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For the 828 event next Thursday I’m developing some examples. One of them is where I get all speed traps (Flitsers in Dutch) from http://www … a source that I won’t mention here. I then want to expose these via WCF via SOAP and REST. Of course this will be so extremely popular, that I have to use Windows...
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We’ve already heard it mentioned last week in Los Angeles, but here’s the date already…
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A bit late, but it was still in my drafts folder, I just had to finish it. Timothy Mallalieu presented the session on the future of Entity Framework. The Data Platform We have so many data storage options and so many needs for data. Normal data access Users and applications get data from the database...
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This is the geek *** session Don Box mentioned. Chris Anderson and Giovanni Della-Libera are presenting, the entire Oslo team that’s here is inside this room. module PDC { language Contacts { syntax Main = checked :Contact => checked ; syntax...
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I’ve been talking to people and perhaps here on the blog that during the Doug Purdy talk they showed a demo of MService where, with a few lines of code, a REST enabled WCF services with WF activities was created with only so few lines of actual code. service Service { operation PhotoUpload(stream...
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Just saw Chris Sells show a session on some other expects of Oslo that wasn’t introduced yet. It was again stated that the repository in Oslo is a normal SQL Server database. All your models are just SQL in the database and everything is designed for extensibility. Some of the core features are: Repository...
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Together with Alex Thissen, Paul Gielens, Marco Stolk and Dries Marckmann we’ve been reflecting our thoughts on “M”. Right now we’re all at another Oslo talk about Quadrant. Why “Quadrant”? As more software becomes more model-driven, the volume of data in the system grows We need a tool that lets people...
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I’m at the “Lap around ‘Oslo’” talk together with Alex Thissen and Paul Gielens . This is by far the best session I’ve seen so far! The talk began about models. We were looking at modeling and modeling domains, but what is a model? We have… Drawings Models used to communicate with others, for example...
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Mark Miller from DevExpress just announced CodeRush Xpress for C# developers, for free!!! In a partnership with Microsoft, DevExpress is making this tool available for Visual Studio. It’s a selection of CodeRush and Refactor! Pro features. Refactor! Pro is one of my favorite tools available for Visual...
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A lot of photos, many many more to come… Most are Los Angeles, Santa Monica beach and other locations. PDC 2008 isn’t that interesting to look at! ;-) http://flickr.com/photos/dvdstelt/sets/72157608454625991/
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Scott Guthrie is talking… Very fast what he’s talking about… WPF 4.0 has touch .NET 4.0 can be loaded in the same process as .NET 2.0 Visual Studio 2010 is build in WPF Ability to create awesome visualizers in Vsual Studio 2010 Scott just shows us a 200 line code visualizer that replaces the normal ...
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Yesterday Alex and I spoke to some people and from two resources we got to learn that Silverlight for mobile devices will most likely be revealed today at the keynote by Scott Guthrie. The best is, it’s already able to run managed code. So that means Microsoft is skipping the first version and is immediately...
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An exhausting day at PDC... Here are the sessions that I did: Keynote: Windows Azure Microsoft Visual Studio Team System: A Lap Around VSTS 2010 ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap Team Foundation Server 2010: Cool New Features WF 4.0: A first look I really love the new features of VSTS and TFS; I can hardly...
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Blogging live at the PDC 2008 keynote… Windows Azure This new version of Windows was just announced. We’ve got desktop and server (back-end) versions of Windows and this should be the web tier, the operating system for the cloud. Windows Azure is about scaling up and keeping your applications and services...
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I just noticed the PDC session schedule is online. This means you can find out which sessions are in which slot(s) and you can finally start really planning sessions. This is always extremely difficult as I always want to be in multiple rooms at the same time! :-) I haven’t figured out if some sessions...