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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...

Posted Monday, February 05, 2007 7:02 PM from Sam Gentile | 0 Comments

Filed under: .NET, Windows Vista, Software Architecture, SOA, New and Notable, ADO.NET, LINQ, Microsoft, WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation, Avalon/WPF, Vista, BizTalk Server, Financial and Banking Vertical, Orcas, Financial, Banking

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Workflow/BPM/WCF/SOA David Chappell presents arguments both pro and con as to whether Microsoft qualifies as a BPM vendor. Personally, I think the answer is yes, especially when WF is intergrated into BizTalk 200x and other products. Nicholas Allan continues the excellent Indigo WCF posts with Controlling the Synchronization Process LINQ and Family/CLR PLINQ, which I blogged about some time ago has surfaced again with this post from DonXML where he does some clever reading of Microsoft job posts! to make some educated speculations on the growing importance of Concurrency and Parallellism in the CLR as well as PLINQ . And yes, Don, "the cool kids [ALREADY] realize that WPF, WCF and WF are yesterday's news, and LINQ is where it is at ;)" Speaking of LINQ, see the XMLTeam blog for the announcement of the LINQ to XSD Preview and these links: Here is the link to the LINQ to XSD download . The LINQ to XSD overview document is available separately. You also need the LINQ download (May 2006 CTP) Here is the link to the LINQ to XSD download . The LINQ to XSD overview document is available separately. You also need the LINQ download (May 2006 CTP) Also from Joe Duffy, see Vista SRWLock acquires during shutdown Architecture Validation Application Block: Revealed! [via Mike ] Technorati Tags: Software Development , Software Architecture , WF , Workflow , BPM , LINQ , PLINQ , SOA , Windows Communication Foundation , WCF , CLR , Windows Vista , Microsoft Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More...

Posted Tuesday, November 28, 2006 1:08 PM from Sam Gentile | 0 Comments