Agreed: there has never been a really good relationship - let's not even start talking about friendship - between Germans and Brits. Let's forget about this for a while... working together with an industry luminary like Richard Blewett is more than I could ever wish.
Luckily enough, Richard joined thinktecture this week as a high-class consultant - welcome! Working with Rich (subscribe to his blog here) is surely going to be a lot of fun.
We decided to open up the development and the code of our very successful WSCF tool - but not the original one for ASMX-based Web Services, but rather the new incarnation for WCF. Unfortunately, neither of us has enough time these days to spend on a free tool like this. Therefore we invite the community and everybody interested to participate in WSCF.blue development over at its new CodePlex home.
Currently, there are three people trying to contribute to WSCF.blue: -Edward Bakker (the designated project leader) -Buddhike de Silva (coding wizard and hacker of almost 80% of WSCF 0.7) -Benjamin Santosh
I can imagine that WSCF.blue will evolve into a very useful tool with all these fantastic people working on it.
Please note that we also no longer support the WSCF forums - just for the same reasons. Sorry :(
thinktecture und DevelopMentor kündigen im Rahmen einer Partnerschaft das erste in Deutschland stattfindende "Enterprise .NET"-Event an. Es wird in der Woche vom 26. Mai 2008 in München stattfinden und im berühmt-berüchtigten "Guerilla"-Format abgehalten: Über 50 Stunden in 5 Tagen! Dominick Baier, Ingo Rammer und ich würden uns freuen, Ihnen alles Neue und Wichtige rund um verteilte Anwendungen auf Basis von .NET bei- und nahe zu bringen.
Lernen Sie, robuste verteilte Lösungen auf Basis der Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), Windows CardSpace und Biztalk Server zu entwerfen und zu implementieren. Der „Guerilla Enterprise .NET“-Kurs zeigt Ihnen, wie man diese Technologien und Produkte anwendet und verteilte Systeme damit erstellt. Dabei wird auf den jeweiligen Stärken der Technologien aufgebaut und versucht, die Schwächen zu umgehen – alles im Sinne Service-orientierter Prinzipien.
Erhalten Sie Antworten auf diese und weitere Fragen
Was bedeutet Service-Orientierung wirklich?
Wie erstelle ich interoperable Services?
Wie kann ich einzelne „Building Block“ Services komponieren?
Wie funktionieren Sessions und wann sollte ich sie nutzen?
Wie kann ich lang andauernde Geschäftsvorfälle modellieren und ausführen?
Lernen Sie, skalierbare und flexible Service-basierte Anwendungen mit den aktuellen Technologien aus dem .NET Framework 3.5 zu bauen.
Highlights des Kurses
Verstehen Sie die Architektur von WCF, WF und Biztalk Server
Schreiben Sie Services für Internet- und Intranet-Szenarios
Erstellen Sie robuste lang laufende Workflows
Verstehen Sie die Unterschiede und jeweiligen Stärken von Biztalk Server und WF
Erstellen Sie asynchrone nachrichtenbasierte Anwendungen
Integrieren Sie Services und Workflows mit WCF und WF
Wir würden uns freuen, Sie ab 26. Mai 2008 in München begrüßen zu dürfen - "Take your enterprise .NET programming skills to the next level!" Registrierung und weitere Informationen können per Email an office@thinktecture.com abgewickelt werden.
Infos zum Guerilla-Format: Anders als bei "üblichen" Trainings werden Sie in den fünf Tagen ständig durch drei (3) Trainer betreut – Montag bis Donnerstag auch bis in den späten Abend hinein. Sie können Ihre Kenntnisse und Fähigkeiten bei Programmier-Challenges mit den anderen Teilnehmern messen und attraktive (und auf jeden Fall auch Geek-)Preise gewinnen.
Here are finally the session materials of my two talks at DevWeek 2007. As always, this conference rocked! Thaks to everybody who attaended my sessions.
The Web Service
Software Factory (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection
of tools, patterns, source code and prescriptive guidance that helps our
customers quickly and consistently construct Web services that adhere to well
known architecture and design patterns. The Service Factory provides guidance
that addresses many of the challenges associated with building WCF and ASP.NET
Web services and the components of a distributed application. These challenges
include:
Designing WCF and
ASMX messages and service interfaces.
Creating service
contracts from existing WSDL and XSD files (oh yes, you can imagine how hard I was pushing that!)
Applying exception
shielding and exception handling.
Designing business
entities in the domain model.
Translating
messages to and from business entities.
Designing,
building, and invoking the data access layer.
Validating many
aspects of the service using code analysis.
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16.-20.10.2006: TornadoCamp WinFX .NET Framework 3.0 durch und durch
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) und Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) sind die wesentlichen neuen Betandteile des .NET Frameworks 3.0 (vormals bekannt als WinFX). Diese neuen APIs – zusammen mit Windows CardSpace (aka InfoCard) - wurden bislang unter dem Codenamen WinFX zusammengefasst. Die Basis des .NET Frameworks erfährt mit der neuen Version keine Änderung. Deshalb bieten wir erfahrenen .NET-Entwicklern mit diesem Workshop eine Einführung in diese neuen Technologien.
Some days ago I already hinted at it - now it is more or less official. Also Beat, Edward, Matias, Jason and others already blogged about it.
I am part of the 'Service Factory' advisory board and we think that this may evolve into something really useful - we will see, we still have a looong way to go ;) What is now available to download is really just a very early snapshot of our thoughts and work.
The Service Factory is a cohesive collection of various forms of guidance that have been build with the primary goal of helping you build high quality connected solutions in a more consistent way with less effort. In addition to the forms of guidance you may have already seen from the patterns & practices team, there is a new form of guidance in here, called a guidance package, that allows guidance to be automated from inside Visual Studio 2005 through the use of wizard-based dialogs than can be modified (maybe by an architect) to fit the needs of a specific solution.
If you're axious to learn more, feel free to join the community workspace so you can download the current build and engage in the message board discussions. It is very important you understand all of the releases you will find on this site are not final in any way. They have not yet undergone the complete array of performance and security tests, so we recommend you treat this as beta guidance.
The patterns & practices team is fortunate to have been working very closely with a select few expert advisors over the past months to get the project where it is today..
Because the Service BAT project encapsulates end-to-end scenarios of building services, we expect a flurry of excellent discussions about everything from service design to entity persistence ... and we're very much looking forward to it. Don't be shy! Join.
I think the title says it all (really? :)) - stay tuned for more to come in the next few days, as my friend Jason already hintedat. And it may be related to this and this and this and even this and ... hm, maybe even dreaming about a future relation with this...