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Wednesday, November 26, 2008 5:00 AM

Managed Extensibility Framework Preview Update

Another preview release ( preview 3 ) for the Managed Extensibility Framework went live yesterday. MEF is a component system for building applications that use add-ins in a standard way. The most common demonstration of this so far has been for developing
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008 5:00 AM

Introduction to Monadic Programming

Since I'm on the topic of highly distributed, concurrent, and asynchronous programming I thought I'd mention some of the other research that is going on in this area. One of those research projects is the method of monadic programming. Monadic programming
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Monday, November 24, 2008 5:00 AM

Correlation under the Hood

You'll probably want to have read the previous articles about correlation for this to make sense. Future of Correlation Future of Correlation Examples Message Filters and Queries Now that you've seen some of the details about message queries, you can
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Friday, November 21, 2008 5:00 AM

Message Filters and Queries

Since a message filter and message query share a similar heritage, let's start by looking at the conceptually simpler message filter APIs. You probably haven't seen message filters before unless you've gone out of your way to explore everything that comes
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Thursday, November 20, 2008 5:00 AM

Future of Correlation Examples

Last time I talked about how WCF 4.0 standardizes many different types of correlations using a query mechanism and promised to go into more detail today. You might already be familiar with the message filter engine in WCF 3.0. If you haven't seen message
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 5:00 AM

Future of Correlation

One of the topics that you'll hear a lot about for asynchronous and decoupled programming in WCF 4.0 is correlation. Correlation is a relationship between one message and another message or one message and a piece of state. With synchronous programming,
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 5:00 AM

Like Going to the Post Office

For a long time it's been true that the average personal computer is not well-suited to running highly available public facing services. In the original model for network mail delivery though, everyone that wanted to receive mail needed a local mail transfer
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Monday, November 17, 2008 5:00 AM

Framework Training Kit Preview

Last week a preview training kit was posted for Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4.0. A training kit is a collection of presentations, labs, and demos that broadly demonstrates the features of a product. This training kit focuses on these upcoming
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Friday, November 14, 2008 5:00 AM

The Future of WCF, Part 2

Having read part 1 will be helpful. As I mentioned last time, there were two markets in particular that I thought were interesting for web service developers to expand into when using WCF. The first market was REST and the HTTP application style of web
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Thursday, November 13, 2008 5:00 AM

The Future of WCF, Part 1

It's been two years since we shipped the first release of WCF (codenamed Indigo). It was actually even a little before that that I started thinking about what features we should include in the upcoming .NET 4.0 release. The first time that I wrote down
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 5:00 AM

1 Question Survey on Configuration

Since I did the survey question on extensibility, I thought I'd do this followup on configuration. The two are often talked about together but have very different needs. Question: What's the one thing you would change about how configuration is done for
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 5:00 AM

Silverlight Unit Test Framework

A few weeks ago the Silverlight Toolkit was released to extend the existing set of controls and components in Silverlight 2. I noticed that last week there was a checkin to the toolkit to add the source code of the Silverlight unit test framework. I know
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Monday, November 10, 2008 5:00 AM

1 Question Extensibility Survey

WCF has a whole lot of extensibility points. Many of those extensibility points use similar systems for describing and installing extensions, but overall you still end up with multiple ways of doing extensibility depending on what you're extending. The
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Friday, November 07, 2008 5:00 AM

The Web Services Track

As a way to wrap up on PDC content I thought I'd do a bit of indexing to highlight the different areas of activity over the the next few years for general purpose web services development. Service Frameworks WCF 4.0: Building WCF Services with WF in Microsoft
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Thursday, November 06, 2008 5:00 AM

2009 Conference Schedule

Now that we're winding down on 2008 conferences, I've started seeing more news coming about the events scheduled for next year. MIX 2009 is being held March 18th to 20th in Las Vegas. Registration for the event is now open. TechEd 2009 is being held May
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008 5:00 AM

WCF REST Starter Kit

Now that I'm mostly caught up with reporting on sessions from PDC, I'll start talking a bit about the future of WCF that we announced during the conference. The REST Starter Kit is actually something that is available now rather than coming in the next
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008 5:00 AM

Videos for PDC Sessions You've Seen Here

Now that most of the PDC session videos are up, here are links for the ones that I've talked about so far. I'm not going to update the previous posts but I'll put the links directly in future posts. It looks like the way Silverlight does streaming eats
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Monday, November 03, 2008 5:00 AM

PDC 2008: Project Velocity Under the Hood

(Presenters: Anil Nori and Murali Krishnaprasad) What they said: Learn about the architecture of Velocity, Microsoft's main memory distributed caching framework. Hear how Velocity was built to meet the performance, scale, latency, and availability requirements
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