All posts by : Sam Gentile

1 of 224 | New and Notable 218 - Ok, lets see if I can get in a groove for a few days Agile/Software Development When James Shore worked with my Agile team, he heavily used the concept of Etudes to improve technical skills. It worked extremely well in helping our team learn about our code and how to improve it. I think they can help any team. Roy on the Case for TypeMock. I am liking TypeMock more and more these days. LINQ My best of friends, Steve Eichert, along with  Fabrice, Jim, has shipped their LINQ in Action. I can tell you that I have the LINQ books, and this is by far the best Windows Workflow/WF My friend K. Scott Allan has a Few Interesting Windows Workflow Links SQL Server 2008 Se......

2 of 224 | New and Notable 217 - Last N&N was on the 9th and I don't know if I will able to maintain the series. I am extremely busy, and traveling on multiple projects. I also am not sure that my interests are what the current .NET blogging climate and community want to hear about but I will see how it goes for now. If you would like to post a reply on the worth of the series for you personally, it certainly wouldn't hurt :) BizTalk/BizTalk Server Via Marjan, BizTalk Hotrod Issue 3 is now ready.  You can pull your copy down from: BizTalk Hotrod Issue 3#   Paul Petrov has an interesting post on using Generics for a Message Broker pattern WCF Orcas Dynamic Relay Endpoints in a Duplex......

3 of 224 | Neudesic NuCon 2008 New York and Chicago - 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 </>......

4 of 224 | Advanced WCF Code Camp Slides and Code - Thank you Code Campers! I had 120 out of 400 of you (ASP.NET MVC was at same time) and you were a great group. I had a great time with a new talk. Remember - just say no to RPC and Request/Reply - embrace the diversity of Asynchronous Messaging and Event Driven Architectures! The slides are here and the code is here. Remember, the code requires Visual Studio 2008. I also had a great conversation with Dave Laribee and Brian Donahue who approached me about coming back to ALT.NET and providing leadership. Let's just say if the community continues its current positive trend upwards, that becomes a much better possibility. Technorati Tags: ALT.NET,Code Camp,Philly Code Camp,Philly.NET,WCF,......

5 of 224 | MVP 2008 - 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 ...

6 of 224 | SOA: It's An And Not an OR - Arnon responds to my response about his definition of SOA by doing a NOT operation on business being a part of an SOA definition :) I am sorry Sam, but I beg to differ, not about the importance of business drive behind implementing SOA, but about what SOA is. The culprit, in my opinion, is terminology overloading. SOA is, as I said in the above mentioned post and numerous other times, is first and foremost an architectural style - as an architectural style it offers several architectural benefits and poses several architectural constraints. This has nothing to do with business drivers Well, I beg to differ with his beg to differ :). There is absolutely no doubt that one of the things......

7 of 224 | Neuron Team Expanding - We Want You - 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 O......

8 of 224 | New and Notable 212 - 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......

9 of 224 | Sam Gentile on BizTalk Blogs - We, the Connected Systems Community have a new community site started by Microsoft called "BizTalk Blogs." Don't let the name fool you :) It's not really about BizTalk, which has expanded into a marketing name, but all things CSD like WCF, WF, CardSpace, BizTalk Server, BizTalk Services. I'm proud to have been asked in the beginning and to have my blog aggregated here. Technorati Tags: CSD,Connected Systems,BizTalk,BizTalk Server,BizTalk Services,WCF,WF,CardSpace,.NET Framework 3,Neudesic ...

10 of 224 | New and Notable 211 - Coffee in hand, the Clash is playing, here we go BizTalk/WCF/BizTalk WCF Adapters Aaron has This short demo which illustrates how to take advantage of the message template feature made available by WCF send ports in BizTalk Server 2006 R2. Design Patterns/PAG/Software Architecture PAG continues to do an excellent job getting Pattern resources to the community with the Guidance Explorer. As J.D. Meirer writes, "This is a significant release for Guidance Explorer (GE).  Our online "guidance store" is now hosted on MSDN.  To take advantage of this, you need to download the new version of Guidance Explorer (release 20071206)" Blaine writes about shipp......

