I finally put up all the demo code (except Neuron) for the Capital Area .NET UG presentation that I did on 6/24. So: Code here Presentation here Questions, ask Technorati Tags: INETA , EDA , Event Driven Architecture , SOA , Service Oriented Architecture , WCF

Welcome to the 11th article in the series. In this article, I will take a broad detour from the abstract into the concrete with WCF. The title of this article is "Introduction to WCF: Architecture and the "ABCs" of Indigo." BTW, I have been in the Indigo SDR program for over 4 years and the term Indigo has stuck in my mind, so I will use the terms interchangeably. Plus, as I think Don Box said in a presentation, It's spelled W-C-F and pronounced Indigo. The WCF is silent."

This is 9th of a series. I haven’t really received much feedback. Please let me know if this is useful, if posts too long, too abstract, your thoughts. Symptoms of a Problem, Diagnosis and Why SOA? Dynamic IT to Support the Agile Business and Business Benefits of SOA What is Service Orientation? What is SOA? The Many Definitions, a Working Definition, the Four Tenets What is a Service? The Four Tenets of SOA Service Architectural Patterns The Current State of SOA and How to Make the Paradigm Shift

I have been giving an SOA talk, in various forms for several years, where I concentrate on various themes. For the benefit of many who have not gone to such talks, as well as for others, I always wanted to start a written series based on these talks. Since, I can't sleep tonight, this is Part 1. In this series, I would like to discuss a lot of concepts that are not tied to any particular technology stack whatsoever . SOA requires a Paradigm Shift in thinking and I am very interested in getting

I did say we had a bigger announcement and we did. In the last post, I gave the "official" announcement. However, I have a personal and professional relationship with the product and I would like to start a series of posts on it now, as David, the Neuron Architect is doing . His post gives a detailed paragraph of major features, and indeed, there are a lot! 2.0 has over 60 new features over 1.0 and Neuron is a powerful product that enables various scenarios. In designing the product, we

So what have I been doing? Lots of things! I gave Advanced WCF talks in Lehigh Valley and Northern Delaware . The message of EDA is starting to resonate with folks who want their communications infrastructure to be taken care of and want to focus on Event Driven communications (i.e. Purchase Order event published by Order system and subscribed by Microsoft CRM and GP) and not having to write that Raw WCF code anymore. Basic Pub/Sub is 470 lines of code in the WCF sample. It is 3 lines in Neuron (or

My slides for my Advanced WCF and MEPs talk is now up on my portal Technorati Tags: Neudesic , WCF , SOA , Neuron ESB.EDA

I am stepping back into my INETA gigs and have the following dates confirmed: March 17, 2008 Lehigh Valley .NET March 27, 2008 Northern Delaware .Net User Group April 2, 2008 NuCon 08 with Microsoft, SetFocus May 20, 2008 Central Pennsylvania .NET Users Group August 26, 2008 Capital Area .NET Users Group Technorati Tags: INETA , Sam Gentile , Microsoft MVP , Connected Systems , Microsoft IO , WCF

I mentioned that I had been doing a bit of Neuron development with Marty Wasznicky and David Pallmann . Hey, my blog is even listed up there :) I also have been using Neuron in three different customer engagements and it has provided a lot of value to my customers. We just put up a dedicated site  http://www.neuronesb.com . There is a lot of good stuff now and we are also going to put more of a community effort going forward. It now has: Product information Vertical solutions News White papers

WCF/SOA/Neuron I recently had the opportunity to do some development work for our Neuron ESB and two giants of the field Marty Wasznicky and David Pallmann. Dave talks about the WCF Security Hydra by connecting 28 WCF services and clients that use each of the 14 common WCF security scenarios to the same Neuron ESB that we did. Speaking of Neudesic, my esteemed colleague in Connected Systems, Brian Loesgen pinged me about the efforts he is putting into the new  SOA Design Patterns   book