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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

Windows Live Tools
Thursday, August 07, 2008 2:31 AM

Windows Live Dev has released the Windows Live Tools July CTP for Microsoft Visual Studio. This is a set of VS add-ins allowing developers to incorporate Windows Live services into web applications developed with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer Express 2008. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D7C6DF11-2283-4CAC-9723-172F5C33EFBB&displaylang... Read More...

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Filed under: Development, programming, patterns, SaaS, .net, Platforms, Web 2.0

BizTalk EDI
Monday, August 04, 2008 3:07 AM

What is EDI and how do you implement it with BizTalk 2006 R2? This article answers these questions: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc748658.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: BizTalk, Integration, Development, programming, SQL Server, patterns

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

SnipPit is a SQL Server based VS add-in (and separate desktop app.) snippet respository . http://www.codeproject.com/KB/macros/SnipPit.aspx 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, VB.Net, programming, Design, patterns, Practices

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

An introduction on infoq on Lean Thinking in software. http://www.infoq.com/articles/lean-thinking-software 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, patterns, Agile, Practices, XP

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

What is the role of the truth in the Agile development process? Here is a post that seem to know: http://dpwhelan.com/blog/agile/truthfulness-on-software-teams/ 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, Design, patterns, Priciples, Agile, .net, Practices

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

Duplex WCF Services
Wednesday, July 02, 2008 2:47 AM

Scott Breeze posted this article around a project he has done exploring the use of Silverlight and WCF. http://blogs.breezetraining.com.au/scotts/2008/06/28/Silverlight2Beta2AndDuplexWCFServices.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: Integration, Development, programming, Design, patterns, WCF, .net, Silverlight

WCF and SSB
Tuesday, July 01, 2008 1:48 AM

Good article on using the WCF SQL Adapter to extract messages from SSB. Read more here: http://blogs.msdn.com/adapters/archive/2008/06/30/using-the-wcf-sql-adapter-to-read-messages-from-ssb-queues-and-submit-them-to-biztalk.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: BizTalk, Integration, Development, programming, SQL Server, patterns

Software factories - a practicle implemenation
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:06 AM

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!... Read More...

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

DDD in practice
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 2:37 AM

Found this very good article on infoq by Srini Penchikala on Domain Driven Design and the practice implementation of the concept. Even a sample has been included. Read more here: http://www.infoq.com/articles/ddd-in-practice 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, Design, Architecture, patterns, Agile, SCRUM, .net, Practices

SOA Principles and Modularity
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 3:14 AM

Some points on SOA architecture principles. Interesting read: http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/soa-rediscovering-modularity 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, Design, Architecture, patterns, .net, Practices, SOA

SOA projects - why some succeed, why some fail
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:20 AM

This is Brian Loesgen's view on this topic. Makes a nice, quick read with some nice ideas: http://geekswithblogs.net/bloesgen/archive/2008/05/19/122248.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: BizTalk, Development, programming, Design, patterns, Platforms, Practices, SOA

BAM Poster for BTS 2006 R2
Monday, May 19, 2008 3:46 AM

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! Read More...

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Filed under: BizTalk, C#, Integration, Development, programming, patterns, Platforms, Practices

Collective code ownership
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 2:36 PM

Article on Infoq.com around the good and bad of implementing collective code ownership as part of your Agile implementation: http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/05/weaknesses_collective_code;jsessionid=FE9DD28338F050DA716815E4A8B3D9C5 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, Design, patterns, Agile, SCRUM, dotnet, principles

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