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Domain models, services and design: about viewpoints, explicitness and first-class citizens
Please take a look at what Ganesh has to say about the principle of the "Viewpoint Flip" and how it enables you to better approach the design of services (let's not use 'SOA' too much in this context...): crisp and all-there-is-to-say.My opinion in the Read More
posted Sunday, March 02, 2008 2:58 PM with 0 Comments

thinktecture & DevelopMentor: Guerilla Enterprise .NET Kurs in München
Geballtes Know-How - für Sie!thinktecture und DevelopMentor kündigen im Rahmen einer Partnerschaft das erste in Deutschland stattfindende "Enterprise .NET"-Event an. Es wird in der Woche vom 26. Mai 2008 in München stattfinden und im berühmt-berüchtigten Read More
posted Friday, February 22, 2008 7:27 PM with 0 Comments

ADO.NET Data Services are not tied to databases
Just to make this point very clear:ADO.NET Data Services (aka 'Astoria') is not tied to a database, not tied to relational data and surely not tied to the ADO.NET Entity Framework. *Data* in 'Data Service' doesn’t mean 'Database', but it literally just Read More
posted Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:45 AM with 1 Comments

Rich on Volta's tier splitting: Halleluja!
Usually, I do not post just "+1"... but this time - and I have been fighting with myself not to rant too much about Volta - I am 100% with Rich.I just think there is too much "Oh, that is easy: just one attribute and a switch and I'm done"-mantra in there...Well, Read More
posted Thursday, December 13, 2007 1:28 PM with 1 Comments

ADO.NET Data Services ("Astoria") InstanceContextMode
Quick note:Astoria services are PerCall by default. A data service derives from WebDataService<T> which looks like this:[ServiceBehavior(InstanceContextMode=InstanceContextMode.PerCall)][AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode=AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Allowed)]public Read More
posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 10:36 PM with 0 Comments

ADO.NET Data Services ("Astoria") Service Metadata
You can access the SSDL (ADO.NET Entity Framework's store schema definition language, and *not* this one here) of your Astoria Data Service by appending $metadata to the base URL, like this:http://localhost:7777/Services/Data/NW/$metadata This Read More
posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 8:05 PM with 2 Comments

LINQ-to-REST
The latest Astoria / ADO.NET Data Services CTP also includes a client-side library with support for creating LINQ queries against a REST API - very interesting.Details can be found here. Read More
posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 3:34 PM with 2 Comments

Self-Hosting Your ADO.NET Data Services ("Astoria") Services
The official ADO.NET Data Services (hm, am I the only who thinks that this - again - is not a perfect name...?) documentation doesn't alk about and doesn't show how to self-host your Astoria services - the samples and quickstarts always use ASP.NET/IIS Read More
posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 12:24 PM with 10 Comments

Mapping types in a WF workflow: the MapperActivity
Rich, Jörg and myself had a lot fun building this baby: being able to have an activity to graphically map source and destination objects and properties and not having to resort to a CodeActivity. A little bit like the Biztalk Server mapping editor in Read More
posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 11:23 AM with 0 Comments

Dealing with OS privilege 'issues' in WCF Named Pipes scenarios
For whom this ever may be useful - I fighted a long time against this... (and got support from the WCF team, BTW)We have this very vast .NET 3.x end-to-end sample application which covers nearly all of the (senseful :)) features in the .NET Framework. Read More
posted Friday, December 07, 2007 11:46 AM with 0 Comments

The future of WSCF (and the forums)
Some heads up wrt to WSCF - this is what I just posted over at the thinktecture forums (which have been quiet from our side for a loooong time, sorry).Hello everybody, first of all I really need to apologize the long silence in these forums here - sorry! Read More
posted Monday, December 03, 2007 9:16 AM with 0 Comments

Beyond the Obvious: New Features and Fixes for WCF in .NET 3.5 - JSON support
Alright, next round in this mini-series.WCF in .NET 3.5 contains a new serializer for handling with JSON-based data. With the so called DataContractJsonSerializer we can serialize and deserialize JSON packets based on DataContract descriptions. The new Read More
posted Tuesday, November 06, 2007 12:15 AM with 4 Comments

Beyond the Obvious: New Features and Fixes for WCF in .NET 3.5 - Expanded WS-* specs support
OK, here is the next one in the list of new features in WCF "v2".There are two new out-of-the-box bindings covering updated/new  WS-* specs: WS2007HttpBinding WS2007FederationHttpBinding and the respective binding elements: WS2007HttpBindingElement Read More
posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 7:33 PM with 2 Comments

Beyond the Obvious: New Features and Fixes for WCF in .NET 3.5 - Custom username over transport security
Now, this is an easy blog post for me!My friend and thinktecture's security consultant Dominick Baier has asked me whether he can blog about this important security-related WCF topic: yep, of course :)Go and read his entry as he was one of the first to Read More
posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:32 AM with 7 Comments

