c#

WMOC#20 - Moving from .net Framework 2.0 to 3.5

Bart De Smet - Who ever said LINQ predicates need to be Boolean-valued?

Brad Abrams - Evolving a .NET Framework 2.0 Application to .NET Framework 3.5

DotNetInterop

• Flatten your WSDL with this Custom ServiceHost for WCF
• Custom Config file for a WCF Service hosted in IIS

EricLippert - Arrays considered somewhat harmful

Harry Pierson

• IronPython Beta 5 released
  
• DLR Namespace Change Fire Drill

J.D. Meier - patterns & practices Performance Engineering

Jeffrey-Schlimmer - VSX: Visual Studio Extensibility Architecture Part 2

Mary Jo Foley - What’s next for Microsoft’s Visual Studio

Matthew.Podwysocki

• Side Effects and Functional Programming
• Object Oriented F# - More Extension Everything
• Functional C# - Pattern Matching

Mike Taulty - Messing with Dynamic LINQ Queries

Nicholas Allen

• Cross Domain Policy Extras
• Defining Cross Domain Policy

Roman Kiss - Contract Model for Manageable Services

Props to other great link blogs
Christopher Steen
Jason Haley
Chris Alcock
Alvin Ashcraft
Arjan Zuidhof
Rhonda Tipton

WMOC#19 - More Oslo!

Steve Maine - A tool, a language, a repository — Oslo!

Don Box

• Oslo - more clues as to what to expect
  
• Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) - now with source code!

Jeremy D. Miller - Microsoft doing Language Oriented Programming with Oslo? Are they serious about it, or just taunting me?

Douglas Purdy -What is Oslo?

Mary Jo Foley

• Oslo and Live Mesh: Will the two platforms ever meet?
• Microsoft building a family of Live Mesh applications

Dominick Baier - Zermatt: Source Code for FormsAuth STS

Chris Sells -Custom Window Chrome in WPF

Dan - Askthebrain.net Creator’s Exclusive Interview

EricLippert - High maintenance

Jon Udell - Freebase, Wikipedia, Powerset

MarkJoel60 - Getting Started with Drools.NET

Matthew Podwysock

• Object Oriented F# - Extension Everything
• FsTest Updated with F# CTP

Nicholas Allen - FxCop Target Rules

Phillip Destoop - Microsoft joins OMG

Scott Hanselman

• Windows Live Mesh, Silverlight and the CoreCLR
• Firefox, ClickOnce, XBAPs and .NET 3.5 SP1

Props to other great link blogs
Christopher Steen
Jason Haley
Chris Alcock
Alvin Ashcraft
Arjan Zuidhof
Rhonda Tipton

WMOC#18 - Microsoft Solver Foundation released

Bart De Smet

• C# 3.0 Query Expression Translation Cheat Sheet
• To Bind or Not To Bind – Dynamic Expression Trees – Part 1
• To Bind or Not To Bind – Dynamic Expression Trees – Part 2
• To Bind or Not To Bind – Dynamic Expression Trees – Part 3

Don Box - Elation at the release of Microsoft Solver Foundation, a framework of solvers and modeling services enabling planning, risk modeling, and scheduling for .NET developers.

Kirk Evans - Building Human Workflows with Windows Workflow Foundation State Machines

Nicholas Allen

• Getting Better Time Formats
• Waiting for Ready Channels
• Avoiding Infinite Schema Chains

Rhonda Tipton - Great Design Pattern Resources

Links, videos, podcasts and product releases

Channel 9 - Drew Steedly and Joshua Podolak on Photosynth

Sam Gentile - New and Notable 270

Harry Pierson - Morning Coffee 173 - lots of language oriented resources

Haacked - ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 5 Released

Matthew Podwysocki - F# Releases September 2008 CTP!

Krysztof Cwalina - Extensible Framework Design Studio Released

Props to other great link blogs
Christopher Steen
Jason Haley
Chris Alcock
Alvin Ashcraft
Arjan Zuidhof
Rhonda Tipton

WSDAC#17 - 97 Things Every Architect Should Know!

Dare Obasanjo

• How Facebook Keeps Memcached Consistent Across Geo-Distributed Data Centers
• Best Practices for Web Sites Seeking to Prevent Service Degradation due to 3rd Party Widgets

Phil Haack - Streamlined BDD Using SubSpec for xUnit.NET

Jeff Atwood - Deadlocked! On deadlock issues in SQL Server

Jon Udell - Motivating people to write the semantic web: A conversation with David Huynh about Parallax

NickMalik - Traceability, the Solution Model, and Metamodeling

Phillipe Destoop

• Burton Group: Open Source Software - Risks and Rewards
• Businesslink: Pricing your product or service
• Enterprise Architects finally value Infrastructure Architects

Simon Guest - Architecture Journal Issue 16 Released, and Issue 18 Call For Papers

Ted Neward - Rotor v2 book draft available, book on the open sources SLR implementation

