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Thom Robbins
Not a lot of attention has focused yet on something brewing known as .NET 3.5. That is probably not a bad thing. The hyperbole surrounding .NET 3.0 was extensive but, in the view of many, misplaced. Like .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5 is evolutionary. Microsoft's Thom Robbins says new technology to highlight in NET 3.5 includes AJAX, LINQ for both C# and VB, as well as tooling enhancements intended to ease the task of building WPF, WF and WCF apps.
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Brad Abrams
TSS.NET's Jack Vaughan spoke recently with Microsoft's Brad Abrams to find out what he is seeing in the field and what the chefs in Redmond are cooking...
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Podcast Mailbag
Our intrepid podcast news readers go through the mailbag to see what you have to say about developer partisanship in software development. There is much to be said. The .NET/Java War continues.. although we think the .NET crew is a bit more practical, and less likely to shoot from the hip.
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Venkat Subramaniam
While Java developers sort through a slew of possible frameworks for AJAX, the members of the .NET developers are more likely to get started by implementing ASP.NET Extensions for AJAX. Brad Abrams discusses server-side controls, JavaScript, object models lurking in the AJAX arena.
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Brad Abrams
While Java developers sort through a slew of possible frameworks for AJAX, the members of the .NET developers are more likely to get started by implementing ASP.NET Extensions for AJAX. Brad Abrams discusses server-side controls, JavaScript, object models lurking in the AJAX arena. |
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Peter Walker
Learn how Java Business Integration (JBI) contains service provider interfaces (SPIs) that can be used to write middleware, integrated middleware, change BPEL (business process
execution language) or create new BPEL scripts using business process notation. |
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Simon Guest
If software architects want end users to connect to their applications on an emotional level, they need to start paying more attention to the user experience, according to Simon Guest,
group program manager for architecture strategy at Microsoft. |
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Clemens Vasters
Just before TechEd this summer, Clemens Vasters walked TheServerSide.NET through a brief overview of aspects of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Vasters strongly states the
case that WCF is not a pattern for architecture, but is architecture-agnostic. |
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Peter Provost
Peter Provost talks about the design of the Composite UI Application Block and how the p&p team has led Microsoft in the adoption of Agile methodologies. |
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Jack Greenfield
Microsoft Visual Studio architect Jack Greenfield discusses the company's approach to DSLs and the part they play in software factories. |
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Scott Woodgate and Paul Andrew
Scott Woodgate and Paul Andrew give us a look under the covers of Windows Workflow Foundation in this exclusive TSS.NET interview.
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Jeffrey Richter - Co-founder of Wintellect
In this TechTalk, Wintellect's Jeffrey Richter talks about performance improvements in the 2.0 CLR and then discusses how the CLR team tunes the Garbage Collector with each new version. He also discusses a new high scalability framework he has been working on for Microsoft and how multithreading will become more important in the next version of the .NET Framework beyond 2.0.
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Scott Woodgate - Group Product Manager
Scott Woodgate, Group Product Manager for BizTalk Server talks about the evolution of BizTalk Server and how it addresses the requirements of an Enterprise Service Bus. He also talks about BizTalk Server 2006's focus on administration and deployment and new features that make those efforts easier. He also describes the Rules Engine in BizTalk Server in some detail.
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B.J. Holtgrewe - Senior Product Manager for Visual Studio
Senior Product Manager B.J. Holtgrewe discusses Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 and how Microsoft is positioning the Office System platform as a strategic platform for .NET development. He also discusses Click-Once deployment of VSTO applications as well as server based development using Office documents and VSTO.
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Steve Swartz - Box Architects for Indigo
Steve Swartz, Product Manager and Architect on the Indigo team talks about the unification of ASMX, WSE, Remoting, and MSMQ into the single programming model that is Indigo. He also discusses the inner workings of bindings and endpoints and Indigo's "on by default" security settings.
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Kimberly Tripp - SQL Server MVP and Microsoft Regional Director
Kimberly L. Tripp talks about indexing best practices and what developers should know about SQL
Server management. She also discusses stored procedure and parameterized queries caching, the new
availability features in SQL Server 2005, and the SQL Server CLR.
