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Tech-Ed 2007: Day 1

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:39:14 GMT

It's the end of the first day at Tech Ed 2007. I flew into Orlando yesterday, taking the 6 am flight from Seattle. We flew through Atlanta and landed in Florida only a little over an hour past schedule. Not a bad experience -- given the state of our transportation industry.

Microsoft Surface -homepage

Wed, 30 May 2007 15:31:01 GMT

Home page of a hot new technology coming this winter. Just imagine all the possibilities.

Silverlight and Friends: Read all about it

Wed, 30 May 2007 11:46:01 GMT

Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation, XAML, and Expression Blend are all best friends. And like any super hero team, they work best when they work together. I've been wanting to learn more about the fab four, so I've put together this collection of reference material for our consideration. I'll update as I discover more...

Any Interest in Building Test Driven Community?

Wed, 30 May 2007 12:31:01 GMT

I'd like to gauge the interest in building a free, online community dedicated to discussing and learning test driven development.

Part 2 - Leveraging Workflow Foundation - Invest in the Infrastructure

Wed, 30 May 2007 08:01:01 GMT

In Part 1 of Leveraging Workflow Foundation we discussed how Workflow Foundation is just an API. Since APIs don't provide business value out of the box, it is important engineers exploring Workflow Foundation for the first time approach it in the same manner they would any API: write once, run everywhere. In other words, instead of building out the workflow components for one application, look at it from the 10,000 feet view. This is of course going to take more time than one might originally think so be sure to allow for this in development time. We'll look at the basics engineers starting with Workflow Foundation will need to think about to invest in their workflow infrastructure. Who knows, we may even find some rusty washers and shinny pennies along the way.

ADO.NET Entity Framework cut from .NET 3.5/Orcas

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:46:02 GMT

As Frans Bouma reports, it appears that the ADO.NET EF is being cut from orcas and moved to 2008 as an orcas update...

Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1 Available

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:31:01 GMT

You can now download Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1. The LINQ samples for Beta 1 are also available for download.

How to Create a WebService Based on a Workflow

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:16:01 GMT

Keyvan describes how to create a webservice that runs a workflow.

Microsot Silverlight unveiled

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:16:02 GMT

"WPF/E" is now officially Silverlight

Static analysis to win business and influence others

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:16:01 GMT

How static analysis tools can give a crucial competitive advantage

A Discussion on Domain Driven Design: Entities

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:31:01 GMT

My last post was intended to help better explain how the ubiquitous language forms the back bone of Domain Driven Design (DDD). I am hoping that this post helps to explain some of the more foundational artifacts of DDD, namely Entities. What is an entity? Is it a business object? Is it a class that has persistence? Is it a sentient being manifested in the form of a polymorphic construct that is based on a real world object? Ok well maybe the latter is definitely out of scope but as we see there are many possibilities of what an entity is. Hopefully I will help to shed some light on the subject. Either that or I will help to perpetuate the existing confusion. At least we go somewhere!

SequenceViz :: generate sequence diagrams from .NET assembly file

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:46:02 GMT

SequenceViz is a free open source tool to automatically generate sequence diagrams from .NET assemblies.

Great introduction to Lambda expressions

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:01:01 GMT

Lambda expressions: When combined with the built-in standard query extension methods provided in the System.Linq namespace in "Orcas", they provide a really rich way to query and interact with any type of data while preserving full compile-time checking and intellisense.

Creating a Rules Processing Framework - Part 1 - The Rules Provider

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:31:01 GMT

I will describe how to create a Rules Engine Framework using C#. It will take a few posts to describe the entire process but it's very cool and your going to want to read them all. In Part 1, I am going to describe the Rules Provider.

Ray Tracing in C# 3.0

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:31:02 GMT

C# PM Luke Hoban has a wonderful post on Ray Tracing in C#.

Fast Switching with LINQ

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:46:01 GMT

Jomo Fisher from the Microsoft C# development team shows how to use LINQ expressions to implement a very fast look up that can yield a 900% performance improvement over standard dictionary searches.

Solving the Problem with Events: Weak Event Handlers

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:01:01 GMT

One of the greatest frustration of working with delegates and events is that they can potentially cause memory leaks if they aren't unhooked. In this article, we will solve this problem in a variety of ways to get the best performance, memory use and syntax.

LINQ to SQL and stored procedures, my quest continues

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:01:01 GMT

A discussion about LINQ to SQL and how it contradicts existing database developer best practices.

The vastly ignored System.Transactions namespace

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:46:01 GMT

2.0 introduced transaction support in the .NET framework. Most everyone is aware of transactions and how they work in databases. But few are aware that transaction support is now built into the .NET platform. This article is a good starting point for learning how transactions work in .NET 2.0.

Community Convergence XXIII

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:01:01 GMT

The MVP Summit, articles by Wes Dyer, Scott Guthrie, Charles Petzold and others.

Debugging LINQ Queries

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:31:01 GMT

LINQ is really cool. But what about debugging thoose buggers?

6 Great Ways To Rid Yourself of Good Developers

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:31:01 GMT

Are you sick of intelligent developers who understand the business, show initiative and promote positive and efficient practices? Do those snarky programmer analysts constantly demonstrate their ability to take abstract requirements and turn them into detailed designs? Don't let developers turn your projects into a success! Here are 6 great ways to make sure they run away and never look back.

Increase Productivity With Search Driven Development

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:31:01 GMT

Search Driven Development is the de-facto software methodology in use almost universally. How to bring it into the IDE.

.NET Managed Library for the Nintendo Wiimote

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:01:02 GMT

Use the Nintendo Wiimote from your .NET applications! Full source code in C# and VB.

Improve Your Blog's Reach With These 20 Essential Web Utilities

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:16:01 GMT

Here's a great roundup of web tools to improve and promote your blog. Great tools to help with: Optimization, Statistics and Search Engine Optimization, Images, Content, and Syndication.