Wagnerblog

A place to find all sorts of recorded sessions from Microsoft MIX07.

We’ve collected great feedback from you in these early releases, the most significant being that we need better tools to aid in defining a data model and mapping that model to the database. Although we have tools for generating a direct mapping to the storage schema, the real power of the ADO.NET Entity Framework comes [...]

After Larry O’Brien declared his allegiance to REST, here are a couple more people who have solidly been in the SOAP world for the past few years but seem to have had various forms of epiphanies. Dino talks about the usage of REST in ASP.NET AJAX Extensions and Tim Ewald seems to have had some good [...]

While I haven’t used CSLA in a few years, I have always looked to Rocky and the code in his library as great examples of how to structure frameworks and how to use certain technologies. For example for ASP.NET 2.0 Rocky went ahead and worked on a custom DataSourceControl which was (to me) very trail-blazing. [...]

Paul Stovel in his post on The Domain Tree describes the similarities between concepts listed in Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans and some aspects of WPF. Nice analogy. The part that had me tweak my ears , so to speak, is the application architecture tree toward the bottom of the post. I know this [...]

Stephen has a very interesting article that describes the technology used by his company and how BizTalk Services ties in to provide some pretty amazing capabilities.
Read Article.
Tags: BizTalk+Services

Udi has an interesting post about the notion of an Anemic Domain Model Anti-Pattern. He does point out that Datasets frequently go hand in hand with that pattern. So far so good – I am in total agreement. But somewhere along the lines Udi references Fowler, who (unless I’m misreading his point) pretty much doesn’t [...]

OK that was lame. Seems that Udi Dahan managed to send me a little traffic to two of my blogs with one of his posts. Nice. Haven’t you found that nothing raises cross blog traffic quite as much as  a spirited set of well placed posts over a topic of perceived disagreement?
I am not [...]

Dare added together the some of his experiences. You would be surprised how many projects I’ve seen like this. I especially like the piece on Schedule Chicken. Its fantastic.
I think this list is almost as great as Spolsky’s top 10 check list for tools and process.
Link here…..

Jeffrey Palermo pointed out that MS (ScottGu) maybe coming out with an MVC implementation in ASP.NET. I welcome the idea. At the same time I am very curious how they will solve the routing table that is so handily managed by RoR for example.
In the case of our PathNET implementation , we actually used a [...]