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Introducing SO-Aware – Bringing Service Oriented Awareness to the Enterprise

So, you are a .Net developer, and you gone and built some services for your enterprise applications. You’ve spent the time building and deploying the services. You might have written them using ASP.Net, or you went all out and built them “the right Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 28, 2010 11:48 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

Filed under: .Net, XML, Web Services, WCF, TellagoStudios, soaware

WCF Firestarter Online Saturday 6/19/2010

This weekend is the WCF Firestarter in New York City . Registration to attend in person is SOLD OUT and we’re looking forward to a full house in the Big Apple on Saturday! You can see the event agenda at Peter Laudati’s blog , as well as at Read More... Posted Friday, June 18, 2010 10:33 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

Microsoft PDC Workshop - Developing Microsoft BI Applications - The How and The Why

Bringing Business Intelligence knowledge to the .Net developer crowd has been something that I’ve been trying to do over the last year. So, when Andrew Brust offered me an opportunity to work with him on a PDC pre-conference workshop with intent Read More... Posted Sunday, September 20, 2009 7:10 PM by donxml | 2 Comments

WCF, jQuery and WebForms Slides and Code

I’m finally getting around to publishing my slides and code for my recent user group talks on using jQuery with WCF in ASP.Net WebForms. The latest version is from my SoCal .Net Architecture talk. You can also see my MessageBody WCF style Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 22, 2009 2:47 PM by donxml | 3 Comments

Filed under: .Net Communities, WCF, WCFMsssageBody, jQuery

The Tale of WCF, MessageContract, and JSON

Yes, I know it had been a long time since I’ve blogged, and even longer since I’ve blogged any decent technical content. But I have a feeling that the drought is over, and a series of tech content is on the way ;) This is the tale of how I Read More... Posted Friday, April 10, 2009 10:51 AM by donxml | 2 Comments

PDC 2008 Session Calendar Synchronization Tip

If you are attending PDC 2008 , you may have noticed that on the Sessions page , if you log in, you can chose the sessions you are interested in attending, along with a link so you can add it to your favorite calendar program. The only problem is Read More... Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 9:35 AM by donxml | 3 Comments

Filed under: PDC, Tech Ramblings

Just Say No to Console App Demos

It is a major pet peeve of mine; presenters that use Console Application Projects to demo some non-UI code. That’s so 1990’s. So, what should a presenter use? Well, Test Projects, of course! It is something that I think should Read More... Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 8:51 AM by donxml | 8 Comments

Filed under: .Net, PDC

Static Code Analysis and Custom FxCop Rules for Enterprise ASP.Net Development

Over the last couple months I've been doing a bit of work with FxCop and Static Code Analysis. If you remember playing with FxCop back in the day, it was a cool tool to check for possible design, localization, performance, and security issues with Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 8:40 PM by donxml | 3 Comments

Filed under: .Net, Open Source

Cache Or Session State - Similar But Different

This week at TechEd Microsoft announce the Velocity project , a distributed in-memory object caching system, which got folks like Dare and ScottW talking about using a distributed caching solution for boosting the performance of web sites. That got me Read More... Posted Friday, June 06, 2008 5:32 PM by donxml | 6 Comments

New York City IT Architect Regional Conference

The NYC IASA chapter is holding an IT Architect Regional Conference in New York City on May 22-23 at the NYC Microsoft office. The speaker list is quite impressive, and has a couple local Microsoft MVPs among the list (Mark Pollack, Ambrose Little Read More... Posted Saturday, April 26, 2008 8:49 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

Mixing Object, Functional and Aspect Oriented Programming

I spent the last week in Seattle and Redmond, attending both the MVP Summit and the ALT.Net Conference, and spent the majority of time discussing the future of programming, both on the .Net platform and other platforms. By Saturday night, my brain Read More... Posted Sunday, April 20, 2008 11:57 PM by donxml | 6 Comments

Filed under: .Net, .Net Communities, LINQ VBx

VSLive San Francisco Workshop - LINQ - One Query Syntax To Rule Them All

Since I'm talking about conferences, I should also mention that I'll be giving a full day pre-conference workshop, LINQ — One Query Syntax to Rule Them All at VSLive! San Francisco 2008 : By now you have probably already heard about LINQ and think Read More... Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 4:25 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

Filed under: LINQ

Devscovery 2008 - New York City April 1-3

I can't believe it is March already. For those of you in the New York City area, Devscovery be here, April 1st-3rd, and I'll be doing 2 talks, An Introduction to LINQ to SQL , and An Introduction to LINQ to Entities . If you haven't heard Read More... Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 4:15 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

Filed under: New Jersey Developer Community Events

Diskeeper 2008 Professional Review

Disclaimer - the folks at Diskeeper gave me a free copy of Diskeeper 2008 Pro Premier. But, I've purchased previous versions of their product. I've been using Diskeeper for a couple years now, and I've got to say, I love this product. Back before Read More... Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 10:26 AM by donxml | 7 Comments

Filed under: Tech Reviews

Petition To Get Chris Sells To Host Another SellsCon Before The End Of 2008

M. David Peterson kickstarted the process to get Chris Sells to host another SellsCon by creating a new Facebook group . I've got to say, the ALT.Net conference in Austin sort of reminded me of the spirit of a SellsCon (getting a bunch of bright passionate Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2008 8:38 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

Filed under: XML

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