OFF TOPIC – Update from my Iranian Friend

Thursday, July 02 2009

Since I had many emails from folks about my previous post I thought I’d post this update from my Iranian “little brother”. --------------------------------- Hey My Dear Brother, …. Thanks to all our American brothers and sisters who've been supporting us , I have always said ,there's no better friend for Iranians than American people. We've been trying to show the world that we're not bunch of terrorists and losers and we're not the same as our GOVERNMENT, and i think we did what we could,but I’m afraid that after the rallies stopped people of the world start thinking “that's it” and people accepted...

I’m asked, how did you learn what you know ?

Wednesday, July 01 2009

I got this email today from Mark….. Hello Joe, First may I say thank you very much for all the information that have published on asp.net. I have learnt allot from it. I do follow you on twitter although I am interested to know how you started out, how you gained experience to the point that you are a Senior Program Manager for Microsoft. If you are able to spend any of your time replying to this message I would be very grateful. Many thanks Mark I get an email like this every few weeks so I thought I’d blog the reply with some tips. Mark, I began as an accidental programmer when a business my...

JUST RELEASED: p&p Acceptance Test Engineering Guide, Volume I - beta2

Wednesday, July 01 2009

Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the latest addition to the p&p library of software engineering guidance: Acceptance Test Engineering Guide, Volume I (BETA 2) Codeplex site: http://codeplex.com/TestingGuidance Here is some of what it covers ! Common Scenarios – How to Plan for Acceptance Testing – What Kinds of Acceptance Tests to Run – How to Create and Run Acceptance Tests – Defining What “Done” Means – How to Justify Your Approach – How to Streamline Your Acceptance Process Contents of at a Glance PART I – THINKING ABOUT ACCEPTANCE explains six mental models that...

31 Days of SIlverlight !

Wednesday, July 01 2009

Jeff Blankenburg has committed to publishing a Silverlight article EVERY DAY for the Month of July. [ CLICK HERE ] to check it out.   Technorati Tags: Microsoft , Silverlight...

Ever wonder how .NET finds the assemblies that you reference ?

Monday, June 29 2009

From the Developers Guide To successfully deploy your .NET Framework application, you must understand how the common language runtime locates and binds to the assemblies that make up your application. By default, the runtime attempts to bind with the exact version of an assembly that the application was built with. This default behavior can be overridden by configuration file settings. The common language runtime performs a number of steps when attempting to locate an assembly and resolve an assembly reference. Each step is explained in the following sections. The term probing is often used when...

Resources for learning the ADO.NET Entity Framework

Monday, June 29 2009

  SyntaxC4 , this one is for you ! I’m planning for some work in NETOOP and digging into the ADO.NET Entity Framework. Since  SyntaxC4 asked for it – here is a list of stuff I’ve found. I have the 1st 3 books below and review will be coming soon. Links MSDN Entity Framework Site   Entity Framework Design Blog Entity Framework Videos from the ADO.NET Team Blog Model-First Development with the Entity Framework 4.0 ADO.NET Entity Framework: What. How. Why. ASP.NET EF Video ASP.NET MVC Example Application over Northwind with the Entity Framework Integrating Entity Framework with an ASP...

OFF TOPIC – A note from my Iranian Friend.

Monday, June 29 2009

I have never posted here on my blog anything that related to politics, and this post will only appear here (not syndicate to www.asp.net ) For all the folks who have watched with dismay the recent events in Iran, I wanted to share this. This note is from a young Iranian friend who I have corresponded with for several years. We met when he emailed me a question as he was learning ASP.NET. Over the years we have discussed many things about our peoples and our countries. I’ve learned that there ARE many people in the Middle East that loath the fascism and terrorist violence. He has become like “my...

.NETOOP high level configuration storage decision.

Wednesday, June 24 2009

In designing .NETOOP we have this issue: Since .NETOOP will be an adaptable application designed to meet the needs of many users, some of the things that one might hard code in an application like “Web Site Name” will need to be set at installation time. For “system”  configuration settings we have the web.config file. For language and culture variations we have resource files. But this type of site configuration doesn’t really  fit nicely into either of these categories. We could use……. web.config .res files .xml files a table in the database. There are a number of considerations. Since...

Patterns and Practices of Lean Software Development

Wednesday, June 24 2009

J. D. Meier emailed me this week to ask my opinion on “Lean” and referred me to [ THIS POST ] For almost 30 years (yes, I wrote my first program for money in the 70’s as a teenager) I’ve been a “practical” geek. I don’t invest much in methodologies, or teh business / development fad of the era. I’ve seen dozen of Silver Bullets come, and go. Only to be replaced by the newest “holy grail” of software development, Here is a quote from the blog post …… A central concept in Lean is that planning, executing, and delivering work in small batches minimizes waste. The ideal limit of working in small batches...

Misfit Geek Podcast - Episode #2 Does VB have a Future ?

Friday, June 19 2009

Episode #2 - Lisa Feigenbaum from the .NET Managed Languages Group In this episode - The Misfit Geek talks with Lisa Feigenbaum from the .NET Managed Languages Group about Visual Basic .NET. Does VB.NET have a future ? Does Microsoft love C# more than VB.NET? Listen and find out. Resources ...... VB Dev Center: http://msdn.com/vbasic VB Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam VB Team Blog (my posts): http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/tags/Lisa+Feigenbaum/default.aspx VB 6 Resource Center: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbrun/default.aspx VB 2010 Resource Center: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en...