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"A good workman is known by his tools" - Blogs on the WCF Tooling
Supporting Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF)...
I don't think that 'support' should block anyone from using the extensions to adopt WCF, as any...
Date: 12/28/2006
Visual Basic Issue with Types that are generated using svcutil.exe (WCF)
If you generate a WCF VB proxy that contains a DataContract type using svcutil.exe, calling a method...
Date: 12/21/2006
Consuming a MapPoint Web Service with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)...
The issue with the MapPoint service is that it uses digest authentication, but the WSDL itself does...
Date: 09/28/2006
Using WCF in VB6?
One of the demos a peer of mine gave (Johnathan) included creating a .NET form with a Web reference...
Date: 09/25/2006
WCF Databindings (and the Data Sources window)
As my new role in the VB team, I've been tasked to look at WCF Data bindings and determine our story...
Date: 07/24/2006
Moving on ...
My time at VSTS - Arch has been very important to me. I have learnt a lot shipping VS2005 and...
Date: 05/26/2006
Deployment Report Whitepaper...
Kitty interned last summer and this paper was a result of a lot of hard work that he put in:...
Date: 05/24/2006
Describing a software architect by the patterns he uses...
Jack Greenfield sent an email around that described the architect from the perspective of the...
Date: 04/04/2006
Pedro now a lead on the DSL tools team...
I still remember conversations over lunch about how Pedro did not want to be a dev lead/manager,...
Date: 03/31/2006
Encrypted Config Sections...
One of the limitations of our designers is that it does not support encrypted appSettings entries....
Date: 03/30/2006
About my office room...
As I read Zillow's web page, which is one of the most hyped startups in Seattle, I came across the...
Date: 03/22/2006
Service/DataContract Versioning
It was sooo hard to find this link and I knew what I was looking for, so I thought I'd post it here...
Date: 03/21/2006
On factories, factories, factories...
Why I Hate Frameworks: https://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12 Internally, I...
Date: 03/20/2006
I'm a Mort when it comes to DSL tools!
Senior members in our team have suggested that PM team should start using the DSL tools to prototype...
Date: 03/18/2006
WCF Extensibility for Interoperability....
Jurgen's posted a great real world example of why WCF extensibility is essential for interop. The...
Date: 03/16/2006
You are what you read...
There are a few books that you have to had read to have an intelligent conversation with Bill...
Date: 03/15/2006
Morning PM Status Meetings...
Since David Trowbridge joined, we have been having morning SCRUM-like meetings to keep in synch with...
Date: 03/14/2006
How Actions differ from Operations...
I haven't thought about the relationship between “Actions” and "Operations" for quite a while....
Date: 03/13/2006
FebCTP changes for WCF from JanCTP
I was going through the FebCTP changes for WCF from JanCTP and saw the following change: Remove...
Date: 03/11/2006
Contract-first Domain Specific Language (DSL)
Pedro was kind enough inform me about this cool DSL called "Contract-first" DSL:...
Date: 03/10/2006
Powertools for Distributed System Designers
Dmitriy Vayasura released an add-in with a whole bunch of Class Designer/Distributed System Designer...
Date: 03/09/2006
Adding DataSets to services... Why not?
There a lot of customers, for better or worse, who are using DataSets in their services and (I...
Date: 03/08/2006
Workflow for using the Distributed System Designers
I just discovered a cool workflow for how to use the Distributed System Designer....
Date: 03/07/2006
Mark Groves and Top-down Design
Mark just posted a blog about top-down design here:...
Date: 03/07/2006
Operation inference and Contract-first Design
After Tomas's comment on my last blog, I've been thinking about the operation inference feature in...
Date: 03/06/2006
It's about the schema, stupid!
One of my big realizations has been that Contract-first is not about the WSDL it's about the schema....
Date: 03/04/2006
Policy and Contract-first Design
After talking to a lot of people, I am trying to cement the relationship of policy to the contract....
Date: 03/03/2006
Most excellent architectural resource...
Jeff Tash has created an excellent repository of architecture resources here:...
Date: 02/25/2006
Describing a reference model for SOA...
I got an email from Nichole last week about a talk that she was going to give on the OASIS Reference...
Date: 02/22/2006
The various hats of an architect...
One of the most heated debates out there is that of the definition of an architect. In my view, what...
Date: 02/12/2006
Show me the value!
I wanted to make our key value proposition for the application architect scenario public, so that I...
Date: 02/09/2006
What's all this about a Service Repository?
Last week, I heard the word "Service Repository" twice in two seperate and distinct conversations....
Date: 02/06/2006
VS SKU Recommendations...
If you haven't read this article I recommend skimming it, it provides an interesting opinion on the...
Date: 02/03/2006
I want more than ASMX on my design surface!
A question we continually get is whether VSTS Architect will come with any new types. I, therefore,...
Date: 01/31/2006
Rough around the edges?
As a V1 product, the product is a little rough around the edges. We hope to resolve most of these...
Date: 01/28/2006
Guess who just joined EFT!!!
I am glad to announce that David Trowbridge has joined EFT fulltime as a Senior PM Lead. Until...
Date: 01/24/2006
Our silent competitor in the architure tools space...
One of the key tools that an architect uses over the SDLC is the whiteboard...
Date: 01/20/2006
Tools for Architects?
While VSTA has been pitched as a tool for the software architect discipline, I think of VSTA in a...
Date: 01/17/2006
Don't ask me architecture questions...
Instead, post them on Architecture forums:...
Date: 01/12/2006
The System Designer's time will come ...
Bill Gibson has written a series of TechNotes that cover the concept of the System (and the System...
Date: 01/11/2006
Modeling Tools Wishlist...
Ron Jacobs, a MVP, has created a Wiki for a DSD wish list. Here's the location:...
Date: 11/28/2005
Mechanical Turk and Artificial Artificial Intelligence....
Mturk is the latest buzz these days -- developers using web services to create human tasks. As...
Date: 11/21/2005
VB and the DSD...
As I was watching Soma's Channel9 video (https://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=134059), I...
Date: 11/17/2005
Now that we've shipped V1, what's going on?
Now that we've shipped. I wanted to provide transperency into what we're doing in the group. The top...
Date: 11/16/2005
Now that Whidbey has shipped, when can I expect availability of the SDK and its accompanying SDM stuff?
Question: Now that Whidbey has shipped, when can I expect availability of the SDK and its...
Date: 11/07/2005
Shipping Whitehorse...
We finally shipped! This is the first time I have shipped anything at Microsoft and as one of the...
Date: 11/04/2005
Devarchitect and personas...
Even prior to Bill Gibson's blog on the devarchitect, my own thoughts on personas have been that...
Date: 10/30/2005