april 2007 - Posts

22 april 2007
WPF Designer "Cider" in Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1
Visual Studio "Orcas" will have a new and improved WPF designer, codenamed "Cider ". I've been using the November 2006 CTP of Cider in Visual Studio 2005 up until now, which is adequate, but not feature complete by far. Furthermoew, development on the WPF extensions for Visual Studio 2005 is not continued... Read More...
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11 april 2007
More on Orcas+1 release
Just got some extra information about the plans for WCF and WF after the post Silver (which is in the Orcas timeframe) release. Here are two extra ideas that I picked up at the WCF+WF Orcas training. The other ones are mentioned in a previous post . Currently WF does not have a clear model on which data... Read More...
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11 april 2007
New things for WCF and WF and plans for after Orcas
Before we get to the point that WCF+WF Orcas (Silver) is released, some other WCF and WF related releases might see the day of light. There is the WCF LOB Adapter SDK, allowing you to speed up your development on custom channels, such as to a SAP server. I found that Sonu Arora has an entire blog full... Read More...
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11 april 2007
Workflow Foundation Rules in Orcas
Again, some background on where we are with rules in WF version 1 (in .NET FX 3.0): The Rules framework in WF allow you to define discrete and atomic rules using simple semantics. This makes it very approachable. WF Rules distinguish conditions (boolean evaluations) and rules (if-then-else semantics... Read More...
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11 april 2007
Going forward from WCF and WF version 1: Silver
Let's set the stage. Where are we now with .NET Framework 3.0 , and WCF and WF in particular? WCF in version 1 brought us a programming model and runtime, consisting of a Service model: the endpoints, bindings and contracts. This is where most of your code goes. Channel layer: does the messaging part... Read More...
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08 april 2007
Off to Redmond: WCF+WF in Orcas Deep Dive training
Tomorrow I'll leave for Microsoft, Redmond for an in-depth training on WCF and WF in Orcas training event. Paul Andrew blogged with an invitation to come join the Deep Dive training in Redmond. I applied and got invited. The training will focus on a lot of the new stuff in .NET FX 3.5, and will cover... Read More...
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07 april 2007
Rock24, a Half-Life 2 modification
You must know the game Half-Life 2 by now. If you don't, go get it and play (if you like First Person Shooters (FPS) or think you might). There is a video showing Half-Life 2 finished in 1 hour 42 minutes , but it took me the better of a week to play though it. Many happy playing hours guaranteed. The... Read More...
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02 april 2007
VB Central community talk on WPF
Last Wednesday VB Central held another meeting at the pitoresque venue of Oosterkamp Training in Doorn, The Netherlands. The evening started of with Jacqueline van der Holst (senior developer at Avanade ). She made her first public appearance with a talk on Linq. I think she did an excellent job covering... Read More...
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