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In the spirit of both the Gang of Fours Design Patterns book and the SOA Patterns book/site, Im going to try to document a couple different SOA Patterns that Ive found useful, but havent seen do...
Even though I live in NJ, I dont get to hang out with my friends in the local developer community that often. So, Im taking a couple days off of work next week, and figured with the holida...
If you attended my HDC 2010 session From Datasets to Data Services and want a copy of the slide deck and code, you can get them from my HDC10 Skydrive folder. As usual, the Heartland De...
So, you are a .Net developer, and you gone and built some services for your enterprise applications. Youve spent the time building and deploying the services. You might have written them using A...
This weekend is the WCF Firestarter in New York City. Registration to attend in person is SOLD OUT and were looking forward to a full house in the Big Apple on Saturday! You can see the ev...
Bringing Business Intelligence knowledge to the .Net developer crowd has been something that Ive been trying to do over the last year. So, when Andrew Brust offered me an opportunity to work wit...
Im finally getting around to publishing my slides and code for my recent user group talks on using jQuery with WCF in ASP.Net WebForms. The latest version is from my SoCal .Net Architecture talk...
Yes, I know it had been a long time since I’ve blogged, and even longer since I’ve blogged any decent technical content. But I have a feeling that the drought is over, and a series o...
It is a major pet peeve of mine; presenters that use Console Application Projects to demo some non-UI code. Thats so 1990s. So, what should a presenter use? Well, Test Projects, of c...
Over the last couple months I've been doing a bit of work with FxCop and Static Code Analysis. If you remember playing with FxCop back in the day, it was a cool tool to check for possible design...
This week at TechEd Microsoft announce the Velocity project, a distributed in-memory object caching system, which got folks like Dare and ScottW talking about using a distributed caching solution for ...
I spent the last week in Seattle and Redmond, attending both the MVP Summit and the ALT.Net Conference, and spent the majority of time discussing the future of programming, both on the .Net platform a...
Since I'm talking about conferences, I should also mention that I'll be giving a full day pre-conference workshop, LINQ — One Query Syntax to Rule Them All at VSLive! San Francisco 2008: By ...
Disclaimer - the folks at Diskeeper gave me a free copy of Diskeeper 2008 Pro Premier. But, I've purchased previous versions of their product. I've been using Diskeeper for a couple years now, and I'...
M. David Peterson kickstarted the process to get Chris Sells to host another SellsCon by creating a new Facebook group. I've got to say, the ALT.Net conference in Austin sort of reminded me of t...
Bil Simser asks the question ""Do SharePoint Developers Want a Developer Version of SharePoint?"", and I've got to say YES. Yes, Sharepoint desperately needs a version that a developer can u...
Melissa and I had a blast at the Raleigh Code Camp. Thanks to all the folks that helped to coordinate this event! Here' the slide deck and the demo app. It was a great opportunity to work ...
Looks like Microsoft delayed the ""next"" Professional Developers Conference a whole year. They just announced that it will be Oct. 27th-30th, 2008, back in LA (were else?). For some reason,...
If you are using the Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Virtual PC images, you will want to backup your data to another location (you should be doing that anyway). Microsoft is trying to get the word out...
I finally broke down redirected my RSS feeds to FeedBurner. A couple days ago, using the built in CommunityServer functionality, I redirected my 3 ""category"" feeds to Feedburner. ...
In case you don't read the CodeBetter feed (and you should), I'm blogging over there now. I'm not planning on giving up this blog, but I'm not going to cross post either. I'm going to...
OK, this is one that gets me every time I switch back to Visual Basic from C#, and is one of the times that I find C# much easier to work with. Even with all the XML Literal goodness in Visual B...
I recently recorded a .Net Rocks show on XML Literals. Yeah, yeah yeah, I just did a two part .Net Rocks TV show on VB and XML Literals (part 1 and part 2), but LINQ to XML and Visual Basic...
From Andy's blog post: It looks like John Baird, Mitch Ruebush, Doug White, and Andy Schwam have started a .Net User Group for Northern Delaware. They meet on the last Thursday of the month, at ...
INETA recently announced that they are adding 15 new members to the INETA Speakers Bureau, and there are 3 New Jersey locals on that list. Joining Miguel Castro and Sam Gentile (who moved t...
