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The Microsoft Enterprise Library has always been one of the most popular things to come out of the patterns & practices team. Yesterday p&p reached a major milestone by releasing version 5.0 of EntLib. The improvements are too numerous to sum up here, but let me mention one: this release has...
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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 "Oslo". MVP Charles Young has a solid...
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[ 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 the deadline. If you are subscribed to this magazine...
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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 with an earlier effort by Microsoft Patterns and Practices...
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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) were much more focussed on Microsoft products. They...
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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 can use your proxy safely in a C# using statement...
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Please read my earlier post on generating XHTML output from ASP.NET 1.1 before reading this post. Summary: We use custom controls to generate XHTML 1.0 Strict markup. We parse the ASP.NET output as XML. We tweak the form element and an input element to make the entire page XHTML 1.0 Strict. We map parts...
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Yesterday I read a very interesting article over on TheServerSide.NET titled Architecture Insights from Tech-Ed 2005 . It contains the following paragraph: There is a black hole of software know-how in the space between services and application that might be big enough to swallow an organization’s...
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Today I had to come up with a cost estimate for a Request For Proposal (RFP) for a fixed-price project. The customer asks for it to be developed using a waterfall approach : Analysis; Design; Coding; Testing; Integration; Maintenance. Estimating the total cost seemed to be very risky to me, given that...