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One of the requested features for the Web Client Software Factory has been the possibility to register global services through the Web.Config file. By registering the services through configuration there is no need to rebuild any module when you want to switch the concrete implementation of a service.

Read the post

In this post I will try to sketch an explanation about different ways of registering and retrieving services in SCSF / CAB.

Read the post here.

“The purpose of this project is to build some insightful and practical guidance around doing performance testing and using Visual Studio 2005. It’s a collaborative effort between industry experts, Microsoft ACE, patterns & practices, Premier, and VSTS team members.

Usage Scenarios

• Improve efficiency and effectiveness of your performance testing
• Learn expert techniques performance testing
• Apply expert techniques for performance testing using Visual Studio.NET 2005 “

Check out here.

Also you can read the post from J.D. Meier (Program Manager in Patterns & Practices Group)

“The .NET Framework 3.0 training kit for WF, WCF, and CardSpace includes a set of hands-on-labs, demos, and presentations. The content was originally designed as part of the Windows Server Ascend training and has been used several times for training classes. Consequently, the content is organized into a four day agenda. You can also browse this content by technology.”

Download content here.

Juval Löwy (IDesing) published Guidelines & Best Practices about WCF.

Download

Also you can see IDesign C# Coding Standard

“This paper covers a wide variety of topics that are important for AS performance: Writing efficient queries, optimizing the cube design, maximizing processing performance partitioning, aggregation design, and tuning the system for efficient use of resources. It was developed in collaboration with the developers and program managers on the AS team, so it’s the authoritative guide.”

More about this from SQL Server Performance blog

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How to: Define a Windows Communication Foundation Service Contract

How to: Implement a Windows Communication Foundation Service Contract

How to: Run a Basic Windows Communication Foundation Service

How to: Create a Windows Communication Foundation Client

How to: Configure a Basic Windows Communication Foundation Client

How to: Use a Windows Communication Foundation Client

How to: Host a WCF Service in IIS

How to: Configure WCF Service to Interoperate with ASP.NET Web Service Client

How to: Publish Metadata for a Service Using a Configuration File 

Windows Communication Foundation

Tim Sneath and Karsten Januszewski has been developing a WPF Wiki.

Here are some of the pages they have today:

• A listing of some of the best applications out there today that use WPF - see what others are building;
• Resources for learning WPF;
• Placeholders for feature suggestions, FAQs and tips and tricks;
• A few known bugs and workarounds.

Check out here.

Dan Maharry has created some Visual Studio Templates to speed up the Test Driven Development.

Check out!. 

Simple TDD Visual Studio Templates

It’s available to download the CTP of the next Visual Studio version.

The next version of Visual Studio, Visual Studio code name “Orcas”, will provide an industry-leading developer experience for Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and the Web. In addition, it will continue in the Microsoft tradition of development language innovation. To enable early feedback, this page provides links to Community Technology Preview (CTP) releases of Visual Studio code name “Orcas”, and for technologies that we plan to include in it.

Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” Related CTP Downloads

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A summary:

The Web Service Software Factory (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of tools, patterns, source code and prescriptive guidance. It is designed to help you quickly and consistently construct Web services that adhere to well known architecture and design patterns.

If you are an architect or developer responsible for building service-based applications, the patterns & practices team would like to invite you to learn how the Service Factory can help your future service development activities. The Service Factory provides guidance that addresses many of the challenges associated with building ASP.NET (ASMX) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Web services and the components of a distributed application.

Download & Documentation

Reading some of my feeds, I found a new site about WPF with greats tutorials.

ContentPresenter.com

Blog about WPF (see the banner ;))

Now, you can read me also in Spanish.

My blog in Spanish

Ahora, tambien pueden leer mi blog en Español

Mi blog en Español

You must read this article written by Omar Al Zabir. It’s great!, he use all the new features.

Very useful.

Guys, the Cooperator Team release his final version.

Download from Codeplex (Source Code also available).

Download from SourceForge (Source Code also available).

From Ignacio Lopez’s blog we have great news about this add-in.

