I just discovered that the 2.0 release of the Fabrikam Jets example on code gallery (described in this blog post ) contained the original version 1.0 code that worked with OAuth WRAP v0.8, instead of the new version 2.0 code that works with OAuth WRAP...

How to build a Silverlight client for the OData Service for SQL Azure, and how to build a service that validates Secure Web Tokens (SWTs) issued by AppFabric Access Control...

The Silverlight behavior is designed to prevent cross site attacks in which request headers on a POST could be redirected to unknown domains. Clearly, this is preferable to the .NET framework behavior, which puts the client at risk. However, the HTTP specification says that in the case of a 301 or 303 response code, the user agent should not redirect the request without explicit permission from the user, unless the request is either a GET or HEAD, for precisely this reason. So, according to the specification, neither behavior is correct....

While developers can build and deploy custom OData based services to expose data from SQL Azure, other data sources, the OData Portal and Service provide OData access to SQL Azure through simple configuration....

I just finished migrating the FabrikamJets example from the CTP to V1 of AppFabric Access Control. There were two changes that made an update necessary: 1) V1 uses version 0.9 of the WRAP protocol, instead of version 0.8, and 2) the issuer name generated...

I just finished migrating the integration between Microsoft Codename "Dallas" and Microsoft AppFabric Access Control from WRAP v0.8 to WRAP v0.9. What? You haven't heard of the Web Resource Authorization Protocol (WRAP) ? Well, you're really missing out...

I recently posted a screencast of an integration between Microsoft AppFabric Access Control and Microsoft Codename "Dallas" here on Channel 9. This was my first project in CST, and took about three weeks to implement. Producing the screencast and packaging...

Just over a month ago, I moved from p&p to the Cloud Services Team (CST), which is part of the Business Platform Division (BPD) of the Server and Tools Business (STB), reporting to John Shewchuk . CST is responsible for SQL Azure , Windows Azure platform...

Michael Lehman, creator of two factory based initiatives, S+S Blueprints and Project Glidepath, will be hosting a pair of focus groups at Tech Ed 2008, discussing his work with S+S Blueprints, and the relationship between S+S Blueprints and Software Factories...

I recently published an article on using software factories in supply chains for Methods and Tools . Also, many people have asked about the article I wrote about factories vs. MDA for the Perspectives of the IASA.

Recently, some of our partners asked how best VSTS allows the architect to define architectural views, such as the 4+1 views , and how VSTS supports ready made architectural styles and design patterns, such as MVC, and the patterns from Microsoft Patterns...

Irfan Idrees wrote with the observation that while performance analysis and prediction are of critical importance for software developers, the rigorous approaches prevalent in the marketplace have not been widely accepted in the community. Irfan then...

In the software factories book , we explain that systematic reuse is effective, but ad hoc reuse is not. Ad hoc reuse is the “Field of Dreams” approach… “If we build it, they will come”. Great line for a movie, but it doesn’t work well in the real world...

The CEO of 6th Sense Analytics recently published an article containing some inaccurate statements about Software Factories. The article asserts that SFs are about making developers into battery chickens who squeeze out code. On the contrary, SFs are...

Here’s an update about Software Factories on ARCast , the podcast series on the Architecture Resource Center . Last month, five panelists (counting myself) recorded three shows on model driven development. It's been quite successful, with the largest...

This is a response to a blog posting by Tad Anderson, and the pointer to it on the MSDN Architecture General forum. First, I agree with your observation, Tad, about the lack of support for the Software Architect in VSTS 2005. We did indeed focus on the...

Here’s an excerpt from an article that Keith and I wrote some time ago. Total global demand for software will grow by an order of magnitude over the next decade, driven by new forces in the global economy like the growing role of software in social infrastructure...

Keith Short , Mauro Regio and I have agreed to write a new book called Software Factories Applied. Our goal is to write a short book for practitioners that complements the theoretical foundation established in the original Software Factories book by showing...

Keith Short has already written a post that provides an overview our activities at OOPSLA 2005 . Here is a compendium of my activities at the conference. On Sunday, 10/16, I hosted a full day tutorial on Software Factories with Steve Cook . On Monday...

In this posting, I continue addressing issues in the recent blog posting by Grady Booch . As I noted in my previous posting , the debate up to this point has been about the suitability of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) as a medium for model driven...

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Two weeks ago, Grady Booch posted a blog entry titled “Microsoft and Domain Specific Languages”. The posting is part of a running debate between Grady, and my colleagues at Microsoft Steve Cook and Alan Wills . While there are several points in the posting...