I like to connect things, I always have. Early in my career as a developer things got build and no one ever considered application integration until after the fact. When I started at Microsoft in 2001 nobody was integrating ASP.NET and PHP applications and it seemed like a natural thing to want to do...

I like to connect things, I always have. Early in my career as a developer things got build and no one ever considered application integration until after the fact. When I started at Microsoft in 2001 nobody was integrating ASP.NET and PHP applications and it seemed like a natural thing to want to do...

Security in applications becomes more and more important. To date Microsoft has provided some great SDL resources. Microsoft SDL Process Guidance   SDL Optimization Model The SDL Threat Modeling Tool SDL Pro Network But one consistent request has been for some Visual Studio Integration for SDL....

Though I do allot of PHP development work, I still think ASP.NET is the best option for new web development. Still, it “feels” a bit weird that Microsoft is contributing to these PHP efforts. Did you know that Microsoft is contributing to the PHP Engine ? http://blogs.iis.net/mailant/archive/2009/05...

It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Murach’s books. I’m preparing to record a podcast on data access and so I pickup up this book. In a word – BRILLIANT. It covers the three primary data access technologies that matter to developers using current .NET development tools. Detailed coverage of all three makes...

Really, I should say, lets DESIGN an application together since I’m going to do most of the building so that I can record How-Do-I videos along the way. The idea is to build a feature rich application and use it’s construction as a collaborative learning process as much as possible. (Features, design...

  SyntaxC4 , this one is for you ! I’m planning for some work in NETOOP and digging into the ADO.NET Entity Framework. Since  SyntaxC4 asked for it – here is a list of stuff I’ve found. I have the 1st 3 books below and review will be coming soon. Links MSDN Entity Framework Site   Entity...

Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the latest addition to the p&p library of software engineering guidance: Acceptance Test Engineering Guide, Volume I (BETA 2) Codeplex site: http://codeplex.com/TestingGuidance Here is some of what it covers ! Common Scenarios – How to Plan...

With lots of great feedback I’ve modified the “SiteGlobalSettings” class I wrote about earlier. Though it still uses global static but the values are stored in a Global Resource File. This affords us the superior performance of the mechanism, keeps the “editable” nature of the data, and keeps the simple...

The more I read Julie Lermans Excellent Book “ Programming Entity Framework ” and use the EF, the more certain I am hat EF is the future of data access for .NET Developers. Here are some more resources I’ve been finding useful. Nearly 400 blog posts on EF in my “Data Access” category.  http://thedatafarm...