We recently had a need to support a distributed transaction across web service calls. The natural choice is WCF. We managed to get the transaction support working, but ran into another issue along the way. WCF uses a stricter addressing scheme than ASMX. It only supports one “binding” per sheme. So, you can only have... Continue Reading →
Red-Gate SQL Prompt – Very nice!
Today I got tired of typing long SQL table names, so I figured I’d try Red-Gates’s SQL Prompt add-in for SQL Management Studio. I installed the trial version and in a matter of minutes got my first experience of “Intellisense” for SQL. One word: Awesome! The tool is really nice. It integrates very well into... Continue Reading →
PDC 2008 – Keynote – Day 1
I watched the PDC day 1 keynote today with my fellow coworkers. Below are my (unrefined) notes from the session. Ray Ozzie Why Cloud? Current solutions focused on internal apps Future solutions will assume more external facing solutions Users expect more social networking features embedded in solutions (ranking, reviews, etc) Operations teams and Dev teams... Continue Reading →
Event Driven Architecture (EDA) at PDC and in The Architect Journal
EDA is a special interest of mine and one of the first posts on my blog. It seems that it is a great way to stitch together the services that we create inside the enterprise. Otherwise, you end up with the same tightly-coupled spider web that you had before SOA. Recently, my enterprise architect forwarded... Continue Reading →
PDC 2008 – Get ready for the tidal wave of new stuff!
Microsoft’s PDC conference started today. They’ve got a ton of great stuff coming out this year! While I cannot be there this year, I’ll soak up as much as I can… http://www.MicrosoftPDC.com/
Great info on T4 Templates for VS
Oleg Sych has a great set of posts that show how to use the T4 Templating feature that is included in Visual Studio 2008. This is a great technology that makes it really easy to create code generation capabilities inside a project. He goes into the details, but it’s really simple to get started. Add... Continue Reading →
J.D. Meier’s “Insights … for work and life” – Awesome!
J.D. Meier has a ton of great information and advice for improving at work and in life. His “Effectiveness Post Roundup” post gives a nice list, linking to lots of great information. He has information on a variety of topics including: Communication Email Leadership Learning Management Productivity Project Management Teamwork Time Management Awesome!
Fixing XP’s Windows Explorer Search for files “Containing Text”
I think I found something that fixes the problem with XP’s windows explorer search for cases where you are searching for text inside a file. You may have noticed in the past, that it doesn’t return results that you know it should return. The fix that seems to be working so far is referenced as... Continue Reading →
Test your understanding of Reference Types vs. Value Types
Here's a little test to explore the way that value types behave differently than reference types when using .NET. Enjoy! 1) Passing an instance of a Class to a method ByVal. What's printed out: a) 5 b) 15 Public Class MyNumberClass Public Value As Integer End Class Module MainModule Sub Main()... Continue Reading →
