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• New and Notable 149

  Yup, I'm still stuck in Seattle and I still feel like crap. Tomas just went off to the airport and I feel like the last MVP left in Seattle. Just want to get out of here and home but can't do that until tomorrow night. Lots of stuff stored up Entity Framework/ADO.NET 3/ORM/ASP.NET/MonoRail I consider my (and all the Code Better guys) biggest contribution to the whole Summit has been our conversations with the Microsoft Data Team on Linq for Entities . I would like to thank the Microsoft guys for being so open to feedback and understanding us In the meantime, Ayende went and did LINQ for NHibernate in his spare Time; does this man ever sleep???? Actually the second proudest moment came some of us CB bloggers with the special meeting with Scott Guthrie on how to make ASP.Net better support MVC much like Rails and MonoRail. My dissatisfaction with ASP.NET is well known and the reasons are expressed well by Ayende here on the leaky abstractions with WebForms and Jeremy Miller here . I expressed many times on my blog that I would just as soon go to Ruby on Rails if I had to do any Web stuff today. Several of the CB bloggers let me know about the goodness that is MonoRail. It's really awesome to see ScottGu have an MVC framework in the works as Jeffery talks about here Inheritance in the Entity Framework is the latest from the Data Team They also updated the 101 LINQ Samples that were included in the March CTP have now been updated to include the 101 LINQ to Entities Samples. To check out the newest samples download from here . Software Architecture/WCF/SOA Nice discussion from Harry on answering Dr. Nick's questions on SSB/WCF The Feb 2007 release of both the GAT and GAX have been released with Vista support but Harry has noted that you have to re-install all your guidance packages which is not so good Christian Weyer has some great slide decks from DevWeek 2007 Matias has an awesome post, " The holy grail of Enterprise SOA security " about SOA Enterprise Security using WCF Read More... Posted Saturday, March 17, 2007 10:02 PM from Sam Gentile | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Windows Vista, WCF/Indigo, Software Architecture, SOA, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, LINQ and OR/M, Ruby and Rails, New and Notable, Data, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, OR/M, Agile, Agile and Extreme Programming, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3/WinFX, TDD, Extreme Programming, Agile Development, ASP.NET, Windows Workflow, Workflow, Orcas, WF, .NET Framework 3, REST,  PAG, Entity Framework, ADO.NET 3.0, NHibernate, MonoRail

• New and Notable 146

  Ah Saturday morning where we can sleep in, ah no wait...I have kids to wake me up at the crack of dawn... Software Architecture The PAG folks continue to deliver their goodness with their first weekly drop of the new version of the Smart Client Software Factory and they looked like they brought over some of the cool stuff from the Mobile version: What’s New In this drop, you have the first look at: • New Application Blocks. We have ported over four application blocks that were previously available as part of the Mobile Client Software Factory. We may refactor, remove, replace, this code in the future (we value your input), but we currently have the following: o Disconnected Agent Application Block. This application block provides management features for execution of Web services from occasionally connected smart clients. With a disconnected service agent, the device can maintain a queue of Web service requests when offline (disconnected) (emphasis mine) and then replay them when a connection to the server application becomes available. o Connection Monitor Application Block. This application block monitors and exposes the available connections and the associated networks. o Endpoint Catalog Application Block. This application block provides features to expose the physical addresses and other details of remote services. o Data Access Application Block. This application block provides support for SQL Server Compact Edition. This application block will be replaced when the factory migrates to the next version of Enterprise Library. Jeremy Miller continues his excellent posts and talks about something Steve and I approach in our architecture: Don't Let the Database Dictate Your Object Model . I have to admit to being dragged a bit by Steve into this approach with OR/M and dropping the whole data-centric database-out view I have had for many years. Also see his My Least Favorite Kind of Requirements Undocumented WCSF Feature: Global Exception Handling Udi tackles Can, or Read More... Posted Saturday, February 24, 2007 10:12 AM from Sam Gentile | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Windows Vista, WCF/Indigo, Software Architecture, SOA, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Ruby and Rails, New and Notable, Agile and Extreme Programming, CAB, Smart Client, Microsoft, Rails, .NET Framework 3/WinFX, TDD, Agile Development, Smart Clients, SCBAT, PAG, .NET Framework 3, REST, Microsoft MVP