Microsoft's Oslo: What is the fuss all about? Some explanations
Read this - not very technical, but obviously shows the whole idea and vision of Oslo. Finally Microsoft wakes up in this whole area.What always helps, at least for me, is a roadmap of what we might see when. Here we go (from the PDF to download here): Read More
posted Tuesday, October 30, 2007 8:53 PM with 19 Comments

Microsoft starts embracing Good Old Europe - first stop: Oslo
The big shop based in Redmond announced a new and upcoming platform for SO(A) at its SOA and Business Process Conference. And its codename is Oslo.The project code-named Oslo will deliver updated messaging and workflow technologies in the next version Read More
posted Tuesday, October 30, 2007 7:34 PM with 4 Comments

Missing pieces to the SO(A) puzzle: Microsoft Managed Services Engine (MSE)
Finally, this is made public - about time guys! The Managed Services Engine from Microsoft.The Managed Services Engine (MSE) is one approach to facilitating Enterprise SOA through service virtualization. Built upon the Windows Communication Foundation Read More
posted Tuesday, October 30, 2007 6:29 PM with 2 Comments

Beyond the Obvious: New Features and Fixes for WCF in .NET 3.5 (and .NET 3.0 SP1)
With .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 being quite close to RTM these days, I thought it would be time to write a bit about what is new for WCF in .NET 3.5 and .NET 3.0 SP1. This entry just lays the ground for a couple of follow-ups which will go a bit Read More
posted Monday, October 29, 2007 3:47 PM with 34 Comments

RESTful robots
Cool. Pragmatic. Read More
posted Saturday, July 28, 2007 12:38 PM with 0 Comments

Improving WCF Interoperability: Flattening your WSDL
WCF is surely a big step forward for having a unified communication runtime, API and hosting model. And with all these super-exciting specifications and standards supported WCF must be a killer when it comes to interoperability with other Read More
posted Thursday, May 10, 2007 7:44 PM with 13 Comments

Cannot get latest BizTalk Services SDK (May 2) working?
... and you had a previous version installed? Try this (courtesy David Wortendyke):Uninstall the current SDK by running BizTalk Services SDK Setup.exe.Go to <WindowsDir>\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG and open machine.config. Go to the Read More
posted Friday, May 04, 2007 7:24 PM with 0 Comments

When you think things are not possible: WCF duplex callbacks through NATs and firewalls - safe and secure
NATs (Network Address Translation) prevents the private IP address of your home and/or work PC to be exposed to the big wild and bad Internet. The only thing nodes outside of the NAT-shielded network can see is the IP address of the NAT-capable Read More
posted Friday, April 27, 2007 9:48 PM with 22 Comments

Session materials for DevWeek 2007
Here are finally the session materials of my two talks at DevWeek 2007. As always, this conference rocked!Thaks to everybody who attaended my sessions. Read More
posted Thursday, March 08, 2007 3:42 PM with 2 Comments

Unterlagen für OOP 2007
Vielen Dank für die Teilnahme an meinemVortrag Software-Factory-gestützte Realisierung Service-orientierter Anwendungen unter .NET auf der OOP 2007. Wie angekündigt, erhalten Sie auf dieser Seite die Unterlagen.Ich würde mich über Ihre Kommentare, Read More
posted Friday, January 26, 2007 9:53 AM with 0 Comments

Web Service Software Factory v2 (for ASMX and WCF)
It is here.The Web Service Software Factory (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of tools, patterns, source code and prescriptive guidance that helps our customers quickly and consistently construct Web services that adhere Read More
posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 7:40 AM with 4 Comments

[Release] WSCF 0.7 - with support for XSD-based code generation
WSCF 0.7 was just released. Enjoy!New Features in v0.7Generate data transfer object/data contract code from schema descriptions in XSD or WSDL files - via the VS 2005 add-in and the command line tool.This build also includes several important fixes, e.g.:SOAP Read More
posted Friday, November 17, 2006 9:27 PM with 1 Comments

Demo application from TechEd Developers 2006
First of all, thanks a lot for attending my session at TechEd Developers 2006 in Barcelona. Although I should not have done it (I was sick at that day and got on stage just with a load of... well, drugs), I promised you to provide you with the demo application Read More
posted Friday, November 17, 2006 7:22 PM with 0 Comments

Straight-forward WCF duplex communication over MSMQ?
My friend Mike Taulty has recently posted a cool post about his attempt to create a WCF extension to leverage the duplex programming model over MSMQ. This is a really interesting area (and of course has a huge potential) and at thinktecture labs I and Read More
posted Friday, October 27, 2006 8:19 PM with 5 Comments

