In my previous posts I showed layers and components , and layers and tiers . In this post, I'll show the services layer in a layered architecture. Services Layer Here's a visual example of a services layer, where the application is exposing services:...

Check out Doug's post and Don's post about Oslo. Finally, we're ready to talk about Oslo at the PDC. I've been involved in Oslo since late 2006, when we were still trying to define what it really is! I personally work on the .NET Framework 4.0 which is...

TechEd is a huge undertaking, and there is no way we could be successful without the support of our partners. Today I got to see the impact of that again first hand. I was invited to address the Readify Annual Kick-off as their guest speaker. During my...

Way back in March this year we kicked off the largest ever launch of a Microsoft product, with the Heroes Happen {Here} Launch of Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. Since then we've been running a competition throughout the community...

Lately I have been quite busy working on .NET 4.0 which will be the next major side-by-side release of .NET Framework since .NET 2.0. It will be unveiled at PDC on October 27th. .NET 4.0 will be shipped together with the next version of Visual Studio....

They probably won't invite me over to Redmond again. After telling me for weeks about the wonderful summer weather there, it rained for most of the two weeks I was on site. Not many people would suggest that I have a magnetic personality, but it sure...

showing available from EB Games here ( on 9/30 ) http://www.ebgames.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=72573 and Amazon here ( on 9/19 ) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flight-Simulator-X-Gold-PC/dp/B001E95V5K/ref=pd_sxp_f_i/026-3989278-7823637 and Play.com...

This article originally appeared on the Windows Live Hotmail Tech Support blog.  I thought I'd repost part of it here and the rest of it tomorrow. Phish – (MSN Encarta - commit fraud to get financial information: to trick somebody into providing...

I think I can lump some ideas of how to improve #8 and #10 (Are tests built daily, and does test code have the same "rules" as dev code) from the Test Test into one post. let me put it this way. Code written to test the product is NOT throwaway...

In my previous post, I summarized layers and tiers . In this post, I'll walk through the key components of the layers. This exercise is part of our patterns & practices App Arch Guide 2.0 project . Layers and Components Here's a visual of a layered...

    http://summit2008.sqlpass.org/   November 18-21, 2008 Washington State Convention & Trade Center, Seattle WA. The PASS Community Summit 2008 is the single largest gathering of Microsoft SQL Server professionals in the world, bringing...

This post is in continuance with the last post  I had on WCSF. In this post I will briefly elaborate on various patterns in web development  and the general terms used to help you understand WCSF in a comprehensive way.   The View Presenter...

In this series, I will help you get started with WCSF developed by Patterns and Practices team at Microsoft. If you are a web developer then this Software Factory will be of great help for you in your upcoming web projects. Let me start of with the basics...

One of the most frequent questions I get when I talk to customers is, what is my best option for porting my Linux HPC code to windows... As a cross platform developer for the last few years, I had to make sure codes worked on mac/various linux/windows/unix...

Today I got an internal email talking about a set of social media additions to PDC. From tagging to interconnection with popular social media sites such as Facebook, Flickr and Twitter, PDC this year is offering an integral experience that goes beyond...

A friend of mine referred me to this article about Vista. Very balanced because it provides several tip and How-to's and at the same time some information about why Vista has a specific functionallity. Enjoy it http://twurl.nl/1mofy1...

We're just two weeks from New England Code Camp 10 , the free, community-driven weekend for developers taking place in Waltham, MA on September 20th and 21st! Already, there are 45 sessions, 29 speakers, and 250 registrants - and growing !  Register...

I spoke too soon, or actually a little too late. Robert Simpson at Phoenix Software International politely reminded me that their SQLite ADO.NET provider also supports the ADO.NET Entity Framework. For more information, see the Phoenix Software site at:...

If you know me, and my code, you know I dont like regions, but I cant stop people to use them, anyway what I can do is to configure VS to ignore regions and show always the code "expanded" by default:  ...

Interested in hearing about what the Visual Basic and CSharp program managers *really* think about the two IDEs? Come join Karen Liu and me as we chat about the goals, similarities and differences of the VB & C# IDEs. We also discuss our favorite...

A new version of the CRM 4.0 SDK was released on 8/29/2008.  You can get this newest version here:  CRM 4.0.6 SDK . ...

In my role as Lead Program Manger for Business Intelligence in the Microsoft Dynamics AX team, one of my architectural goals is to help AX developers exploit the power of Microsoft’s BI stack . With regard to BI stacks they have a reporting component...

El Web ha generado una transformación completa de la humanidad, creando nuevos problemas: La paradoja de la privacidad . Los usuarios carecen de un identificador único, el sitio solo puede "suponer" quién navega para mejorar su...

Last month a few of my WPF teammates and I were featured on Microsoft Tester Center . We talked about different approaches that we use in testing WPF. My video consists of a high-level overview of how to test WPF controls. To find out more about testing...

    It's that time again and you need to get your butt out to our Professional Developer Conference (PDC)!   About PDC: Since 1991, the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) has been Microsoft’s premier gathering of leading-edge...