Please join us on December 10th, 2008, as we present some of the highlights of PDC.  We will be providing overviews of some technologies first discussed at PDC, such as Windows Azure, C# 4.0 and ASP.NET 4.0.  But we will not only be talking about the future.  We will also discuss some...

WCF (Referred to as DUB CF). Content Driven Web Architecture The Browser Generic client experience URI's Addressing and identification HTML Common presentation formal Hyperlinks Anarchic interconnectivity HTTP GET Ubiquitous operation for retrieval (the should be now side effects of a GET) Capability...

Challenges Work is increasingly distributed Coordination code created complexity Coordinating messages with application state Coordinating call to a database or another service Coordinating rain day scenarios Management and tracking of distributed work is difficult What is WF (Dub F)? WF programs coordinate...

Today I was at the session WCF 4.0 Building WCF Service with WF in .NET 4.0 Many new and very interesting features are being built into WCF & WF 4.0. Nowadays in WF it's kind of challenging to make a choice between synchronous and a-synchronous: Synchronous = Simple to author and maintain performs...

LINQ to SQL is fascinating - the more I work with it, the more I hate it, and then love it again all at the same time. Recently we had an issue while using it in a slightly older version of our N-Tier WCF application which uses LINQ to SQL as it's primary ORM solution (yes, I know). I'll try to briefly...

Been a really crazy month with a lot of projects all going into production at once. Finally had some time to blog about the progress on my WCF based ESB: http://www.iserviceoriented.com/blog/post/Building+Our+Own+ESB+-+Publish+Subscribe+Part+5.aspx There's been a ton of interest in the project for something...

I was recently working on a project that used WCF web services extensively. Everything was ready for deployment, I deployed to the remote host, and voila – nothing works (nothing WCF related). After a LOT of frustration, I managed to make it work. I found two areas which were causing the problem: 1....

This is the the third instalment of my experiences and ideas around the development of a piece of software to initially satisfy my disappointment around Outlook and also to allow me to play with some new technologies and making them all work together. Part 1 is here and Part 2 is here . This latest instalment...

Well TechEd Au 2008 is over and done with. I did a presentation called Productive WCF and as promised to all the delegates that attended my presentation (thank you very much for attending by the way), I have provided a link where you can download a ZIP file containing all the demo code. You can download...

In a part 1 of this series , I talked about what was the purpose of coming up with this "software thingy". Now I will tackle some of the design aspects that have evolved as I have been working on it. Just to mention the requirements again though, it must be able to gather and store information from literally...