wmoc

Sep 5 2008   2:46AM GMT

WMOC#18 - Microsoft Solver Foundation released

Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
Architecture, f#, framework, c#, WCF, Web services, photosynth, wmoc

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

Aug 28 2008   1:48AM GMT

WMOC#17 - PhotoSynth, Reflector move forward

Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
SOA, photosynth, Architecture, cardspaces, framework, c#, LINQ, WCF, Web services, wmoc

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

Aug 21 2008   4:05AM GMT

WMOC#16 - Continuations, Currying and Recursion

Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
Architecture, Design, framework, saas, c#, LINQ, WCF, Web services, wmoc

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

Aug 12 2008   9:00PM GMT

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

Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
SOA, Architecture, Design, framework, c#, Visual Basic, WCF, Languages, wmoc

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

Aug 6 2008   2:54AM GMT

wmoc#14 - Framework designer tools and Oslo at the PDC

Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
SOA, framework, Architecture, Design, f#, Development, c#, REST, WCF, Web services, Patterns, wmoc

Ayende Rahien - Thinking about Cloud Computing

Brad Abrams - New Tools for Framework Designers Published

Chris Sells - A list of Oslo talks at the PDC

Greg Duncan - WCF/Improving Web Services Security Guide Released

Harry Pierson - Has a series of posts on Monads

J.D. Meier - On Model-Driven Approaches to software development

Keith Brown -Better exception reporting in ASP.NET part 2

Nicholas Allen - On why System Types should not be a part of a services’ Metadata

Sam Gentile -Pluralsight BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Course and Jon’s REST Book, NYC

Scott Hanselman

• The Weekly Source Code 31- Single Instance WinForms and Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll
• Learning WPF with BabySmash - Manually Managing ClickOnce and some more Designer Goodness

Videos and Podcasts
Ron Jacobs - endpoint.tv - SOAP and REST a Perspective

Channel 9 -Service Oriented Modeling with Blair Shaw and Hatay Tuna

Deepfriedbytes.com (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff) -Episode 8: Behind the Scenes at Microsoft.com

Hanselminutes Podcast - Tim Bray on Microblogging and Widefinder

RunAs Radio #69 - RunAs Radio #69 - Brian Randell Educates Us On Virtualization Services for Developers!

Channel9 - Visual Basic Language Design Meeting

Charlie Calvert - Video: New Error Checking Feature in Visual Studio Service Pack 1

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

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

Jul 30 2008   3:45AM GMT

WMOC#13 - REST Twitter Client With WCF

Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
SOA, Architecture, Design, f#, agile, c#, LINQ, REST, Visual Basic, WCF, Web services, Languages, Patterns, wmoc

Dominick Baier - WCF Claims to “Zermatt” Claims Migration Story

Ayende Rahien

• Layered ‘Onion’ Architecture
• Some observations on saving to file
• Some finalizer pitfalls

Charlie Calvert

• Community Convergence XLV,
• Video: New Error Checking Feature in Visual Studio Service Pack 1
• LINQ Farm: More on the LINQ Aggregate Operators

Edward Bakker -Service Factory Contrib Project

Harry Pierson -Morning Coffee 171 - Languages related news roundup

J.D. Meier -Agile Guidance

Josh Smith -Improvements made to my MVVM commanding solution

Kirk Evans - Creating a REST Twitter Client With WCF

Nicholas Allen

• Web Address Filters
• WCF Debugger Visualization
• Help with Security Programming

Ron Jacobs - Endpoint.tv - Getting Control of the URI with RESTful WCF Services

Sam Gentile -New and Notable 256, 257, 258, 259,

Scott Hanselman

• Make your Website Mobile and iPhone Friendly - Add Home Screen iPhone Icons and Adjust the ViewPort,
• Learn How to use NHibernate with the Summer of NHibernate Screencast Series

Udi Dahan - NServiceBus Explanations

News and videos

Mary Jo Foley

• How will Microsoft spend its multicore millions?
• Ozzie foreshadows ‘Zurich’™ Microsoft’s elastic cloud
• Microsoft splits its Platforms & Services unit in two

Nik Cubrilovic -Mass Reorg at Microsoft Platforms & Services Division

Don Box -Microsoft Sponsors Apache Software Foundation!

Mike Taulty - Added (Updated) ADO.NET Data Services Videos to C9

Via Channel9 - Jasmine Park: SkyDriving User Experience, Visual Basic Language Design Meeting

Code Magazine - Visual Studio Platform and Extensibility
Props to link blogs
Christopher Steen
Jason Haley
Chris Alcock
Alvin Ashcraft
Arjan Zuidhof

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

Jul 22 2008   8:36PM GMT

WMOC#12 - Terrarium is back!

Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
Architecture, Design, Development, agile, c#, LINQ, WCF, Web services, wmoc, Languages, Patterns

Dominick Baier - Try “Zermatt” and give Feedback

Daniel Cazulino - The need for nullable reference types to advertise optional constructor dependencies

Clemens Vaster -Announcing the Microsoft Code-Name “BizTalk Services” R12 Release

Ayende Rahien - [Unstable code] So you think you are safe…, [Unstable code] Why timeouts doesn’t mean squat…, Distributed in memory cache / storage, Patterns for using distributed hash tables: Groups, Patterns for using distributed hash tables: Locking

Dan - David Steere and Trevor Robinson: How Live Mesh P2P Syncing Works

Simon Guest - .NET Terrarium - it’s BAAAAAACK!