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Eric Lee - Project Manager at Microsoft
Eric Lee, Product Manager for Microsoft on Visual Studio Team System talks about the components that make up Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and what the development experience will be for developers using Visual Studio Team System.
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Ian Griffiths - DevelopMentor Instructor, Consultant, and Author
Ian Griffiths talks to Ted Neward about how Microsoft is moving away from HWND based user interface development with Avalon and XAML as factors that will play in the adoption of Avalon. He also discusses some of the differences in approach between Avalon and Java's Swing framework as well as his opinions on whether XAML will replace HTML.
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Steve Lasker - Program Manager on the Visual Basic team at Microsoft
Steve Lasker, Program Manager with the Visual Studio team at Microsoft talks about improving developer productivity with new features in Visual Studio 2005 including designers and wizards built on top of ADO.NET, Databinding support of nullable types, and Typed Data Adapters.
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Ed Jezierski and Tom Hollander
Ed Jezierski and Tom Hollander from the Patterns & Practices Group at Microsoft talk about how Enterprise Library unites the Application Blocks and the decisions that went into the design of each block. They also discuss the future of Enterprise Library and how developers can extend it for their own needs.
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Rob Howard - Founder of Telligent Systems
Telligent Systems's Rob Howard talks about working on ASP.NET 1.0 and the improvements it made over ASP. He also discusses how the ASP.NET model differs from JSP and other competitive technologies as well as how smart clients will eventually become more and more popular.
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Fritz Onion - Architect on ASP.NET 2.0
Pluralsight's Fritz Onion talks to Ted about the evolution of ASP.NET 2.0, changes in the VB.NET language, and how ASP.NET will grow as smart clients become more common place.
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Chris Anderson - Architect on the Windows Client Team
Chris Anderson from Microsoft's Avalon team talks about Avalon and the convergence of the programming models for Windows and Web and the importance of providing a rich user experience. He also speaks about the broadened reach of Avalon on different devices as well as how Avalon and Indigo will play together.
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Danny Thorpe - Borland Chief Scientist
Danny Thorpe from Borland talks about the creation of the Delphi.NET language and working from outside of Microsoft on the .NET Framework.
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Ron Jacobs - Product Manager for Microsoft's Patterns and Practices team
Ron Jacobs, Product Manager for the Patterns and Practices group at Microsoft talks about
the importance of architectural guidance in a Microsoft environment as well as some of the
groups projects including the application blocks, ShadowFax reference application, and PAG
books such as "Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability".
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Jason Carlson - Product Unit Manager for Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
Jason Carlson talks about SQL Server Reporting Services including how reports are developed
and that while the designer is integrated into Visual Studio, that Reporting Services is not a
developer only tool. He also discusses features of the products such as the use of XML and it's
ability to generate XML as a data source for other processes and the user of user defined types
in SQL Server 2005.
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Anders Hejlsberg - Chief Architect at Microsoft
In this TechTalk, Anders Hejlsberg talks with Ted about the influences on the creation of the C# language, the benefits of a unified type system, as well as development languages as a "lifestyle choice". He also discusses the long term benefits of generics and hints at work being done to unite general purpose programming with database programming.
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Ward Cunningham - Architect in the Patterns & Practices group at Microsoft Corp.
Ward Cunningham of Microsoft's Patterns and Practices group discusses the importance of patterns as a means
to capture knowledge and experience as well as how the patterns movement got started. He also talks about XP
and how the social interaction of paired programming leads to better code.
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Rocky Lhotka - Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic Technologies
Rocky Lhotka talks about the importance of language divergence and VB.NET's focus on business application development.
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Brian Keller - Program Manager for J#
Brian Keller discusses J#, the Java Language Converstion Assistant, and options for Java
developers who want to move from J2EE to the .NET Framework.
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Brian Harry - Product Unit Manager for Visual Studio Team Foundation
Brian Harry talks about his experiences bulding the CLR,
the problems that needed to be solved during its development and what needs to be done to broaden and evolve it.
He discusses his role in Team Foundations, looks at the version control and build systems
in Team System, and talks about what it was like to create Visual SourceSafe.
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Keith Ballinger - Program Manager at Microsoft
Keith Ballinger talks about Web Services, WSE 2.0, and answers that critical question, "What three WS-* specs should developers learn to be effective with Web services?"
