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Stop-the-Line Issues
Thursday, August 28, 2008 3:00 AM

This is a very brief and good read forming a part of the concept of technical debt. The author explains why it is important to fix bugs as discovered and not leave them piling up in a bug tracking system. I tend to agree with this approach. http://community.ative.dk/blogs/ative/archive/2007/01/29/The-Waste-of-Defects-_2D00_-Bugs-are-Stop_2D00_the_2D00_Line-Issues... Read More...

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Filed under: C#, Development, programming, Agile, SCRUM, XP, Kanban, Technical Debt

Pluralsight's WCF/WF Developer Screencast Series
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 2:37 AM

Pluralsight has joined forces with the WCF/WF teams at Microsoft to deliver a series of short videos that illustrate how to get started using WCF/WF in your applications. The videos will be hosted on Channel9 within the Screencasts section, and they'll be highlighted on The .NET Endpoint Team Blog and the MSDN Dev Centers for WCF & WF. More info from... Read More...

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Filed under: C#, Development, programming, patterns, WCF, Practices, WPF

Streaming Web Content
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 3:06 AM

Blog post on delivering content from WCF service to a web page. http://blogs.msdn.com/drnick/archive/2008/08/18/streaming-web-content.aspx Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: C#, Development, programming, asp.net, WCF, .net, Streaming

ADO.Net Data Services Framework
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 3:08 AM

Good introduction article from MSDN around the ADO.Net Data Services Framework. This article also touch base on EDM (Entity Data Model) which is a base for the Data Services Framework. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc748663.aspx Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it... Read More...

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Filed under: C#, Integration, database, SaaS, .net, ADO.Net, Services, EDM

.Net 3.5 SP 1 Released
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 2:51 AM

From InfoQ : " Service Pack 1 for .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 was released today. While called a "service pack", the sheer number of new features makes this release as significant as .NET 3.0. These include the controversial ADO.NET Entity Framework and the much demanded improvements to C#’s real-time syntax checker. Other features include... Read More...

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Filed under: C#, Development, VB.Net, programming, .net, Service Packs, Visual Studio

Tasktop
Friday, July 25, 2008 3:09 AM

I have found this to be a very cool tool for developers to manage themself. A general self management tool: http://tasktop.com/tasktop-for-windows/ Subscribe in a reader Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: C#, Development, programming, .net, Management

Code Snippet Tool
Thursday, July 24, 2008 3:09 AM

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Filed under: C#, Development, VB.Net, programming, Design, patterns, Practices

What is an Office Business Application
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 2:54 AM

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Filed under: C#, Development, Design, Office Server, Office, OBA, information worker, .net

WCF Standards
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 2:46 AM

Looking for a guide to all of the web services protocols implemented by WCF? There's no single document that captures all of the information, but there is a group of documents that talk about the implemented protocols and some of the choices in those implementations. Read more here: http://blogs.msdn.com/drnick/archive/2008/07/22/standards-guide.aspx Share... Read More...

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Filed under: Code, C#, Integration, Development, Design, patterns, WCF, .net, Practices

BizTalk Services Update
Friday, July 18, 2008 2:39 AM

BizTalk Labs has updated its range of connectivity and business process services through the BizTalk Services SDK which offers access to the following services: Workflow, Identity, Windows Live ID Credentials, Unauthenticated Access, TransportClientCredentials, HTTP Connectivity Mode. The services offered by BizTalk Labs are experimental and there has been no... Read More...

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Filed under: BizTalk, C#, Integration, Development, Design, patterns, SaaS, Services

Lean Thinking
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:44 AM

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Agile And the truth
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 1:51 AM

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WCF Best practices
Thursday, July 10, 2008 2:40 AM

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Entity Framework and Data Modeling
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 3:18 AM

In this MSDN Magazine article the author answers questions regarding the Entity Framework and provides an understanding of how and why it was developed. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc700331.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: C#, Development, programming, database, Design, patterns, ADO.Net

Building Apps with SSDS
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 3:07 AM

MSDN Magazine has this article on using SQL Server Data Services as your data store to your application(s). A very cool concept if infrastructure, licensing etc is an issue. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc700349.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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