Introducing - MS Project Nexus

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Jonas Follesø — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:50:43 GMT

This is a great (and massive) initiative Scott!

It's some what similar to what Rob Conery have been doing with his no 21-post long "MVC Storefront" series.

I think these kinds of applications are interesting and valuable. Microsoft have done some "official" examples, like the Dinner.Now application, but something including all the new goddies will be highly valuable. One of the problems with the example applications Microsoft have done is that they throw up a big finished app with some documentation, but you never get the "the journey" about how they reached their goal of a complete application. So it's often a little bit tricky to just pick up the finished sample, and you won't know about the challenges the team faced while implementing the application.

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jay — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:55:48 GMT

Where is the site? There is no link and msprojectnexus.com goes nowhere

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Peter Marshall — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:31:38 GMT

That sounds like exactly what I want to do. Can I have your job?

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Jeremy Davis — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:49:48 GMT

Scott - This is definitely a LARGE effort you are about to take on, however the potential upside to the .NET community and Microsoft could be large. I’m going to be watching this effort. BTW – Have you seen the Microsoft Health Common User Interface (CUI) site(s)? They are a blend of what you talk about with a “Real-World” scenario using a wide variety of .NET Technologies. Check it out if you get the chance…

http://www.mscui.net/PatientJourneyDemonstrator/

http://www.mscui.net/Default.aspx

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samiq — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:44:30 GMT

As always count me in on this... make sure ur stuff is in codeplex so we can be peaking up on ur stuff from time to time :-) would love to take the fx we wrote to it (which I supposed u have already thought off) and shine it up a little bit for mainstream :D

... Keep on rocking on the rain world!

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scbarnes — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:48:23 GMT

Thanks all! :)

- msprojectnexus.com isn't alive as well that's part of the project, to create the site (ie ASP.NET MVC + AJAX). You will all get to help decide features and design for the site, so stay tuned for phase01.

- Jonas says it correctly, this is not about the end point but the journey. I am going to video interviews with some of the brightest folks in Microsoft on this, so it will be exciting and geek-cool to watch unfold.

- Jeremy. Yup, there's a group called Industry Innovations Group in Microsoft and they produce some awesome solutions. I wish some of them saw the light of day as they are visually and technically amazing stuff.

- Peter: No.. i love my job :) get your own slice of Microsoft pie hehe.

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Ryan — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:59:43 GMT

Hey, what will the application actually do? It is great to use the technology, but what will it solve, what great puzzle and real world problem will be better from this experiment? Maybe medical field, maybe insurance, or maybe, just maybe, Facebooq or something.

http://adamkinney.com/blog/364/default.aspx

TrackBack — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:30:33 GMT

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Tom — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:53:00 GMT

I think this is a fantastic idea and I for one will be along for the ride. I intend to encouraget some of the developers that work for/with me to follow along as well. Thanks for volunteering your time and effort on such a large undertaking for the betterment of yourself and the community.

I have a suggestion/request for this project which stems from my small team's struggles or needs. Would it be possible to show all of the project management along the way through the use of the Microsoft Team System set of applications.. most specifically, the use of Team Foundation Server throughout? Also, some Windows Work Flow Foundation work would be awesome too.

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scbarnes — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:11:43 GMT

Ryan,

The project is up for discussion, and I'll be posting more on this on Monday (just need to clear some legal hurdles thrown in front of me before i follow-up!) :)

Tom,

Yup, I've already shot a video yesterday it was called "The Idea" and basically it will be video logs in diary format along the way.. insecurities, fears, hopes, random thoughts etc will all be captured.. this isn't just a code dump, but a story - albiet - documentary :)

I've also managed to rope Channel 9's Adam Kinney into this as well ..

It's going to be a fun journey! and thank you all for supporting me in this as i got a few internal emails saying "are you on crack? do you know how big this is..can you do it?"

Answer: yup :D

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Miguel Madero — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:33:50 GMT

Scott,

this is great.... I know it'll be interesting and we will heard a lot more from you.

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Will Hughes — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:22:40 GMT

Hey Scott... perhaps you could build on the good work that's been done by the DinnerNow.NET folks.

That's a great technology demonstrator for the .NET platform -- it's a Microsoft project too.

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Parag Mehta — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:41:31 GMT

Scott I believe doing business application for a vertical will do more sense then creating a DinnerNOW or Family.Show kind of application.

I think there are few examples of live business applications in Silverlight/WPF, if you do it, it will be great

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Douglas Hammon — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:11:34 GMT

Good idea. I'm looking forward to this.

Is there any chance you could also incorporate Windows Workflow?

Thanks.

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samcov — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:05:01 GMT

You said:

"Silverlight. I want to also make full use of Silverlight mixed with ASP.NET AJAX and highlight points where both technologies can be used either together or where Silverlight can take over from AJAX but in a way that makes sense."

If there is any reason on this planet that you need ASP.NET AJAX instead of Silverlight, it only points out a weakness in Silverlight that needs correcting.

I, for one, am sick of the javascript/Html/Css junk pile. I've gotten real good at it, but I've never loved it like I love Silverlight. Kill the interior of AJAX, just keep the A and the X.