What is a service?
In last week’s training, one of the biggest “Aha!” moments for me was an answer to the simple question “What is a service?” As someone who consumes a lot of guidance from Microsoft’s p&p team, and looks to gurus like … Continue reading
Udi Dahan’s distributed systems course
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend Udi Dahan‘s Advanced Distributed Systems Design using SOA & DDD in Austin, TX. I learned a ton and gained a much clearer understanding of SOA and how to design systems using that … Continue reading
Could Silverlight be used as a server-side sandbox for SaaS?
For the past couple of years, software-as-a-service has been in the tech headlines. Salesforce.com and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live provide customer relationship management (CRM) functionality. Google Apps, Zoho, NetSuite and many others offer productivity and database applications. Amazon S3/EC2/SimpleDB, Google … Continue reading
WCF: Application Deployment Scenarios whitepaper
Michele Leroux Bustamante has published a whitepaper on WCF that describes a huge number of scenarios and how you can set up WCF services to support each one. Posting here so I have it as a reference. Many of these … Continue reading
Balancing the information deficit
Earlier this year I was listening to an episode of DotNetRocks on which Don Box and Chris Sells discussed the future of technical book publishing. Don was asked something about what blogs/books he reads, and his response — very roughly … Continue reading
LINQKit: great tools for LINQ
Thanks to a link from ScottGu I stumbled on LINQKit, a set of great LINQ tools from the authors of C# 3.0 in Nutshell. Great stuff not only to aid productivity with LINQ, but also to learn about manipulating expression … Continue reading
Removing dependencies between controllers and Linq DataContext classes with dependency injection
In ScottGu’s most recent post on ASP.NET MVC, he demonstrates using a partial class for the NorthwindDataContext created by the Linq to Sql designer. In the partial class he creates some simple wrapper methods for the ProductsController to use when … Continue reading
ASP.NET MVC preview released
I’m far from the first to post about it, but I’m excited enough for a “me too!”. Full details available from ScottGu, as usual. And MVC isn’t the only thing included. AJAX, Silverlight, and Data Services (aka Astoria) are also … Continue reading
From ASP to WebForms to ASP.NET MVC
A long, long time ago I was one of many web developers working with classic ASP. While anyone who worked (or still works, heaven help you) with ASP will tell you how quickly a site could become unmaintainable, there was … Continue reading
WCSF module to manage Membership, Roles and Profiles
This is a simple module to manage membership users, roles and profiles, built using the Web Client Software Factory. To use it, you must have a database configured for use with ASP.NET 2.0 SqlProviders for Membership, Roles, and Profiles. You … Continue reading
