mszCool's thoughts and cents revealedReal illiteracy is the inability to go beyond and be creative...LINQ to SQL and my Previous Architectural Thoughts- June 25, 2008 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 your classes and properties. Just take a look at the following blog-entry: http:www.thinqlinq.comDefaultLINQ-to-SQL-support-for-POCO.aspx It describes how-to put the OR-Mapping meta data into a separate XML file. Nevertheless the...http://blogs.msdn.com/mszcool/archive/2008/06/25/linq-to-sql-and-my-previous-architectural... WCF MSDN Briefing June - Downloads- June 13, 2008 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 here to download the slides. Click here to download the demos. If you have any questions feel free in getting back to me.http://blogs.msdn.com/mszcool/archive/2008/06/13/wcf-msdn-briefing-june-downloads.aspx LINQ Workshop with Ernst & Young - Which Data Access Technology should I use - My Thoughts- June 13, 2008 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 the technologies we have there you see the following now: Technology Available since ADO.NET Command, DataReader .NET 1.x 2.0 ADO.NET DataSets, DataTables .NET 1.x 2.0 .http://blogs.msdn.com/mszcool/archive/2008/06/13/linq-workshop-with-ernst-young-which-data... LINQ Workshop with Ernst & Young in Prague - Demos- June 11, 2008 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 their deliverables. You can download the demos I've created by clicking the following link: LINQ Demos and Presentation Downloadhttp://blogs.msdn.com/mszcool/archive/2008/06/11/linq-workshop-with-ernst-young-in-prag-de... MiX Essentials & TU Vienna - Presentation and Demos- June 11, 2008 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 Material Demo I've created during the events Essentially the demo and the presentation has a focus on the following aspects: Summary of what's new in ASP.NET 3.5 New Controls in ASP.NET 3.5 (ListView and DataPager) ..http://blogs.msdn.com/mszcool/archive/2008/06/11/mix-essentials-tu-vienna-presentation-and... derStandard.at - White-paper about a Silverlight InfoScreen application- June 6, 2008 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 goes to our developer evangelist, Max Knor, for this project - he helped making the first prototype a success with is great, in-depth Silverlight know-how. Max and I have written a technical white-paper together for developers and architects...http://blogs.msdn.com/mszcool/archive/2008/06/06/derstandard-at-white-paper-about-a-silver... HP banqpro - The Demo for the Paper posted earlier- June 5, 2008 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 mind to evaluate how hard integration of Workflows in composite smart clients is. Therefore click here to check out this demo if you want to see parts of the concepts in action... and as mentioned in the paper: really better think twice before you.http://blogs.msdn.com/mszcool/archive/2008/06/05/hp-banqpro-the-demo-for-the-paper-posted-... HP banqpro - Technical paper about a WPF Smart Client Project with WF Integration- June 5, 2008 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! This is the first paper in this series since my personal blog.restart() and it is about a WPF Smart Client enterprise project we've been working on in the past couple of months. HP banqpro is one of the most well-known banking products...http://blogs.msdn.com/mszcool/archive/2008/06/05/hp-banqpro-a-wpf-smart-client-project-wit... Blog.Restart(new: true) - After some time of thinking- June 5, 2008 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 tips&tricks blog) My clear decision was: NO, it is not useful doing the same thing many other people are doing, already, and maybe even better than I because they are better experts in technology "X". After long thinking I think.http://blogs.msdn.com/mszcool/archive/2008/06/05/blog-restart-new-true-after-some-time-of-... CABSCSF and Workflow Integration - Demo Update from last TechEd- June 4, 2008 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 the updated version here!!! Important Note: You need to have SQL Server Compact Edition 2005 (version 3.1) installed on your machine. Visual Studio 2008 ships with version 3.5 instead of 3.1 and the database file formats are incompatible. So...http://blogs.msdn.com/mszcool/archive/2008/06/04/cab-scsf-and-workflow-integration-demo-up... |