Posted Fri, 16 May 2008 22:21:09 +0000
By Udi Dahan

“So, which services do I need?” This innocuous question comes up a lot. Usually I get this question after a short problem domain description. One of these came up on the nServiceBus discussion groups. Ayende took it and ran with it turning it into a nice blog post, An exercise in designi... (More)

Posted Fri, 16 May 2008 11:30:57 GMT
By Sam Gentile

.NET/Visual Studio 2008 How to Download all of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 The Release of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 will Install over SP1 Beta XLinq’n in the New World - Speed Comparison with Xml/XPath (Derik Whittaker)  [via Alvin] Did you know… You can hide or show hidden mem... (More)

Posted Thu, 15 May 2008 14:32:15 GMT
By Stephen W. Thomas

Recently I have gotten a rare chance to step away from writing word documents and working with Visio to get to do some exciting BizTalk testing. As part of my testing, I was pushing BizTalk and various Adapters until they failed.  In doing so, sometimes this caused some odd side effects. Recent... (More)

Posted Thu, 15 May 2008 12:35:52 GMT
By Hammad Rajjoub

I will be presenting a dev track @ Heroes Community Launch by Singapore .Net User Group (www.sgdotnet.org). I will be talking about web programming using WCF and .net 3.5. I will be doing demoes highlighting REST, JSON and Syndication part of the API.... (More)

Posted Thu, 15 May 2008 12:14:32 GMT
By Kirk Allen Evans

As I work with various telcos, I have run across opportunities to integrate .NET solutions with Tibco infrastructures on a number of occasions.  Particularly, this crops up around OSS/BSS in the telcos.  I was very happy to hear that Tibco has announced a WCF channel that enables .NET appl... (More)

Posted Thu, 15 May 2008 11:54:00 GMT
By Sam Gentile

TDD/Unit Testing TypeMock continues to grow - MbUnit "Gallo" announces built in support for Typemock Isolator Here's a nice post on Mocking Web Services with it And another Typemock post - Automated Unit tests in my life - beginning Typemock Isolator 4.2.4 is out Windows Workflo... (More)

Posted Thu, 15 May 2008 11:41:56 GMT
By Sam Gentile

David continues his series, "In my previous post I discussed the importance of topics in Neuron and how each topic is implemented as an individual publish-subscribe network, called a topic network. Topic networks are based on a modular channel model and can be powered by technologies ranging ... (More)

Posted Wed, 14 May 2008 13:29:03 GMT
By Sam Gentile

David continues his series, "Today I’d like to talk about how Neuron ESB implements publish-subscribe over topics. Topics are important in Neuron both logically and architecturally. Logically, topics model business conversations and are an important tool for organizing information. Archit... (More)

Posted Wed, 14 May 2008 09:44:00 GMT
By Aaron Skonnard

Another new WCF feature that's part of .NET 3.5 SP1 has to do with better support for object references. DataContractSerializer has always supported serializing object references and dealing with graphs, including cycles, and not just simple trees. But doing so is not the default behavior -- yo... (More)

Posted Wed, 14 May 2008 05:41:00 GMT
By K. Scott Allen

Nothing can compare to the Real Power of programming with attributes. Why, just one pair of square brackets and woosh – my object can be serialize to XML. Woosh – my object can persist to a database table. Woosh – there goes my object over the wire in a digitally signed SOAP payload. One day I expec... (More)