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• PDL from .NET, Reporting, BIRT, Telerik, Orcas, URL Data Services and Astoria!

  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... Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2007 2:18 PM from Sam Gentile : WCF/Indigo | 0 Comments Filed under: WCF/Indigo, ADO.NET, WCF, LINQ, Agile and Extreme Programming, CAB, C#, Extreme Programming, Agile Development, Smart Clients, Windows Workflow, Financial and Banking Vertical, Orcas, Banking, SQL Server, .NET Framework 3, Java, Apache Axis, REST, Entity Framework, NHibernate, O/RM and Entity Framework, Parallel Computing, O/RM, Reporting Engines, Collateral, SQL Server Reporting Services, Astoria, Oracle, PDF, BIRT, Actuate, Telerik, Featured

• New and Notable 177

  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... Posted Wednesday, July 11, 2007 8:16 AM from Sam Gentile : WCF/Indigo | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft .NET, WCF/Indigo, Software Architecture, SOA, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, LINQ and OR/M, Windows Communication Foundation, ADO.NET, WCF, LINQ, Smart Clients, WinForms and WPF, CAB, Smart Clients, ASP.NET,  SOA, PLINQ, SCBAT, .NET Framework 3, Software Design,  Orcas,   SOA, Design, Design Patterns, NUnitASP, LINQ, O/RM and Entity Framework, Concurrency, O/RM and Entity Framework, Subversion, Software Transactional Memory

• New and Notable 142

  Data/ADO.NET Orcas Two from the ADO.NET team: Entity Client and Nulls - LINQ to DataSets Part 3 Software Architecture/SOA/CAB Udi answers, Can or should SOA be implemented without Web Services? David Chappell on The Three Faces of SOA Eric Newcomer: WS-* vs. REST is not the question Another architect with a chronicle of How CAN and TDD helps doing better designs WCF/CardSpace Richard Turner gives an insightful report on RSA2007 especially on the "demo showed Wachovia 's website running on Corillian 's online banking platform using Arcot Systems ' security engine to generate managed cards and process token requests." Corrillian and Wachovia's work will be important for all of this in this sector as more and more backs embrace CardSpace and Identity management. We are seeing a lot of movement in this area. Jorgen provides some great links on Interoperability with WCF . This is an area that I am becoming more involved with Java systems communicating with our WCF Services. Dr. Nick continues with More Poison Message Handling Tomas on Writing a WCF Transport Channel - Part 1 Agile Architecture Uncertain Planning Nick talks about The minimum amount of architecture needed for Test Driven Design . .NET Framework 3/WF .NET Framework 3.0 training kit for WF, WCF and CardSpace [via Mike ] .NET 3.0 Middleware Technologies Day: Third Incarnation David Chappell: Why Workflow Matters WF, WCF and CardSpace training materials posted Technorati Tags: .NET , Smart Client , PAG , CAB , Software Architecture , Windows Communication Foundation , WCF , Windows Workflow , WF , Agile Architecture , TDD , .NET Framework 3 , ADO.NET , Orcas , Microsoft I'm listening to Street Life by Roxy Music on the album Stranded (Remastered) Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More... Posted Sunday, February 18, 2007 11:16 AM from Sam Gentile | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, WCF/Indigo, Software Architecture, SOA, New and Notable, Data, Windows Communication Foundation, ADO.NET, WCF, Agile and Extreme Programming, CAB, Smart Client, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3/WinFX, TDD, Smart Clients, Windows Workflow, Workflow, Financial and Banking Vertical, Orcas, WF, PAG, .NET Framework 3, Agile Architecture

• July Web Service Factory and Smart Client BAT is Out!

  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... Posted Saturday, July 01, 2006 10:53 PM from Sam Gentile : WCF/Indigo | 0 Comments Filed under: Architecture, WCF/Indigo, WinFX, Software Architecture, SOA, LINQ and OR/M, ADO.NET, WCF, LINQ, Smart Clients, WinForms and WPF, CAB, Smart Client, VS Team System, TFS and MSF-Agile