Archives
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WCF Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ book rev
I recently got this book from his author (which I really appreciate) and I must say that I found it very suited for those who want to get started writing WCF services using known patterns and tools.
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Patterns & Practices Redmond Summit 2009
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More ESB Toolkit Videos
Brian posted two new cool videos for the toolkit.
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SOA Patterns With BizTalk Server 2009 (and Biztalk ESB Toolkit)
Over the last weeks after finishing my collaboration with the ESB Toolkit project, I had the chance to read a great book on Biztalk called SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009 by Richard Seroter, an authority on BizTalk topics.
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Biztalk ESB Toolkit - All About Itinerary Designer Security
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Biztalk ESB Toolkit - Useful links
Here are a bunch links that you might find them useful when working with this toolkit.
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Biztalk ESB Toolkit - Itinerary Designer Model Importer
If you are already using the Biztalk ESB Toolkit and have version 1 (V1) itineraries (xml file) and want to create designer models from them, you may use this console application that will import your V1 itineraries and create the model file (.itinerary) along with the designer file (.itinerary.designer).
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Biztalk ESB Toolkit is live!
Finally is out. You can explore the toolkit right from the landing page in MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd897973.aspx and download the installers (x86 and x64) along with all the complete documentation (>100 pages of How to's and even more on SOA patterns and samples).
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Patterns & Practices Summit 2009
Now is live the announcing of the next P&P Summit 2009.
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New .NET 4.0 Security changes
You can take a look at the new v4.0 .NET Framework, and the changes that will be described in Shawn's blog.
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Depend On Patterns and Practices
I just found a nice article on P&P guidelines named "You Can Depend On Patterns and Practices" that Alex Homer wrote on MSDN Magazine - May Edition.
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Nice to have for Enterprise Library 5.0
This community call is a bit old (Jan 09) but just in case you never noticed, here are the posts/links to cast your vote on the new feature you may want to have in the next version of EntLib.
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Hands-on Labs for Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.1 and Unity 1.2
In case you didn't notice yet, there are new HOLs for EntLib 4.1 and Unity 1.2.
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Run as different user in Vista
Very useful script for adding this feature back to Windows Vista in case the "Run as Administrator" may not fit your needs :)
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Broken or missing project templates in Visual Studio 2008 or 2005
After my last system restore, I got this annoying issue when I opened a VS solution with test projects and some other project types. This is basically becasue of the "broken templates" issue. I came across
this post(Update: may be this for VS2010, or this for older versions, or this one for VS2012) that describes the problem and solution which in my case simply fixed running this command devenv /InstallVSTemplates from a Visual Studio command prompt with admin privs (for Vista). -
DSL model gradient background
In one of my recent DSL projects I was looking a way to get that nice gradient background that you can find in the Visual Studio DSL designer like the figure below:
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X509 Certificate validation
Some time ago I was looking for some way to validate an X509 certificate and for my surprise I couldn't find any good method to do this pretty common task. I know that the X509Certificate2 class has a Verify method but is rather limited in terms of validation options and scope. I also know that the X509Chain class can give some good validation but basically scoped to the certificates in the chain and the many options it has may take some time to get them right. Then I remembered that WCF already provides a good and configurable certificate validation API in the form of "<authentication>" element like the configuration section below: