Don Smith
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Author: LockSmithDon Date: 12/02/2010
Symposium Agenda RC1
Of course when it comes to conference agendas, they're really released incrementally as the sessions...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 09/23/2010
Symposium Progress Report
We've been making some great progress on the Symposium ... so I guess you could call this a progress...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 09/13/2010
Symposium planning and registration are in full swing
We have enjoyed the patterns & practices Summit for many years now. And each year it seems like...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 08/16/2010
My App Arch deck from the China Summit
This is a deck I created for the China p&p Summit. I'm posting this because I spent some extra...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 12/10/2009
Updating the factories to VS2010
This is just a quick post to let you know that I just posted an update over on the p&p team...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 11/05/2009
Data Access Guidance
A few of us in patterns & practices, with some help from our partners on the Data Platform team...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 07/23/2009
What's the deal between Devs and DBAs?
As part of this Data Access Guidance project I'm workin on (which I'll blog more about soon), we're...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 07/01/2009
EntLib is listening ... be heard now to influence the next rev
Grigori, the PM for Enterprise Library, just posted version 5's tentative backlog stories and is...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 03/30/2009
On the subject of Software Factories ...
Overview As many of you know, the patterns & practices team has been involved in Software...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 02/25/2009
Early Christmas: Sticky Notes
My good friend Pablo Galiano just let me know that Sticky Notes is ready for primetime. WooHoo! It’s...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 12/22/2008
A Data Access Discussion at the Summit
I spoke this morning at the patterns & practices Summit about data access. As I described this...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 11/06/2008
On coupling and dependencies
For my whole software development career I’ve been focused on the enterprise app dev space. (I did...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 09/19/2008
Pair doc writing
That's write folks! (haha) Just minutes ago I heard through the wall what I've come to recognize as...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 04/30/2008
WCF Security Guidance
If you're looking for pragmatic guidace for securing your WCF services, look no further. The WCF...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 03/31/2008
Using MessageContracts and DataContracts
Users of the Service Factory often ask about the rationale behind the required use of...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 03/10/2008
Pretty Impressive Management
I was pretty impressed by something my manager did recently. I've shared it with a few other people,...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 02/25/2008
Roger joins the fray ... w00t!
My good friend Roger Lamb has just joined the blogsphere and I assure you that if you are interested...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 02/13/2008
Influence MSF guidance
My colleague, Andrew Delin, is making the process of developing software real for development teams....
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 09/27/2007
Service Factory Customization Workshop
Microsoft Main Campus (Building 20)July 30th – Aug 1st 2007Redmond, WA Description Many software...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 07/16/2007
First Service Factory v3 Community Drop
Okay, we're off and running now. Earlier today I posted the first of many community drops for...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 04/07/2007
Now Available: Aaron's new Service Factory article on MSDN
Steven just told me that Aaron Skonnard's latest Service Factory article about the December release...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 01/11/2007
Emerging Guidance
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Author: LockSmithDon Date: 01/09/2007
Installing Software Factories on Vista
I noticed Tom blogged about this a couple of days ago, and of course he is correct, but I just...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 11/30/2006
Handcrafting WCF-friendly WSDLs
It's 10:15 pm and I'm still in the office, but I really think I should get this entry posted before...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 10/06/2006
Bumbershoot was awesome!
For those of you who don't live in the northwest of the U.S., there is a music and arts festival...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 09/05/2006
Written Guidance. Necessary?
In my last post I mentioned that we are having a lot of hallway discussions lately. Another topic...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 09/03/2006
It's all about community!
There have been a lot of hallway conversations on the p&p team lately and the state of our...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 09/02/2006
WCF Guidance Packages now available for consumption
If you've been following the Service Factory project, you'll know that we had to put the WCF...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 08/31/2006
Partial Classes & the Service Factory
I just posted the Service Factory Hands-on Labs to the community workspace and I learned something...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 08/09/2006
Service Factory now available for download!
Before I get ahead of myself, which comes pretty easy for me J, here’s the link to learn more about...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 07/30/2006
Just Published: Service Factory ARCast
Ron Jacobs did a load of ARCasts at Tech-Ed in Boston this year. One of them was with Shy Cohen and...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 07/30/2006
Service Architecture Concept Model
I'm posting this because I'm interested in your thoughts about it. IMPORTANT: This is just a concept...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 07/21/2006
How Teams Build Services
With all this talk of software factories, it's important that we understand the different ways teams...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 07/17/2006
Patterns for writing music lyrics?
Okay, you've had 8 hours to change your subscription to my work related category to avoid this kind...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 07/10/2006
It's not just about work anymore
For the past year or so I've been maintaining 2 blogs: my personal site (https://dev4net.com), which...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 07/10/2006
Live Service Factory Webcast announcement
I'm going to do a webcast on the Web Service Software Factory in the morning (11am EST). The link...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 06/27/2006
New drop of the Web Service Software Factory available!
I could go on and on about how this new drop includes a guidance package to help you build business...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 06/27/2006
Service Factory: Editing (part 1)
For this installment, I'm illustrating 2 examples of what I call "level 1 changes" to a guidance...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 05/15/2006
Get Connected!
Want to hear some excellent speakers talk about the architecture of connected systems ... for FREE!?...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 05/10/2006
Service Factory: Entity Translation
For the third installment I've decided to talk about the entity translation (mapping) capability of...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 04/28/2006
Service Factory: Contracts
Here's the second installment of my blogcast series on Service Factory. In this one I show how to...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 04/20/2006
Service Factory: A Brief Introduction
Here is the first installment of a series of blogcasts I hope to continue that are focused on the...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 04/20/2006
Blogcasting
Okay, this post is for me (well, I guess there is a little heads-up for you too). I found this post...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 04/19/2006
Well spent morale money
The patterns & practices team have been selected for a pilot program that will completely...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 02/11/2006
[Web] Service Versioning Guidance
Oh man, I have waited years to be able to post this blog entry. I am finally in a position to...
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 01/31/2006
Issuing SAML tokens from an STS using WSE 3.0
I thought for sure I blogged about this ... man, that means this is like 13 days late ... geez....
Author: LockSmithDon Date: 01/30/2006