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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...

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 11-10-2008
Code Snippet Tool

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

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 07-24-2008
What is an Office Business Application

In this video Javed Sikander explains just what an OBA is. http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Javed-Sikander-Office-2007-Office-Business-Application/

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 07-23-2008
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...

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 07-23-2008
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...

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 07-18-2008
Agile And the truth

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/

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 07-15-2008
WCF Best practices

Here is a post to some links regarding WCF best practices: http://mehranikoo.net/CS/archive/2008/05/31/WCF_5F00_Best_5F00_Practices.aspx

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 07-10-2008
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

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 07-08-2008
Building Apps with SSDS

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

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 07-08-2008
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

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 06-18-2008

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