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There’s an article up at eweek about Oslo , the new initiative by Microsoft in create the tools and a language that’s more accessible to more people than just official developers. You’re supposed to create data and models to build an application, something where the business analyst can already do a...
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Why is it that in Oracle world, it's much more custom to have a database administrator (DBA) on your project than when you're working with SQL-Server? I believe it brings great value to a project to have a dedicated experienced DBA working in the team. And I think part of the problem is the fact...
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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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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 on the history of LINQ to SQL and how it relates...
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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 if you have a lot of pages. Will Shaver has come...
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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 its own unit testing variant that is incompatible...
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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 in general, we took up the OR/M torch officially...
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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 . Team Foundation Server is known to be a very...
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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 capital E) can make custom software development such...
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At MIX07 I've seen a presentation by Pablo Castro from the ADO.NET team on a new project codenamed "Astoria". It's a new technology used for getting data over the web. It's very useful in Ajax scenarios where you'd like some XML or, maybe even better, JSON data into your JavaScript to present on the...
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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. I was just reading the Silverlight SDK and was...
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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 of the features and power of this "Flash killer" technology...
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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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Recently Anko Duizer started a discussion inside Class-A about Windows Workflow Foundation, specifically about state machine workflow vs. sequential workflow. One point of discussion was why in (almost) every presentation out there, the sequential workflow is being demonstrated. Sequential workflows...
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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...