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• New and Notable 176

  TGIF!! I am super busy right now designing a multi-CPU/multi-threaded Parallel Calculation Engine and diving into the science of Parallel Computing. I'll have some links when I get a chance. Windows Workflow Tomas talks about Silver , the integration of WF + WCF. The marriage is sorely needed because, as I have posted here , the current situation well, sucks. Silver uses Queues and bypasses EDS completely, which is what anyone needs to do to have any real success of communication into Workflows. Because we could not use Orcas here, we actually implemented our own version of the mechanism to avoid the hell that is EDS. Jon Flanders , the guy that helped me with the above, also worked on the PageFlow Sample that has been updated to V1.1 Even more interesting is that he has working on this project for hosting Workflows inside of BizTalk. This is very interesting as developing your own host is so not trivial, but I totally challenge Paul's assertion that " No BizTalk Experience Required ." Architecture Steve Jones has a post YAGNI, Requirements and why scaling isn't always important that I totally agree with and is in-line with what I try to do as an " Agile Architect ": "Split information exchange from the business services, and worry about the scaling that is appropriate for your information exchange. Don't worry about technical purity and some "wonder" architectural approach. Don't over engineer because if you do X (or R) then it will scale to 100,000 users, but your requirements say "6". Software Design/Agile/XP/Design Patterns/CAB Number 11 for Jeremy in his continuing excellent series on UI Design Patterns in Build your own CAB #11 - Event Aggregator Jeremy has another big AMEN post for me in his Design for Testability , which really goes with my Writing Maintainable Code post, "" Done, done, done " isn't just writing code. It's writing code and verifying that that code works correctly. Read More... Posted Friday, June 29, 2007 1:14 PM from Sam Gentile : WCF/Indigo | 0 Comments Filed under: Indigo, WCF/Indigo, Software Architecture, LINQ and OR/M, New and Notable, Data, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Agile, Agile and Extreme Programming, CAB, Agile Development, Smart Clients, Windows Workflow, Workflow, BizTalk Server, Orcas, .NET Framework 3, Software Design, Agile Programming, Dependency Injection, Design, Design Patterns, YAGNI, LINQ to SQL

• New and Notable 172

  Software Design/Agile/XP Ayende provides the substance and answers to Frans in the Working software over Comprehensive documentation and Documentation can be ambiguous in the most insidious ways . Since these posts substantially cover what I like to think I would say and believe (and say it better), I'll let them be the pointers from my Writing Maintainable Code post as they pretty much say it all See also Ayende's earlier Understanding Bad Code WCF/CardSpace Rick Strahl on Hosting a WCF Service in a non-.NET Client Getting CardSpace Tokens Programmatically Technorati Tags: Software Design , Agile Development , Extreme Programming , WCF , Indigo , CardSpace Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2007 8:13 AM from Sam Gentile : WCF/Indigo | 0 Comments Filed under: Indigo, WCF/Indigo, New and Notable, WCF, Agile and Extreme Programming, Extreme Programming, Agile Development, CardSpace, Software Design, Agile Programming, Maintainable Software, Design, Windows CardSpace

• New and Notable 153

  Its suddenly over 80 degrees here today and went off for a drenching run. Team System/Team Foundation Server Big news of the day is that Microsoft has acquired TeamPlain , which makes the popular TeamPlain Web Access for Team Server. Brian Harry says, "Effective today, TeamPlain is available, at no additional charge, to users who own a Team Foundation Server and can be downloaded from here . It will be accessible by any user properly licensed with a TFS CAL." This is great news as this is the #1 question I always get from people whenever I bring up TFS. I don't know if its a news item but together with one of my IT guys I started standing up a TFS server yesterday. Before everyone panics, my motivation is pure experimentation at this part and I wouldn't use all of it anyhow (I would never leave NUnit and CruiseControl.NET) but I am interested in replacing an internal system + Wiki + other stuff into Work Item Tracking and maybe the source control. I am starting to get sick of Subversion but its seems to be doing right by the team. Speaking of TFS, Microsoft has let loose the plans for Rosario , the next version of TFS that is just past Orcas. Speaking of future plans, the same page has all the plans for the next year for VSTS. Geez, isn't anything secret anymore? :) WCF/Indigo/SOA Michele has been real busy! I know she's at DevConnections this week, the book is close to done (and its going to rock!) and last week she was at SD West 2007 and put up a slew of materials from it including great stuff on Contracts & Versioning, CardSpace and Identity. INETA Speaker Matevz Gacnik delivered an INETA talk on WCF session support, one of the bedrock's of our Service Interface Layer. He has the PPT Code I'm rocking out to Begin The Begin by R.E.M. from the album And I Feel Fine...The Best Of The IRS Years 82-87 Technorati Tags: .NET , Team Foundation Server , VSTS , Visual Studio Team System , Orcas , WCF , Windows Communication Foundation , Indigo , .NET Framework 3 , Microsoft Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2007 3:51 PM from Sam Gentile | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Indigo, WCF/Indigo, SOA, New and Notable, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Microsoft, VSTS, .NET Framework 3/WinFX, Financial and Banking Vertical, Orcas, .NET Framework 3, Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio Team System

• Sept .NET FW 3 Installed on Vista RC1 (5600)

  Ok after all this confus ion (a bunch of questions still remain), I was able to install the whole bunch on Vista 5600 and I got my first Avalon program working there from VS2005. .NET 3 Runtime Components (already installed in box) Microsoft Windows SDK Sept CTP Orcas Tools for .NET Framework 3 Windows Workflow Extensions Release Candidate 5 (do I hear 42?) Technorati Tags: Vista , Windows Communication Foundation , WCF , Indigo , Windows Vista , NET Framework 3 , WPF , Avalon , Microsoft Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More... Posted Sunday, October 01, 2006 2:16 AM from Sam Gentile | 0 Comments Filed under: Indigo, Windows Vista, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Microsoft, Avalon, WPF, .NET Framework 3/WinFX, Avalon/WPF,  NET Framework 3,  Vista