New blog address – http://devadoss.net/blog and rss http://devadoss.net/blog/?feed=rss .

‘SOA with .NET and Windows Azure – Realizing Service Orientation with the Microsoft Platform’ is now in print . We are doing a launch at TechEd in New Orleans.

Blaine posted information on our plans for Prism 4 - key areas that we have gotten feedback include - Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Integration Extended Support for Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) Data Access & Application Services...

Understanding Service Composition - Part I: Dealing With Workflow Across Services In the SOA Magazine this April. This is part of the upcoming book on SOA with .NET and Windows Azure that I have been working on.

Microsoft Enterprise Library is a popular collection of reusable software components (called application blocks ) designed to address common cross-cutting concerns of enterprise application developers (such as logging, validation, data access, exception...

We have been spending some cycles, getting feedback since the PDC Workshop , on what we can do to help our customers understand the opportunities and challenges afforded by parallelism and some of the new features of Visual Studio 2010. Ade has...

Imagine a world where you don't have to worry about authentication. Imagine instead that all requests to your application already include the information you need to make access control decisions and to personalize the application for the user. In...

Enterprise Library 5 and Unity 2 Beta are now available for evaluation. This is a major release for us in patterns & practices – and with the exception of Visual Studio integration, is now feature complete. We are very excited about the enhancements...

As an application designer or developer, imagine a world where you don't have to worry about authentication. Imagine instead that all requests to your application already include the information you need to make access control decisions and to personalize...

we, in the patterns & practices team, have been using agile development techniques for a number of years. The Agile Development showcase on the patterns & practices developer center lists a number of the resources that we use.

we have recently released an update to our Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight to enable you to work with Silverlight 3

W e shipped the Microsoft ESB Toolkit 2.0 this Summer . This product was formerly known as the ESB Guidance 2.0, and has been renamed as part of the transition over to the BizTalk product team. You can download the Microsoft ESB Toolkit here . For...

we have made available the printed version of the Application Architecture Guide 2nd Edition - you can download from here - and also from here .

now, this is a fun one IMHO. It is my opinion that the cloud as plumbing will continue to over-shadow the cloud as the application platform, for the short-term and for the medium-term - and most certainly through 2010. However, I do believe that in...

part of the rationale for working with my friends at Sogeti on the Collaboration in the Cloud book was my belief that the front office (email, collaboration, communications, crm and its ilk) are the early sweet spot for the cloud. I think 2010 will continue...

I continue to be convinced that the rich client thrives, and in fact that the rich client model will continue to grow in strength. In spite of the cloud, and actually because of the cloud, I argue that the rich client model is here to stay. The edge...

just about two years back I had called out the 'my cloud' pattern - Essentially, large enterprise organizations that are interested in the business and technology model advantages of moving to a software + services model, but are asking their IT...

Almost three years back I had called out a trend, that of 'bringing your own PC' (or device for that matter). I think that this continues to gather momentum; and am keen to see what 2010 brings in this context. as a reminder, here is what I had called...

With the second half of 2009 winding down, we wanted to share an update on our backlog here at patterns & practices - what have we been upto in these last six months - and ask you for your continued feedback. As always, I want to ask you to share...

Recently, a collection of individuals (notorganizations), amongthem being industry luminaries such as Grady Booch, DavidChappell, Anne ThomasManes etc., came together to create a set of values andprinciples, to ensurethat the application of Service-oriented...

Larry and I had a chance to talk about patterns & practices - the interview is at http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1413891 .

It continues to amaze me that in calendar year 2009, people still continue to conflate SOA with WS-* on one hand, and with REST on the other. SOA has nothing to with either WS-* or REST, period. And btw, if you are naive enough to believe that you can...

presenting on 'Differentiated IT' (aka The End of One-size-fits-all IT) at the 2nd International SOA Symposium / Cloud International Symposium http://www.soasymposium.com/overview3.php this week in Rotterdam. Ping me if you are going to be attending ...

We have re-designed the patterns & practices Developer Center http://msdn.com/practices to make it easier to navigate and use. Please take a look and let us know.

Herb Sutter, Stephen Toub, Richard Ciapala and Ade Miller are hosting a workshop on Patterns of Parallel Programming at the upcoming PDC. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/Patterns-of-Parallel-Programming for more information.