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... to fill out this survey about what guidance you think is most needed when it comes to building web apps.
This includes front end design and development (html, css, javascript/jquery, canvas, svg)...
As someone who has spoken at quite a few events over the past 10 years, I thought I had a pretty good understanding of what goes into running a conference. With less than 2 weeks before the start of t...
Of course when it comes to conference agendas, they're really released incrementally as the sessions happen, but we think the agenda in place now is pretty darn close.
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We've been making some great progress on the Symposium ... so I guess you could call this a progress report. I wrote most of this up as a response to an email asking if this event was focused on ISVs ...
We have enjoyed the patterns & practices Summit for many years now. And each year it seems like we try something new. This year we’re combining some new ideas with a name change. And I&rsquo...
This is a deck I created for the China p&p Summit. I'm posting this because I spent some extra time creating each of the 5 application type diagrams (from the Application Architecture Guide) in Po...
A few of us in patterns & practices, with some help from our partners on the Data Platform team have been working on some guidance to help .NET customers build data access layers (DALs). Weve bee...
As part of this Data Access Guidance project I'm workin on (which I'll blog more about soon), we're having a discussion with our advisors about the contention between the influence a Developer has on ...
Grigori, the PM for Enterprise Library, just posted version 5's tentative backlog stories and is giving you the chance to influence the priority of the stories. So don't waste anymore time here, ...
Overview
As many of you know, the patterns & practices team has been involved in Software Factories for a number of years now. As a team who is responsible for a number of Factories and the techn...
I spoke this morning at the patterns & practices Summit about data access. As I described this morning, I've mostly been working in the area of Web Services for the past number of years and d...
For my whole software development career Ive been focused on the enterprise app dev space. (I did try to join the Zune team at one point, but thats the topic of another post ;) While some people baulk...
That's write folks! (haha) Just minutes ago I heard through the wall what I've come to recognize as "productivity in action" and I thought it might be valuable to capture and share with yo...
If you're looking for pragmatic guidace for securing your WCF services, look no further. The WCF Security project has been posting how-to documents and videos on its community site.
Now is the perfec...
Users of the Service Factory often ask about the rationale behind the required use of MessageContracts even though the use of MessageContracts aren't mandated by WCF. I've answered this question in ot...
My colleague, Andrew Delin, is making the process of developing software real for development teams. However, he doesn't want to do it in a vacuum. If you think you know anything about development pro...
Microsoft Main Campus (Building 20)July 30th Aug 1st 2007Redmond, WA
Description Many software factories being built today use a number of different technologies, which include the Guidance Automatio...
Wow, it's hard to believe it has been almost a year since the patterns & practices team released our first software factories. Remember when the early customer previews were called ...
Okay, we're off and running now. Earlier today I posted the first of many community drops for Service Factory v3 - don't let "build 19" fool you - this is the first one. It took us longer than expec...
Steven just told me that Aaron Skonnard's latest Service Factory article about the December release was just published through his Service Station column in the MSDN Magazine. Talk...
That's right ladies and gentlemen, the December release of the Web Service Software Factory and a VB.NET version is now available for your consumption, modification, and production pleasures :)
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I noticed Tom blogged about this a couple of days ago, and of course he is correct, but I just wanted to mention the approach I've been taking since it has been working so well for me. The specific po...
It's 10:15 pm and I'm still in the office, but I really think I should get this entry posted before I head home - or it won't ever get posted. I was supposed to be working on my demo for my Service Fa...
In my last post I mentioned that we are having a lot of hallway discussions lately. Another topic that is getting a lot of airtime lately is written guidance. As you know, the patterns & practice...
There have been a lot of hallway conversations on the p&p team lately and the state of our community infrastructure is one of the popular subjects. Customer feedback influences our guidance more t...
If you've been following the Service Factory project, you'll know that we had to put the WCF guidance on hold for a little while as we were getting the ASMX Service Factory released. Well ever since i...
