WCF Community Bloggers

Randy Pausch, rest in peace

2008-07-25T16:06:43Z

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25848017/ If you haven't heard the his last lecture, or read the book, you really should. This guy was one of us, a scientist, a thinker, a man of reason. And his speech is incredibly thought provoking and powerful. The world needs more people like Randy Pausch, and it is sad to think we now have one less. Read More......(read more)

From the "Gosh, You Wanted Me to Quote You?" Department...

2008-07-25T07:03:40Z

This comment deserves response: First of all, if you're quoting my post, blocking out my name, and attacking me behind my back by calling me "our intrepid troll", you could have shown the decency of linking back to my original post. Here it is, for those interested in the real discussion: http://www.agilesoftwaredevelopment.com/blog/jurgenappelo/professionalism-knowledge-first Well, frankly, I didn't get your post from your blog, I got it from an email 'zine (as indicated by the comment "This crossed...(read more)

From the "You Must Be Trolling for Hits" Department...

2008-07-24T07:53:02Z

Recently this little gem crossed my Inbox.... Professionalism = Knowledge First, Experience Last By J----- A----- Do you trust a doctor with diagnosing your mental problems if the doctor tells you he's got 20 years of experience? Do you still trust that doctor when he picks up his tools, and asks you to prepare for a lobotomy? Would you still be impressed if the doctor had 20 years of experience in carrying out lobotomies? I am always skeptic when people tell me they have X years of experience in...(read more)

Nice list of things people should know about VB

2008-07-21T13:55:36Z

http://msmvps.com/blogs/kathleen/archive/2008/07/19/what-a-c-coder-should-know-before-they-write-vb.aspx Read More......(read more)

99 days to go to the PDC :)

2008-07-19T10:34:23Z

Just browsing the PDC site and I see that there is exactly 99 days left till this years PDC :) The session descriptions can be found at this link . Should be an interesting PDC this year, with so much focus on Cloud computing etc..... Especially with MSFT's Global Foundation Services in the middle of a HUGE build out of 10,000 servers a month and planned/under construction the equivalent of 15 US football fields of data centers. /Paul For more information, go to http://www.paulfallon.com . Read More.....(read more)

Serious challenge for unit testing in Silverlight

2008-07-18T04:44:51Z

If you've tried to do any unit testing in Silverlight, you may have run into an interesting issue. Many times, unit tests expect exceptions. Tests are written to ensure that an exception occurs as expected. That's a standard concept in most unit testing frameworks for .NET. In Silverlight, there's an "expected CLR behavior" where the debugger will break on exceptions that are actually handled by user code - treating them like they aren't handled . See this thread for some more detail: http://silverlight.net/forums/p/20678/72377.aspx#72377...(read more)

Visual Studio Team Explorer/Client Installation Failure

2008-07-17T17:30:05Z

A recent install of Team Foundation Explorer errored out. Opening the log file (from the link on the error screen) and scrolling to the bottom, showed the following: [07/16/08,15:39:33] Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Explorer - ENU: CRootComponent::Install(): Beginning Brooklyn Component Installation [07/16/08,15:39:33] Setup.exe: ISetupManager::GetFullComponents() [07/16/08,15:39:33] Setup.exe: ISetupManager::GetFullComponents() [07/16/08,15:39:34] DepCheck: gencomp97,{12CDA52C-7A8F-4785-8A22-53C87393FEE0}...(read more)

BleedingEdge 2008

2008-07-17T13:50:06Z

I'm happy to announce our organization work is coming to fruition. BleedingEdge 2008 is taking the stage for the autumn season. Portorož, Slovenia, October 1 st , 9:00 Official site , Registration , Sponsors Go for the early bird registration (till September 12 th ). The time is now. Potential sponsor? Here 's the offering. Read More......(read more)

Blog change? Ads? What gives?

2008-07-17T02:29:46Z

If you've peeked at my blog site in the last twenty minutes or so, you've probably noticed some churn in the template in the upper-left corner; by now, it's been finalized, and it reads "JOB REFERRALS". WTHeck? Has Ted finally sold out? Sort of, not really. At least, I don't think so. Here's the deal: the company behind those ads, Entice Labs, contacted me to see if I was interested in hosting some job ads on my blog, given that I seem to generate a moderate amount of traffic. I figured it was worthwhile...(read more)

Access Control rule changes in BizTalk Services R12

2008-07-16T17:12:32Z

Yesterday we released a new version of BizTalk Services (R12). Over the next few weeks I'll be updating my blog with descriptions of the identity related features we added in this release. For now I'd like to describe one of the most obvious changes to Read More......(read more)

Object.hashCode implementation

2008-07-16T08:18:19Z

After the previous post, I just had to look. The implementation of Object.equals is, as was previously noted, just "return this == obj", but the implementation of Object.hashCode is far more complicated. Taken straight from the latest hg-pulled OpenJDK sources, Object.hashCode is a native method registered from Object.c that calls into a Hotspot-exported function, JVM_IHashCode(), from hotspot\src\share\vm\prims\jvm.cpp: JVM_ENTRY(jint, JVM_IHashCode(JNIEnv* env, jobject handle)) JVMWrapper( "JVM_IHashCode"...(read more)

Of Zealotry, Idiocy, and Etiquette...

2008-07-16T06:18:43Z

I'm not sure what it is about our industry that promotes the flame war, but for some reason exchanges like this one , unheard of in any other industry I've ever touched (even tangentially), are far too common, too easy to get into, and entirely too counterproductive. I'm not going to weigh in on one side or the other here; frankly, I have a hard time following the debate and figuring out who's exactly arguing for what. I can see, however, that the entire debate follows some traditional patterns of...(read more)

CSLA Light preview release

2008-07-16T00:40:52Z

I have put a very early preview release of CSLA Light and CSLA .NET 3.6 online at www.lhotka.net/cslalight/download.aspx . There is no sample app at this point, so you'll have to look at the unit tests in cslalighttest and cslatest to figure out how to use the various features. Obviously this is very early code, but it is healthy to release early and often, so here we go :) One side-effect of our work with CSLA Light is that we discovered that testing asynchronous methods is really hard with nunit...(read more)

Expert 2008 Business Objects tentative TOC

2008-07-15T15:17:28Z

I get a lot of questions about Expert 2008 Business Objects as to what it will and won't cover, so I thought I'd try and answer at least some of them in a blog post. The book will cover CSLA .NET 3.6. Version 3.6 is the same as 3.5, but with support for CSLA Light and some .NET 3.5 SP1 features (such as the Entity Framework). And along with CSLA Light comes some interesting support for things like an async data portal and async validation rules. But please note that this book will not cover CSLA...(read more)

CSLA Light data portal options

2008-07-14T15:41:52Z

While most people use CSLA .NET because it provides support for data binding, validation, business rules and authorization, I personally think the coolest part of the framework is its support for mobile objects . This support is provided by the data portal, which provides both an abstract persistence model for business objects, as well as an implementation of mobile objects with location and network transparency. CSLA Light will also include a data portal that works in a manner similar to the one...(read more)