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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!
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...
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!
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! ...
BAM Poster for BTS 2006 R2
The just released BAM poster for BTS 2006 R2 can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C2A332C7-687A-448A-BBDF-5FEC51476BF6&displaylang=en Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
VirtualService for ESB
The Microsoft recently released a version of the .NetFX 3.5 where introduced a new context driven service model called as WorkflowService. This model is based on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) technologies. It represents a logical model of the connectivity to expose a workflow. The service operation in the workflow is abstracted into the new context driven activity such as ReceiveActivity based on the Contract-First or Workflow-First declaration. The business...
BizTalk Server Operations Guide
Microsoft has just released the BizTalk Server 2006 and R2 Operations guide. The guide is available online from here : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc296643.aspx and is also available as PDF,CHM or DOCX. More info can be found at this location: http://blogs.msdn.com/biztalk_server_team_blog/archive/2008/03/21/biztalk-server-operations-guide-is-pulished-on-msdn.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

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