11 of 224 | New and Notable 210 - Prodded by Mike to pick up the slack, I am trying to get one of these out each morning before all my work REST/Astoria/Web Programming/Web Services Christian shows how to access SSDL (ADO.NET Entity Framework's store schema definition language and generate client-side code He also states the latest Astoria / ADO.NET Data Services CTP also includes a client-side library with support for creating LINQ queries against a REST API - a LINQ to REST. I played with the ADO.NET Data Services yesterday again and they are indeed very simple and powerful. Link Blogs (thanks to Chris) Link Listing - December 11, 2007 [Via: Chris Stein] Adding custom metadata providers in ASP.NE......

12 of 224 | New and Notable 209 - 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 Rel......

13 of 224 | New and Notable 208 - Lots to catch up on. ASP.NET 3.5/AJAX/MVC It's out! ScottGu details the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP, This release brings additional runtime functionality to ASP.NET and .NET 3.5.  You can download it here (if you are using the MVC features also click here to download the MVC Toolkit extras). ScottGu also has a great series on the ASP.NET MVC Framework, which is up to Part 4. Check out the post for earlier links. Also ScottGu::December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008 We may was well make it the ScottGu show today (he deserves it) - .NET Web Product Roadmap (ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS7) Some great links from Brad Abrams - The Wait is O......

14 of 224 | Slide deck from INETA SOA Presentation in Findlay Ohio - 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 ...

15 of 224 | Marty Wasznicky Joins Neudesic! - 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/CS......

16 of 224 | New and Notable 207 - 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 applyin......

17 of 224 | Sam Gentile, INETA, Findlay Ohio, Nov 27, 2007 - First things first; A very happy thanksgiving to everyone in the US! I am going to be out doing an INETA presentation in Findlay, Ohio. Like the other talks this year, this one will focus, as stated here, spends a whole hour on Architectural, Domain-Driven and Software Patterns that I believe are neccessary to design and develop a quality WCF Service. The second hour of the talk is on WCF. My personal belief, that even with boundaries are explicit and the focus being on messaging betweern autoonomous services, it is vitally important, even more than ever, that the Service is designed and implemented with best practices including all the ones we know for other kinds of applications (such a......

18 of 224 | Visual Studio 2008 RTM Available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads!! - I knew it was coming so I stayed up extra late last night but not long enough :)   Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite with the .NET Framework 3.5 is available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads! While my copy is on the way, I would like to thank the whole extended team at Microsoft for an amazing product. I have been using the product in customer engagements for months now and the features have been extremely useful. One of my favorite new features is the great new support in VS2008 for WF and WCF integration on the creation of Workflow Services.   The .NET Framework is the managed code developer platform for Windows. It is a highly productive environment for software developers a......

19 of 224 | New and Notable 206 - 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 Int......

20 of 224 | New and Notable 205 - ASP.NET/.NET 3/CardSpace/WCF My good friend, Michele Bustamante, returned from DevConnections with her usual slew of great demos: Introduction to C# 3.0 C# 3.0 Samples ADO.NET 3.5 Samples Exploring Windows CardSpace Cardspace Samples ASP.NET and WCF: Meet Your New Web Service See code from my book Learning WCF posted here See my webcast series on WCF for MSDN ScottGu begins a series of posts on ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 1) Software Development Tools NAntBuilder 1.1  [via Mike] Snippet Editor for VS2005/2008 NHibernate Ayende on What's Going On with NHibernate 2.0? Looks like a lot of great stuff. Jeff Palermo has NHibernate presentation sli......

21 of 224 | New and Notable 204 - I took Heather and the family up into Manhattan so that Heather could go to the American Girl Doll store. What a mob scene! The things a Dad has to do for his daughter :)). We did get to Rockfeller Center, and my personal fave, Cannoli and Double Espresso at Ferrara in Little Italy. SOA/ISB/BizTalk Services Collegue David Pallmann gives MS SOA/BPM Conference Report, Part 2: Internet Service Bus (ISB) He also talks about Service Enabling the Middle Tier Udi - [Podcast] Versioning and SOA–There is no IDog2 WCF/WF Brian Noyes has his slides and demos from DevConnections Enterprise Architecture Why Enterprise Architecture is a Corporate Responsibility LINQ TechEd......