Todd Hoff

• Latency is Everywhere and it Costs You Sales - How to Crush it
• A Scalable, Commodity Data Center Network Architecture

Via Stefan Tilkov

• Zero to Production in 15 Minutes
• How To Launch Software
• 97 Things Every Architect Should Know
• Features of Common Lisp

Jason Haley - Interesting Finds: August 25, 2008 - [Rough Cut]

WMOC#17 - PhotoSynth, Reflector move forward

Robert Scoble - How I Photosynth’d my family room

Mary Jo Foley -

• Six surprising things about Microsoft’s PhotoSynth
• A (Microsoft) Codename a day: Geneva
• Intel backs Microsoft’s concurrent-computing play

Bart D’Smet

• Appropriate use of Local Variable Type Inference
• To Bind or Not To Bind – Dynamic Expression Trees – Part 0
• Curry for dummies (Cont’d) – A happy ending

Brad Abrams - FxCop 1.36 Released

FransBouma  - “The Entity Data Model is much bigger than just an ORM” - Stephen Forte

Michael Lehman - MultiTenant Data Access (MTDA) S+S Blueprint Released
Nicholas Allen

• AutoHeader Extension adding headers to outgoing web services requests
• Reflector Changes Hands RedGate to take on maintenance of popular decompiler

Philippe Destoop - Burton Group: SharePoint Identity Management and Access

Scott Hanselman - The Weekly Source Code 32- Atom, AtomPub and BlogSvc, an AtomPub Server in WCF

Steve Maine - Open thread on WCF Configuration Usability

Udi Dahan - Domain Events - Take 2 - On “events as a core pattern of communication from the domain back to the service layer”

Simon Guest - Architecture Journal Issue 16 Released, and Issue 18 Call For Papers

Vittorio Bertocci

• New Issue of the Architecture Journal: Article on “Claims and Identity, On-Premise and Cloud Solutions”
• Visual Studio web project template for Zermatt… and your CardSpace RP ASP.NET web site is up&running in just 37.1 seconds

Podcasts and Screencasts

Aaron Skonnard

• Screencast: Configuring WCF Services with Endpoints
• Programming the MetaWeblog API in .NET/C#
• Pluralsight’s WCF/WF Developer Screencast Series

Channel9

• Synchronizing Data: Inside the Microsoft Sync Framework
• Blaise Aguera y Arcas: The technology behind Photosynth
• Countdown to PDC2008: Pick Your Sessions, Build Your Agenda and Win a Trip

Props to link blogs
Christopher Steen
Jason Haley
Chris Alcock
Alvin Ashcraft
Arjan Zuidhof

WSDAC#16 - Behind NBC’s Olympics Website

Via Harry Pierson - Monads through pictures

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz - Evolving Architectures: Architecture Retrospective

Ayende Rahien

• Multi Tenancy - Keep It Simple, REALLY Simple
• DSL Patterns - Multi File DSLs
• DSL Patterns - User Extensible Language

Bob McIlree - Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #11 - August 15, 2008 - Interesting architecture links

Brad Abrams - Framework Design Guidelines 2nd Edition Available today on Rough Cuts

J.D. Meier

• Software Methodologies at a Glance
• 10 Success Patterns for PMs

Matthew Podwysocki

• Aspects of Functional Programming in C# Presentation and Code Redux
• Recursing on Recursion - Continuation Passing

Robert Scoble

• The most important Google Tool for businesses (that you probably have never used)
• Behind NBC’s Olympics Website

Steve Vinoski - You Have to Experience It - on having strong opinions without experience using a particular technology/methodology…

Ted Neward - The Never-Ending Debate of Specialist v. Generalist

Todd Hoff - Strategy: Serve Pre-generated Static Files Instead Of Dynamic Pages for performance

Via Stefan Tilkov - Interesting anecdote on Availability Enlightenment

Hanselminutes Podcast - jQuery with John Resig

WMOC#16 - Continuations, Currying and Recursion

Matthew Podwysocki - Recursing on Recursion - Continuation Passing

Bart De Smet

• The Most Funny Interface Of The Year … IQueryable
• Curry for dummies
• Expression Tree Normalization – How Many Ways To Say “String == String”?

Dominick Baier

• P2P and WCF: Some Troubleshooting Resources
• Zermatt: Using Forms Authentication in a Passive STS

Brad Abrams - Framework Design Guidelines 2nd Edition Available today on Rough Cuts

Greg Duncan - Sync 101 - Samples for the Microsoft Sync Framework

Mary Jo Foley - Piecing together Microsoft’s cloud-computing vision

Omri Gazitt - WCF 101 Screencast

Scott Hanselman - Hidden Gems - Not the same old 3.5 SP1 post

Steve Maine - Cool open-source AtomPub server built on WCF

Vittorio bertocci - Setting up a basic CardSpace RP ASP.NET website… using Zermatt