• New and Notable 102

  Of course the huge news everywhere is that Bill Gates is stepping down at Microsoft. Its truly the end of an era. WCF/SOA Clemens has posted the sample code from his TechEd session about selecting WCF bindings CLR My buddy Jason continues to take over as "Godfather of the CLR" with his most excellent series on Obfuscation , this time on String Encryption . However, the word on the street is that a certain retired Godfather may be coming back and regaining his territories in points further south -) Agile I am really excited about Jim Shore's new book on Extreme Programming . I am excited about two things in TAAD; one, mainstream practical and two, pure XP and not diluted Agile He has posted the first section on Pair Programming online for review Espresso Fueled Development comments on how he Talks About Agile Visual Studio/Team System I am thrilled to see Sara Ford post the Power Toys for Visual Studio FY07 Goals and the use of SCRUM for fast releases. I really loved the VS2003 toys but they are so like three years ago-) and having used solely Whidbey the past 1.5 - 2 years, I would love to see VS2005 toys Rob Caron reports that, " Michael Ruminer launched a project on CodePlex to develop a version control tree browser for Team Foundation Version Control ( TFS Source Code Version Tree Browser ). See more on his blog. Korby (BTW, thanks for your phone call but I didn't make it to TechEd!), speaks of Martin Woodward of Teamprise , who explains how to set up CI for CodePlex projects using CruiseControl.NET. Technorati Tags: CLR , .NET , Team System , VSTS , Visual Studio , New and Notable , Ruby , WCF , Windows Communication Foundation , SOA , Microsoft Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More... Posted Friday, June 16, 2006 7:31 AM from Sam Gentile : WCF/Indigo | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, CLR, WCF/Indigo, SOA, Ruby, New and Notable, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Agile and Extreme Programming, VS Team System, TFS and MSF-Agile, Microsoft, Visual Studio, Team System, VSTS

• New and Notable 100! The Big 100!

  On May 19, 2003 , I said " 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 separate posts ." I still believe that today but I have not been so great about "daily" or I would have been over 500, but here I am over 3 years later with number 100! While I am still in Mike emulation mode, I would like to do something like he did for the "Tell a Friend" and contest. I don't want to blatantly copy his contest (maybe I do!) but I want to double the readership of this blogs. If you get anything out of these posts and the blog, I'd love if you told someone else to subscribe. In the meantime , I'd love to hear from you on this blog on what you think might increase readership as well as your experience. So we have today: My co-worker and pair programmer today Steve questions Microsoft’s strategy on releasing two OR/M solutions. Andres (and Frans on the comments) also question this. I agree that this is just going to confuse the developer totally when they need to use the technology. Ayende agrees that this is madness. I’d rather see a single OR/M solution based on LINQ that is extensible . Again, Andres , “ I went to TechEd Keynote today and I almost got asleep. Then Chloe appeared and it was the only excuse I had to not to leave before it finished” Have you checked out http://www.seewindowsvista.com/ ? It is a very cool way to see some amazing things that developers are doing with Vista and .NET Framework 3.0. [via Brad ] The Indigo group has released the " Windows Communication Foun dation RSS Toolkit " on the new community site . This toolkit, which comes with complete source code, illustrates how to expose ATOM and RSS feeds through WCF endpoints SCBAT has been upgraded to a new, soon to be released version of GAT and GAX Craig announces msdnman Microsoft is preparing a third IE 7 Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 13, 2006 8:52 PM from Sam Gentile : WCF/Indigo | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, CLR, WCF/Indigo, WinFX, SOA, Ruby, LINQ and OR/M, Ruby and Rails, New and Notable, Data, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, LINQ, OR/M, Agile and Extreme Programming, VS Team System, TFS and MSF-Agile,  Microsoft, NANT, MSDN, Blogsphere, Rails