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Billy Hollis - Author VB.NET Programming with the Public Beta
Billy Hollis, Software Legend and famed VB proponent, speaks with our editor about languages and their uses, being a Software Legend, and his thoughts on the "language wars" between VB and C# developers.
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Keith Short - Manager, Microsoft Enterprise Frameworks and Tools Architecture Team
Keith Short, one of the principals behind Whitehorse, talks with our editor about Model-Driven Architecture and UML/CASE tools, why they failed, and why Microsoft isn't repeating the mistakes of past generations.
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Doug Purdy - Program Manager, Microsoft XML Web Services Team; Don Box - Indigo Architect
Don Box and Doug Purdy talk about their roles on the Indigo team and how the new
technologies will affect systems being built today. Both stress that Indigo's goal
is to allow the developer to concentrate on business functionality and not on the
plumbing required to transmit messages. They also address the decision process for
determining which technology to use to create distributed systems today, be it Remoting,
Enterprise Services, or ASMX.
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Jim Miller
In this TechTalk, Jim Miller talks with Ted Neward about being
an Architect on the CLR, ECMA standards and why they're important,
and exactly how far ahead they're looking beyond the current release.
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Harry Pierson - Architect, Developer and Platform Evangelism Architecture Strategy team
In this TechTalk, Harry talks with Ted about software architecture, distinguished against Architecture,
and how developers need to think about software architecture in a service-oriented world.
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Lori Lamkin - Group Program Manager of the project management tools within Visual Studio Enterprise
Lori Lamkin talks about the new Visual Studio 2005 Team System product, specifically
about the project management features bundled therein. Whether you're
supporting a CMM-like formal process, or a more lightweight agile
or Extreme Programming-like methodology, come hear Lori talk about
the reports, procedural support, and other features coming in Team
Studio.
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Chris Lucas - Group Programming Manager at Microsoft
Our editor interviews Chris Lucas, Program Manager for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System,
about the Team Tester and Team Developer portions of the system,
how testing can be made simpler using the tool, how static analysis
tools can yield better code overall, and how Team Studio can make
it easier to approach that trickiest of all testing tasks, load
testing.
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Simon Guest - Author of .NET & J2EE Interop, .NET Enterprise Architecture Team Program Manager
Office as a front-end? Weaknesses of HTTP? In this interview Simon Guest reveals how .NET and J2EE programs can play nicely
together on the enterprise playground and why Web services are not the only choice.
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Pat Helland - MTS and COM+ Architect
Pat Helland continues the discussion started by Don Box
regarding 'Service-Oriented Architecture', or HST, as he calls it. Find out
what the organic development of cities, history, and software development
have in common as Pat talks about high-level software design.
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Don Box - Indigo Architect
Don Box talks about Indigo,
a set of .NET technologies for building and running connected systems.
He discusses how Indigo improves upon ASMX and .NET remoting and makes Service-Oriented Programming
a reality.He looks at how Policy is used, performance optimizations that allow the services model to be used in an
inter-process environment, and support for RPC style programming in Indigo.
He also discusses how Indigo is implementing many of the WS-I protocols,
the relationship between extensible metadata in .NET and AOP,
and the release schedule for Indigo.
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Scott Guthrie - ASP.NET Architect
Scott Guthrie discusses ASP.NET "Whidbey", a major upcoming release of the ASP.NET Web development platform.
He overviews the evolution of ASP.NET, innovations in Whidbey in the areas of developer productivity,
administration and management, extensibility, and performance and scalability.
He highlights improvements in data binding and controls, talks about WebParts,
looks at database caching features and
new health monitoring capabilities.
He describes the relationship between Indigo and Whidbey,
and advises developers how they can prepare for the upcoming release.
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Vijay Natarajan - Senior Enterprise Engineer, Borland
Vijay Natarajan discusses Janeva, a high performance engine that natively connects .NET to J2EE. He looks at use cases where J2EE and .NET integration might be needed and how developers can get started with Janeva. He examines the benefits of IIOP for certain types of interactions as opposed to other Web services protocols.
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September
VSLive! New York
16-19, New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn
Kenneth Getz, Fritz Onion, Rocky Lhotka and others present at this .NET technology conference situated just across the river from the city that never sleeps.
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