september 2005 - Posts

• PDC Day Six: Summary of a great week

  So PDC is over. It has been a great week with a lot of new useful information. When I talk to other attendees it seems that almost everyone has the same favorites: Linq and Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF). Linq is easy to understand, and the workflow Read More... Posted den 16 september 2005 22:31 by ericqu | 2 Comments Filed under: .NET 3.0

• PDC Day Six: Examples of problems that Linq solves

  In my first post about Linq, there is a question about real world problems that it solves. Here are some examples: If you use a OR mapper today you have a couple of problems, for example not always talking as effective as possible with the database (reading Read More... Posted den 16 september 2005 20:01 by ericqu | 2 Comments Filed under: Design

• PDC Day Five: Interacting with Microsoft employees

  This has been an awesome day. I have got some great opportunities to discuss different things with people from Microsoft. First, during the day, I was able to get a long (about 1-1½ hour) one-to-one chat with Don Smith from the p&p team about a security Read More... Posted den 16 september 2005 17:26 by ericqu | 1 Comments Filed under: PAG

• PDC Day Five: Workflows as services

  I blogged little about Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) here . It looks quit easy to catch up on that stuff by doing some reading and experimentations so I have had a low priority for that kind of sessions, but today I listened on Don Box (might have Read More... Posted den 16 september 2005 17:24 by ericqu | (Comments Off) Filed under: Design, Architecture, .NET 3.0

• PDC Day Five: More Linq

  I attended another session that partly was about the Linq project. The session title was "C# Future Directions in Language Innovation from Anders Hejlsberg". This was a little bit more of an in-depth explanation of how the queries are working and the Read More... Posted den 16 september 2005 17:21 by ericqu | (Comments Off)

• PDC Day Four: Microsoft Modeling Tools (DSL)

  I watched a presentation of Microsoft's modeling platform for Visual Studio .NET. They have created a DSL toolkit which means that you can create your design tools for your own problem domain. I have some ideas that I would really like to try out with Read More... Posted den 15 september 2005 22:52 by ericqu | (Comments Off) Filed under: .NET 2.0, Team System

• PDC Party

  The PDC party, at the Universal Studios, was yesterday evening, so I'm a little bit more tired today. It was a nice happening and I did survive Jurasic Park. The last keynote was this morning and I'm very suprised that none of the three have quited in Read More... Posted den 15 september 2005 18:54 by ericqu | (Comments Off)

• PDC Day Four: Keynote

  Today at the keynote they showed the new Workflow Foundation that will be delivered with Vista. It has great integration with Visual Studio and looks really simple to use. Microsoft has been doing different workflow parts before in different situations, Read More... Posted den 15 september 2005 02:27 by ericqu | (Comments Off) Filed under: .NET 3.0

• PDC Day Four: Language Integrated Query Framework (Linq)

  This looks really cool … or cool, I must say that this blows my mind. This is by far the most impressive thing I seen on the entire PDC and maybe ever. So what is Linq? It is actually sql-like question all objects that implements IEnumerable. Small Read More... Posted den 15 september 2005 00:06 by ericqu | 5 Comments Filed under: Design

• PDC Day Three

  Not so much to write about today. The sessions that I have attended have been to basic and one of them even very unstructured. I find it hard to choose the right session, both in level and subject. For example I was on a hands on lab today about data Read More... Posted den 14 september 2005 17:38 by ericqu | (Comments Off)

• PDC Day Two: Pres-Session: Patterns and Practices for Designing Service Oriented Applications

  Now we're talking! For me, at least, this afternoon felt like the PDC was really starting to take off. I found the P&P session to be very interesting, even though it started out bad with a power outage in parts of LA. This time was used for Q&A until Read More... Posted den 13 september 2005 22:09 by ericqu | (Comments Off) Filed under: Windows Forms, Design, PAG

• PDC Day Two: Pre-Session: The Art of Building a Reusable Class Library

  On this second day of the PDC I start to feel less jet-lagged and hoping for at better day than yesterday. It's really difficult to decide which session to attend, but today I choose "The Art of Building a Reusable Class Library" hold by Brad Adams and Read More... Posted den 12 september 2005 22:52 by ericqu | (Comments Off) Filed under: Design

• PDC Day One: Pre-session: The Smart Client Perspective

  First day of my first PDC event ever. Even though it's just starting I'm impressed by the organization of this event. Everything works really smoothly. Even the immigration went smoothly yesterday. the only problem is a slight jetlag. A cool detail is Read More... Posted den 12 september 2005 18:36 by ericqu | (Comments Off) Filed under: Windows Forms, .NET 2.0

• CTP of EntLib 2.0

  The patterns & practices have released a CTP of Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 . I have downloaded it and read some blog post from the team about it and there will be some major changes since the platform has solved a lot of the things that Read More... Posted den 6 september 2005 13:43 by ericqu | (Comments Off) Filed under: .NET 2.0, Enterprise Library, PAG

• Extending the reach of the custom ExceptionHandler

  In two previous posts ( Write a custom ExceptionHandler to expose more details in SoapException and An ExceptionHandler that extract the detail information from the SoapException ) I wrote about how to create a custom ExceptionHandler for EntLib. The Read More... Posted den 4 september 2005 12:21 by ericqu | 1 Comments Filed under: Enterprise Library, PAG