WSCF 0.7: Looking for three *thorough* testers!
OK, you may have realized that WSCF is a side-project these days - mostly due to the fact that we are deeply involved in very interesting projects in the service-orientation and workflow space.But now we found some free time to integrate the most wanted Read More
posted Monday, September 25, 2006 3:21 PM with 3 Comments

Flexible notifications with WCF duplex communication in your application architecture
OK, this does not happen too often, but I am copying here part of a thread and especially my answer from the MSDN WCF forums. Without further ado, let's go... ------- Hello All, I'm looking for some design guidance about WCF. I want to build an application Read More
posted Sunday, July 23, 2006 10:55 AM with 2 Comments

Commenting problems
Sorry, we have strange problems when people want to comment on our posts. If you have submitted a comment in the last few weeks and it did not show up here, feel free to contact me.Sorry again. Read More
posted Friday, July 21, 2006 4:32 PM with 1 Comments

Sie wollen WinFX, uups: .NET Framework 3.0, lernen und im Einsatz sehen?
Kein Problem.thinktecture und newtelligence bieten das TornadoCamp WinFX an. Was soll ich sagen? Das Who-Is-Who in den prominenten Bereichen von .NET Framework 3.0 im deutschsprachigen Raum steht Ihnen eine ganze Woche lang zur Verfügung. 16.-20.10.2006: Read More
posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 12:00 AM with 0 Comments

MSDN WebCast: 'Dissecting Contract-First Web Services' Post-Mortem
If you are interested in the slides from my MSDN US webcast on Contract-First Web Services, go ahead and grab them. Please feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions. See you in the next webcast. Read More
posted Saturday, July 15, 2006 10:25 AM with 0 Comments

MSDN WebCast: 'Transactions in Distributed Solutions with Windows Communication Foundation' Post-Mortem
First of all, I want to thank everybody attending my MSDN US webcast on designing and dimplementing transactions in distributed solutions with WCF. It was a lot of fun and according to the scores it also semmed to be successful ;) I have uploaded both Read More
posted Saturday, July 15, 2006 10:09 AM with 0 Comments

Explaining WCF - in a slightly different way (in German)
Seems like Clemens likes the dotnetpro.tv video episode that Ralf and myself shooted the other day about Windows Communication Foundation. Only available in German, though... Read More
posted Tuesday, June 06, 2006 11:51 PM with 0 Comments

AJAX is a waste of time! Really?
Come on and join the heating up discussions. Daniel seems to feel happy these days... :) Read More
posted Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:03 PM with 0 Comments

Guidance-based design and implementation of distributed solutions adhering to service-oriented thoughts with WCF inside of your favorite development IDE
I think the title says it all (really? :)) - stay tuned for more to come in the next few days, as my friend Jason already hinted at. And it may be related to this and this and this and even Read More
posted Wednesday, April 05, 2006 4:18 PM with 12 Comments

Why does the world need WS-ReliableMessaging?
In the last few months I have given a number of presentaions on WCF and had countless customer meetings. One of the most frequently asked question was why in the world we would need WS-ReliableMessaging (WS-RM). I think I had a good explanation, but now Read More
posted Wednesday, February 08, 2006 12:13 PM with 3 Comments

Beyond announcements, visions, and rants: A living Domain Specific Language
R.I.P. No, I won't go anymore into discussions whether x-first or y-first or nothing-first or whatever-first-or-second-or-last is a good way to model service contracts. The only thing I have to state is that sometime people sitting in the glasshouse should Read More
posted Friday, February 03, 2006 4:17 PM with 10 Comments

Melted Cheese Effect - Contracts
Yeah... we are slow, but constant :) Part 2 of our small series is finally here. Please also refer to part 1. Read More
posted Tuesday, November 01, 2005 8:23 PM with 1 Comments

Services and Workflows - Apples and Peas?
People keep asking me what the heck do services and service orientation have to do with workflows (the big new hype at least in Microsoft world)? So let's try to establish a link between the two... what about: Services are about boundaries and Read More
posted Tuesday, October 11, 2005 9:29 AM with 1 Comments

My home is my castle: Hosting Applications – Why You Care About Threads, AppDomains, and Processes
At this year’s TechEd in Orlando I will present on a very important topic that many people seem to either ignore or just do not know enough about. CSI357  My Home is My Castle: Hosting Applications - Why You Care about Threads, AppDomains Read More
posted Friday, May 20, 2005 5:40 AM with 6 Comments

Integration Patterns
I love it all. Read More
posted Saturday, May 08, 2004 2:39 AM with 0 Comments

SOIASMX
I love it. Read More
posted Saturday, May 08, 2004 2:38 AM with 1 Comments

Smart as smart can - another block makes it to the public
The PAG team at Microsoft has released the Smart Client Offline Application Block on the MSDN Patterns and Practices site. This page provides an overview of the Offline Application Block, which is intended to serve as an architectural model for Read More
posted Tuesday, March 02, 2004 4:55 AM with 0 Comments


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