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Testing and the development cycle

riaan — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:03:00 GMT

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://www.biztalkgurus.com/blogs/biztalk/archive/2008/11/15/biztalk-vs-dublin-do-not-get-confused.aspx

BizTalk VS Dublin

riaan — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:59:00 GMT

Post around "will Dublin replace BizTalk?".

http://www.biztalkgurus.com/blogs/biztalk/archive/2008/11/10/first-look-screen-shots-of-windows-application-server-dublin.aspx

First Look at Dublin

riaan — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:16:00 GMT

Below is a post with a couple of screenshots of Windows Application Server code named "Dublin". For those of us working with BizTalk, some of the screenshots will look very familiar:

http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/11/Code-Contracts

Code Contracts

riaan — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:30:00 GMT

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 look like assertions, but they are very different under the covers. Contracts are supported by a combination of static code analysis, which can be both inside and outside the compiler, as well as by testing frameworks.

http://www.ideablade.com/microsoft.html

DevForce Express

riaan — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:07:00 GMT

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://www.devexpress.com/Downloads/Visual_Studio_Add-in/Coding_Assistance/

CodeRush Xpress for C#

riaan — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:49:00 GMT

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.pluralsight.com/community/blogs/aaron/archive/2008/11/04/quot-oslo-quot-and-the-future-of-biztalk-server.aspx

Oslo and the future of BizTalk Server

riaan — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:45:00 GMT

This is a blog post by Aaron Skonnard on the future of BizTalk and the impact of Oslo on BizTalk. According to this post BizTalk Server is going to be around more or less in its current form for a while:

http://blogs.msdn.com/adapters/archive/2008/10/30/adapter-pack-v2-ctp4.aspx

Adapter Updates

riaan — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:31:00 GMT

Below is two links to blog entries regarding the Adpater Pack V2 and a list of hotfixes in the adapter pack:

http://blogs.msdn.com/adapters/archive/2008/10/30/hotfix-list-for-the-microsoft-biztalk-adapter-pack-and-related-scenarios.aspx

Martin Fowler on Oslo

riaan — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:57:00 GMT

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/Oslo.html

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/oslo/default.aspx

Oslo released

riaan — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:46:00 GMT

The Oslo public repository is now live:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/27/windows-live-adds-support-for-openid-calls-it-de-facto-login-standard/

Windows Live Adds Support For OpenID, Calls It De Facto Login Standard

riaan — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:43:00 GMT

Article from tech crunch - OpenID now supported by Microsoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/soa/launch/

Real World SOA

riaan — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:19:00 GMT

Microsoft has just launched Real Word SOA - a web site dedicated to real life SOA implementations.

http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/10/Microsoft

Microsoft’s Modeling Strategy

riaan — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:49:00 GMT

The foundation of Microsoft’s vision for their new model-driven service-oriented architecture (SOA) - Oslo project, model driven development would bridge the gap between business analysts and IT, delivering on the SOA promise to align application development with business needs.

http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/10/Surface-SDK

Microsoft Bringing Multitouch to Windows

riaan — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:45:00 GMT

Microsoft is planning on publicly releasing the Surface SDK at this year's PDC. This is seen by some as the next step towards bringing their multitouch technology to the Windows operating system.