“JiraConn is an OpenSource project started in early 2006, with the purpose of becoming a Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 managed add-in for the issue tracking system JIRA.
It’s main objective is to enable .NET developers to perform the most common JIRA tasks within the IDE.
Among other things, the add-in will provide issue creation, visualization, filtering, resolution and closing.
JiraConn is being developed in C# as an Open Source project under the GNU GPL Licence, and will be provided completely free of charge.”

More about this beta.

Download

We are in Codeplex!!

In a few days we are going to upload the source code.

Cooperator Framework

Cooperator on Codeplex

Hi, good news from the Cooperator Team.

Now we have a few papers to read about Cooperator.

Introduction

Artefacts

Cooperator Modeler

More about this new release here.

Download here

A month ago, I posted about a series of articles written By Ben Scheirman. (You can read it here)

Well, now, Ben wrote a comment in that post and say me that he has already written the part 8.

A Journey with Domain Driven Design (and NHibernate) - Part 8

Hello, I’m going to write a series of articles about WPF.

This only pretend to be an introduction. I’m learning WPF as you, so feedback is welcome.

First of all, if you want to start with WPF, you must install .NET Framework 3.0 RTM and the WCF & WPF Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (At this moment, the last release is November 2006 CTP).

Then, you have to create a new Windows Application (WPF)

Now we have a file Window1.xaml

Replace the code with this:

<Window x:Class=”EjemplosBlog.Window1″
    xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com
           /winfx/2006/xaml/presentation”
    xmlns =”http://schemas.microsoft.com
           /winfx/2006/xaml”
    Title=”BlogSamples” 
    Height=”300″ 
    Width=”300″>
    <Grid>
      <Button Name=”btnHelloWorld” 
              Click=”btnHelloWorld_Click”
              Height=”54″ 
              Margin=”5,5,117,0″ 
              VerticalAlignment=”Top”>
       Hello World
      </Button>
    </Grid>
</Window>

A quickly review:

• btnHelloWorld is the Id/Name of the button
• btnHelloWorld_Click is the name event Click

Also, add this code to the code behind (Window1.xaml.cs)

 void btnHelloWorld_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
 {
     btnHelloWorld.Content = “From Ezequiel 
                              Jadib Blog”;
 }

And we are ready to launch our application

I hope this is useful. Later I will post, about how we can do it the same with Triggers.

Downloads

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 RTM

Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF) November 2006 CTP

Resources

Introduction to Windows Presentation Foundation

XAML.NET

Samples

Windows SDK .NET Framework Samples

Read this post and this for more info. (Post from Gert’s Blog)

And here the links of the blogs.

The list of blogs I usually read…(some are missing, because IE7 can’t subscribe to them)

And here the links.

Justin Burtch extend the testing attributes of Team System’s unit test framework.

Read the post and download the source here.

Date: November 24
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Location: MUG-AR Building (Microsoft Users Group Argentina)
Address: 1479 Rivadavia Av., 1º Floor - Office A
Speakers: Eugenio Serrano. Daniel Calvin.

Dia: 24 de Noviembre
Hora: 18:30 a 21:30
Ubicacion: Auditorio MUG-AR  (Microsoft Users Group Argentina)
Direccion: Av. Rivadavia 1479, 1º Piso - Oficina A
Oradores: Eugenio Serrano. Daniel Calvin

Info
Cooperator Framework
Eugenio Serrano’s Blog

What?! Do you think that I’m joking? Fortunately it’s not a joke. 
 
Thanks to Ayende, now we are going to have an Advanced NHibernate Course.

You can read more here:
Advanced NHibernate Course
About That NHibernate Course
Wiki for NHibernate course

Ben Scheirman wrote a series of articles about NHibernate and Domain Driven Design.

You can read the articles here:

A Journey with NHibernate - Part 1
A Journey With NHibernate - Part 2
A Journey With NHibernate (and DDD) - Part 3
A Journey with Domain Driven Design (and NHibernate) - Part 4
A Journey with Domain Driven Design (and NHibernate) - Part 5
A Journey with Domain Driven Design (and NHibernate) - Part 6
A Journey with Domain Driven Design (and NHibernate) - Part 7

I’m anxious to read the part 8.

