Christian Nagel's OneNotes

Blog moved

CNagel — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 17:50:00 GMT

My blog moved to a new location: http://blogs.thinktecture.com/cnagel

Please update your links!

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Many thanks to Scott Watermasysk - Thinktecture uses Telligent System's CommunityServer. Thanks also go to Buddhike who did all the work to migrate the data from our old blogs.

Christian

Cinema Tickets von Microsoft

CNagel — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:40:00 GMT

Im Jahr 2003 gab's ein Kino-Ticket von Microsoft durch das Schreiben eines Web service clients. Damals war's Matrix Revolutions, das Ticket war ein Code in einer Email. Zwei Jahre nach diesem Event gibt's wieder eine Kinokarte von Microsoft. Diesemal gibt's die Karte einfach durch Registrierung bei MSDN Connection Austria. Die ersten 500 bekommen eine Karte zu diesem Film. Ich bin nicht ganz sicher ob der auch so cool wie Matrix Revolutions ist ;-) - aber wir werden's sehen....

Die richtige Challenge kommt nach diesem Film: da startet ein Coding Contest. Tips für den Coding Contest gibt's nicht nur bei MSDN Connection Austria, sondern auch bei usergroups.at!

Mehr Infos von Mario!

Christian

usergroups.at started

CNagel — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:27:00 GMT

usergroups.at ist eine neue Website für Diskussionen zwischen .NET Entwicklern in Österreich. usergroups.at bietet Diskussionsforen (und ersetzt damit die bis jetzt von Microsoft geführte Site dotnetexperts.at. Außerdem bietet diese Site Informationen und Features der .NET Usergroups in Österreich.

Content ist im Entstehen, Registrierung und Diskussionen in den Foren schon möglich!

usergroups.at wird von INETA Europe und MSDN Connection Austria unterstützt.

Christian

77 Days

CNagel — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:08:00 GMT

77 days to the launch of Visual Studio 2005. Somasgear blogs about upates for Visual Studio 2005:

August: new CTP for Visual Studio 2005
September: Visual Studio 2005 RC1 & Team Foundation Server Beta 3
TFS will ship in Q1 2006
TFS Beta 3 will have a Go Live license!

Christian

C#: The Party Just Started

CNagel — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:55:00 GMT

Calvin Austin wrote an article C#: Is The Party Over? for JDJ. This article has a lot of misleading and wrong information. What can be expected from an article for a Java magazine?

Contrary on that, in my opinion the party just started ;-)

C# 2.0 has great new features, e.g.

Generics
Nullable Types
Anonymous Methods
Yield Statement
Partial Classes
...

For C# 3.0 Microsoft is already working on new features, e.g. a tighter integration between programming languages and databases.

The .NET Developer Journal has an interesting interview with Anders Hejlsberg.

Christian

Nullable Types change the runtime

CNagel — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:55:00 GMT

With Visual Studio 2005, the CTP August 2005 has new runtime features for Nullable types.

Nullable types had unexpected behavior with boxing to Object (null is lost). This behavior could only be changed by changing the runtime.

Somasgear explains with Nulls not missing anymore the problems and reasons to change the runtime that late. Microsoft listens to what the community needs!

Christian

Want some new features with WSCF?

CNagel — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:20:00 GMT

If you want specific new features for WSCF (Web services Contract-First), or discuss existing features of this tool, you can go to the new thinktecture forums!

Christian

Faster Transactions with Enterprise Services...

CNagel — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:53:00 GMT

...if a single database (SQL Server 2005) is used - no DTC needed!

Transaction Promotion and Delegation will be supported by Enterprise Services!

More information in Paul Fallon's Blog Transaction Promotion and Delegation coming soon to ES Transactions in Whidbey.

Christian

Sample chapter about ES Transaction Services at ftponline

Chapter 7 (Transaction Services) for download at ftponline

CNagel — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:02:00 GMT

Chapter 7 of my newest book Enterprise Services with the .NET Framework is available for download at ftponline!

