mszCool's thoughts and cents revealed

First of all I wish all the readers of my blog a happy new year 2009, good luck and especially healthiness (I think that's much more important than success;))... As a stressful week (several customer briefings - one with a longer trip at the beginning...

Last week I did a presentation at the technical university of Vienna on Microsoft's strategies for modeling and Software Factories. It was a great pleasure and fun for me to deliver this presentation as we had really interesting discussions afterwards...

Right immediately after my previous post the next one is following;) Last week on Friday, December 12th, we had a great event together with David Chappell in our new conference center right above our M.I.C. in Vienna. At this cloud computing day, David...

A little late but nevertheless I managed to publish my demos from this year's TechEd Europe 2008 in Barcelona from my session on the identity meta system applied to real world projects in Austria. As mentioned, the experience I summarized in the session...

I am very proud that we were able to secure David Chappell for our half-day conference about cloud computing! On December 12th , right before Christmas, David well join us in Austria, Vienna. He will talk about his view on cloud computing in general,...

( Click here to download my Security-Interop-Sample ) ( Click here for downloading the presentation ) While I am here at PDC studying the most exciting new stuff from Microsoft around Software+Services and much more interesting platform-enhancements ...

Last Tuesday a few of our biggest partners (CSS, Cubido and TechTalk) organized their second DevCamp conference in Vienna... and again I have to say it was a great event. While most of the sessions where delivered by peers from our partners, Max and I...

While the feedback for yesterday's forum was in the good average range for all architect forums (typically the architects are more critical than others;)), I really started thinking about the future of the platform and the way we are driving this platform...

You can find the presentation I gave for the 25. architect forum yesterday about composite applications by clicking the following Link: Click here for downloading the presentation As the presentation got pretty big in the old file format I published it...

This actually was my first year as a speaker and participant at JAOO in Aarhus... and I have to admit - it's very cool but different to any other conference I've been so far as a speaker. What I really like is the focus on the conceptual level... which...

For a long time the application architecture guidance from the patterns & practices team remained unchanged... and it was inherently necessary to give it an update with all the new technologies and also trends appeared on the market. Now the first...

This week we started a road show through Austria for developers which are rather new to the world of .NET that want to see and learn, how modern applications will be developed with the .NET Framework. You can download all the content of our tour from...

Last week, just one week after my vacation, I had it in my inbox - the announcement that Issue 16 of the Architecture Journal about Identity and Access Management has been published. In this issue of the journal you will find an article I've written about...

Actually this is going to be one of the most exciting things for me this year - I will have one session and a whole-day tutorial at JAOO Conference in Denmark / Aarhus (JAOO originally stands for Java and Object Oriented... the conference itself has really...

Finally, after the Composite Application Guidance for WPF (codename "Prism") was released last week, I started thinking about necessary steps for migrating CAB/SCSF based solutions to the new Smart Client framework built with WPF. I also started...

This is the first part of the sample from last year's TechEd Europe 2007 Developers where I started migration from CAB/SCSF to Composite WPF Guidance / Prism for a customer workshop a few weeks ago. I will post a separate, longer article on the thoughts...

Thanks to Jim Wooley I have to extend what I wrote about my LINQ-Architecture thoughts before . Actually LINQ to SQL supports putting the OR-Mapping definitions into a separate XML file instead of having the mapping meta data applied as attributes on...

Two weeks ago I did an MSDN Briefing about Windows Communication Foundation. While we are still post-processing the recording for this briefing we wanted to make the downloads available, earlier. Here you can find the material from the briefing: Click...

While preparing the workshop and discussing the variety of LINQ technologies in the aforementioned workshop I really started thinking of when to use which technology in the big landscape of data access possibilities on the Microsoft platform. Summarizing...

Yesterday I visited Ernst & Young in Prague for a Workshop on the variety of LINQ technologies. Thanks to my TechEd Presenters of the Tools & Languages Track last November 2007 (Luca, Luke and Mike) I was able to give a good workshop based on...

I know it's a few weeks ago, already, but now I managed to get the demos and presentation of MiX Essential and the ASP.NET workshop on the technical university of Vienna published. You can find for download them at by clicking the following links: ...

I am especially proud to announce this next technical paper: during the past months we've been working with www.derStandard.at on designing and implementing a Silverlight -based application platform for building InfoScreen applications. Special thanks...

I have totally forgotten to mention that the HP banqpro/ paper was the reasion why I updated my samples from last year's TechEd Europe 2007. Actually I created this examples not just for TechEd but also based on the requirements I've been told by HP in...

As announced in the previous blog, publishing technical papers about interesting architectural concepts from customer and partner engagements is going to be a focus for me from this time forward. Click here for downloading this first paper in the series...

Yes, you may have noticed - except my blog from yesterday I left my blog alone for several months now. Well the main reason really was that I started thinking about what should I blog!? Should I blog about all these standard topics (yet another ???-technology...