Survey of the .NET Blogosphere(quicklearn.com)

submitted by nickh(95) 2 years, 3 months ago

Last week I undertook a completely unscientific study of the .NET Blogosphere (as much as I loathe that term), to determine which namespaces and classes people are most excited about, confused by, or frustrated with – at least to the point that they would dedicate the time to write in their blog about them. My methods for undertaking this study were rather simplistic. I wrote a quick and dirty console application to reflect through the .NET Framework namespaces and classes, and search the internet for mentions of them alongside the terms .NET and blog. read more...

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C# REPL in Silverlight Soon Possible?(www.quicklearn.com)

submitted by nickh(95) 2 years, 3 months ago

The latest work in the Mono project might make it possible to embed C# compilers in Silverlight and .NET applications. read more...

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Itinerary Broker Services: The Feature We Do Not Speak Of(quicklearn.com)

submitted by nickh(95) 2 years, 9 months ago

I was on the MSDN Forums for the ESB Toolkit this morning, and came across a question from fellow BizTalk developer Barry Woods. He was asking about routing decisions in itineraries, so I threw in my two cents on the topic. Then I stepped back for a second and realized that there is a fantastic feature of the ESB Toolkit 2.0 that no one talks about. This enigmatic feature stealthily crept into the Toolbox in Visual Studio, when you weren't looking. It takes up two slots in the toolbox, because two are necessary to compose its awesomeness. I'm referring to the "Itinerary Broker Service" and the "Itinerary Broker Output"; together they make up the feature that is the broker service. read more...

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Getting up and Running with Microsoft BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0(quicklearn.com)

submitted by nickh(95) 2 years, 11 months ago

Microsoft BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0 released to web yesterday evening, and if you have not been following the earlier CTPs, now is a great time to get on board. The name has been changed, a support model has been introduced, and official MSDN forums for the Toolkit have been made available. Since there are not any VMs that you can simply download and get up and running with quickly, I decided to put together a quick and dirty installation guide for installing the Toolkit on a single server in a 32-bit virtualized environment for evaluation purposes. What follows are the steps to get you from 0 to ESB with all of the sample applications. read more...

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ESB Guidance 2.0: Build Loosely Coupled Solutions You Can Be Proud Of(quicklearn.com)

submitted by nickh(95) 3 years, 3 months ago

It is no secret that Microsoft has been working on bringing its Enterprise offerings up to date, readying them for the next generation of applications and services, and fixing small pain points that have vexed developers for years. In just a short while, BizTalk Server 2006 R2 will make way for BizTalk Server 2009, and another interesting product from Microsoft will realize version 2.0 status. That product is Microsoft Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Guidance 2.0. read more...

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Is Crowd Computing the Future?(quicklearn.com)

submitted by nickh(95) 3 years, 3 months ago

With so many questions about elastic hosted services, and an as of yet unclear track record for the same, I cannot help but wonder if the cloud computing model will really take hold, or if it will just be a bridge to an even more impressive generation of computing architectures to follow. Maybe it will be both. This discussion then begs the question -- of what that generation will look like that does follow. read more...

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