Glavs Blog

You or may not be aware of a new Application block recently released by the Microsoft patterns and practices team. If you have used or are thinking about using the Enterprise Instrumentation application framework (EIF), then the logging app block will be of immediate interest to you. It is available here.

Saw a post from G. Andrew Duthie regarding some more new features coming in ASP.NET which is all good, but one of the most significant of those for me (even though relatively minor) is the SQL Cache invalidation. I like to design with caching where possible, but having immediate update of data as well as the benefits of cached data together has not been easy and this feature alone could be immediately usable in a number of enterprise apps I have designed/developed. Great stuff. (p.s. You can find G. Andrew Duthie sys-con radio interview here)

Just saw a post here by Jesse Ezell that states that MS will be dropping remoting support.

Wow, lots of posts from the PDC. Hope everyone is having fun and learning lots <insert jealous sigh here>.

The next version of .net promises some really cool things.  Here is a link to an article by Jason Clark on the MSDN site which describes one of the cool new features being added, Generics.

On a recent project, of which you may be vaguely aware of if you read my earlier posts, we had great success utilising XML Strongly typed datasets, to help us maintain the clients state, without actually using any of the state management features within .Net.

Final day of the TechEd conference and I still haven't won an XBox game pack yet or an XBox bag from filling in my eval forms. Oh well...

TechEd party was pretty cool. It was hosted at a nightclub, complete with a girl spinning around the room on a piece of cloth, guys in painfully small silver shorts performing balance and strength acts, girl in a highly reflective suit bouncing lasers all over the place, the “Sandman” as guest speaker, a star wars theme thrown in... what more could a bunch of Techo's ask for.