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New Webcast on WCF contracts
Michele Leroux Bustamante (das Blonde) has recorded a new webcast on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) contracts for the MSDN Architecture Webcasts series. WCF services are composed of three basic elements: addresses, bindings, and contracts, which describe the service in a standard, cross-platform way.
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Adobe launches Flex 2 RIA platform; Flex SDK is now free
Adobe has released Flex 2, its platform for ajax-style enterprise rich internet application development that runs on Flash, whose version 9 now includes Just-In-Time compiler. The Flex 2 is now free for developing and deploying Flex apps on the Flash runtime. An Eclipse-based IDE and enterprise messaging/data connectivity featuring real time messaging is also available for enterprise customers.
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CodePlex comes out of beta
Microsoft's shared source project repository, CodePlex has emerged from its public beta, as announced yesterday at the Open Source Business Conference in London. Similar in concept to SourceForge, and Microsoft's earlier .NET community effort GotDotNet, CodePlex is based on Microsoft's Team Foundation Server.
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.NET Framework 3.0 June CTP is out
The June CTP of the .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly, WinFX) is now available for download. This is an update since the Beta 2 release, and is intended for use with Windows Vista build 5456. Note that there is no Go-Live license available for this release.
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WinFS Officially Dropped
On the WinFS team blog on Friday, Quentin Clark blogged that WinFS, the new relational filestore would no longer be shipped as a separate product, instead, parts of it will make it into ADO.NET (entities) and SQL Server. The community is calling thea nnouncement spin and proclaiming that WinFS is dead.
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Real World Apps with Atlas Codecamp Video Published
Wrox author Wally McClure, was a featured speaker at Atlanta Code Camp on May 13, 2006, and presented a 43-minute, on-screen demo of building an Atlas application, that is now available for viewing. The video gives a good introduction of what is possible with Atlas.
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InfoQ Article: The HandleExternalEvent in Windows Workflow
The HandleExternalEvent Activity in Windows Workflow Foundation is used to handle events raised by the host process. It provides a way in which you can communicate with a workflow to notify it that some event has occured and get the workflow to respond.
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New Blinq Prototype Generates ASP.NET CRUD site
Polita Paulus, a developer on the ASP.NET team last week posted Blinq to the sandbox. Blinq is a LINQ-based prototype for generating a CRUD data access layer and fully functional ASP.NET front end web application with sorting, paging, and relationship navigation.
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Occasionally Connected Clients ARCast
Ron Jacobs' latest ARCast with Jack Goldstein goes through SQL Everywhere and how to use it for the occasionally connected client. It also has some brief mentions about some of the cool new synchronization technologies that are coming up in Orcas. Overall a nice starting place if you want to start thinking about how to deal with the occasionally connect client in your architecture.
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.NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP1 Released
Microsoft has just released SP1 of the .NET Compact Framework 2.0, currently available for web download only (so far). A number of interesting fixes and features are added, such as the addition of the Serializable attribute, the ObjectDisposedException bug fixed in HttpWebRequest, and the Remote Performance Monitor tool.
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Opinion: ASP.NET 2.0 makes it harder
Daniel Solin, faced with some limitations in ASP.NET 2.0 has blogged a criticism of the framework, concluding that "my feeling about ASP.NET 2.0 is that it's good for simple, common tasks. It makes trivial tasks even more trivial, but this at the cost of making the more complex (and more realistic) tasks even more complex."
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Advanced Message Queue Protocol to Commoditize Messaging
The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) has been announced today by JP Morgan Chase, RedHat, Twist, Cisco, Iona, and others. AMQP is an open specification for queue-based messaging that is technology agnostic and completely interoperable; it aims commoditize the messaging middleware industry and provide true interoperability across technology stacks in any language or operating system.
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The future of data access in .NET
Microsoft has published two papers explaining the vision for the future of data access in .NET. The combination of ADO.NET, Entity Framework, and LINQ will mean .NET will finally have real object mapping capabilities not just to relational stores but also between languages and other data formats such as XML.
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WCF RSS Toolkit for Generating RSS 2 and Atom 1 Feeds posted
The WCF RSS Toolkit has been released. The toolkit supports exposing a service as an RSS 2.0 feed, Atom 1.0 feed and SOAP endpoint simultaneously; it can also be extended to support other wire formats. Yasser Shohoud has also blogged some code examples today.
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Upcoming Features in Team Foundation Server SP1
Brian Harry, Product Unit Manager for Visual Studio Team Foundation, wrote about upcoming features for Team Foundation Server Service Pack 1 today. No specific timeframe has been announced, but a beta should be coming shortly.