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• WCF Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ

  Interesting book coming out from one of my favorite publishers – PACKT Publishing .   WCF Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ Build SOA applications on the Microsoft platform in this hands-on guide Master WCF and LINQ concepts by completing... Posted Nov 28 2008, 11:38 AM by David Strommer with | with no comments Filed under: .Net

• Cheat sheet for patterns and practices

  http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2008/10/09/cheat-sheet-patterns-practices-catalog-at-a-glance-posted-to-codeplex.aspx Great cheat sheet of the Patterns and Practices work. Posted Oct 11 2008, 09:15 PM by David Strommer with | with no comments Filed under: .Net, Architecture

• REST Services and Metadata EndPoints in WCF

  http://www.danrigsby.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/29/rest-services-and-metadata-endpoints-in-wcf/ Dan Rigsby posted an approach to exposing REST services metadata using mexHttpBinding.  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license. Posted Jun 05 2008, 12:26 AM by David Strommer with | with no comments Filed under: .Net

• Free book samples from MS Press

  · Linq · Ajax · Silverlight http://csna01.libredigital.com/ Posted Mar 26 2008, 04:23 PM by David Strommer with | with no comments Filed under: .Net

• ARIS and BizTalk Integration Press Release

  http://www.ids-scheer.com/us/en/News/IDS_Scheer_Previews_Integration_of_ARIS_Platform_and_Microsoft_BizTalk_Server/86824.html?referer=32430 Available sometime in 2008. Future releases of BizTalk will use the .Net WF engine - just imagine the possibilities... Posted Oct 31 2007, 11:52 PM by David Strommer with | with no comments Filed under: .Net

• SCA and Microsoft Support

  If you don't subscribe to David Chappell's blog, you should. Once again he delivers a powerful and insightful post - "Why Microsoft Should Not Support SCA". http://www.davidchappell.com/blog/2007/09/why-microsoft-should-not-support-sca... Posted Sep 30 2007, 10:34 AM by David Strommer with | with no comments Filed under: .Net

• A performance comparison - .Net vs J2EE

  I'm sure this will stir the debate between .Net vs J2EE. http://drowningintechnicaldebt.com/blogs/royashbrook/archive/2007/08/15/newsflash-net-gt-j2ee.aspx Java's focus is portability and .Net's focus is interoperability. Based on the results... Posted Aug 19 2007, 01:45 PM by David Strommer with | with no comments Filed under: .Net

• Introduction to .NET 3.0 for Architects

  Good overview of .Net 3.0... http://www.infoq.com/articles/akif-dotnet-architect Posted Aug 11 2007, 12:31 PM by David Strommer with | with no comments Filed under: .Net

• BizTalk Light = WCF + WF

  Interesting post regarding BizTalk and/or other integration tools as overkill for some integration solutions. http://geekswithblogs.net/ajames/archive/2007/08/01/114334.aspx I've had similar experiences with BizTalk and it is likely the same with... Posted Aug 02 2007, 02:24 PM by David Strommer with | with no comments Filed under: .Net

• WCF and WebSphere MQ

  http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/mqwcf/ WebSphere MQ is certainly a market leader in the messaging domain. WCF is wonderfully extensible and it was only a matter of time before IBM (or someone) released a custom WCF channel for MQ. I wonder if we'll... Posted Jul 16 2007, 09:12 AM by David Strommer with | with no comments Filed under: .Net, Architecture

• Cyclomatic Complexity and FXCop

  I am a big believer in ‘Simple is Better’. Having built-in cyclomatic complexity metrics displayed in the IDE while you are coding or reviewing code is awesome. I use an IDE add-in tool called CodeRush but you can review DevMetrics as well. Dennis Bottjer... Posted Jun 23 2007, 12:03 PM by David Strommer with | with no comments Filed under: .Net

• Questioning Subversion Practices

  I'm not sure if using the same blog title as David Brock is proper Blog Etiquette but his title captures the topic best. I too love Subversion and often questioned the tags folder in a conventional repository layout. Reference - http://svnbook.red... Posted May 28 2007, 12:22 PM by David Strommer with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .Net

• Performance counter "add" button disabled

  Several months ago I posted about a NumberOfReclaimedConnections performance counter. http://drowningintechnicaldebt.com/blogs/davidstrommer/archive/2006/11/10/Connection-Pool-timeout-expired.aspx Today while troubleshooting another problem related to... Posted May 26 2007, 04:20 PM by David Strommer with | with no comments Filed under: .Net

• Validation Application Block - Custom Validation

  Microsoft is on the verge of releasing version 3.0 of the Enterprise Library. Among the many new features included in version 3.0 is a block called the Validation Application Block (VAB). The VAB is one of my favorite blocks because of its simplicity... Posted Apr 01 2007, 12:31 AM by David Strommer with | with no comments Filed under: .Net

• Gof Design Patterns Quiz

  http://home.earthlink.net/~huston2/dp/patterns_quiz.html See how many you can guess correctly? Posted Feb 28 2007, 10:40 PM by David Strommer with | with no comments Filed under: .Net