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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 10:31 AM

.NET Enterprise Books for the Connoisseur ... all available in PDF!

We have just released the PDF, soft copy, eBook style books for the following three books on www.drp.co.za and www.saarchitect.net . On the later server find the books here and remember that www.drp.co.za is geared at American region and www.saarchitect.net for the MEA region. .NET Enterprise Solutions ... Best Practices for the Connoisseur ISBN: 0-620-33013-9, published September 2004. Authors: Willy-Peter Schaub, James Pereira Information technologies change frequently and rapidly, but the principles...
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 3:52 PM

Community Server (www.drp.co.za) is serving you!

The latest statistics on one of our two community servers http://www.drp.co.za is very promising. The other community server ( www.saarchitect.net ) is on the verge of moving to its own dedicated server, which is why we are not focusing on its stats at the moment. The following illustration summarises the growing traffic: Top 19 downloads are as follows: In total we have 65395 poster and white paper downloads processed by the one community server to date ... rock on! Share this post: email it! |...
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Friday, June 20, 2008 6:06 PM

Technology Quick Reference Posters ... made in South-Africa

We have noticed that our quick reference posters, which have grown to over 130, are popular. One of our two community sites www.drp.co.za has over 60,000 downloads of these artifacts. Our other community server www.saarchitect.net is processing a similar volume, although it has not been operational as long as its sycophantic twin. The top 13 downloads are: Artifact Category Downloads   Team Foundation Server (TFS) Guidance Whitepaper Technology Whitepapers 1222   0202 Microsoft Team System...
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:48 AM

VSTS 2008 Team Test ... a few notes and thoughts from our internal workshop

Overview We covered VSTS Team test features using the great training material created by Brian Randell (MVP) and in essence the test environment currently supports the following features: Unit Testing by adding attributes to classes and methods to be tested. Web Testing allowing us to record a set of web actions, replaying, extracting and validating information from the HTTP traffic. Load Testing which can execute any type of tests, based on user load and time, for example; capturing of performance...
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Monday, May 19, 2008 9:19 PM

Community material access to www.drp.co.za and www.saarchitect.net relaxed

Please note that all community material, including high-quality quick reference posters and videos are now available to all visitors of our community servers www.drp.co.za (optimised for non-Africa access) and www.saarchitect.net (optimised for Africa access) without having to register. This support has been enabled to simplify the access to the community material. http://www.drp.co.za , hosted in the US. http://www.saarchitect.net , hosted by IS in South-Africa. Share this post: email it! | bookmark...
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Sunday, January 20, 2008 9:07 AM

BB&D Book 2 and 3 - Special offer until February 15, 2007

We have consolidated the knowledge, experience and thinking of our technology specialists in the books. It is a continuous effort to promote information sharing am .NET Enterprise Solutions - Best Practices for the Connoisseur (book 1) .NET Enterprise Solutions - Interoperability for the Connoisseur (book 2) Software Engineers on their way to Pluto (book 3), also features the TFS Lightweight Process Template . The Book 1 (PDF), Book 2 (Printed) and Book 3 (Printed) are available as a package until...
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Thursday, April 19, 2007 2:36 AM

Technology Readiness Events (Revision April Schedule)

See www.drp.co.za events move post for details on the readiness program. The revised schedule for April and beyond is as follows: Note that the Orcas/Rosario, the .NET Bootcamp, the WCF and WF drill-downs are all new additions. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 7:49 PM

WCF Security Impersonation Proof-of-Concept (hyperlink hiccup)

I appologise for dropping the .aspx of the hyperlink to http://www.drp.co.za/Media/Papers/tabid/76/Default.aspx in the http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2007/02/16/wcf-security-impersonation-proof-of-concept.aspx post. Fixed ... you can now investigate the papers. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Friday, February 16, 2007 9:07 PM

WCF Security Impersonation Proof-of-Concept

This paper examines the concept of passing credentials from client to WCF services and using impersonation. The PoC is based on a similar set of services as covered in the ASMX PoC titled “ Ever wondered if and how identities are carried from service to service? ” and posted on http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2006/05/07/52060.aspx . The purpose of this PoC is to compare WCF to the ASMX services world and to verify that the same impersonation functionality is available to us with WCF. Figure 1...
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Saturday, February 03, 2007 10:21 PM

What “main” features are coming to us with Orcas?

We are continuously being asked what Orcas has in store for the solution teams, the architect, the developer and the tester. Thanks to Brian Harry we have managed to gather some of the interesting nuggets of Orcas relevant to our current environments, which are summarised herein: !!! Area Feature Operations SDLC Architect Developer Tester X TFS · Support for Web Application Projects X X · Support for Share Point 2007 X · Support for a separate Share Point Farm X · Support for SQL Named Instances...
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Monday, January 29, 2007 8:51 AM

DRP Technology Readiness News Snippet - January 2007 Summary

Technology Readiness (TR) Overview Sessions covered this month BB&D Tools Windows Communication Foundation … what is it and why use it? SQL … for developers Visual Studio Team database Professional … what is it and why use it? BizTalk … what is it and why use it? Technology Readiness (TR) Session Score Averages (to date) Sessions 2.6/3 (87%) Presenters 2.7/3 (90%) Material 2.5/3 (83%) A huge thank you for the presenters for their time, effort and passion in preparing and hosting these sessions...
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Friday, January 05, 2007 8:40 PM

DRP Technology Readiness News Snippet - January 2007 Preview

Just a reminder that the following session are scheduled for the rest of January. Refer to http://www.drp.co.za/Events/EventsList/tabid/53/Default.aspx and http://www.drp.co.za/Events/TechReady/tabid/74/Default.aspx for more details: 2007/01/12 BB&D Tools ... what is there and what should we use (Internal Event Level 200) SQL … for developers (Public Event Level 200) 2007/01/19 SQL … for developers (Public Event Level 200) Visual Studio Team Database Professional … what is it and why use it?...
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Saturday, December 23, 2006 8:10 AM

DRP Technology Readiness News Snippet - December 2006 Summary

Sessions covered this month We have completed overview sessions on Windows Workflow (WF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Reporting services (Friday), as well as a WF drilldown and a WCF demonstration during December. Both the Windows Workflow and Windows Communication Foundation technologies have been identified as new and strategic technologies and we are hoping that the demand for drill-down sessions will allow us to jointly explore the technology and build the communities experience...
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006 11:20 PM

WCF Debugging - IIS hosted services

The only way we have been able to debug WCF services hosted in IIS, is by attaching the debugger to the aspnet_wp.exe process manually and then setting breakpoints or stepping into service methods. Other options are to create an ordinary ASP.NET project and implementing the WCF service there, to create a console application that will host the WCF services, or inserting a call to Debugger.Lauch() into the service method to launch the debugger window. The simplest and recommended debugging strategy...
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006 10:29 PM

WCF FaultException … why use it?

Exceptions are technology specific and therefore not suitable to cross the service boundary of SOA compliant services. Another anomaly we identified is that all exceptions , with the exception of FaultException fault the communication channel , resulting in unhappy proxies as a recover and retry is not possible. What we need are soap faults that are an industry standard for seamless interoperability … WCF, and there is more … delivers the answer to Soap Faults as FaultException , which...
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