April 2007 - Posts
Visit the MSDN Silverlight site for the details. The 1.0 beta allows you to go-live and the 1.1 alpha enables managed code. There is also an Expression Blend RC that targets Silverlight.
The TFS Migration Toolkit is a framework for building tools that either convert from other systems to TFS or synchronize other systems with TFS.
Check out Brian Harry's blog entry for more info and visit the Codeplex site to download.
Check out Soma's blog entry for some background details. Visit the Futures Site for the links.
If you do not want to download and just need to read up on what's new than check out this whitepaper. Otherwise come to Devdays where we have 2 sessions on Orcas.
Well done to EJM - an ISV that develops software for the construction industry. They just achieved the "Certified For Vista" logo. To the best of my knowledge they are the first in South Africa.
Out of the box - no. But that brings up the incredibly useful and free tool called Fiddler. Fiddler allows you to record Ajax interactions but v1 had some issues with VSTS Webtest. Now Fiddler2 has just been released.
What is nice about this is that you can save these Fiddler tests as Visual Studio Webtests.
Check out http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/
For anyone who wanted to take the SAAS concept further after attending the Strategic Architects Forum check out this blog entry from Fred Chong. From the entry
- Lab 1 is all about extending data model. We show you how you can implement the "shared database shared schema" data architecture using SQL Server 2005. Data models are extended using the name-value pair pattern. Furthermore, this lab also shows you the kinds of meta data you need to factor into your design to describe the persisted data model extensions and the customized business entity view that is seen by the users.
- Lab 2 uses Windows Workflow Foundation to demonstrate how a simple templatized designer can be implemented to enable workflow and business rules modifications.
- Lab 3 can be very insightful to those who have been thinking about using Web services standards to secure their SaaS applications. In this lab, we used the Windows Communications Framework (WCF) to implement a security token service that issues SAML tokens to authenticated clients. We also show how authorization policies can be inserted as signed identity claims inside the SAML tokens.
- Lab 4 intends to show ISV the tenant provisioning tasks for on-boarding customers. This lab is based on the Litware HR tenant provisioning scenario and therefore we have greatly simplified the task list to exclude provisioning real world OSS/BSS components such as the billing infrastructure. Neverthless, the lab is still very valuable for getting to know the kinds of application platform provisioning that has to happen (such as creating IIS virtual directory and tenant specific database rows and views).
Visit the site and it has the links to download the slides and labs.