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And that's it, summer is over. ASP.NET MVC ScottGu returns with ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 and Form Posting Scenarios Jeff Palermo has published another excerpt from his upcoming ASP.NET MVC in Action book, this time the Basics of MVC Routes LINQ K. Scott Allen on Stupid LINQ Tricks ALT Languages F# Releases September CTP! ESB/WCF/WF Really excited to see Part 4 of Jesse's ESB series . Not only is Jesse doing a great job of teaching you about ESBs, but he is implementing one in WCF Calling WCF services from a Silverlight2 app Using an IronPython runtime service from Windows Workflow Foundation Technorati Tags: ASP.NET MVC , LINQ , F# , ESB , WCF , WF , New and Notable Read More...
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Of course, this is so much more than a Service Pack with the release now of ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) and the Entity Framework among others. In my area of interest, CSD, there are some significant changes for REST programming (1st class citizen now) as well as some other additions: There were several enhancements to WCF in .NET Framework SP1 that make it easier for developers to build and deploy a broader, more scalable set of Web Services: Improvements in writing REST based services ranging from easily supporting ServiceDocuments publication and consumption to providing greater control and usability of UriTemplate. Expanding the reach of the DataContract Serializer by relaxing the need of having [DataContract]/ [DataMember] on types and by supporting an interoperable mechanism for dealing with object references Support for ADO.NET Entity Framework types in WCF contracts Scalability increases of 5X - 10X are available for WCF services hosted in IIS7-integrated mode. Improvements to the tools for developing, testing, and hosting Web services. Improved Partial Trust Debugging Experience with support for writing to the Event Log. If you previously installed a Visual Studio 2008 Hotfix, you must run the Hotfix Cleanup Utility before installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 . For more information, see Visual Studio 2008 Hotfix Cleanup Utility for Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 . Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions with Service Pack 1 (Bootstrappers) http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=123679 Read More...
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I thought today may be a good topic for my audience as it go well together with my 3 part WF series (link here...) just as some of yesterday augments this post on WCF 101. Technorati Tags: WF , Windows Workflow , WCF , Indigo , BizTalk Server Read More...
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WF/CSD WF can be a tricky thing. As Cliff blogs , the CSD folks have added two great prescriptive guidance articles for WF to the MSDN Online Library : an article by Jon Flanders to help choose between sequential workflows and state machines, and a major article by Michele Leroux Bustamante explaining the five most common WF deployment scenarios. Read Cliff's blog for more details and the links. Silverlight New Silverlight 2.0 series on Concepts to Become a Silverlight Master - Part 1 .NET/C# and Part 2 WCF Jesse covers In-State Animation In A Nutshell Silverlight Cream for July 26, 2008 -- #335 Technorati Tags: WF , Windows Workflow , CSD , Silverlight , WCF 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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Visual Studio Peter says he is hooked on Brad Wilson's Dark Visual Studio color scheme and so am I! I am using it 100% now. An Amazing Introduction to NDepend BizTalk/WCF/WF/SOA My friend Jesus Rodriguez has a WCF extensibility deep dive on MSDN this Friday I listened in to Jon Flanders Workflow Services one today which was excellent The new Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide has been released to the web. This document provides guidance & best practices on optimizing BizTalk Server performance for demanding production environments. Dr Nick has a post on Configuring SSL Host Headers on IIS . Host Headers in IIS are a way to associate multiple names with a single address. I have spent much of the past year explaining EDA and its relationship to SOA in my talks. My current talk is all about this. IBM SOA Guru Bobby Woolf puts it this way , "So, EDA and SOA: SOA determines what gets done, EDA is one way to determine when it gets done. Nice simple explanation." Technorati Tags: Visual Studio , BizTalk , WCF , WF , SOA , New and Notable Read More...
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Enjoying cup of Starbucks and Deep Purple Live in Stockholm 1970 (via Zune marketplace). WCF/WF My good friend Marjan has worked hard with us Influencers (I wish I wasn’t so busy) to come up with a stellar bunch of Webcasts! Must see! One of the key things we are “influencing” is Oslo. We have not been able to say really anything up to this point, but as my Neudesic colleague Brian notes , the first public announcement was made at TechEd of a CTP of *some* of the Oslo stuff pre-PDC My good friend Pablo continues to rock in the WCF/WF area with a post on Streaming large content with WCF and deferred execution Unit testing custom workflow activities Unit testing asynchronous workflow activities SQL Server 2K8 SQL Server 2008 RC0 has been released to the general public ASP.NET/OR/M Multiple control selection in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 RTM ASP.NET MVC Northwind Demo using EntitySpaces EntitySpaces 2008 Release Candidate Available CLR/.NET Scott has a pair of posts on Velocity, first Velocity – Microsoft Distributed Cache and then Setting up Velocity Technorati Tags: WCF , WF , SQL Server 2008 , ASP.NET , EntitySpaces , Velocity Read More...
