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Testing and the development cycle

We all know how important testing is in the development life cycle. Here is an article written by Jeffrey Palermo on the effect of testing - or lack there of: http://jeffreypalermo.com/blog/if-you-cannot-afford-to-test-it-you-cannot-afford-to-sell-it/ 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!

Posted 19 November 2008 02:03 AM by riaan

Filed under: Code, BizTalk, C#, Integration, Development, patterns, Practices, Products

Code Contracts

Design by contract builds on top of concepts like static typing, where certain actions cannot be performed unless it can be verified at compile time. Contracts usually take the form of pre- and post-conditions such as a parameter or return value never being null or only containing a certain range of values. Rather than force developers to learn a whole new language such as Spec#, Microsoft is working on a language-agnostic library that can be leveraged by any .NET language. In some ways contracts...

Posted 10 November 2008 03:30 AM by riaan | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: BizTalk, C#, Integration, Development, Design, patterns, .net, SOA

DevForce Express

DevForce Express extends .NET with class libraries, components, RAD tools, and a business object server. Using DevForce, developers can simplify data access, improve UI design, and enable rich applications to operate over the Internet. DevForce Express supports .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0 and is fully integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008. The DevForce Express package is a free, no-time-limit, no-royalty product that includes all product documentation, tutorials and demos. http...

Posted 07 November 2008 02:07 AM by riaan

Filed under: BizTalk, C#, Microsoft, Development, patterns, .net, SOA

CodeRush Xpress for C#

DevExpress has announced the availability of CodeRush Xpress for C#, a free add-in for Visual Studio 2008, targeted at C# developers and meant to improve their coding experience. CodeRush Xpress offers code navigation features like Highlight All References, Smart Clipboard Operations, Generate from Using (TDD), and 25 code refactoring features like Make Explicit, Make Implicit, Name Anonymous Type, and others. http://www.devexpress.com/Downloads/Visual_Studio_Add-in/Coding_Assistance/ Subscribe in...

Posted 07 November 2008 01:49 AM by riaan | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: BizTalk, C#, Development, programming, patterns, .net

Kanban as Alternative Agile Implementation

Kanban systems for software, derived from the Toyota Production System, are an iterationless approach for scheduling work. Instead of using a time boxed iteration and planning meeting, the pulls stories from the backlog only when it has completed its previous work. Read more: http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/10/kanban_agile 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!

Posted 24 October 2008 02:28 AM by riaan

Filed under: BizTalk, C#, Development, patterns, Agile, SCRUM, Practices, Kanban

Pluralsight's WCF/WF Developer Screencast Series

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 here: http://www.pluralsight.com/community/blogs/aaron/archive/2008/08/19/pluralsight-s-wcf-wf-developer-screencast-series.aspx Subscribe in...

Posted 20 August 2008 02:37 AM by riaan | 1 comment(s)

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

Code Snippet Tool

Posted 24 July 2008 03:09 AM by riaan | 2 comment(s)

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

WCF Standards

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 this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

Posted 23 July 2008 02:46 AM by riaan

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

BizTalk Services Update

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 decision made about making them into a product. Full Story: http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/07/BizTalk-Services Share this post: email it! ...

Posted 18 July 2008 02:39 AM by riaan | 1 comment(s)

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

Lean Thinking

Posted 16 July 2008 02:44 AM by riaan

Filed under: C#, Development, programming, patterns, Agile, Practices, XP

Agile And the truth

Posted 15 July 2008 01:51 AM by riaan

Filed under: C#, Development, programming, Design, patterns, Priciples, Agile, .net, Practices

WCF Best practices

Posted 10 July 2008 02:40 AM by riaan

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

Entity Framework and Data Modeling

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!

Posted 08 July 2008 03:18 AM by riaan

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

Dynamic modeling

Here is a series of articles on real life type scenarios in business. The focus is on the alignment of IT concepts and practices with business. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/ms954620.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

Posted 02 July 2008 02:43 AM by riaan | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: C#, Development, Business, patterns, Practices, Enteprise

Software factories - a practicle implemenation

Here is an article from MSDN on a practical implementation of software factories. In the article brief principles get discussed, but the over Wow of the article reside in the cutting of development costs. Something to consider: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/cc496679.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

Posted 18 June 2008 03:06 AM by riaan | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: C#, Development, programming, Design, Architecture, patterns, Agile, .net, Practices, Factories

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