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The Using CSLA .NET 3.0 Book now available for VB.NET and C#
The latest version of Rocky Lhotka's Component-based Scalable Logical Architecture for .NET (CSLA .NET) book, is available for C# and now VB.NET. The framework enables developers to create an object-oriented business layer that abstracts and encapsulates the business logic and data.
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Interview: BT's Chief WS Architect Paul Downey on "Loving the Web"
In this interview, recorded at QCon London, Stefan Tilkov talks Paul Downey, Chief Web Services Architect for BT, about Web services standards, Paul's work in the XML Databinding working group, WS-* vs. REST, and cool stuff BT offers to developers.
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SOAP/TCP Transport for WCF
Noemax releases a SOAP/TCP transport implementation for WCF, which makes use of the Fast Infoset in order to improve performance and interoperability of WCF services.
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David Pallmann’s WCF Tips
David Pallmann has published a series of WCF Tips. The tips are assembled in terms of design patterns, which are grouped by aspects of developing WCF providers and consumers.
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Don't Run as Administrator: WCF Edition
In an attempt to correct years of bad practices, Microsoft employees have been chanting "Don't Run as Administrator". This time around, Nicholas Allen covers assigning HTTP addresses to non-administrator user accounts, primarily for use by WCF.
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Interview: Dino Chiesa on Microsoft's SOA Strategy
InfoQ talked to Dino Chiesa, Director of Marketing for .Net in the Connected Systems Division to better understand what's coming in .Net 3.5 for SOA, Microsoft's SOA strategy and how customers were using WCF.
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Perl/.NET Interoperability Using Web Services
Web services were supposed to enable cross-application integration regardless of the underlying platform or language. While the promise is still there, today we still need tricks to make it work.
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Article: Intro to .NET 3.0 for Architects
Mohammad Akif introduces the concepts behind .NET 3.0 that architects need to understand. Mohammad walks through the basics of Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, Workflow Foundation and Windows Card Spaces.
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Casestudy: Composite Application Development at Safeco
A case study about how motor vehicle insurance records company Safeco used SOA approahes, SCA, BPEL, and composite application approaches to reuse legacy code, enable runtime modifiability thanks to decoupling, Java and .NET interoperability, and the ability to deliver a complex solution integrating over 5 systems in less than 8 weeks with a small team.
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Is REST Winning?
The topic of REST as an alternative for integration has been debated on InfoQ many times before. Recent news suggest REST is now gaining mind share among analysts and vendors, with some seeing REST as "the next big thing".
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The new WCF Web Programming Model supports REST Design
Don Box and Steve Maine introduce the WCF Web Programming Model to be released with Visual Studio Orcas in their talk "Navigating the Programmable Web" at MIX07. The Web Programming Model features support a RESTful design of web services within the unified WCF programming model.
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Web Service Software Factory v3 now supports DSLs for designing Contracts
Don Smith announces the first community drop of the Web Service Software Factory (WSSF) v3. The factory supports a model-driven approach for designing and implementing web services. WCF service contracts and data contracts can now be modeled in a visual Domain-Specific Language (DSL).
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Presentation: Beat Schwegler on Architecting for SOA
In this decidedly non-marketing presentation, Microsoft Architect Beat Schwegler shows how service-orientation affects system architecture. He introduces the notion of a service model as a mediator between the business and technology models, and explains how a migration towards such an architecture could occur through a step-by-step architectural refactoring.
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WCF Messaging Fundamentals
Aaron Skonnard has published an article about WCF Messaging Fundamentals in the current issue of the MSDN Magazine. He provides an overview of WCF's messaging layer, improvements in the System.Xml namespace as well as guidance on working with messages and message representations.
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Visual Studio Orcas Round-Up
InfoQ has assembled a summary of the features included in the March CTP of Visual Studio Orcas. The Orcas CTP, which is expected to be released as VS 2007, can be downloaded from MSDN.