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There! Enough things in one title? The thing is that Steve Eichert and my whirlwind day covered all of that and more. Let me explain. So, for two weeks, Steve and I have been off discussing/pairing on some big ticket "Infrastructure" items. There are many things on the list and we have been applying both heavy design discussions on the whiteboard with practical prototypes or solutions. These areas have covered the whole spectrum from what will the world look like in 3 months, 6 months, a year, 3 years to caching architecture to workflow to to parallel computing to replacements for CAB to Services to reporting and much more. Yesterday, we spent a day on our "Reporting Strategy or Reporting Architecture." Being a large Enterprise platform, it is very important to have a comprehensive Reporting story on both the Smart Client side as well as on the Server side. I'll just leave it very generally that there are certain kind of reports for us that are really "Statements" and then Ad-Hoc Reporting. My story for most of the last year and half has been SQL Server Reporting Services . I have had good experiences with it at Adesso even as reporting on Oracle. Of course, there is that "small footprint" of having a "reporting database" for SQL Server but virtually all the "Enterprise Reporting" solutions require some footprint. However, lately it has become totally apparent to us that virtually every single Bank customer of ours is an Oracle shop only other than very small hedge funds and we have really de-emphasized SQL Server. Its still in our CI build and code gen but we are now optimizing for Oracle. Anyway, we wanted to keep the Statement stuff simple. Forget a whole reporting thing for that. We really only need to generate pretty much canned statements with customizable logos and footers. So Steve and I began to look at a whole bunch of HTML to PDF or .NET libraries for PDF generation. We ended up feeling real good Read More...
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Multithreading and Concurrency Software Transactional Memory Part IV - Thread-Bound Transactions Software Transactional Memory Part V - Integration with System.Transactions Parallel LINQ Restating the Concurrency Problem Herb Sutter is starting a new column on Effective Concurrency Shared nothing parallel programming \ Software Design/Smart Clients/CAB/Web Clients Using NUnitAsp to test Pages w/Forms Authentication Build your own CAB #12 - Rein in runaway events with the "Latch" Build your own CAB #13 - Embedded Controllers with a Dash of DSL A whole pile of goodness taking CAB forward from the folks at SCSFContrib . which includes A full implementation of the UI layer for CAB done in WPF with 100% code coverage in tests!! (see Bill's post ) WCF/SOA ChannelFactory Behaviors David Chappell declares the REST vs. WS-* War over . Here's hoping Orcas/LINQ ScottGu continues his excellent series with LINQ to SQL (Part 4 - Updating Our Database) ADO.NET Entity Framework The ADO.NET Entity Framework June 2007 CTP is now available. See the team blog for changes Ruby/Subversion My team-mate Steve points to some great resources on the Beauty of Ruby as well as finding a Web-based Subversion Browser Other Link Blogs Interesting Finds: July 10, 2007 PM Edition Daily Grind 1182 Technorati Tags: CAB , Ruby , Concurrency , Microsoft .NET , Software Transactional Memory , PLINQ , NUnitASP , Software Design , Design Patterns , Ruby on Rails , Subversion Read More...
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Winter has finally set in with single digit temps and minus degrees wind chills but still no snow. WPF/Avalon Adam's WPF book is out and flying off the shelves apparently ! I have been looking forward to this one as his COM Interop book is the bible there. Feb CTP of WPF/E! New Docs, SDK and QuickStarts for the above Via Mike Harsh, Dave has put up a new WPF/E sample he built for a recent INETA talk that is a Reflection Editor .NET 3.0 Crash Course - Part 8: WPF Conclusion Tim Sneath , from the WPF Team, has been doing a series on great WPF applications that is up to 6. This hopefully proves that WPF is more than some pretty 3D demo thing and being used in real applications. #1: British Library Turning the Pages , #2: Electric Rain StandOut , #3: 90 Degree Radius Reports , #4: Otto , #5: TF1 , and #6: fnac.com LINQ/ADO.NET Orcas Entity Data Model 101: Part 1 Type safety - LINQ to DataSets Part 2 SOA As mentioned before, Dale Churchward is doing a series on "Proper SOA." He adds A Proper SOA is a Framework , A Proper SOA Must Work With Your Current Infrastructure and Legacy Applications , and A Proper SOA is Flexible Enough to Support Multiple Vendors, Software, and Hardware Harry on the Web Service Software Factory Kzu wrote a niece piece called " Building Software Factories Today " where he outlines some of the challenges and techniques you can use (and we will be using) to make effective factories on today's platform. [via Peter ] Financial and Banking Vertical/Architecture Mike has more on a topic near and dear to me: Software Factories for Financial Services Mike also shows how Microsoft is a clear leader in standards support for our Financial Industry. For us support for standards like SWIFT are critical BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT Architecture Nick says , "In think that one of the most valuable traits of an enterprise architect is the ability to push gently. In other words, if you find that a team is developing a solution that cannot be integrated or creates Read More...
