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Ward Bell shares his perspective on the new Composite Client
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over 5 years ago
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Ward just did an excellent post sharing his thoughts on our new WPF Composite Client, Acropolis and CAB. If you don't know Ward and you are a CAB customer, you should. Ward is the VP of Product Management for IdeaBlade , one of our partners and the makers...
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Announcing WPF Composite Client
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over 5 years ago
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We just announced a new deliverable called WPF Composite Client. Due to the wonders of the blogosphere this is actually showing up as having been posted several days ago. Note to self, don't post drafts anymore. Anyway, check out the "real" post here...
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New Performance Testing Guidance
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over 5 years ago
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My colleague J.D. just posted that we've shipped to MSDN the Performance Testing guidance for Web Applications . This is the same guidance that was previously available on CodePlex. Looking at the TOC, this looks like the name is wrong, and it should...
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Ayende got me a gift
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over 5 years ago
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Well actually coded me a gift, and yes I am blushing :) It's my wish list feature that we forgot to include in the IDE. "Ability to instantly search for a specific artifact (kind of like google / windows live search). As I type it in, I see the filtered...
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patterns & practices 2.0 - How would it look?
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over 5 years ago
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What would a patterns & practices 2.0 look like to you? There's been a very lively discussion on just this topic on the ALT.NET list (For which I am the instigator). Below is the summary version. Go here if you dare to see the full thread and have...
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Trying to Grok CAB?
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over 5 years ago
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Just came across this set of posts by Rick Newman which introduces you to the essentials of CAB. I love to see it when the community takes this kind of initiative. First Jeremy's fantastic set of posts , then David's book and now this. This has certainly...
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Use the force....the Resharper way
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over 5 years ago
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I just love this image I found on Oren's blog . Any questions?
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WPF Composite Client, it's coming!
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over 5 years ago
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Today is a great day as we unveil our plans for a new patterns & practices deliverable currently called " WPF Composite Client". The Acropolis team just announced that the core Acropolis concepts will be rolled into...
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YAAP - Yet another ALT.NET post
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over 5 years ago
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If you head on over to altdotnet.org, the above message is what you'll find. Recently, there's been a ton of posts from a list of people too long to recount here (though David Laribee is at the top of the list) about the recent ALT.NET gathering. Hopefully...
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Transparency is in the eye of the beholder
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over 5 years ago
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My former colleague Tom is always addressing some very interesting issues. Today he decided to broach the issue of transparency with Microsoft and why some people seem to hate us no matter what we do. The post is very through provoking (as always), but...
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Alot's going on the contrib front!
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over 5 years ago
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A few weeks ago, Tom announced that the folks over in Entlib contrib have shipped a new release . That's 10 points for the Entlib contrib guys! In the spirit of competition we took the new release as a real sign we should get our act together in SCSF...
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What is in a name - "Bundles" and "Application Blocks"
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over 5 years ago
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As many of you know, recently we've been shipping a set of deliverables that we've been calling tentatively "bundles". Since we first came up with the name, we've been having a ton of debates internally(No we don't have a ton of free time on our hands...
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Peter talking about TDD
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over 5 years ago
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I just came across this video of Peter talking about TDD to Ron Jacobs . It's a few months old, but if you haven't seen it and are interested in TDD, it's five minutes well worth it. Nice and concise and to the point (unlike my talks). I think I...
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Sweet, we're now Open Source for real
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over 5 years ago
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This just in from Twitter, The OSI has approved MS-PL and the MS-RL (Microsoft Reciprocal License) as valid open-source licenses. Woo hoo! We've been saying our stuff on CodePlex is open-source for a while. Nice to now have it be official! This is actually...
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Do you have ADD? If you work at Microsoft you probably think you do.
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over 5 years ago
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This should be required reading for all Microsoft FTEs (Full time employees). http://men.msn.com/articlemh.aspx?cp-documentid=5513983 Take away from reading the article.....You are not alone.
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Glenn's guide to whacking your GAT/GAX and Factory installations
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over 5 years ago
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Disclaimer: What follows is not the recommended guidance from patterns & practices, rather it is my own personal "last resort" technique. I wasn't originally planning on posting this, however after just helping a customer who was experiencing the...
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More Web Client goodness shipping, WCSF 2.0.
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over 5 years ago
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We've been busy getting more guidance packaged up and out the door. If you haven't been keeping up to date, here's a few posts that recap the guidance we've shipped so far for this next release. What has the Web Client Team been doing recently- Web Client...
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Video of Scott Guthrie's MVC demo at ALT.NET
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over 5 years ago
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Just got this off of Twitter from Brad . Scott Hansleman posted a Silverlight video of Scott Guthrie demonstrating MVC to ALT.NET Crowd. See it here .
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.NET Source code, get your copy now!
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over 5 years ago
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Seriously! Everyone is talking about this announcement from Scott Guthrie about the release of .NET Framework Source Code. This doesn't mean it's going Open Source as Scoble first thought, but it does mean that you'll be able to debug in to the base libraries...
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ALT.NET Headline, MVC for ASP.NET is coming
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over 5 years ago
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Today at the ALT.NET Conference, ScottGu let out a big secret, MVC for ASP.NET is on it's way. No I wasn't there, though with Twitter you don't have to be ;) You can read more about it here , here and here and on Brad's Twitter feed here . Over in p&p...
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Creating a custom WCSF Session State strategy
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over 5 years ago
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Sebastian's got a cool post of how you can create your own Session State strategy which our DI mechanism will use for injecting state values. If your using ASP.NET Session state, this won't be of much value to you since our existing strategy does that...
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PageFlow using Page Modules
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over 5 years ago
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A few weeks ago Paulo posted about a new concept he called a "Page Module". Page Modules are similar to HTTP modules however they allow you to additionally handle any event in the Page lifecycle including it's creation and release. With a Page Module...
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Web Client Validation Bundle shipped!
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over 5 years ago
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Hey guys, we just shipped the Validation Bundle. The guidance in this bundle is designed to help you streamline the end-user experience of your web applications by utilizing ASP.NET AJAX to invoke server-side validation. Additionally you will find...
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