored procedures in the future :). The slides are now available here on my portal. Most of the code for the Neuparts demos are up here on CodePlex. The 2008 specific stuff I will try to put up later today. Technorati Tags: Sam Gentile , INETA , SOA , Service Oriented Architecture , Microsoft MVP , WCF , WF , CSD Read More...
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I hope, for those that celebrate Thanksgiving, had a great holiday. For me, it is time for me to realize my blessings again. I only have to look in Heather and Jonathan's faces to remind me as well as Sue. I am truly blessed with a beautiful and wonderful family, the best job I have ever had, in a company of great, smart people and great friends. Yesterday, was my attempt to be a "real man" and rake a 1/2 acre of leaves in my yard. For those who have ever seen my house, they know that I am in the heavily wooded Pine Barrens. After nearly breaking my back, I broke down, went and got a Leaf Blower. WCF/BizTalk/ESB/SOA My very good friend Jesus Rodriguez, looks at applying Microsoft's Managed Services Engine (MSE) to SOA Governance scenarios that he has typically addressed with HP-Systinet2 , SoftwareAG and SOASoftware . This is of big interest, to me, and my customers, looking for viable governance options for WCF. Its getting very easy for "collections" of WCF services to get out of control quickly without governance, IMHO. Jesus follows up with looking to see if MSE can be applied for run-time governance with Dynamic endpoint resolution usingf the Managed Services Engine My prolific friend, Aaron, has a Screencast: BizTalk WCF Adapters -- Send Ports & Custom WCF Bindings with a short demo Speaking of good friends, Marjan, has finally put up the pictures of the MVP Dinner Jesus has More on WS-Policy Visual Studio 2008/Software Development Tools Jeffery Read More...
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ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2008, .NET 3.5, IIS7, Silverlight Nov 17th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2008, .NET 3.5, IIS7, Silverlight - latest in a nice link series from ScottGu SharePoint Arpan has his Top 5 SharePoint Resources to Bookmark SOA/Software Architecture/Enterprise Architecture Nick Mallick has his fifth in an outstanding series on the impact of the business operating model on Service Oriented Architecture Blaine talks about the Bundle Guidance up on CodePlex Windows Workflow/.NET 3.5/WCF Introducing the .NET Framework 3.5 by David Chappell Introducing Windows Communication Foundation by David Chappell Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation by David Chappell Dealing with Diversity: Understanding WCF Communication Options in the .NET Framework 3.5 The above links were from Paul Andrew who has a nice post on Patterns for Long Running Activities in Windows Workflow Foundation Technorati Tags: ASP.NET , ASP.NET AJAX , ASP.NET MVC , VS 2008 , .NET 3.5 , IIS7 , Silverlight , Sharepoint , Sam Gentile Read More...
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