The title says it all. I went to a couple of sessions around WCF RIA Service (renamed because of the close relationship with WCF) sessions today and say the slight of hand behind the magic. Why do I say its magic? Well there is a lot code generation and attribute magic. Microsoft has built an... Continue Reading →
WCF 4 – What is Coming
I am sitting in a WCF session and there are some cool things coming in WCF4. Some of the highlights are:Routing Service: this allows systems to place a routing service in front of services allowing for the ability to configure backup endpoints. It also convert messages to different bindings, for instance the service is configured... Continue Reading →
Embracing the Light- Silverlight 4
I spent most of the day yesterday in Silverlight 4 session. At the beginning of the conference they hand out conference schedule. After the first Keynote it is half useless and after the second Keynote it isn’t worth the paper that it was printed on. This is so they don’t give away the big announcements.... Continue Reading →
Seeing Through a New Light – Silverlight 4
The first speaker was Windows and Windows Live Division President Steven Sinofsky. He started out talking about how they went about developing Windows 7. The key points that he covered was the feedback that they received during development. The key point he was driving at was that user are not developers. He showed some of... Continue Reading →
Three Screens and a Cloud
The official Day One of PDC started off with a bang. Ray Ozzie started off the Keynote by touting his Three Screens and a Cloud (mobile, pc, TV) vision. The goal is develop rich experience across the spectrum of devices available. Microsoft is facilitating this by giving developers the tools to make targeting multiple devices... Continue Reading →
Full Day of Silverlight
This is my fist post from PDC 2009. I attended an all day workshop on Silverlight. It was presented by a couple of Brits who came here to teach me! Overall the presentation was pretty good. The first session was just a general overview of Silverlight presented by Ian Griffiths. This was a little more... Continue Reading →
Writing Custom Exceptions
Source Code: DownloadThis is the first post on my goal of writing 3 substantial posts by the end of the year. I decided to write this post on exception handling more specifically writing a Custom Exception. Why would we want to have custom exceptions. The first reason to create an exception is because the exception... Continue Reading →
You Learn Something New Everyday
I was playing around with Microsoft Word 2007 and to my surprise found that you can use it to publish blogs. I don't know if this is new in Word 2007 but it is the first time that I have noticed it. I am using it to write this post. Usually I use Live Writer... Continue Reading →
Side Project – On Hold
So life at work got a little hectic so I had to put my side project on hold for now. I hope to pick it up again in the future. In the mean time I am going to try and write 3 substantial blog posts before the end of the year.
Side Project – Software Architecture Process Manager
I have started reading The Process of Software Architecting by Peter Eeles and Peter Cripps. So far this is has been a great read. It is nice to see a book focus on the process in a concise manner. In each chapter there are great process diagrams and the chapters are broken down by steps. ... Continue Reading →
Dave's Two Cents 