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November 2008 - Posts

Expand a virtual PC VHD file and extend the partition

Posted 18 November 2008 22:41 by tonyj
Ran into a few problems today, for one client who uses a VPN that doesn't work at all well with Vista, I have an XP development virtual PC. I needed to install visual studio sp1 (yet again) on it but my boot drive only had 4Gb of free space - the temporary Read More...
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Using attached properties to compose new behaviour

Posted 16 November 2008 22:31 by tonyj
I was inspired by a posting on stackoverflow.com - "How do I drag an image around a canvas in WPF" - where the first response in most peoples heads is to work with mouse up/down/move events, track offset positions and move the UI element around in response Read More...
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The Enterprise Stack

Posted 16 November 2008 19:57 by tonyj
What makes good software? Separation of concerns has got to be up there in a big way, ensuring you have relevant tiers to your application that deal with a particular set of concerns, but what does an enterprise software stack look like? I've been asked Read More...
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Microsoft Tech-Ed is over, I'm going back to work for a REST

Posted 14 November 2008 22:36 by tonyj
It's a shame that it's over for another year, and its been a fantastic, if somewhat tiring, week that I've thoroughly enjoyed. They cram in as much information as they can in the 5 days of the conference and provide you with everything you need to stay Read More...
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Day 5 - 15:15 : The TechEd Daily Scrum

Posted 14 November 2008 22:22 by tonyj
Presented by Stephen Forte again (second time inside of a single day!), this final session at Tech-Ed was a review of what SCRUM is, how it's working for people and then it turned over to mass debate. Again, we find religious arguments coming to a head Read More...
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Day 5 - 13:30 : An introduction to Oslo (mostly M)

Posted 14 November 2008 21:52 by tonyj
This session, run by Jon Flanders focused on the new M modelling language - specifically MSchema and MGrammar. To be honest the entire session concentrated on using MSchema to generate T-SQL to create a database which I didn't feel was a great example Read More...
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Day 5 - 10:45 : Data access smackdown! Making sense of Microsoft's new data access strategy (DAT02-IS)

Posted 14 November 2008 21:41 by tonyj
Stephen Forte , Chief Strategy Officer from Telerik, started this interactive session reviewing the history of Microsoft's data access offerings and then discussing the latest multitude of choices. As this was an interactive session, there were lots of Read More...
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Day 5 - 09:00 : Identity and cloud services (ARC302)

Posted 14 November 2008 09:51 by tonyj
Vittorio Bertocci presented this session on how to work with identity across services and environments using the cloud. Traditionally in enterprise we have a set of users and a set of resources that they can access. Each time the user accesses a resource, Read More...
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Day 4 - 17:30 : Building and consuming REST based data services for the web. (WUX313)

Posted 13 November 2008 22:35 by tonyj
In this session, Mike Flasko demonstrated the new ADO.NET data services framework that enables developers to create services that expose data over a REST interface using industry standard formats and semantics such as JSON and AtomPub. The reason I attended Read More...
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Day 4 - 15:45 : An overview of the Azure services platform (ARC201)

Posted 13 November 2008 21:20 by tonyj
David Chappell is perhaps one of my favourite speakers from the conference. He tackled an objective look at Microsoft's new Azure platform in this session and gave what I thought was the clearest overview of the vision. Azure is Microsoft's new distributed Read More...
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Day 4 - 13:30 : Building WCF services with WF in .NET 4.0 (SOA302)

Posted 13 November 2008 14:05 by tonyj
Jon Flanders from plural sight took this session looking at how you can expose WCF services from windows workflow on the .NET 4.0 stack, continuing from yesterdays first looks session. A cool feature being introduced is the ability to generate xaml only Read More...
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Day 3 - 17:30 : Develop with the visual studio 2008 extensions for sharepoint

Posted 12 November 2008 18:27 by tonyj
I went to this presentation to learn about the new visual studio extensions for sharepoint, unfortunately the presentation was an exact repeat of a PDC video I had already watched. The sharepoint extensions for visual studio 2008 make building sharepoint Read More...
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Day 3 - 13:30 : An in-depth look at the ADO.NET Entity framework (DAT307)

Posted 12 November 2008 14:37 by tonyj
This presentation, with Elisa Flasko, was covering an introduction to the entity framework and how it fits with common application patterns - client server, web applications and distributed N-Tier apps etc. The ADO.NET Entity framework is the next layer Read More...
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Tech-Ed - Free TShirt of the week.

