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Agile/Software Development/ALT.NET The Art of Agile Development: Collective Code Ownership Raymond provides an entry into lean methodologies Jeffery was on the Software Quality Isn't Optional panel and the video is available The StyleCop team announced the release of a version 4.3 of the StyleCop...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 08-28-2008
New and Notable 265

A quick one while I am on vacation. .NET 3.5 SP1 Mr. Hanselman has come out with the mother of all .NET 3.5 SP1 posts with Hidden Gems - Not the same old 3.5 SP1 post , which includes coverage of all the areas including my WCF changes . Announcing Entity Framework & ADO.NET Data Services RTM! Orcas...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 08-15-2008
Screencast - Creating your First WCF Service

As Cliff announces , CSD is partnering up with my friends Aaron and the PluralSight folks on a new weekly .NET developer screencast series to show how to accomplish tasks in WF/WCF 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. This week, for the inaugural screencast, CSD MVP Aaron Skonnard walks you through how to create...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 08-13-2008
WCF, WS-* and REST in .NET 3.5 SP1

As I listed in this post on the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 , there are a bunch of significant additions to WCF in SP1. The list looks pretty focused towards REST services and the Web. It's no secret that many developers are looking to REST and the simpler programming model for Web applications. In this...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 08-13-2008
New and Notable 264 - Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 RTM!

Of course, this is so much more than a Service Pack with the release now of ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) and the Entity Framework among others. In my area of interest, CSD, there are some significant changes for REST programming (1st class citizen now) as well as some other additions: There were several...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 08-11-2008
Live Blog - Day 3 Pluralsight BizTalk Course - Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation

I thought today may be a good topic for my audience as it go well together with my 3 part WF series just as some of yesterday augments this post on WCF 101 . WF Windows Workflow Foundation WF is a Framework for building Workflow-enabled applications It is NOT a Workflow "product" CLR-based...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 08-06-2008
Live Blog - Day 2 Pluralsight BizTalk Course - WCF Send Adapters

WCF Send Adapters Each receive adapter has a corresponding Send adapter Except WCF-CustomIsolated Send Adapters build up a channel stack dynamically Using generic contract definitions and ChannelFactory Channel Stack built based on Send Port config No way (or need) to specify contract Outbound message...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 08-05-2008
Live Blog - Day 1 Pluralsight BizTalk Course - WCF Adapter Receiving

BizTalk AND WCF WCF fits nicely into the BT architecture Both have pluggable protocol stacks WCF Receieve Adapters expose WCF endpoints Messages routed to BT via BT Adapter API HTTP based binding are isolated (run in W3WP.exe) Send Adapters build a dynamic Channel Stack No proxy needed in Orchestration...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 08-04-2008
Live Blog - Day 1 Pluralsight BizTalk Course - WCF for BizTalk Developers Continued

DataContract Attribute which controls serialization/deserialization between .NET and XML New serialization layer Hmm, ClientViaBehavior allows us to use tracing tools like TcpTrace and make it cool with WS-Addressing (didn't know about this) Behaviors Objects that change the semantics of the *service...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 08-04-2008
Live Blog - Day 1 Pluralsight BizTalk Course - Intro to WCF for BizTalk Developers

What is WCF? Again, Microsoft's next way of distributed dev technology "open up your mind" - not just WS-* - universal framework to communicate with anything Reminiscing about DCOM :) ah, DCOMCONFIG If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) - love it! Stack extremely pluggable...

Posted to Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 08-04-2008

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