FransBouma - The evil of the Office UI ribbon license

Phil Haack - IronRuby With ASP.NET MVC Working Prototype, Notes on ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 4

Krzysztof Cwalina - API Design Myth: Exceptions are for “Exceptional Errors”, Nullable<T> Usage Guidelines

Loraine Lawson - Best Explanation of Oslo So Far

Mike Taulty - Experiments in Building a Silverlight Photo Control ( Part 1 )

Nicholas Allen - W-Standards Guide,  Finding a Client Channel

Matthew Podwysocki - Recursing into List Processing

Sam Gentile - New and Notable 252,  New and Notable 253, New and Notable 254,  New and Notable 255,  How Can I Help You With Your WCF/WF/Neuron/Messaging Needs Today?

Scott Hanselman

• The Weekly Source Code Spark and NHaml,
• Learning WPF with BabySmash - Making Assumptions and When to Turn to Books, Making a Transparent Window with Substance,  Customer Feedback and a WPF Font ComboBox,
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 - Using Ajax and Ajax.Form,
• New Modules for IIS7: Application Request Routing - Proxy and Load Balancing Module,
• Learning Opportunity - .NET Terrarium is back!

Udi Dahan - Durable Messaging Dilemmas

Vittorio bertocci -  Issuing smartcard backed managed cards… using Zermatt, Setting up a quick & dirty STS which supports smartcard backed managed cards… using Zermatt

David Chappell Interview on Software+Services development

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

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

Jul 16 2008   9:15PM GMT

WMOC#11 - Zermatt!

Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
SOA, Architecture, Design, c#, LINQ, REST, WCF, Web services, Security, wmoc

Steve Maine - Zermatt: Claims-based identity for ASP.NET (and more!)

Vittorio Bertocci - Announcing the Beta release of “Zermatt” Developer Identity Framework

Dominick Baier - CLR Security Site on Codeplex, Skiing in “Zermatt”

Dare Obasanjo -Network Attached Memory: Terracota as an Alternative to Memcached

Charlie Calvert -LINQ Farm: More on Set Operators

J.D. Meier -Software Guidance Share

Jeff Atwood -Monkeypatching For Humans

Jon Udell -Will people understand and embrace the right identity systems? Maybe yes!

Keith Brown -Introducing Microsoft Code Name Zermatt

Nicholas Allen -Hosting Queued Services in IIS

Matthew Podwysocki -Aspects of Functional Programming in C# Presentation and Code

Sam Gentile -New and Notable 251,

Scott Hanselman -Learning WPF with BabySmash - MVC or MVP and the Benefits of a Designer, Back To Basics - Everyone Remember Where We Parked (that memory)!

Scott Guthrie -ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Release (Part 1)

Tom Hollander -MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting them to play nice (Part 1), Part 2, Part 3

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

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

Jul 9 2008   4:39PM GMT

WMOC#10 - Composite application guidance for WPF is out!

Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
Architecture, Design, LINQ, REST, SOA, Web services, wmoc, Patterns, Development, Languages

Dominick Baier - Continues the identity model series  Useful Extension Methods for Serializing Claim Sets, Serializing Claim Sets

Dare Obasanjo - Comments on the choice of xml to Jeff Atwoods “In Defense of XML“

Alvin Ashcraft - .NET Developers Reference Card Roundup

Bart De Smet -A Lap Around Microsoft “Velocity” - Cache It NOW!

Simon Guest - Links to a new WCF + WF blog

Krzysztof Cwalina - POCO Support for MEF

Kirk Evans - Joe DeCarlo on The Microsoft Certified Architect Program

Mary Jo Foley - On Microsoft’s Midori project

Mike Taulty - On LINQ to SQL, Concurrency and Timestamps

Nicholas Allen - Adding Headers to a Call (HTTP Version),   Adding Headers to a Call,  Web Service Webcasts in July

Microsoft Patterns & Practices: Composite Application Guidance for WPF
Sam Gentile - Asks if Microsoft’s SOA is adequate?

Scott Hanselman - In the Back to Basics series talks about if namespace using directives affect Assembly Loading?, The Weekly Source Code 30 - VB.NET with XML Literals as a View Engine for ASP.NET MVC

Udi Dahan - MSDN Magazine Article On Losing Data

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

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

Jun 30 2008   10:16PM GMT

WMOC#9 - Lamdas and extension method scoping

Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
SOA, c#, Architecture, Design, Development, Visual Basic, WCF, Web services, Languages, Patterns, wmoc

Oren Eini - Batching WCF Calls, NMemcached: An experiment to try and develop memcached using WCF

Charlie Calvert - On how Extension Methods work and are Scoped, Lambdas, and anonymous delegates and method signatures

Mary Jo Foley - Do you need to be a programmer to run a software company?
Nicholas Allen - JSON Serialization and its impact on Service Speed, Repairing the 3.5 framework using command line tools, Tool : PInvoke Interop Assistant
Ron Jacobs - Locking in SqlWorkflowPersistenceService, Using Windows Workflow with WCF on a Load Balanced Server Farm
Sam Gentile - Capital Area .NET UG Presntation in  Virginia/Washington

Scott Hanselman -

• Hanselminutes Podcast 119 - What Is Done? with Scrum Co-Creator Ken Schwaber,
• Implementing HTTP File Upload with ASP.NET MVC including Tests and Mocks, 
• NotNorthwind - Update #1 - All Your Northwind Are Belong To Us,
• Is var the same as Dim in VB?

Udi Dahan - On why Object Relational Mapping Sucks!

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

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