Posted 12 November 2008 13:06 by tonyj
Just got a free t-shirt from the guys that produce dotfuscator. On the front the slogan is; "I can see you, I'm instrumenting" and on the rear; "You can't see me, I'm obfuscating" Definite geek t-shirt, but I find this hilarious. Read More...
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Day 3 - 10:45 : Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0: A first look (SOA207)

Posted 12 November 2008 11:09 by tonyj
Presented by Aaron Skonnard, co-founder Pluralsight, this session looked at the up-coming release of windows workflow foundation 4.0. Firstly, my definition of workflow is slightly different to how MS define workflow. I think of workflow as the definition Read More...
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Day 3 - 09:00 : Writing custom LINQ providers - LINQ to Anything (TLA317)

Posted 12 November 2008 10:06 by tonyj
This session was presented by Bart J.F. De Smet, software development engineer from Microsoft, concentrating on the theory for writing your own data providers for LINQ. He ran through the implementation of the open source implementation of LINQ to AD, Read More...
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Day 2 - 15:15 : How LINQ works: A deep dive into the C# implementation of LINQ.

Posted 11 November 2008 22:23 by tonyj
Luke Hoban presented this 400 level session. Luke is the program manager for visual studio languages. Having not really used LINQ in anger, I was interested in following this session to understand a little more about LINQ and how it works. I got lost Read More...
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Day 2 - 13:30 : Sense and Testability session (ARC307)

Posted 11 November 2008 20:08 by tonyj
Roy Osherove from Typemock presented this informative session about testability and design and how they relate to each other - specifically how we might design software to make it inherently testable. To be honest there was nothing particularly new about Read More...
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Day 2 - 10:45 : How IT will change in next 10 years and why you should care (ARC205).

Posted 11 November 2008 19:16 by tonyj
Miha Kralj is a senior architect with Microsoft whose job it is to think about and strategise for the future. According to him, that future is largely going to revolve around moving to cloud computing (unsurprising given the investment in Azure) and the Read More...
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Day 2 - 09:00 : A first look at Oslo, Dublin and WF 4.0

Posted 11 November 2008 19:00 by tonyj
David Chappell presented this session and, after yesterdays two post-keynote and frankly less engaging presentations, explained the upcoming new features of oslo, dublin and workflow foundation 4.0 very clearly. Applications can be distilled down to 3 Read More...
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Day 1 - 17:45 : When you have too much data, good enough is good enough (ARC303)

Posted 10 November 2008 23:30 by tonyj
Presented by Pat Helland, this session was a high level talk that resided largely in the theoretical space and offered no real answers but rather problems were posed and left as exercises for the attendee to think about. The session aimed to challenge Read More...
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Day 1 - 16:00 : The future of composite applications and SOA - everything they told you and why it isn't true (SOA202)

Posted 10 November 2008 23:00 by tonyj
The presentation opened with a video about the history of models. You can view this light hearted video here: www.modelsremixed.com Presented by Mark Berman and Steven Martin, this session covered (in quite simple terms) the future of SOA and some misnoma's Read More...
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Day 1 : The Keynote

Posted 10 November 2008 22:00 by tonyj
After introductory comments and reinforcement of the Azure message, Jason Zander, general manager of visual studio team developer division of Microsoft took to the stage to present the future of visual studio in the guise of visual studio 2010. It got Read More...
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Dónde está Microsoft Tech-Ed

Posted 08 November 2008 15:12 by tonyj
Microsoft Tech-Ed (EMEA) is being held in Barcelona from 10th to 14th November. I'm flying out on Sunday afternoon and hope to post information from each days sessions here on the blog. The only problem I have at the moment is trying to decide which sessions Read More...
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Don't hope to uninstall VS.NET 2008 SP1

Posted 05 November 2008 19:39 by tonyj
On Friday last week, I installed SP1 for visual studio 2008 as I needed all the latest RTW facilities of silverlight for a client project. On Tuesday however I returned to a different project which was using older versions of ASP.NET MVC framework and Read More...
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Datasets - what's the problem?

Posted 01 November 2008 14:43 by tonyj
I was talking with a friend of mine last night, an experienced developer who's leading a team of guys building a large commercial enterprise application. We were just chewing the fat over data access and how we approach things differently - I'm a fan Read More...
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