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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...