Shy Cohen's WebLog

Recently I hear many questions about Reliable Messaging in WCF. In fact, I just had an IM chat with Clemens which resulted in this blog entry . I want to expand on his comments with a little more of the insight I got being a past owner for this feature...

Well, Clemens threw the glove so here goes :-) The first thing that we define is the contracts using System.ServiceModel; namespace DuplexSample.Interfaces { [ ServiceContract ] interface IClientSide { [ OperationContract (IsOneWay = true )] void WriteString...

Don't miss this hilarious video of Rory , Dan Fernandez , Becky Dias , Simon Guest , Richard Turner , Rory's Girlfriend , Jay Roxe and yours truly helping Scott Hanselman see the light and drink the TechEd KoolAid .

My name is Shy Cohen and I’m a PM. Program Management is similar to project management, but has more to do with the planning and execution of the project than with people management. In Microsoft, a Program Manager (most commonly known by the acronym...

A common complaint about specs is that they “never reflect reality with 100% accuracy”, meaning that once written entropy sets in and they become increasingly inaccurate over time. In a world where the software product is implemented in code, not Word...

Just came back from TechEd Israel 2004 where I met with a lot of cool folks. Here's a picture of Jackie Goldstein , Hans Verbeek , Clement Vasters , Myself, and Yosi Taguri . And here is a picture of me with Juval Lowy .

Scott Hanselman posted a list of speaker tips for technical presentations. It's a great read, and so are the comments. Here are 10 more tips to add on to his, focusing on general presentation skills. In my job I have the opportunity to speak with many...

Get your Avalon and Indigo Community Technology Preview here .

Our friends at Fawcette Technical Publications posted the Indigo Day sessions recorded at VSLive 2005 in San Francisco . http://www.ftponline.com/special/indigo/ There's over 7 hours of material here, ranging from basic Indigo programming to migration...

A few months ago I published an article titled Ontology and Taxonomy of Services in a Service-Oriented Architecture in the Architecture Journal. One table that did not make it into the article was the summary table below. ...

Woohoo! The fisrt Community Technical Preview (CTP) of Indigo is now available for download at http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/ (currently restricted to MSDN subscribers, but will open up to all soon). The documentation and samples for Indigo are part...

The morning started with a discussion on Reliable Messaging with one of the attendees. Over the last year I’ve spoken to literally hundreds of folks (customers, partners, conference attendees, etc.) and it’s interesting to see the same questions come...

Make sure to stop by VS Live on Feb 8th and say Hi. With Eric, Don, Steve, Doug, Scott, Alex and Rich on stage, this is going to be one great show.

While I was at TechEd, some folks on my team recorded this video for channel 9. Guess what future feature leaked on this video? (hint: watch time mark 27:57) Now that's one heck of a pourus mambrane :-)

As promised, here’s the first one . This demo illustrated how sessions work in Indigo … er… Windows Communication Foundation, and how instancing is related to sessions.

If you’re going to TechEd Europe Developers in beautiful Barcelona, come check out my talks in the Architecture track and say Hello. My talks are: ARC07-IS - Service Taxonomy: A Common Language for SOA (November 6 th at 09:00 in Room 114) ...

Get it while it's fresh :-) WinFX Runtime Components: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E5376297-DA10-4FC3-967D-38C96F767FC4&displaylang=en WinFX SDK: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads...

This morning I gave my talk. I was working on the demos and slides until late last night, completely ignoring the first rule of presentations: get a good night’s rest before your presentation. With ruby red eyes I managed to drag myself out of bed in...

Indigo is going to have a substential presence in this year's PDC. There are 21 sessions discussing Indigo, out of which 13 are "pure Indigo" presentations given by Indigo team members. Here's the abstract for my talk: Indigo: Writing Reliable and...

Let's see: Windows Communication Foundation = WCF Windows Presentation Foundation = FPF Windows Workflow Foundation = WWF Windows Transaction Foundation = WTF... hmm... I don't think they'll let this one through :-)

The Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) team is asking for your assistance in prioritizing our efforts going forward. If you’re interested in helping out, please take the time to fill in this survey on your current and future usage of WF Activities, and...

After a short delay, here’s the second one . This demo illustrated how transaction flowing works in Windows Communication Foundation.

Ron just posted the session Don Smith and I recorded at TechEd US in Boston about the Service Factory. Check it out on skyscrapr .

At the PDC I presented an acronym (BAD P) that can help you folks (and myself ;-) remember the 4 tenets of service orientation. Some folks asked me to publish it on my blog, so here goes. B stands for Boundaries . A service has an explicit boundary...

Ron Jacobs just posted the ARCast we recorded at TechEd Israel titled "Getting on the SOA bandwagon". Check it out on Channel9 or SkyScrapr .