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I've been presuaded to bring out my Hardcore .NET (CLR Internals) out of retirement for DevTeach again this year. This post will be a record of trying to get an environment up and going..... Will it work on Vista? Does he still have his CLR chops? Stay tuned... Rotor You need to install ActivePerl 5.8.8 first Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure 2.0 Rotor V2 Download Tools ILDASM Reflector Reflector File Dissembler PE Browse Professional Dissembler PE Browse Professional Interactive Win32 Debugger/Dissembler ASMEX Free-Source .NET Assembly/PE File Analyzer CECIL library for IL gen/inspect ClassMaster Dis# .NET Decompiler Decompiler.NET F# Assembly Explorer I'm rocking out to Heartbreak Beat by The Psychedelic Furs from the album Beautiful Chaos: Greatest Hits Live Technorati Tags: .NET , CLR , Rotor , CLI , Shared Source CLI Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More...
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This is it, the big 150! The first New and Notable was on May 19, 2003 , (my first post was March 29, 2002 ) and I paid homage to the master, "I have always admired Mike's ability to look at the world out there and put it all into one great post, The Daily Grind . While I can't pretend to have Mike's writing ability, I would like to start moving to something similar instead of multiple seperate posts." I wish I had the discipline of Mike because if I posted daily I would be well towards 1000 instead of 150-) but hey I'm pretty proud of my record. I love this community and in the last 25 years this community (and Microsoft) have been real good to me and my family. I hope that what I have been picking here has been of good use to the community to keep you informed on key .NET activities as well as the architectural and design side. Thus, I go forth and pick: Entity Framework, ADO.NET 3, Orcas, MVP Summit One of the best writers in the community today is certainly Jeremy Miller . His latest post, MVP Summit Recapped: Linq for Entities, MonoRail, and Shameless Name Dropping , is a fine example of why. In one post, he is able to write quite elequently on complex subjects like the subtle design flaws in Entity Framework 3 and why WF 4 will rock your world. He is able to take a technology, stick to his design principles and stand his ground, educating and helping all involved achieve something better than was there before. He certainly wasn't the only one of us doing that but his post really captures the core design principles of no infrastructure code in business logic classes. Infrastructure is Infrastructure, business logic is business logic. We want the same thing: No marker interfaces, no codegen, no partial classes. Just plain "PO" and support for the Unit of Work pattern. David Laribee also talks on this area and makes clear that its a vision thing that doesn't really compare to NHibernate which is just OR/M; it's a full Read More...
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I have been working with the Office Live Services Beta for some months now. They just went live with my site over the weekend (although I still have to work on the domain name transfer) and it looks pretty good! I have a new Header and Home Page design. I have added my How-To STS/Window Authentication with ADAM/AD, Roles in AzMan with WCF to the refurbished WCF page . I added a new Domain Driven Design page under Software Engineering . My Presentations, as always are here . Hey, what else am I going to do while I am waiting for my flight? I would like and appreciate any and all feedback as comments here. What's good? What's bad? Knowing my blog and its subjects, what would you like to see? Technorati Tags: .NET , Windows Communication Foundation , WCF , Software Architecture , INETA , MVP , .NET Framework 3 , Microsoft Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More...
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This says it all. Technorati Tags: .NET , Agile , Agile Development , Extreme Programming , ORM , Data , Entity Framework , ADO.NET 3.0 , Orcas , MVP , Visual Studio , VSTS , Team System , Microsoft Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More...
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Today, the "breakout" sessions begun. In other words, we started drilling down with the product groups; for me that is Solution Architect. Some of the sessions I can't even name as even the code words are not public but I did want to mention that we had a great session and discussion (on the present) with Jack Greenfield on "The Future of Software Factories and Q &A with Jack Greenfield." Leaving out the future, we had a great discussion on a topic I generated when I told Jack that although I buy the notion totally of Software Factories (we use WSSF, CAB, Smart Client Factory to mention just a few) I had a really hard time buying the notion of Software Product Lines as it really smacked to me of Big Design Up Front, something I abhor as an Agile Architect. The answer was a good one, revolving around the idea of harvesting best practices, frameworks, etc of Product #1, #2 and it doesn't have to be some huge heavyweight notion of designing the product line in advance. I think that's how I understood it. Technorati Tags: .NET , Software Factories , Software Architecture , MVP , Microsoft Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More...
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Ayende says, " Here is an interesting discussion about this topic. Apperantly you will not be able to just take any object and persist it using the Entity Framework. You need to either inherit from a base class, or (in the future) implement a set of interfaces. I can't figure out what the reason for that is. It is not as if supporting POCO persistance ignorance is hard or complicate the framework (at least not compare to the issues of the persistance and querying themselves). One of the goals for NHibernate is that you should be able to develop your application where only the controller has a reference to NHibernate, nothing else. " Just know that myself, Jeremy Miller, Scott Bellware, Richard Llelyn are taking the Entity folks apart about this as we speak (at the Summit) and teaching them about NHibernate. Technorati Tags: .NET , Entity Framework , ADO.NET 3.0 , Orcas , MVP , Microsoft Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More...