The preview #6 goes live yesterday. 
 
This is the final preview before the release. 
 
Many bugs has been fixed. 
 
New features like Loaders have been added (now we have inheritance!!!!). 
 
Improvements in databinding and much more!. 
 
Check out the Eugenio’s post in Cooperator’s Blog.

Download Preview #6

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My boss show me an amazing video. It’s so funny!!.

 Show it here

Dear Ezequiel Jadib,

Congratulations! You were selected to participate of the Test Drive of Windows Vista and 2007 Office System. 
 
This means that we will lend you for 6 (six) days a notebook Sony, with technology Intel, so that you can experience the characteristics and functionalities of this new software generation Microsoft. Estimado Ezequiel Jadib,Felicitaciones! Fuiste seleccionado para participar del Test Drive de Windows Vista y 2007 Office System.

Esto significa que te prestaremos por 6 (seis) días una notebook Sony, con tecnología Intel, para que puedas experimentar vos mismo las características y funcionalidades de esta nueva generación de software Microsoft.

Photos of the notebook (Click to enlarge) (Not available)

This is the final CTP before the release

Please check out this post to get more info.

Cameron’s post
Gert’s post

Download it here

The CTP 6 of Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals is available for download!

Highlights:

• Full support for SQL Server 2000 & 2005 objects, the parser work has been completed
• Extended Properties support, we know import and deploy all your extended properties
• Inline constraint support, if you do not want to separate them out, we allow them inline as well
• Pre- and post deployment scripts population during Import Script
• Full support for command line build & deploy and Team Build
• A new Import Schema Wizard which is also integrated with the New Project Wizard to make project creation and import a single stop shop
• Synchronize your database project from Schema Compare, compare your project with a database and pull the differences in to the database project
• Schema refactoring is now allowed even if you have files in a warning state
• Resolve 3 and 4 part name usage when the referenced database is locally present, same for linked servers
• The product no longer installs SQL Express; you can pick your own SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition or SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition instance on the local box. When you first start the product for the first time we will ask you to choose an local instance to use
• Display detailed Schema Object properties in the VS Property Window for selected objects in the Schema View
• Separation of user target database settings through user project files, this allows users to work against a different target instance without changing the main project file.
• We made great progress on the overall stability and performance of the product across the board, project creation, importing your schema, reloading project and making changes to your schema
• And last but not least we fixed many reported customer problems!

An important note:

CTP6 will expire March 1st 2007; yes we will release the final version before this time

Download here.
More here.

Well, today was released the preview 5 of Cooperator Framework.

New features have been added like Authorization, Views and full support to ASP .NET.

Download from here.

More about this release here.

Javis wrote an excellent post about Cooperator Framework.   
   
The post is in Spanish, but shortly I will post it in English.

Another great feature has been included in the last release (see here) and is execute SQL Functions.

Check out Ayende’s Post explaining how to do it.

Update: This feature is available in version 1.0.2. Thanks Ayende.

You want to learn more about .NET Framework 3.0, Windows Comunication Foundation, Windows Worflow Foundation?

 Check out the virtual labs here.

The highlights of this CTP include:

• Improvements on the widely acclaimed Visual Studio 2005 product set
• Significant investments in improving product quality
• LINQ to Objects API
  • LINQ to Objects API supports queries over any .NET collection, such as arrays and Generic Lists. This API is defined in the System.Query namespaces inside System.Core.dll. Click here for more details about LINQ.
• Partial C# 3.0 Language Support: This CTP implements some of the new language features of C# 3.0
  • Local variable type interface
  • Lambda expressions
  • Object initializers
• Partial C# 3.0 IDE Support: In addition to the C# 3.0 language features there is partial IDE support
  • Colorization and New Keywords in Completion List
  • Edit and Continue Rude Edit Detection
• Partial VB 9.0 Language support (Due to differences in feature delivery schedules VB implementations of the above C# features will appear in a future CTP)
  • Local variable type inference and Option Infer switch
• VSTS Improvements in load & unit testing such as unit test for devices
• Device development improvements
  • VSTS integration
  • Access and modify device security configuration fr