Adlai Maschiach

Microsoft ESB Guidance CTP2

Microsoft ESB Guidance at CodePlex has updated to CTP2

Overview

The Microsoft ESB Guidance provides architectural guidance, patterns, practices, and a set of BizTalk Server and .NET components to simplify the development of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) on the Microsoft platform and to allow Microsoft customers to extend their own messaging and integration solutions.

One pf the major changes for me is the fact that the core components have been updated to the R2 release of BizTalk Server ;)

ADO.NET Astoria and Jasper CTP Download

In one of my previous posts I have told you about ADO.NET - Astoria and Jasper from MIX07.Now you can download it - For those who played with LINQ here's the next phase : Microsoft Codename "Astoria" - May 2007 Community Technology Preview, along with Jasper MIX 2007 CTP so you could realy do something real for the community , like EntLib Contrib project - Start Coding NOW!

EntLib Contrib project - Start Coding NOW!

EntLib Contrib is a community-developed library of extensions to the patterns & practices Enterprise Library, while next phase,which is comming later this week ,is Web Client Software Factory Contrib and Smart Client Software Factory Contrib. Now is YOUR chance to extend well known Libraries !
for more info:

About p&p "Contrib" projects

Guidelines for EntLib Contrib code

BTW: Tom Hollander, is leaving the team :(

MIX07 movies

Here's the link for the download version of the keynote by Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie Keynote.
don't forget that you can both browse the www.visitmix.com library, as well as the http://sessions.visitmix.com/default.asp to download the videos for offline viewing [ AND THERE'S LOOOOTTTTSS OF THEM :D ]

ADO.NET - Astoria and Jasper from MIX07

It seems that the ADO.NET team has/going ( i'm not in LV ) to announce two on going projects which for all you LINQ enthusiastic people - if LINQ / DLINQ / XLINQ wasn't enough , here's another pile of paper work you'll have to read about [ that is if ADO.NET is your thing ;-) ].

Technology NO.1 is code name "Astoria" : "The goal of Microsoft Codename "Astoria" is to enable applications to expose data as a data service that can be consumed by web clients within a corporate network and across the internet.", or in plain english LINQ with partial WCF capabilities.

Check out the Astoria webpage at http://astoria.mslivelabs.com for more information and a link to the CTP download.
Pablo Castro has published this document which introduces the concepts and motivations for Astoria.

Technology NO.2 is code name "Jasper". Jasper seems to be like the level you'd get after SP2 of LINQ, why ?
Because "Jasper" uses a set of new technologies to make this happen:

Dynamic generation of data classes so there is no configuration or design time code-gen to carry around.
Rich query and O/R capabilities because "Jasper" is built on top of the Entity Framework.
Auto-binding capabilities for ASP.NET, WinForms, and WPF to make binding data to a UI simple and automatic.

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista

BTW , it's on the MSDN home page , but some of us might miss it due to the fact that we're reading other poeple's BLOG all day ;)
Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista

EntLib 3.0 , Videos , the start

Enterprise Library Videos.
Ok , so it's allmost been a week since it's relaese [It's here! Enterprise Library 3.0 RTM], and it seems that 'HELP' is on the way.
Above is a link to a few EntLib Videos, the link is to the "Library" it self , so from time to time your are invited to check again the link. currently there are two videos :
Application Block Software Factory Part 1: Untyped Providers (17 minutes)
Application Block Software Factory Part 2: Typed Providers (21 minutes)

EntLib 3.0 Web cast

Take notice , there's an Enterprise Library 3.0 Webcast on March 27 at 10am PDT / 17:00 UTC. So due to the fact that most of us use EntLib this webcast might of importance to some of us.

More ASP.NET Tips and Tricks

Links regarding Tips and Tricks in ASP.NET - some articles from Scott Watermasysk

Quick Tips For ASP.Net - Part One
ASP.Net Quick Tips - Web.config
ASP.Net Quick Tips - Caching
ASP.Net Quick Tips - State Management

Windows 2003 SP2 is out

Hi
SP2 of the Windows 2003 Srv is out
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (32-bit x86) - ISO-9660 CD Image File
List of updates in Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2

first google.com and now msdn2.microsoft.com ?

my morning begins , among other things , by searching for things
in google . it seemed that today , for about 3.5 hours google.com
( and .co.il ) didn't respond at all , on the other hand
groups.google.co.il was working fine .

now , after google.com is working , it seems that MSDN is
under the same attack (?) :-0

as far as I remeber , a few days a go I read an article about
an attack which was on 3 of the 13 root servers , is this
the 2nd wave ?

Firefox 2.0 is out

check out the new FireFox 2.0 , so many things . so little time :)

interview que - asp.net

came accross this link , check it out

http://www.techinterviews.com/index.php?p=5&more=1&c=1

Old link, new job

change of plans on my part , moving away from ASPNET 2.0 programming , back to BizTalk 2004 programming

I think i'm doing the right step

...so I was looking for an old link that I like , here it is

The Bloggers Guide to BizTalk: Workspace Home

http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=0dfb4f4e-d241-4bc8-8418-2c385d8e3eaa

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1 Express Editions and Tools - Community Technology Preview (CTP) March 2006

it's here boys and girls, the first SP to any edition of SQL 2005

which realy means that some one is realy using it , due to the fact that a Fix was released

so here it is .... SQL 2005 Express SP1

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1 Express Editions and Tools - Community Technology Preview (CTP) March 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=57856CDD-DA9B-4AD0-9A8A-F193AE8410AD&displaylang=en#filelist