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Tomorrow Joe Klug will be presenting a session about Microsoft’s Real World SOA vision at the Microsoft’s offices in Downers Grove, IL. As part of the session Joe will present a version of a demo we built last year as an example of how to use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and windows Communication Foudantion to build composite applications on the Microsoft platform. If you are in the Chicago area and you are interested on how to combine Microsoft technologies to achieve Service Orientation you...( read more ) Read More...

Tomorrow my good friend and colleague Joe Klug will be presenting a MSDN WebCast about integrating WCF and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). Joe has prepared a cool set of demos that explore how to integrate WCF services and adapters with MOSS technologies such as Business Data Catalog or SharePoint Workflows. If you are working on MOSS WCF projects this is definitely a MUST SEE WebCast....( read more ) Read More...

Thanks to everyone who attended to my MSDN WebCast about WCF extensibility and special thanks for the great feedback. The recording is now available on MSDN and you can download the samples here ....( read more ) Read More...

I think this has been promoted enough but, in case you haven’t seen it, this Friday I will be presenting my second WebCast as part of the .NET 3.5 influencer’s series . This time I am going to be talking about WCF extensibility. My goal is to cover as many WCF extensibility points as possible and show a LOT OF CODE that details how to create those components :) . I’ve prepared a set of demos that illustrates more than 20 WCF extensibility points that you can leverage as part of your WCF solutions...( read more ) Read More...

On my previous MSDN WebCast I showed a demo of how to use a custom WCF protocol channel to combine Workflow Services and durable messaging transports channels like MSMQ. If you watch the recording of the WebCast you can see the entire demo, but there are some things that I would like to highlight about the structure of the channel. Using durable transports with Workflow Services entails some challenges that should be considered carefully. The first thing is related with the OneWay nature of most...( read more ) Read More...

Thanks to everybody who attended to my MSDN WebCast about WCF-WF integration in depth . You can watch the recording here and the samples are available for download here ....( read more ) Read More...

This Wednesday (25 th ) I will be presenting a MSDN WebCast about deep WCF-WF integration techniques . The session is rated 400 which means that I don't intend to spend too much time on PowerPoint :). Instead, I am planning to cover in depth (meaning code...) some of the WCF-WF extensibility mechanisms that facilitate the integration of those two technologies in real world scenarios beyond just Workflow Services. In terms of features, I plan to talk about Workflow Services (of course), Durable Services...( read more ) Read More...

I've spent a few minutes last night reading this "how to" guideline from IBM, I have to admit that for a while I was affraid that somebody was going to come up with this idea but I really thought that we, as a community, were pass this stage of understanding the fundamental concepts of REST. This is REALLY REALLY bad. In my opinion, the first assumption that is wrong is to assume that RESTful services can be described using the same artifacts that we use to describe traditional Services. I agree...( read more ) Read More...

Teched US is here!!!, this year I am presenting two sessions in the SOA track and I have the honor of co-presenting with my good friend Joe Klug who used to be a Product Manager on the BizTalk Server team. On Tuesday 3 rd I will be presenting a session about Real World Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) scenarios. I am building a cool set of demos that shows some of the non-documented aspects of BAM as well as how to combine BizTalk BAM applications with other technologies such as WCF, MOSS, BI technique...( read more ) Read More...

This release of Enterprise Library for .NET 3.5 & VisualStudio 2008 includes the following: Integration with the Unity Application Block Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) 2.0 support and improved instrumentation Performance improvements Pluggable Cache Manager Visual Studio 2008 support Bug fixes Available here... Read More...