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PDC is here again! This year my friend and colleague Don Demsak and Andrew Brust will be presenting a business intelligence (BI) workshop covers some of the fundamental patterns and techniques that can help developers to build modern BI applications in the Microsoft platform. Specifically, the workshop will focus on how to merge the traditional aspects of BI solutions such as analytics, reporting, data aggregation into widely adopted technologies like SharePoint Server and Office in general. If you...( read more ) Read More...

I’m in Las Vegas this week for the DevConnections conference and wanted to get the slides and code posted for the talks as I give them.  This time around I’m talking about Silverlight (including a full-day workshop), the new Microsoft Ajax Library script loader and template feature and RIA Services.  Silverlight 3 Workshop Getting Started with Silverlight 3 Using RIA Services Using the Microsoft Ajax Library Script Loader and Template Features Read More...

The Sydney Architecture User Group is having its second meeting this month on Thursday, 26th November. Full details can be found on our new (but very simple) website located here ( http://thesaug.org ). You can subscribe to the monthly email and also indicate your intention to come by selecting the RSVP option (which would be really nice if you did :-) ) Here is what the next Sydney Architecture meeting has in store. Hope to see you there. Why Windows Azure is not just Generic Brand Web Hosting Presenter Nick Randolph Date/Time: Thursday 26/11/2009 06:00 PM Where: Grace Hotel , Function Room 77 York st Sydney,NSW. 2000 Abstract If you take only a glimpse at the offerings on the Windows Azure platform it may just appear to be a form of generic...

There is a sample chapter from my upcoming book on all things performance related within the Microsoft platform. Specifically, the book will be about performance testing, profiling and optimisation for web and desktop applications developed using Microsoft.NET. This sample chapter is just a teaser and the book itself goes into great detail about how to setup a performance test rig using Visual Studio, how to record, manage and analyse performance metrics, and what you can change to make your apps fly. Anyways, the sample chapter is located here . ( http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/performance/understanding-performance-profiling-targets/ ) Hope you like it. Read More...

Next Tuesday (November 10th) my colleague Uri Katsir will be presenting a session at the South Florida BizTalk Users Group about improving agility in large BizTalk environments using the ESB toolkit. If you are a BizTalk developer or operations architect working on complex BizTalk deployments you MUST attend Uri's session . In order to keep things in perspective, Uri has prepared a series of interesting demos that illustrate the techniques used to improve the development and management experience...( read more ) Read More...

Microsoft has released a final version of its book “ Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition ”. The book is described as: This guide is available online here in the MSDN Library and will be available in the Fall of 2009 as a Microsoft Press book, ISBN# 9780735627109, that you can purchase through local and online booksellers. The guide is intended to help developers and solution architects design and build effective, high quality applications using the Microsoft platform and the .NET Framework more quickly and with less risk; it provides guidance for using architecture principles, design principles, and patterns that are tried and trusted. The guidance is presented in sections that correspond to major architecture and design focus...

My new article, which I've been preparing over the last few months, is now available. It's about memory and resources leaks in .NET . You'll find it in English on MSDN and in French on DotNetGuru.org . It's also available in PDF in English and in French . Here is the table of content: Introduction Leaks? Resources? What do you mean? How to detect leaks and find the leaking resources Common memory leak causes Common memory leaks causes demonstrated How to avoid leaks Tools Conclusion Resources Despite what a lot of people believe, it's easy to introduce memory and resources leaks in .NET applications. The Garbage Collector, or GC for close friends, is not a magician who would completely relieve you from taking care of your...

My friend and colleague Uri Katzir just joined the blogosphere. Uri is a BizTalk wizard who is currently working on one of the biggest BizTalk implementations in the world. We are extremely proud to have him as part of our technical staff at Tellago . Uri has already posted a couple of interesting write-ups about ESB itineraries troubleshooting and deployment techniques....( read more ) Read More...

While the release of Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 is getting all of the attention this week, version 2.0 of the Microsoft Sync Framework was also released this week and can be downloaded from here ....( read more ) Read More...

As the WCF team already announced, the first chapter of the WCF Extensibility Guidance is now available on MSDN . This paper is the result of an effort I started a few months ago with my colleague and friend Pablo Cibraro . Our goal was to provide a detailed guidance of the major extensibility points of the WCF runtime. In that sense, we decided to cover major areas of the WCF extensibility programming model such as channels, client-dispatcher, security, hosting, metadata, RESTful service and even...( read more ) Read More...