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My co-worker Steve sure will be excited by the arrivial of the first CTP BITS (as am I)! The specs were promising as I commented on. I am excited to dive into the bits now! I just looked at my installed bits and it includes an updated August 2006 document on the ADO.NET Entity Framwork as well as some samples and how to write new code. More as I play... Note: LINQ May CTP required. "ADO.NET vNext CTP" requires "Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name 'Orcas' Language-Integrated Query, May 2006 Community Technology Preview" (LINQ May 2006 CTP) to be installed. "LINQ May 2006 CTP" is available for download at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1e902c21-340c-4d13-9f04-70eb5e3dceea&displaylang=en Technorati Tags: LINQ , ADO.NET , Longhorn , Microsoft Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More...
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Ruby/Rails Martin notes that a video of his keynote at RailsConf is online and the rest are starting to appear (PragDave is up there). John Lam talks about why Ruby (and a little bit about RubyCLR), on NET Rocks . LINQ/Data Daniel Cazzulino on how upcoming C# 3.0 features can be used to provide a strongly typed reflection API . [via Steve ] Also Steve links to Bill Wagner provides a series of posts introducing Linq (via Fabrice ) Bart De Smet provides a custom implementation of the .NET Standard Query Operators Ayende (doesn't this guy ever sleep??) answers his riddle on using Active Record as a Rules Engine WCF/SOA Craig was kind enough to take my coment on N&N 105 that the 5 part series on Changes in the WCF New in June series looked like a lot and responded , "Well, for one thing, it is not accompanied by the handy list of breaking changes to which we have become accustomed, so here is my own incomplete tally of the important things." His list really simplifies it down and there looks like only one change that may affect most people Update: Well now it seems that there is indeed a list of breaking changes Kennyw on the Effect of OneWay on Operations Technorati Tags: SOA , WCF , Windows Communication Foundation , Ruby , Ruby on Rails , OR/M , LINQ , ADO.NET Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More...
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Both the July drop of the Web Service Factory or Service BAT is out and the June SCBAT are out. I am super excited about this as it is nearing V1 and we are using both of these in production code. I have been blogging about the Service Bat since the begining . I talked about my SCBAT experiences here and that the SCBAT has helped us reduce our UI and CAB costs 5 to 1. Remember to install the the new June 2006 release of the Guidance Automation Extensions and Toolkit , first! A couple of real cool things on the Services BAT according to Tom : The installation process has been streamlined And the biggest news is that the Service Factory now has a brand new guidance package dedicated to helping you build data access layers using ADO.NET 2.0. The goal of this guidance was not to be an object-relational mapping framework or an entirely new approach to data access. Instead it's designed to take out some of the repetitive and error-prone work of creating a data access layer by hand, by helping to create some (but not all) of the key classes used in a data access layer. Most of you are probably already aware that the choice of available technologies for building data access layers will be changing significantly in the future with the advent of LINQ to ADO.NET . We're already working with these teams to start planning for these technologies, and we'll be publishing samples that show how the Service Factory guidance will look in a LINQ to ADO.NET world. I said this in all three of my recent INETA talks: PAG is the best group in Microsoft right now. Technorati Tags: Smart Client , CAB , Architecture , Software Architecture , ADO.NET , LINQ , SOA , WCF Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More...
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