Props to link blogs
Christopher Steen
Jason Haley
Chris Alcock
Alvin Ashcraft
Arjan Zuidhof

Technorati tags: wcf, soa, architecture, webServices, .net, REST, WCF

WSDAC#15 - Art of gathering business requirements

Steve Yegge - Business Requirements are BS! - very interesting read

Dare Obasanjo

• Managing Large Web Server Farms: Microsoft’s AutoPilot
• Managing Large Web Server Farms: Puppet

Ayende Rahien -

• Series on Patterns for Distributed Hash Tables
• Series on Multi Tenancy
  

Bart D’Smet

• C# 3.0 Feature Focus - Link Collection
• VB 9.0 Feature Focus - Link Collection

Dave Linthicum - A good enterprise architect should see blurry

High scalability site

• The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources
• Distributed Computing & Google Infrastructure

Harry Pierson -IronPython Beta 4 Released

Microsoft JobsBlog - Advice from technical leaders

Nick Malik -Merging EA Frameworks

Shivprasad Koirala

• UML Interview Questions Part 1
• Software Architecture Interview Questions Part 3 State Pattern, Stratergy pattern,Visitor pattern, Adapter and fly weight

Software Engineering Radio -Episode 106: Introduction to AOP

Todd Hoff

• Strategy: Drop Memcached, Add More MySQL Servers
• Strategy: Let Google and Yahoo Host Your Ajax Library - For Free

WMOC#15 - Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 RTM!

Dare Obasanjo - Managing Large Web Server Farms: Microsoft’s AutoPilot

Ayende Rahien -

• Series on Patterns for Distributed Hash Tables
• Series on Multi Tenancy

Bart D’Smet

• C# 3.0 Feature Focus - Link Collection
• VB 9.0 Feature Focus - Link Collection

Brad Abrams - New Web Developer Tips and Tricks Blog

Harry Pierson - Including the Batteries in IronPython - On the release of IronPython Beta 4

Kirk Evans - Security Guidance for WCF Available

Nicholas Allen

• Getting Rid of Namespaces in the serialized xml in data and message contracts
  
• Certificate Revocation Cache
  

Sam Gentile -New and Notable 262, 263, 264,

Videos and Podcasts

• Channel 9
  • Building NBCOlympics.com with Silverlight
  • MVC Preview 4 with Phil Haack
  • Phil Hack On ASP.net MVC
  • William Oellermann on the Managed Services Engine
  • Seema Ramchandani: From Brain Science to Silverlight
• Brad Abrams - PodCast: Glenn Block on Prism, Unity, and MEF
• Carl Franklin - .NET Rocks! #367 - Udi Dahan Scales Web Applications!

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Windows news

Julie Lerman - A Big Day for the Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services teams

Omri Gazitt - Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 RTM Today!

Mary Jo Foley

• Visual Studio 2008 SP1: Why not VS 2009?
• Microsoft (finally) speaks out on ‘Fiji’
• What’s next for Windows Server
• Microsoft finalizes SQL Server 2008

Nicholas Allen - Orcas SP1 Released

Charlie Calvert

• Released: .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit
• Released: Visual Studio Service Pack 1; .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1
• Axialis IconWorkshop Lite for VS 2008

Greg Duncan - Sync Framework v1 RTM’s (and includes ADO.Net Sync Services v2)

Props to link blogs
Christopher Steen
Jason Haley
Chris Alcock
Alvin Ashcraft
Arjan Zuidhof

Technorati tags: wcf, soa, architecture, webServices, .net, REST, WCF

wsdac#14 - Monads for imperative language programmers

Dare Obasanjo

• Paul Graham, Changing the World and “Built to Flip” Startups
• Avoiding the Second System Effect in Software Development

Simon Brown

• Mind the gap again, on the difference between a technical manager and technical lead
• On why architect experience should guide, not constrain technology solutions

Martin Fowler- Dsl Book Roadmap, more on the DSL boook

Ayende Rahien -Building Domain Specific Languages with Boo: Chapter 9 - Versioning

Sean Campbell - Interview with Gabor Cselle - VP of Engineering at Xobni

Haacked - What Integrated Circuits Say About Testing Your Code

Harry Pierson

• Series on monads, [if you are] coming from the object/imperative world of languages like C# [or java], [and] had a hard time wrapping my head around this concept…
• IPy Post 2.0 Roadmap Clarifications

J.D. Meier -On the Lessons Learned from his mentor

Jeff Atwood -On Our Project, We’re Always 90% Done

Jon Udell - How Microsoft’s External Research Division works with a new breed of e-scientists

Mike Taulty - Silverlight 2 and HTML 5 - Being Online/Offline ( Part 2 )

Todd Hoff - A Bunch of Great Strategies for Using Memcached and MySQL Better Together

Videos and Podcasts

Hanselminutes podcast - Tim Bray on Microblogging and Widefinder

Deepfriedbytes.com (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff) - Episode 7: Talking Domain-Driven Design with David Laribee – Part 2