22 of 224 | New and Notable 202 - I am Twittering, Facebooking now with my friends. Does that make me a Web 2.0 person, a “Hip With-It Person, or a childish fool? The jury is still out....ESB/BizTalk My collegue writes Microsoft Patterns and Practices ESB Guidance 1.0 shown, and will be available in a few days. Brian, was instrumental by writing the early versions. He has a lot of good things to say on what the value add to community is. Major congrats Marty Wasznicky whose baby this is. I met Marty at the SOA conference finally and he is a very passionate, hard working advocate for BizTalk and the greater community SQL Server 2008 Neudesic's SQL Server and BI Practices have spent a large amount of time wit......

23 of 224 | New and Notable 201 - SOA Nick has his fourth post in a series on the impact of the business operating model on Service Oriented Architecture with SOA in the Replication Model Microsoft My collegue Mickey Williams has posted that Microsoft Search Server (MSS) 2008 and MSS Express, two Enterprise Search products are available for free! CLR Jason keeps on rocking in the free world with Simple Reflector AddIn: Count Box Instructions. It's official, he's done taken the CLR Crown from me :) WCF Dr. Nick on a very important but difficult area of WCF: Custom Transport Retry Logic MAC OS/X/Vista It looks like Leopard has been a disaster from everyone you talk to other than the M......

24 of 224 | New and Notable 200 - 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, Exchan......

25 of 224 | Neuparts Code Demo (DDD + SOA) on CodePlex - Chad got as chance to put up the full Neuparts DDD + SOA demos on CodePlex; both the Ordering and Shipping Services while I was out in Redmond. As the topic in the discussion forums says: Greetings.I would like to thank everyone for checking out this project, and appreciate all of the early feedback.Sam and I are working on getting this project (more correctly, collection of projects) working as soon as possible.We encourage open and honest feedback, but keep a few things in mind: We have full time positions at Neudesic. We pour our hearts into this company, and it is our primary interest. This project is a work in process. It will under go multiple, multiple refactorings! We will p......

26 of 224 | New and Notable 199 - Last day of the conference and suffering from tiredness - was out with Marjan and her crew until 3 AM :) BizTalk/CSD/Connected Systems/REST 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......

27 of 224 | SOA and BPM Conference Thursday - Web Services Software Factory - 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/WSDL First Modeling (Christian Weyer's tool was a first step). 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. Live blog: Crazy week as Don as been trying to ship this week plus prepare for the conference   ...

28 of 224 | SOA and BPM Conference Wednesday - SOA Governance and the Microsoft Ecosystem - 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)     - ......

29 of 224 | Managed Services Engine - As I met with Don Smith last night coordinating some things related to the Web Services Software Factory last night, he mentioned to look for the release today of Managed Services Engine, a solution that supports service virtualization through a meta data-driven service repository using .NET and Microsoft SQL Server. Along with today's other SOA related anouncements, the use of MSE as a Service Repository, helps address current gaps in the story. The Web Services Software Factory, in its V3 form is very different than any of the earlier versions. V3 is a Modeling release and gives us Contract/Model First people the modeling abilities to create WCF services correctly. Finally we hav......

30 of 224 | Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference - Oslo - 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-......

31 of 224 | Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference Monday Keynotes - Oslo - 5th annual SOA and BPM Conference kicked off proper last night with a party. 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 Servcice......

32 of 224 | Aaron's WCF Adapters in BizTalk Server R2 Paper Up! - Aaron's WCF Adapters in BizTalk Server R2 paper is up! ...

33 of 224 | Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference Live Blog Monday - 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 recomend 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 anout the new WCF Adapters - should make writing adapters much easier and standard EDI baked into R......

34 of 224 | Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference Live Blog Sunday - 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 f......

35 of 224 | New and Notable 198 - Getting ready to spend a full 7 days in Redmond starting Saturday and meanwhile trying to bring on two new superstars  CLR/F#/C# I have not had the time to blog about the wellcome addition of F# being "producized and becoming a first-class citizen in VS.NET Via Harry, I learned about some other very interesting F# developments like  Async Workflows.  Regardless of it's name, Async Workflows is about making .NET's Async Programming model a first class citizen in F#. Robert Pickering has a good post explaining how this new feature works. Software Development Microsoft has launched a new MSDN site - the Microsoft Tester Center [via Rob......

