Contents tagged with Architecture
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MSDN is looking for a few good men and/or women
Do you want the opportunity to work with Brad McCabe ? Brad is a MSDN Content Strategist, responsible for the VB and Data Access Dev Centers (and probably some others). He is part of the team responsible for much of the content on MSDN. If you like writing and explaining technology the position of a Content Strategist seems like a very cool one to me. Here is a post describing the available positions. (via Brad's Blog)
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Version 2.0 of the Updater Application Block
Version 2.0 of the popular Updater Application Block has just been released. It has been enhanced and modified to work with other applications blocks in the Enterprise Library, which was released in January. The Updater block allows you to get much of the functionality of Whidney's Click-Once Deployment in your VS 2003 applications today. Check it out here and download it from here.
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DevSource Interview - VB. Data Access, Patterns & Practices, and More!
My interview with DevSource is now available online.
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Understanding Indigo
As I mentioned in my previous post, the big news at this year's VSLive San Francisco conference was Indigo Day.
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VSLive San Francisco Wrap-Up
I am finally getting a handle on the post-VSlive backlog...
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Ron Jacobs and his Magical Mixing Machine
After I finished moaning yesterday about my disappointment in the new Enterprise Library, I was fortunate to bump into Ron Jacobs (I am down in San Francisco to speak at VSLive). I used the opportunity to express not only my displeasure, but my concern for the whole VB community. Ron liked what I had to say and wanted to "get it on tape", so he pulled out his newest toy - what I dubbed as his "Magical Mixing Machine". This is a nice hardened box, which includes a 4 channel audio mixer and associated lapel microphones. It is his personal mobile PodCast recording studio. I was hanging out with Deborah Kurata, so the three of us had a nice little chat that Ron recorded and he will hopefully have it posted on his blog shortly.
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A Disappointment in the Enterprise Library
Last week, I posted about the availability of the new set of application blocks in the form of the Enterprise Library. While I am still very excited about these blocks, and am already working to incorporate them in 2 current projects, there was one major disappointment. When I opened the code for these application blocks, I was shocked to realize that the source code for the blocks was only available in C# ! The documentation and Quick Starts are in both C# and VB (and well done), but the blocks themselves are C# only. This is a step backwards from the previous version where at least most of the blocks had both C# and VB versions of the source code.
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Microsoft Patterns & Practices Enterprise Library Released
The latest (completely rewritten) version of the Microsoft Patterns & Practices Application Blocks has just been released. It is now known as the Enterprise Library and is already available for download.
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New Patterns and Practices Digest
The Microsoft Patterns and Practices team has just started publishing the Patterns and Practices Digest. I have done a bunch of conference presentations and have spent alot of time talking to people about this, and am always amazed at how many serious developers still aren't aware of this stuff. This digest is a good way to keep abreast of the "latest & greatest" content and code coming out of this great team in Redmond.
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Agile Development User Group forming in Israel
Roy Osherove and Udi Dahan are starting up an Agile Development User Group to meet in Tel Aviv.