Yesterday was a great day for the Microsoft developer community: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 have shipped as announced in Soma's weblog you can find more details via my friend Sam Gentile . The Express editions are available from the new Express Developer Center . Now I have to move all my samples...

On my previous post I've listed some of the reasons because of which I believe Microsoft's Managed Services Engine (MSE) can be really useful in Enterprise SOA applications. The existing documentation of MSE emphasizes in the role this technology can play in design time governance scenarios but there...

Microsoft Live Labs continues producing amazing things around internet-centric technologies. Yesterday they announced Volta . Volta is an experimental developer toolset that enables developers to build multi-tier web applications by applying the familiar techniques and patterns of developing .NET applications...

Thanks to all the folks who attended to my session at the New York City Connected Systems User Group . As usual (in that User Group) I got a lot of interesting questions and feedback. Special kudos to Kent Brown who does a phenomenal job running the user group. I will publish the slides and demos early...

Next Monday (17th) I will be speaking at the Microsoft's Connected Systems User Group in New York . This time, I am going to be talking about RESTful services best practices. We are going to cover a broad set of topics ranging from REST fundamental concepts to RESTful services best practices and patterns...

More exciting news from the Orlando Code Camp . My good friend (drum roll... the one, the only J ) Danny del Rio is going to be presenting a session about Enterprise Integration (EAI) Patterns using BizTalk Server R2. Danny has put together a series of cool samples that explore some of the most important...

In a previous post I explained the importance for traditional integration servers and ESBs to embrace REST as one of the architecture styles used to interact and expose resources. For the simplicity of this post (and to avoid starting a religious war J) I am going to use the term ESB as the generic name...

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...

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...

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...