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Wednesday, January 28, 2009 2:59 PM

Oslo CTP update; Data Modeling Design Patterns in M

As modelers, one of the things we're doing all the time is looking for patterns - trying to distinguish what in each model is truly unique to the domain from that which is more broadly applicable, and then either using or adapting existing patterns or
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 8:27 PM

Domain Modeling

My focus within the Olso team is on domain modeling – creating models for specific problem domains using the Oslo modeling platform’s languages and tools. Let me describe why we think of this as more than just data modeling. At the center of an Oslo domain
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 6:12 PM

Getting Back in the Saddle (although no longer on a Whitehorse)

Long time no blog! In the meantime I've changed jobs within Microsoft; I've been working for the last several years on the modeling platform known as “Oslo” which 'came out' at PDC in October. You can f ind out more about Oslo at the Oslo Dev Center .
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Tuesday, December 06, 2005 6:40 AM

Whitehorse Architecture TechNotes Published on MSDN

Phew! A set of Visual Studio Team System Tech Notes have now been published on MSDN, including some fifteen new articles I've written on topics related to the Whitehorse architecture tools. These should all be easy to read and are inter-linked, to make
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Thursday, December 01, 2005 1:49 PM

On shadow applications and agile development

Randy Miller has published a paper on agile development that discusses the use of 'shadow' applications in an agile modeling and development context, in which he talks in somewhat veiled terms about the use of the Whitehorse design tools. The term shadow
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Friday, November 11, 2005 9:33 AM

Logical vs. Physical Architectural Modeling Concerns

We've been having hallway discussions about some of the dimensions of modeling application architectures. SDM adopts a particularly physical perspective, as it focuses on the deployment packaging stack of concerns. Its focus is on resources (things like
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Thursday, November 03, 2005 7:08 PM

ARCast on model-driven development

An interesting initial round on this model-driven development podcast , including comments from Jack Greenfield from our team. Will be fun to watch this one develop... As someone who was involved in what we believed to be one the big successes of the
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Wednesday, November 02, 2005 10:59 PM

Kick the VSTS tires...

Now you can try out Team System in a hosted environment without the hassle of downloading and installing. Check out Rob Caron's post for details.
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Sunday, October 30, 2005 6:51 AM

Going dark...

I've not lost enthusiasm for this blogging thing, its just that I've been asked to convert some of my blog entries into MSDN TechNotes and write others afresh to accompany the Visual Studio launch, so I've been busy with notes/articles in work on the
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Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:13 PM

Top-down System Design Article posted

I have posted an article on top-down system design using the System Designer. This describes and illustrates a little-known technique for defining systems and applications top-down.
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Thursday, October 20, 2005 7:37 AM

Developer? Architect? All hail the Devarchitect!

No doubt you know that Microsoft is very persona driven. A persona is a fictitous person that embodies the characteristics of a class of user - useful to us when working through product usage scenarios. Mort is probably the most famous of Microsoft's
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Sunday, October 16, 2005 9:14 AM

Understanding SDM: Systems and the Four Layer Model

The Whitehorse Distributed System Designers are based on SDM - the System Definition Model. SDM offers a simple model for representing computer systems that can help in many parts of the design, deployment and management space. I'll try over an occasional
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Friday, October 14, 2005 11:40 AM

Does Application Designer support operations defined on interfaces?

Another question that keeps cropping up is whether we support viewing and editing Web service operations when these are defined on interfaces. It usually comes up in the form of the question, I've built a Web service and defined the operations using attributes
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Friday, October 14, 2005 7:02 AM

Application Designer: copying endpoints vs. creating them from WSDL

There are two ways you can copy the specification of a Web service endpoint using Application Designer, which vary in subtle ways that you can leverage. You can simply use copy/paste - see my earlier post , or, if the source application has been implemented,
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 11:55 AM

Top-down Design Using the System Designer

Abstract This article describes a technique for top-down system design supported by the Visual Studio System Designer, available in the Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects. Introduction In Visual Studio 2005, the System Designer experience
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