36 of 224 | Partial Demo Code - Neuparts.Shipping WCF Domain-Driven Service - I said, way back here, that I was working with another Neudesic Principal Consultant, Chad Thomas, on two reference demo services/applications for my SOA with WCF and ESB talks. That talk, as many have noticed, spends a whole hour on Architectural, Domain-Driven and Software Patterns that I believe are neccessary to design and develop a quality WCF Service. The second hour of the talk is on WCF. I now will be giving you 1/2 of that code that has been used in the two New Jersey groups as well as the Chicago CNUG presentation. The code reflects my current learnings. I have really Steve Eichert to thank, in the last 2 years of working together, having a very profound and deep i......

37 of 224 | Going to the Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference - I already said a few months ago that I was going to the SOA and Business Process Conference running October 29 - November 2. I am also going to be in Pluralsight's 2 day pre-conference with my friends Jon Flanders, Matt Milner, Aaron Skonnard.  Since Nicholas is asking, I thought I would link to his post. Neudesic is a co-sponsor so we'll be there in a big way and a whole bunch of our other key Connected Systems Practice are going like David Pallmann, Curt Peterson, Pete Klein, and Tom Canter are going. I already have a ton of meetings with Microsoft CSD people but hoping to hook up with everyone. Who's going?? We will have some annoucementgs, hopefully of the kin......

38 of 224 | New and Notable 197 - So many things to do, so little time, this is what we call a catch-up post SOA Nick starts a new series on Integration with SOA and the CISR Operating Models and adds SOA in the Coordination Models Nick also on a Tale of Two Visions Both Arnon and Nick take on Pete Lacey's "What is SOA?".  Bobby Woolf has a knack for saying things I agree with, "SOA helps development and operations get aligned. I've talked about how SOA can help achieve business/IT alignment. In fact, that's one of SOA's major selling points, that SOA can be applied to both the business and the IT department, making both composed of reusable services so that the IT sy......

39 of 224 | Visual Studio 2008 RC Team Suite Installed and WCF Test Client - We are one of the companies early testing the RC of Visual Studio 2008. I have installed the full Team Suite and I am quite happy. I had a weird bug with Beta 2 in regards to metadata in WCF projects. The metadata and specifically the WSDL created seemed incorrect in an WCF Service, and was thus unable to be read by the WCF Test Client which would not come up. I didn't vote high for the WCF Test Client during the Orcas SDR but I am sure finding it handy now. I create a lot of prototype WCF Service Assemly projects (DLL Library) and its a pain to create the proxy and then the WCF client by hand. In Orcas, you can hit F5 on a a WCF Service DLL project and up pops a WCF Test Clie......

40 of 224 | INETA Connected Systems: SOA with WCF, WSB Slides New Jersey Slides Up - The presentation from the two INETA presentations is now up on my portal. I will have the code for both the Order and Shipping systems (done with with Domain Driven Design/Repositories/NHibernate, etc) along withh the WCF Service Adapters up soon. ...

41 of 224 | Jesus Rodriguez and Arnon on REST+Dynamic Languages vs. ESB Debate - My good friend Jesus Rodriguez has a very insightful commentary on  Steve Vinoski comments regarding the REST+Dynamic Languages vs. ESB debate. Arnon also disagrees with Steve. ...

42 of 224 | New and Notable 196 - WCF/BizTalk Services Brian talks about the new CodeRush 2.5.4 WCF Templates which take the drudgery out of the boilerplate stuff. I have gone personally to a combination of Resharper + CodeRush. I use Resharper for all the Refactoring plus the code analysis and I use CodeRush for the templates and keyboard expansions. Certificate Access Error for WCF Hosted Services I am spending some time testing a future version of BizTalk Services. Charles provides a nice intro post to them. This is definitely a key area of innovation for CSD. SOA/ESB/REST David Pallmann shares a few words of wisdom on the Infrastructure Controversy, in particular how much infrastructure is appropriate i......

43 of 224 | SOA Infrastructure Webinar - Hosted by Neudesic - LIVE WEBCAST SOA Infrastructure Webinar Thu., Oct. 18, 2007 11:00 AM-12:00 PM Central Time (Welcome Time: 10:55 AM Central) Microsoft Event Code # 121389     PRESENTER INFO Chad Thomas - Principal Consultant II, Neudesic Chad operates Neudesic's Midwest Region Connected Systems/SOA practice. As an early evangelist for Service Orientation, he has been giving lectures and hosting training sessions on SOA since 2000. Over the last 5 years, Chad has specialized in helping Fortune 500 companies in the financial services vertical move to Service Oriented networks.   &......

