June 2008 - Posts

LINQ to SQL and my Previous Architectural Thoughts
25 June 08 11:16 PM | mszCool | 1 Comments   

Thanks to Jim Wooley I have to extend what I wrote about my LINQ-Architecture thoughts before . Actually LINQ to SQL supports putting the OR-Mapping definitions into a separate XML file instead of having the mapping meta data applied as attributes on Read More...

Filed under: Architectural Thoughts

WCF MSDN Briefing June - Downloads
13 June 08 02:17 PM | mszCool | 1 Comments   

Two weeks ago I did an MSDN Briefing about Windows Communication Foundation. While we are still post-processing the recording for this briefing we wanted to make the downloads available, earlier. Here you can find the material from the briefing: Click Read More...

Filed under: Presentations - Demos - Samples

LINQ Workshop with Ernst & Young - Which Data Access Technology should I use?? - My Thoughts
13 June 08 01:52 PM | mszCool | 1 Comments   

While preparing the workshop and discussing the variety of LINQ technologies in the aforementioned workshop I really started thinking of when to use which technology in the big landscape of data access possibilities on the Microsoft platform. Summarizing Read More...

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LINQ Workshop with Ernst & Young in Prague - Demos
11 June 08 01:52 PM | mszCool | 1 Comments   

Yesterday I visited Ernst & Young in Prague for a Workshop on the variety of LINQ technologies. Thanks to my TechEd Presenters of the Tools & Languages Track last November 2007 (Luca, Luke and Mike) I was able to give a good workshop based on Read More...

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MiX Essentials & TU Vienna - Presentation and Demos
11 June 08 01:51 PM | mszCool | 1 Comments   

I know it's a few weeks ago, already, but now I managed to get the demos and presentation of MiX Essential and the ASP.NET workshop on the technical university of Vienna published. You can find for download them at by clicking the following links: Presentation Read More...

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derStandard.at - White-paper about a Silverlight InfoScreen application
06 June 08 03:06 PM | mszCool | 0 Comments   

I am especially proud to announce this next technical paper: during the past months we've been working with www.derStandard.at on designing and implementing a Silverlight -based application platform for building InfoScreen applications. Special thanks Read More...

Filed under: Whitepapers - Publications

HP banqpro/ - The Demo for the Paper posted earlier
05 June 08 11:36 PM | mszCool | 1 Comments   

I have totally forgotten to mention that the HP banqpro/ paper was the reasion why I updated my samples from last year's TechEd Europe 2007. Actually I created this examples not just for TechEd but also based on the requirements I've been told by HP in Read More...

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HP banqpro/ - Technical paper about a WPF Smart Client Project with WF Integration
05 June 08 06:30 PM | mszCool | 3 Comments   

As announced in the previous blog, publishing technical papers about interesting architectural concepts from customer and partner engagements is going to be a focus for me from this time forward. Click here for downloading this first paper in the series! Read More...

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Attachment(s): banqpro - Combining WPF and WF in Smart Clients.pdf

Blog.Restart(new: true) - After some time of thinking
05 June 08 06:09 PM | mszCool | 0 Comments   

Yes, you may have noticed - except my blog from yesterday I left my blog alone for several months now. Well the main reason really was that I started thinking about what should I blog!? Should I blog about all these standard topics (yet another ???-technology Read More...

Filed under: Personal Thoughts - My Opinion

CAB/SCSF and Workflow Integration - Demo Update from last TechEd
04 June 08 08:51 PM | mszCool | 1 Comments   

Attached you can find an updated version of the demos I've presented at TechEd Europe 2007 . I figured out that under some circumstances the downloaded demo does not really work and so I included some fixes as in the following bullet-list. You can download Read More...