There has (finally) been some hype around VB 9's XML Literal stuff. Cory Smith noticed it, and yesterday, Scott Hanselman blogged about them. Last week I recorded a 2 part episode on ...
I case you haven't heard, Scott Hanselman recently announced that he is joining Microsoft as a Program Manager in DevDiv, and Jesse Liberty joined Microsoft at the beginning of the month as a Sen...
If you are a developer that specializes in Sharepoint (2003 or 2007), or Biztalk (2004, 2006, 2006R2), and lives in the New Jersey, New York City, Conn. area, I'm putting together an in...
If you can't make my Visual Studio Extensibility session on Monday at 1:15PM, or, if you just have some Visual Studio Extensibility questions, then you want to plan on attending the Build Custom Tools...
I don't think I mentioned it, but I'll be speaking at TechEd, which is a first for me. I'll be doing a talk on Visual Studio Extensibility: DEV345 - Extending Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 with ...
If you want to find out about Microsofts next generation of technologies such as Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow, IIS 7, ASP.NET Ajax, ...
What's a Microsoft event with Palermo Party? The MVP Summit event was way, way, way over the top. I'll be at TechEd 2007, and wouldn't miss this. Here are the details: Party wi...
If you happen to have seen any of my Intro to LINQ - Reinventing Visual Basic talks, you wouldn't be that surprised by "semi-announcement" of VBx. Paul Vick and Amanda Silver ...
Kathleen Richards, from Redmond Developer News, gave me a call yesterday asking my thoughts on the news that the Entity Framework slipping from Orcas, so she could write up this article on the news.&n...
As most of my long time readers know, I'm a die hard TestDriven.Net guy. I've known Jamie since meeting him back at PDC 2003, and have been promoting his Visual Studio integrated testing tool si...
I case you haven’t heard (either thru James Lau's blog or Josh Holmes' blog) I’ll be doing a webcast on Visual Studio Extensibility at 9AM Pacific time (12PM Eastern), Ma...
I just ran across the FTPOnline article Reporting on Vista Security and the VS Road Map and the following quote by Prashant Sridharan, Senior Product Manager for Visual Studio is very misleading:...
In my recent Syntactic Sugar presentation I was trying to get to the essence of good code, and come up with something a little more concrete than Code Smell, when I ran across exactly what I was looki...
I've always been a stickler about matters relating to building proper data access layers, and one of the areas that seems to get overlooked has been around proper creation of stored procedure paramete...
When you get the January 2007 edition of the MSDN Magazine, if you flip to pages 76-79 you will find a special "sponsor content" section that includes interviews of Dave Donaldson and m...
As I mentioned in one of my TechEd Barcelona posts, I bumped into Carl Franklin, Richard Campbell, and Stephen Forte at lunch, and as I started to go into how I wound up at TechEd Barcelona, Richard m...
I have a habit of browsing the Microsoft Careers site looking for interesting tidbits of information, and I just found yet another, PLINQ - Parallel Language Integrated Query. Since I subscribe ...
I'm not going to get into the whole VB or C# is faster debate (because it really doesn't matter since it all depends on the quality of the programmer, because both languages compile ...
It looks like the next 2+ months are officially LINQ months on my calendar. If you happen to be going to the Heartland Developers Conference, I'll be doing 2 LINQ based talks on Thursday, Oc...
A few months ago I entered XPathmania (the XPath enhancements to Visual Studio's XML Editor project) into the Visual Studio Extensibility Plug-in Contest, for the Managed Package Category. I did...
If you happen to be attending the Heartland Developers Conference 2006 in Omaha, NE, be sure to stop by and see my "Intro To LINQ - Reinventing Visual Basic" talk on Thursday evening. This is ...
I'll be at NYC Bar Camp 2 on Saturday, 9/30/2006. It is sort of the non-Microsoft clique's version of Code Camps. A couple of their unique twists, all attendees are supposed to present/par...
Sharepoint's web services have been around since version 2 (2003), but I never had much use for Sharepoint (except for Team Portals), unitl Sharepoint 2007 (aka MOSS 2007, aka v3). One of my clients h...
Udi Dahan is calling out the Patterns & Practices team on their lack of Domain Driven Design (or even a lack of a true domain) in the Web Service Software Factory Guidance Package. ...
Well, it has definately been a long time in development, but I finally migrated my site to CommunityServer 2.1. I've been telling Scott that I was planning to move this site to CommunityServer s...
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