At Scott Guthrie’s DevConnections keynote, Petyo Ivanov (from telerik) noticed that Scott was using CSS for the page design in his Atlas demos. Petyo asked him about it later at the Microsoft Unplugged event. [read more …]
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Ahh, I’m a day late and a dollar short. Yesterday the PAG Team announced Service BAT – Service Baseline Architecture Toolkit – that will guide and help you implement WCF and ASMX services. They have had a bunch of plumbers helping them out including Christian Weyer and Pablo Cibraro. I can’t wait to get my hands on it. This type of tooling will help take another layer of fear (and unintentional bad design) allowing WCF to be accessible to a lot more people.
Here’s Jason Blogg’s announcement.
Edward Bakker has some good details.
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(note: for those of you who need this clarification – eg the anonymous commentor who gave me the big lecture 🙂 – the title and the last sentences of this post are intended to be sarcastic. Sheesh.)
In my talk on Preparing WSE3 Web Services for WCF at DevConnections, I was asked the dreaded question: do these work on the compact framework?
Nobody likes to get this question, because the answer is just way too embarrassing.
The answer is “No”.
This has been the cause a lot of ruffled feathers in the CF and Web Services community. Casey Chesnut , our resident genius, even wrote his own implementations: cfWSE and cfWSE2.
The last version of the WCF story that I heard was that R1 will not have it, but R2 will. The WCF footprint is small which will help enormously. But R2.
To top it off, though I don’t have a PPC and didn’t see this myself, I am astonished to learn through Softwaremaker, yet another place where security has been set aside: Passport logins. On the web, we get a login and a masked password, along with options to remember the login, password or both. Not only are those options gone with the PPC interface, but the password is not masked! Hello?
I suppose that it is another indication that people who use PPCs or write applications for them, are just not doing anything important enough to require security. I suppose.
Rich Tarrant started a little software company in the late 70’s and recently sold it to GE for $1.2 billion. He will be speaking to the Vermont Software Developer Alliance at our monthy meeting on Wednesday April 19th. More information at www.vtsda.org.
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I just returned from another fantastically successful DevConnections conference. There were so many attendees, the weather was great and just so many fantastic speakers and sessions. In addition to what you can learn in sessions, just being there provides a lot of opportunities to learn even while wandering the halls. Here are seven things I learned in between sessions….. [read more…]
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I seem to have found myself answering "check Red Gate" to a number of questions lately, so I thought I would share this recent email from them:
I wanted to let you know that we have just released version 5 of the SQL Bundle. This is a major new version and includes:
§ SQL Data Compare Standard (with improved side-by-side comparison of column values, added support, etc)
§ DTS Package Compare
More information on specific changes to each of the products can be found at: http://www.red-gate.com/support/versions/index.htm
In parallel, we have also released SQL Bundle Pro 5, which comprises of:
§ SQL Compare Pro
§ SQL Data Compare Pro
§ SQL Packager Pro
§ SQL Toolkit (removed command-line interface)
§ DTS Package Compare
The Pro editions of the Bundle tools come with a command-line interface for easier scheduling and tasks automation.
For more information on our Bundles, please visit http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql_bundles/index.htm
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Two years ago, I blogged about the “Mobile PC” division at Microsoft which encompasses all of the mobility technology – Tablet PCs, handhelds etc. Today, for the first time, I noticed that this is finally catching on. There are lots of people walking around with bright orange hats. When I commented on one in the elevator to an attendee, he said “yeah, the Mobile PC team is giving them out and they are giving out a Mobile PC every day during the conference.” So it sounds like people are getting it now. A mobile pc has a lot of features that enable mobility and ink is only one of those features.
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My i.m. pal Michal Chaniewski has just (finally) become an MVP. Michal is one of the most connected guys in the .NET community in Poland. I’m so happy to see him get recognized. I met Michal when I noticed in his blog that he was from Poland and learned that he had lived in the small city that part of my family (generations past) came from. The town was called Langhfur but the name was changed to something wtih lots of w’s, r’s, s’s and z’s and maybe a vowel thrown in for fun that I couldn’t pronounce for the life of me! Something like a great chocolate torte that is all eggs, sugar and chocolate with a teaspoon of flour added.
He also told me that Maja Ciemienga has become the first female MVP in Poland! Yay. Maja is the INETA lead for Poland. Here is Maja’s blog – if you can read Polish!