Here are the titles of all chapters:

Introducing .NET Enterprise Services
Object Activation and Contexts
Concurrency
COM Interop
Networking
Data Access
Transaction Services
Compensating Resource Managers
State Management
Queued Components
Loosely Coupled Events
Security
Deployment and Configuration
The Future of Distributed Applications
Case Study

Christian

How should I enter a phone number or email address as a date???

CNagel — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:41:00 GMT

With the schiphol Website schiphol Website (Amsterdam airport) it is possible to receive travel updates with the mobile phone. Doing the registration I received the following error message:

"Please enter a valid e-mail address or mobile phone number
Must be in the format dd-mm-yyyy hh:mm:ss"

How should I add a phone number as a date?

The problem was that the schiphol site does not allow the plus sign, e.g. +43664... with the phone number. 0043664... is required.

Update: it seems that the service doesn't work with non-Dutch phone numbers. It's a long time to go for mobile computing.

Christian

Steve Ballmer on Channel 9!

CNagel — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 07:18:00 GMT

Steve Ballmer was interviewed for channel 9!

The video can be downloaded, the transcript of the chat is here.

Steve answered questions about the evangelism team, blogging, why Microsoft cares about developers, innovation at Microsoft.....

Christian

INETA at Teched Europe

CNagel — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 12:51:00 GMT

How can I start a usergroup?
Is a usergroup near my location?
Why should I join a usergroup?
How does INETA support usergroups?
How can I help INETA Europe?

Meet Damir other INETA volunteers and myself at the INETA booth at TechEd Europe!

Christian

Web Services Contracts

CNagel — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 19:26:00 GMT

Christian Weyer, Beat Schwegler and Maarten Mullender joined forces to create cool articles articles about Web Services contracts.

The first article, Dealing with the "Melted Cheese Effect" is online!

Christian

Thinktecture at TechEd Europe

CNagel — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 21:21:00 GMT

Thinktecture is very busy at TechEd Europe:

Tuesday

12:00, Christian Nagel (& Damir Tomicic), BOF - INETA EMEA Today and Tomorrow
16:30, Christian Nagel, BOF - New Features of C# 2.0: Is New C# Code Too Complex?
16:30, Christian Weyer (& Steve Swartz), CTS356 - Implemeting "Indigo" Endpoints - Addresses, Bindings and Contracts
18:30, Christian Nagel: ATE booth

Wednesday

10:15, Ingo Rammer (& Steve Swartz) - CTS366: Implementing "Indigo" Endpoints - Secure, Reliable, Transacted Messaging
12:00, Ingo Rammer (& Arvindra Sehmi) - CHT028: Performance, Scalability and Availability
13:45, Christian Weyer (& Rafal Lukawiecki, Steve Swartz, Michele Leroux Bustamante, Omri Gazitt) - PNL003: WS-I_M_REALLY_CONFUSED
14:45, Christian Weyer (& Maarten Mullender) - CHT030: Turn Left or Right? How to Best Design Your Web Service Interface

Thursday

14:00, Christian Nagel, ATE booth
14:45, Ingo Rammer - CTS448: Optimizing Scalability, Performance and Availability with Systems Built on the .NET Framework
18:15, Christian Weyer, CTS357: My Home is My Castle: Hosting and Running Your .NET Applications

Friday

11:00, Christian Nagel, ATE booth
16:15, Christian Weyer, CTS465: From Dusk Til Dawn: Choose *Your* Approach to Design and Develop Web Services Applications on the .NET Platform

See you there!

Christian

TechEd Europe - Amsterdam

CNagel — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:11:00 GMT

At TechEd Europe I will present a BOF session about the directions of C#:

BOF012, New Features of C# 2.0: Is New C# Code Too Complex?
Tuesday, 5-July 16:30-17:45

I will also be available for discussions about INETA Europe:

BOF011, INETA EMEA - Today and Tomorrow
Tuesday, 5-July 12:00-13:15

At other times you will find me at the ATE booth.

See you there,
Christian

My newest book: Enterprise Services with the .NET Framework