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Thursday, November 05, 2009 4:10 PM

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 blog . Since this effort spans GAT/GAX and 3 factories, it makes more sense to post the updates there instead of here. Sorry for any confusion. Feel free to
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 5:26 PM

Data Access Guidance

A few of us in patterns & practices , with some help from our partners on the Data Platform team have been working on some guidance to help .NET customers build data access layers (DALs). We’ve been hearing for a while that data access on the .NET
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009 11:42 AM

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 having a discussion with our advisors about the contention between the influence a Developer has on an enterprise solution and the influence a DBA has
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Monday, March 30, 2009 10:52 AM

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 giving you the chance to influence the priority of the stories. So don't waste anymore time here, head over, get more details, and be heard .
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:14 AM

On the subject of Software Factories ...

Overview As many of you know, the patterns & practices team has been involved in Software Factories for a number of years now. As a team who is responsible for a number of Factories and the technologies that many of them depend on (GAT/GAX), we are
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Monday, December 22, 2008 2:04 PM

Early Christmas: Sticky Notes

My good friend Pablo Galiano just let me know that Sticky Notes is ready for primetime. WooHoo! It’s not my decision, but I’m going to try to talk Mike into letting us use it on the data access guidance project I’ll be talking more about real soon. Of
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Thursday, November 06, 2008 12:17 AM

A Data Access Discussion at the Summit

I spoke this morning at the patterns & practices Summit about data access. As I described this morning, I've mostly been working in the area of Web Services for the past number of years and didn't keep up too much with the advances in data access
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Friday, September 19, 2008 2:27 AM

On coupling and dependencies

For my whole software development career I’ve been focused on the enterprise app dev space. (I did try to join the Zune team at one point, but that’s the topic of another post ;) While some people baulk at the term “enterprise” it does actually carry
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 1:51 PM

Pair doc writing

That's write folks! (haha) Just minutes ago I heard through the wall what I've come to recognize as "productivity in action" and I thought it might be valuable to capture and share with you. In this photograph we're witnessing a first hand account
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Monday, March 31, 2008 2:39 PM

WCF Security Guidance

If you're looking for pragmatic guidace for securing your WCF services, look no further. The WCF Security project has been posting how-to documents and videos on its community site . Now is the perfect time to give the team feedback. They aren't done
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Monday, March 10, 2008 7:10 PM

Using MessageContracts and DataContracts

Users of the Service Factory often ask about the rationale behind the required use of MessageContracts even though the use of MessageContracts aren't mandated by WCF. I've answered this question in other venues, but it seemed like a good thing to put
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Sunday, February 24, 2008 9:17 PM

Pretty Impressive Management

I was pretty impressed by something my manager did recently. I've shared it with a few other people, but I think this is noteworthy enough for a blog entry. My hopes are that other mangers will be equally impressed and carry out similar acts. My manager
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 9:32 AM

Roger joins the fray ... w00t!

My good friend Roger Lamb has just joined the blogsphere and I assure you that if you are interested in anything remotely related to Sharepoint, you'll want to subscribe now. Check out his first post . You see how I just did that? How I increased your
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Thursday, September 27, 2007 9:27 AM

Influence MSF guidance

My colleague, Andrew Delin, is making the process of developing software real for development teams. However, he doesn't want to do it in a vacuum. If you think you know anything about development processes, I'm sure he'd love to hear from you. http://blogs.msdn.com/processblog/archive/2007/09/25/so-tell-us-what-you-think-about-the-msf-guidance.aspx
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Monday, July 16, 2007 9:20 AM

Service Factory Customization Workshop

Microsoft Main Campus (Building 20) July 30th – Aug 1st 2007 Redmond, WA Description Many software factories being built today use a number of different technologies, which include the Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX), the Domain Specific Language
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