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WCF/Security/BizTalk/WF/BPEL There are at least 14 distinct Security Scenarios in WCF. It is easily the most confusing area in WCF in my experience, simply because of the many options available. If you combine that with the current industry focus out there on Identity solutions, Federation, and SAML, you have one confusing area. It is good then that P&P is addressing this area with WCF Security application as part of the patterns & practices WCF Security guidance project . Nick also has a post on this. Matzev comments on a serious limitation present in the RTM version of WCF 3.0/3.5 regarding control of WS-RM retry messages. We have encountered this as well. My distinguished colleague, Brian Loesgen , on the West Coast side of our practice has a post on two very useful new BizTalk Resources to make our lives easier BPEL support has come up quite loudly in several engagements lately. It is good to see the BPEL for Windows Workflow Foundation March CTP . Technorati Tags: WCF , Security , BizTalk , WF , BPEL Read More...
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So three people in a row have asked for WCF Tips and Gotchas. We as the WCF/Connected Systems and Neuron teams have posted these on Dave Pallman's blog , our Neuron Architect. Collectively we have over 20 years of WCF experience including Indigo team members David and Marty Waznicki. So, to repeat and condense September 25 WCF Tips #1 - Service Interface Design David Pallmann’s WCF Tips #1 - Service Interface Design Service Interface Design Design Service Contracts that are Themed and Indivisible Tip: Ensure service contracts have a theme (purpose). Avoid combining unrelated service operations in the same contract; only include operations that contribute to the theme. This is also a SOA best practice. Rationale: A service interface is supposed to be indivisible—that’s why we use the word contract . If a service contract has a purpose or theme and all of the operations in the contract contribute to that theme, the contract design is likely to be strong and survive. In contrast, throwing many unrelated operations into the same service contract under a weak premise, such as “all the public services my company exposes to partners”, is not likely to stand the test of time. What if I Don’t? The longevity of your service contracts may be compromised. Examples: · A bad example is a service whose theme is “Data Access”: this is far too vague a purpose for a service and invites 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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I just wrapped up a week at SD West in Santa Clara where I delivered 2 full day tutorials and 4 sessions. This post will lead you to all the sample code for those sessions, enjoy! Tutorial: .NET Technology Roadmap The following link has instructions for machine setup, numerous references to resources, and code samples demonstrated: http://www.dasblonde.net/downloads/TechnologyRoadmap0308.zip Tutorial: Building an Enterprise SOA with WCF Most of the samples for this tutorial come from my book. Download those samples with instructions here: www.thatindigogirl.com . In addition I also demonstrated some newer samples including the following: Proxies: http://www.dasblonde.net/downloads/Proxies.zip Error Handling: http://www.dasblonde.net/downloads/ErrorHandlers.zip Routers: http://www.dasblonde.net/downloads/Routers.zip Entity Framework, AJAX and REST - A look at Project Astoria http://astoria.mslivelabs.com/ http://quickstarts.asp.net/3-5-extensions/ http://www.dasblonde.net/downloads/EFDataServicesSample.zip Exploring Windows CardSpace http://www.dasblonde.net/downloads/CardSpaceSamples.zip Federation with WCF Most of the samples for this session come from my book. Download those samples with instructions here: www.thatindigogirl.com . An additional sample: http://www.dasblonde.net/downloads/SecurityTokenClaims.zip Scalability and Throughput Considerations for WCF Most of the samples for this session come from my book. Download those samples with instructions here: www.thatindigogirl.com Read More...
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I haven't found much in the last 5 days that is New and Notable but here is a few items of interest. BizTalk Server/Connected Systems/WCF/CSD/WF Our own Brian Loesgen did a presentation on a deck that he had been circulating internally (it is cool to work with these people in our Connected Systems!) on BizTalk Best Practices. He did this for attended the Connected Systems SIG meeting of the San Diego .NET User Group . Check out the post for links as well! Dr. Nick outlines What's New in Orcas from the CSD standpoint Sharepoint Here's a neat post on integrating Virtual Earth Maps into Sharepoint . I am working on a project that uses Neuron to connect up various Legacy Web Services between disparate systems and potentially does positioning via Virtual Earth maps in Sharepoint so this is timely Software Development/C++ Microsoft launched the Windows SDK MSDN Developer Center Soma announces the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack with support for the few still stuck with native libraries Other link blogs (via Jason ) Jason - Interesting Finds Jan 8, 2008 Matt - 23 Links Today (2008-01-07) Alvin Ashcraft - Daily Bits - January 8, 2008 Mike Gunderloy - Double Shot #119 and WWD Coffee Break - Search, Disposable Email & A Bad Day Christopher Steen - Link Listing - January 7, 2008 Arjan Zuidhof - LINKBLOG for January 7, 2008 Technorati Tags: Neudesic , BizTalk , BizTalk Server , CSD , Connected Systems , Sharepoint , WCF , WF , Software Development , C++ 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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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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