Christian Weyer: Smells like service spirit

I have been talking to a big number of customers who were asking whether we can extend the SDM in VSTS Architect – e.g. the Distributed System Designers … well, until now I always said: „Hopefully some day, yes. But nothing for real currently”.

This is history. Microsoft released the portal site for the System Definition Model (SDM) SDK!

The System Definition Model (SDM) provides a critical technology component of the long-term Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI) roadmap that will make IT systems dramatically easier—and orders of magnitude less costly—to develop, deploy, and operate. It will provide the unifying thread enabling integrated innovation from Microsoft and our partners across application development tools, operating systems, applications, hardware, and management tools. Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects is a core deliverable of the DSI, which leverages the SDM to allow developers and architects to define service-oriented applications that will be configured into systems for deployment. Using the SDM SDK, you can extend the models included with the Distributed System Designers in Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects, which use SDM to model and validate distributed application systems for deployment into logical datacenter configurations. The System Definition Model SDK is part of the Visual Studio 2005 SDK.

Huh?

http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/

"Some students at MIT wrote a program called SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator. From their website: SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. What's amazing is that one of their randomly generated paper was accepted to WMSCI 2005. Now they are accepting donation to fund their trip to the conference and give a randomly generated talk."

http://science.slashdot.org/science/05/04/13/1723206.shtml?tid=133&tid=146&tid=14

Buddy Kirk has released some very cool VS.NET project templates for WSE 2.0. If you are doing Web Services programming with WSE, go and grab them!

This installation provides item templates for WSE 2.0 SoapClient, SoapService, and SoapReceiver classes.  Adding an item to a project automatically adds references to microsoft.web.services2.dll, system.xml.dll, and system.web.services.dll 

Our friend Aaron from PluralSight did what I was supposed to write up for a long time… so, well: Thanks Aaron for doing my job. ;)

The first part of his two parts series is now online. I have a feeling that the upcoming second part might also cover one or the other tool in this space…?

Steve rocks us with first-class information on Indigo message encoding and serialization. XML (and SOAP, for that matter) as the InfoSet and then you decide how ‘to write it down’. Just be sure to write it as angle brackets for interop’ing. Must read.

*The* man behind Indigo: come and see what Steve Swartz (yes, his blog is totally dead…) has to tell us about an introduction to his baby on MSDN TV.