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The Return of the CLR

Otherwise known, as "Return of the Giant Hogweed " Once upon a time , .NET was so new that there wasn't a Visual Studio .NET yet (the beta crashed every 5 minutes so you couldn't use it even if you wanted to), no books, few blogs and one had to use things like the Shared Source CLI...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 08-21-2008
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Enterprise Architecture Bob has, once again, collected a superb collection of Enterprise Architecture links in his latest Carnival ASP.NET In his latest tip , Steve demonstrates how to unit test the LINQ to SQL DataContext by using a Fake DataObject. Isn't that a mock? WPF Christopher has started...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 08-17-2008
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CSD/WF/WCF/Oslo We start today with Cliff Simpkins in CSD at Microsoft who lets us know about a new batch of papers, demos and guides in various downloads, mostly pertaining to WF. Great stuff! Pay particular attention to the release of Patterns & Practices Group : Improving Web Services Security...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 08-11-2008
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ASP.NET/Silverlight First Preview for new Ajax features , ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 went live on CodePlex Via Brad Abrams , the updating of the very cool ASP.NET Ajax Portal application, DropThings Silverlight Cream for July 22, 2008 -- #332 IronRuby/DLR/IronPython Too many things to list individually but many...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 07-23-2008
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Service Security/Identity Management/SOA I am super thrilled to see Microsoft roll out " Zermatt ", a .NET developer framework and SDK to help build claims-based applications. I, like Eugenio here , had to roll out my own a couple of months ago in a gig. I made use of Dominick's excellent...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 07-20-2008
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Its about time to clear out the backlog. CLR/.NET/Visual Studio/TDD/ALT.NET Jeremy has a nice piece here, Before you use an IoC tool, some concepts to know first Favorite Visual Studio 2008 Keyboard Shortcuts (Corey Schuman) [via Alvin ] MbUnit in Visual Studio Team System 2008 and MbUnit...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 07-05-2008
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Enjoying cup of Starbucks and Deep Purple Live in Stockholm 1970 (via Zune marketplace). WCF/WF My good friend Marjan has worked hard with us Influencers (I wish I wasn’t so busy) to come up with a stellar bunch of Webcasts! Must see! One of the key things we are “influencing” is Oslo...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 06-12-2008
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta

ScottGu makes it official today. There is a whole lot of stuff here, and I think its safe to say that this is "stretching" the concept of a Service Pack. Scott's post has a lot of detail. The big ticket items are the Entity Framework and Astoria , but there is a lot of additive stuff. See...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 05-12-2008
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CLR/DLR/Popfly IronPython 2.0 Beta 2 Popfly Game Creator Windows PowerShell V2 CTP2 SOA/WCF Weekly SOA crumbs #15: Have you seen the latest “mesh”up from Microsoft? Service Oriented Architecture, Service Factories and Modeling Federation Over TCP With WCF 6 New patterns & practices WCF...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 05-02-2008
6 Years of Blogging!

Seeing Scott's impressive milestone made me realize that I forgot to celebrate my 6th year milestone on March 20th ! Those were heady days. There were only two other .NET bloggers at the time, Simon Fell (who is still going) and Peter Drayton (who isn't). Simon and Peter "convinced"...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 04-27-2008

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