Sonu's Tech Log

Application lifecycle artifact metadata priorities

sonua — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:00:00 GMT

The SQL Server Modeling CTP – Nov 2009 Release 2 has the model schema for following domains: · .NET assemblies · Unified Modeling Language 2 (UML2) · Next generation identity As we finalize the plan for our V1, we are trying to figure out...(read more)

Technical women in product engineering groups at Microsoft

sonua — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:17:00 GMT

There are about ~20 Technical Fellows (all men) and ~48 Distinguished Engineers (all men) at Microsoft. There are a handful of women who are in the executive ranks, including two Senior Vice Presidents. Mary Jo Foley (author of " All About Microsoft ...(read more)

MIX10 videos

sonua — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:06:00 GMT

The videos from MIX 2010 conference are available online. http://live.visitmix.com/videos There are so many good sessions that I want to watch. I am especially interested in the following to begin with, purely because of personal interest. (Unfortunately...(read more)

SQL Server Modeling Services Usability Study – System.Runtime Model/Loader

sonua — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:35:00 GMT

One of the favorite part of my job as a Program Manager in product engineering groups at Microsoft is seeking customer feedback for products we build. It is really energizing for me to let people take our under-development products for a test run and...(read more)

System.Runtime Schema: Resolving references using 'binding context'

sonua — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:22:00 GMT

In my previous post “ Assembly, Type and Method References ”, I talked about how AssemblyReferences , TypeReferences and MethodReferences entities can be used to find references across assemblies, types and methods. Context Binding Context is a...(read more)

System.Runtime Schema: Method Details

sonua — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:25:00 GMT

Continuing on my series of “ Exploring relational schema for .NET assemblies in SQL Server Modeling Services ”, in this post I will drill-into entities related to ‘methods’. Type definitions are made up of methods. A method is a subroutine defined...(read more)

Sample Eclipse plug-in for SQL Server Modeling Services

sonua — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT

I have developed a sample Eclipse plug-in that uses one of the utilities in SQL Server Modeling Services (SSMoS). Yes, it is just an experiment and NOT a shipping sample or code as part of SSMoS (not yet anyways – Microsoft has an ongoing initiative to...(read more)

Download R2 of SQL Server Modeling Nov 2009 CTP

sonua — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:45:00 GMT

SQL Server Modeling Nov 2009 CTP R2 is a re-release of the CTP for it to work with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 RC releases. Download it here ....(read more)

System.Runtime Schema: Type Details

sonua — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:35:00 GMT

Types are cornerstone of application programming. A .NET developer works with the CLR type system by programming the managed types. Some of the examples of CLR managed types are: Class, Structure, Enumeration, Delegate and Interface. A namespace is a...(read more)

System.Runtime Schema: Assembly, Type and Method References

sonua — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:00:00 GMT

As a continuation of my previous post on exploring relational schema for .NET Assemblies , let me drill-into a few more entities in the System.Runtime data model. .NET applications are made up of multiple assemblies. Assemblies reference assemblies...(read more)