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Microsoft used the keynote in the SOA & Business Process Conference in Redmond to present its vision on the future of Service Oriented Architecture on the Microsoft platform. That vision and the wave of technology that will come with it, is codenamed...
If you are interested in the history of LINQ to SQL and how it works internally, go watch Charlie Calvert's video with Matt Warren and Luca Bolognese . The first 30 minutes of this video are primarily about the internals. The last 10 minutes focus...
Back in January 2006 I wrote a blog post about a way to add input validation to declarative query string parameters in ASP.NET 2.0. This involved adding code to the code-behind of each ASP.NET page to hook an event handler. This quickly becomes tedious...
Martin Fowler notices a trend: interest in the .NET platform is declining . Ruby is all the rage. He has some recommendations for Microsoft on how to better collaborate with the community instead of going its own way. Martin noticed how Microsoft created...
Not many Microsoft employees dare to publicly refer to WinFS as a black hole. Matt Warren does in this blog post . He gives us great insight into the origin of LINQ to SQL and how it managed to survive. He ends with: So, for the sake of LINQ and the customer...
Today, I wanted to continue working on my FlickrMetadataSynchr tool after a break of a month or so. This project uses SaaS in the form of a hosted Team Foundation Server by Microsoft for source control and work item tracking. This SaaS is called CodePlex...
I just came accross this gem by Paul Stovell : Now, although I don’t really know anything about BizTalk, I do know that BizTalk is well-known as an enterprise-grade middleware product. I think that this is due to the fact that only Enterprises (with a...
Some people use hyperbole to refer to the disclosure of Silverlight and CoreCLR by Microsoft at MIX07. April 30, 2007 has been called the day that will be remembered as the day that Microsoft "rebooted the web" . This might be true in more than one way...
Microsoft has announced that the little cross-platform, cross-browser cousin of Windows Presentation Foundation will be called Silverlight . This technology which was first announced at PDC05 was codenamed "WPF/E". Tim Sneath has the best list so far...
[ Update : The electronic version (in Dutch) is available online now.] My article on developing interactive TV-websites using ASP.NET 2.0 has been published in the Dutch .NET Magazine #16. I mentioned that I was writing this article in January and I made...
As announced on Tom Hollander's blog, the Microsoft Enterprise Library 3.0 will include a new application block: the Policy Injection Application Block . Enterprise Development Reference Architecture (EDRA) Edward and me noticed a striking similarity...
Bruce Eckel has an interesting post on hybridizing Java with Flash . He notices the trend in the Java world to replace Java-based GUI frameworks (AWT, Swing, etc.) for Java apps by Flash. Incidently, I came across one such app yesterday evening when I...
RJ has already blogged (in Dutch) about Tuesday's sessions of LEAP here at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA. Let me add that I was pleasantly surprised by the lack of product pushing by the Microsoft architects. The LEAP sessions in Barneveld (NL)...
When you create a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service proxy class for a service by using svcutil.exe , it creates a proxy that derives from System.ServiceModel.ClientBase<TChannel> . This class implements IDisposable so you think you...
Even though I blog a lot about installing things and trying out new Microsoft technology, my day job is being an application architect. Today, I would like to state I am an Agile Architect . Sam Gentile has a wonderful blog post titled Being an Agile...
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