Winterdom

My friend Sam already spilled the beans. Had a great time yesterday and got to meet old friends and meet F2F a bunch of other people like Miguel Castro, Mario Cardinal, K Scott Allen, Tim Shakarian, Raymond Lewallen (this guy cracks me up!), Jeff Lynch, Scott Bellware, Jeffrey Palermo, Don...

I arrived late last night in seattle for the MVP Summit, now staying at the Westin hotel. Hopefullty this will be a great week and I'm hoping to get a chance to catch up with friends. See ya there! Technorati tags: MVP

Apparent, I missed quite a few interesting text editors in my previous entry. I haven't used any of these, but quite a few look interesting enough to make me want to try them: e-Text Editor: An interesting new editor (in beta) supporting TextMate bundles on Windows. The screencast looks pretty...

Jeremy Miller asks an informal poll of people using Open Source Tools for .NET Development. The answer is a resounding yes, I/we do. Here are some of the tools I'm using or used in the past: NUnit CVS TotoiseCVS Subversion NAnt RhinoMocks The Castle Project (Windsor, in particular) NHibernate Log4Net...

The Visual Studio built-in text editor is for obvious reasons where I spent most of my time. However, I also keep an assorted set of text files open in other editors, including code files. There are several reasons for this: Some of these files are in formats for which Visual...

I've received a number of questions regarding a sample I posted a while ago: Arbitrary Binary Attachments to Multi-Part Messages; mostly related to issues when sending the resulting messages through the SMTP adapter and not all attachments (or no attachments at all) getting to the destination account. I've found that...

If you're interested in using RSS to do more than simply publishing your blog, like taking advantage of it to integrate your applications, then you ought to take a look at /n software's RSSBus platform, which recently reached Beta 4. It's a really cool piece of technology with lots of connectors and the...

Jesús Rodriguez continues his excellent series of posts on the new features of the .NET 3.0 Adapter Framework (aka WCF adapter framework) included in BizTalk server 2006. This time, he covers some of the facilities available for generating metadata in Line of Business (LOB) adapters like SAP or SQL Server....

Paul Andrew announced recently a coming CTP [1] that will provide BPEL 1.1 support to Windows Workflow Foundation. This will provide a set of custom WF activities that map to BPEL 1.1 constructs as well as tooling to import BPEL processes into WF XAML workflows and export the other way...

I got a review copy of K. Scott Allen's "Programming Windows Workflow Foundation: Practical WF Techniques and Examples using XAML and C#" book and I just finished reading it recently, and wanted to take a moment to mention my opinion about it. First of all, I'm probably not quite Scott's...