44 of 224 | SOA Infrastructure Webinar and CNUG Talk on SOA - We're (Neudesic) hosting an SOA Infrastructure Webinar with Microsoft on October focusing on our Neuron ESB. The theme is Neuron as an "SOA Accelerator." Chad Thomas, another Pricipal Consultant II in Connected Systems and I have been working on some nice content as well as an extensive code-intensive WCF system that will lead into how Neuron can allow you to use WCF and .NET 3/3.5 faster, easier and cheaper. I will be doing a deep technical version of this talk and demos for the Chicago .NET User's Group (CNUG) the night before. Please join us and sign up! ...

45 of 224 | Speaking Next Two Nights - Community Domain Driven WCF Best Practice Demos - A further note about what  I just blogged about what our upcoming Webinar and CNUG with the applications Chad and I are developing. I will be showing and giving out to the community tonight a significant portion of our code. These demo applications Chad and I developed are both influenced by our backgrounds. Both of us have just had similar experiences that last few years, Chad at JP Morgan Chase and myself at Algo. In my two years at Algo, as detailed on this blog and Steve's, we used all the XP Practices/TDD/NUnit, Repositories/DDD, O/RM, etc to develop our WCF Services, the Smart Client, and the rest of the system. Chad did a similar thing at JPMC. Given that, when we went to i......

46 of 224 | Goodbye CodeBetter and ALT.NET - Note: Please read the follow-up after you read this. Thanks!  So, I wasn't going to write this post. For 3 weeks now, I have written versions in my head and discarded them because I don't want to be about negativity and maybe it was better to say nothing at all. But recently my friends, clients and others have wanted to know why as well as I feel that there are serveral messages I need to put out there. I am going to say it and then not discuss it, I'm going to move on. Well, let's get to it. I have had increasing disatisfaction with some of the posts there for quite some time and the attitude they conveyed. The posts that tipped me to leave were Scott Bellware's O......

47 of 224 | ESBs Enable Real-World SOA - Bobby Woolf on Why the ESB is a fundamental part of SOA, which is what we believe as well obviously, in contrast to Steve Vinoski, who now has sworn them off for the whole RESTafarian thing. You know, I have a lot of respect for Steve as the legend he is, but I can't understand him here. SOA is a comprehensive lifecycle with identifying reusable business processes as reusable autonomous services. To me, WS-* and REST are totally unimportant to that; they are just architectural styles for the delivery of said services and that's it: they don't address most of the SOA lifecycle. I could really care less if someone chose to use REST but that isn't going to be the answer to the ......

48 of 224 | More responses to Steve's ESB Rant - Both David Pallmann and Curt Peterson, who work for us, have provided responses to Steve's post after my post. David: Disclosure: My company provides an ESB. Human beings tend to overreact to things they don’t like. I’ve witnessed this my entire life, in every area from religion to technology. The problem is, we tend to overreact to something we dislike and the pendulum swings too far the other way — often becoming equally inappropriate. When people have an experience with too much infrastructure, the natural thing to do is want to avoid infrastructure. But surely having no infrastructure at all is just as bad. The two extremes are to be avoided. I believe the debates currently r......

49 of 224 | New and Notable 195 - SOA/WCF/ESB My good friend Jesus Rodriguez picks up on our WCF Tips, notes that they are really SOA tips and adds some very valuable tips to the list! Null transport for WCF CAB/Composite UI/ASP.NET Neudesic's own Steve Saxon had five great talks at Desert Code Camp:  Getting scalability from ASP.NET Using the Dynamic Language Runtime in your application Composite UI Application Block – Intelligent Factories / Singletons Composite UI Application Block – Discoverable toolbar/menu/ribbon items Composite UI Application Block – Extending the Event Broker BizTalk Here is a post with links to all the different versions of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 ......

50 of 224 | New and Notable 178 - My son, like the rest of kids his age, as well as many others is spending every waking hour reading the latest Potter book.Ruby/IronRuby/CLR/DLRGreat news from John Lam of the first public drop of the IronRuby source code. IronRuby is licensed under very liberal terms as set out by the Microsoft Permissive License. ScottGu accompanies John's post with an extensive post of his own on the IronRuby release that is being developed in his group. Of particular interest is the feature "Dynamic Sites" - which delivers a fast adaptive call-site method caching implementation.Also on the CLR front, is the new release of Spec#, an experimental language that extends C# with several de......