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Some notes on ClickOnce
12 May 05 03:36 PM | madsn | 4 comment(s)

In my sessions on smart clients the past weeks the ClickOnce seems to be the topic that generates the most questions. I'll try to clarify some of the issues here. Application Permissions and ClickOnce One of the main concerns people have is how a user...

Filed under: .NET General, Architecture, Patterns & Practices, ASP.NET, Office System

Please don't do Client/Server with Smart Client technology
05 May 05 03:06 PM | madsn | 8 comment(s)

I'm currently talking about Smart Clients around Norway and I've been focusing on the architectural aspects of Smart Client technology. Recently Clemens posted about much the same topic . For a long time Service Oriented Architecture has been sold as...

Filed under: .NET General, Architecture, Patterns & Practices, Office System

Smart Client sessions at Microsoft Days
29 April 05 05:41 PM | madsn | with no comments

Yesterday I held three sessions at the quartely Microsoft Days ( Microsoftdagene ) event in Oslo. In three sessions we covered Smart Clients in the Service Oriented Architecture, todays technologystack, and the features of the upcoming technology stack...

Filed under: .NET General, Architecture, Patterns & Practices, Office System

Some changes on the new year
13 January 05 04:27 PM | madsn | 1 comment(s)

Entering the new year my colleague Anders inspired me to join the crowd of good samaritans. A task postponed far too long. Suffering from severe cruft I formatted my box and started out with clean sheets. This gave me the opportunity to start developing...

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Testing private methods - Shortcuts will cut you
18 September 04 12:26 PM | madsn | 1 comment(s)

Anders dissects the testing features of Team System, and seems quite pleased with what he finds. The subject of testing private methods became quite a hot potatoe at James Newkirks BoF at TechEd this year. For me the whole point of writing tests is to...

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Using an XmlPublisher in the ExceptionManagement ApplicationBlock
03 June 04 11:12 AM | madsn | with no comments

I've been using the Microsoft ExceptionManagement ApplicationBlock and I spent some time creating a nice ExceptionXmlPublisher because the one described in the docs has some flaws. Using the xml publisher removes the need to run the EventLog installer...

Filed under: .NET General, Architecture, Patterns & Practices, Continous Integration

Delivering presentation over Web Services with WSRP
19 February 04 09:19 PM | madsn | 2 comment(s)

I recently was asked to talk about the possibilities of implementing a WSRP consumer on the .NET platform. And suprisingly, it has very little to do with Web Services Routing Protocol. "Web Services for Remote Portlets" is the OASIS specification name...

Filed under: .NET General, Architecture, Patterns & Practices, Java/J2EE related, ASP.NET, Office System

Code organization, namespaces, components and so forth
30 June 03 05:06 PM | madsn | 3 comment(s)

When working with Java at least one thing is pretty straight forward. You use packages and they have to map directly to directories on the harddrive. .NET is nicer and allows you to do whatever with sourcefiles, namespaces and project files. This can...

Filed under: .NET General, Architecture, Patterns & Practices, Java/J2EE related

MVC Pattern for Windows Forms
21 March 03 02:10 PM | madsn | with no comments

I've been working with implementing a MVC pattern for a WinForms app that got unmanagable lately. I'm currently trying out the solution and it seems to have something going for it. Maybe all this is old news for the more hardcore winows programmers out...

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SOA and good architectures with Microsoft
14 March 03 02:34 AM | madsn | with no comments

David Plummer, group vice president of Gartner Inc says: The .NET architecture won't be used to the best advantage in enterprise systems unless Microsoft places greater emphasis on educating developers on how to build service-oriented systems. Until it...

Filed under: .NET General, Architecture, Patterns & Practices