I just posted the Service Factory Hands-on Labs to the community workspace and I learned something while I was putting them together. So, I'm going to do 2 things in this post. First, I'm going to do ...
Before I get ahead of myself, which comes pretty easy for me J, heres the link to learn more about and download the Service Factory.
Wow, Ive been waiting 8 months to write this blog entry. Af...
Ron Jacobs did a load of ARCasts at Tech-Ed in Boston this year. One of them was with Shy Cohen and I about the Service Factory. Well, I just got an email from Ron that he's gotten around to publishin...
With all this talk of software factories, it's important that we understand the different ways teams will use them to build services. I talk to a lot of customers and, of course, there are severa...
I could go on and on about how this new drop includes a guidance package to help you build business entities from your data model, CRUD sprocs from those same data entities and data repository cl...
I'm going to do a webcast on the Web Service Software Factory in the morning (11am EST). The link below will work if you want to tune in and ask questions live and it should also work about 24 ho...
For this installment, I'm illustrating 2 examples of what I call "level 1 changes" to a guidance package. These are the easiest kinds of changes that don't even require any code changes. I'm also us...
Want to hear some excellent speakers talk about the architecture of connected systems ... for FREE!? Yeah, that's what I thought. So, what are you waiting for? Get over the Kirk's blog for more i...
The patterns & practices team have been selected for a pilot program that will completely renovate our workspace. The new workspace will be highly collaborative and should be done in a couple of m...
I thought for sure I blogged about this ... man, that means this is like 13 days late ... geez. Well, lucky for you we're not going to pull it off the Web anytime soon. Hopefully you heard about ...
On Wednesday, Dwayne Taylor, Mark
Fussell, Ron Jacobs, and I
recorded a live MSDN Webcasts titled Securing Web Services with X.509
Certificates in WSE 3.0. This webcast is based on the Web
Se...
If you are building connected systems, how confident are you that Microsoft is doing the right thing for you Are you confident that we're in the process of publishing the right tools and guidance that...
Jason is offering prizes for the best bugs found in our October CTP release of
the Web Service Security Patterns. Here are the details.
Help us find bugs in our October CTP! Compare your security ...
I'm a couple days late with this entry, but I'd be remiss for not mentioning
it at all. This release is a substantial improvement over the past
releases. We added even more patterns and updated the ...
I'm sitting here with Ron Jacobs, Eugenio Pace, and Tom Hollander in the MS Studios as
we're getting setup to do this live webcast about what each of us is up to here
in patterns & practices.
Y...
I'm not in a position to provide any details just yet, but a couple of us on the patterns & practices team have teamed up with heavy hitters like Jason Hogg, Beat Schwegler, Christian Weyer, ...
John Evdemon just published 2
articles on the principles of web service design.
The first one is titled Principles
of Service Design: Service Patterns and Anti-Patterns and in my opinion
shou...
Just a quick note to let you know that we just posted the August CTP release
of the security patterns content to the community at http://practices.gotdotnet.com/projects/sopatterns.
The biggest...
Well, then you may want to tune into a webcast we're recording live
on Thursday the 25th. You can find out more about the webcast here.
Okay, to get you up to speed quickly, we have this WS-I ...
Admittedly this guide is probably late for some of you ... but others of you
still have VB6 apps out there that you need to evolve, manage, and support ...
wouldn't it be easier if they were .N...
I was dorkin' around with my workblog the other day and it dawned on me that I never posted about how I recently switched jobs ... everyone blogs about this ... cool, so let me tell you what I'm ...
You may not know this, but the patterns & practices team is pretty amped about making stuff that architects and Web service developers actually need (or at least make them happ...
I'll just lay the canned spiel on ya:
MSDN is pleased to
announce the launch of the new Microsoft Web Services and Other Distributed
Technologies Developer Center at http://msdn.microsoft.com/w...
The patterns &
practices team has been working on a set of Web service security patterns
for a few months now. Until today, the content was only available to those who
were invited to join the ...
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