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In the last two posts 101 and 102 , I went pretty deep in some areas. I want to step back and do some more tutorial stuff. So the first question out of the gate is what is Workflow itself and where might you use it? In a nutshell, a Workflow describes and automates a Business Process. It can be described as a "reactive" program which tends to contain some traits: Workflow declared as a set of Activities Coordinates people and software Has real-world control flow Runs reliably and durably Tolerates dynamic change A Workflow is typically designed by a Process Designer using Business Process Analysis, Modeling, and Definition tools. That Process Definition is fed into a Workflow Management System. The WMS will have Users, Applications and Administrators/Supervisors. The WMS will present that Process Definition visually in some form and launch applications. From looking at workflows, we see that some challenges are present. Unlike non-reactive programs, workflows tend to be long-running and stateful. It may take 20 days for an order to be shipped for instance. There usually needs to be some controls to allow a person to override or skip a step in the workflow. Finally, we must be able to see into the workflow and see what state its in and visualizing control flow. Workflow is used in many scenarios like: Business Process Management (BPM) Document Lifecycle Management (Sharepoint, K2) BizTalk Orchestration Sales Management Line of Business Apps Many others... Enter Windows Workflow (WF). Unlike K2 and Sharepoint, WF is not a Workflow Management system or product. It is instead, a general purpose framework for building workflow into your own applications. It ships as part of the .NET Framework 3.0, and ships with both Vista and Longhorn Server. It is installable on Windows XP SP2 and Win2K3. Since WF is baked into Vista and later systems, and is a general framework, it is a single workflow execution engine for all Windows platforms. Indeed, products like K2, Sharepoint, Read More...
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As fellow CodeBetter Blogger Richard notes, in his very gracious post , I will be giving two talks on WCF for INETA this coming Monday in Oklahoma City. The deck is being refined once again with my latest Indigo learnings especially as we deploy in Financial Banks. I also hope to have new demos, perhaps integrating with WF! Technorati Tags: .NET , Windows Communication Foundation , Apache Axis , Financial and Banking , WCF , WF , Windows Workflow , , Software Architecture , Microsoft Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More...
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I don't really know what to call this post. I'm not as good as Palermo in doing 101 posts and I like to talk about the context so anyhow. Plus I'm not just a pretty link-blogger so away we go :). Way back in October, I talked about Re-Hosting the Windows Workflow Designer in our application . So the version that went out of our baseline Concentration product went without any workflow. I have been playing the Agile Architect the last few months scouting out the WF territory to see if we could accomplish our workflow architectural needs with WF. The short answer is Yes. If I had to summarize my months with WF is that WF is very powerful and capable. But a lot of that power comes from the fact that WF is such a general framework capable of being used in many different scenarios on Windows platform. There is no doubt that Microsoft providing such a powerful and flexible framework for developing workflows is so much better than having to develop our own framework, visual workflow designer, and runtime environment. But, as they say, with great power comes great responsibility. Because it is so general, you may have to do a lot of work to develop your domain-specific model and you will have to learn a lot about WF. You will still have to know about Workflow Architectures and deadlocks and all sorts of stuff. There are some in Redmond that seem to promote the view that you can just "drop" WF into your app and presto. One of the feedback items that us Architect MVPs gave the WF team last summit was this was dangerous. People have to be given guidance here. We have to leverage the decades of work that people like Eric Newcomer have already put into this field. People are using to transition UI pages for God's sake. In my original view of things, I thought I would re-host the WF Designer in our CAB Smart Client application giving Collateral Analysts a whole new power to design workflows. I thought, "wow, I can have analysts just drop Margin Calc and Collateral Demand activities Read More...
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A quick reminder while I sit here polishing up my new demos and slides, that I will be speaking on SOA with Indigo tonight at Philly.NET . This is a new talk, even revised from the DevTeach one which got all 10 out of 10's. The demos take on Indigo from the ground up with just TextPad and the WinFX err .NET Framework 3 libraries. Please register and come on out! Extra Bonus: I have some brand new demos with a certain other WinFX, err, .NET Framwork 3 technology!! Abstract : The term SOA has become ubiquitous in our industry. Unfortunately that has lead to massive hype that makes it difficult to understand and distinguish the real value of adapting SOA principles. In my judgment, the definition suffers from technology centric views that are based on the technology environment currently in use. Sam will concentrate on the Design Patterns that distinguish Service Orientatation and how to apply them to your designs. Upon these principles, we look at their real-world implementation in WCF ("Indigo") and using WCF for real world demos giving a through overview of WCF. Technorati Tags: CLR , .NET , WCF , Windows Communication Foundation , SOA , INETA , MVP , Microsoft Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More...
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