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Predictions for 2010 #2 – Three MS Technologies to Watch in 2010
05 February 10 03:34 AM | JackieG | 2 comment(s)

While we can expect a lot of excitement, attention, and noise around the April release of VS 2010 and .NET 4, there are a few other strategic (i.e. longer term) technologies that I think we need to be paying attention to as well: 1. Windows Azure – Scalable Cloud Computing is all the rage these days (for many good reasons). Microsoft’s platform is not only compelling, but has also evolved to address many “real-world” issues. The offering goes live this month. 2. Silverlight 4 – Silverlight has come...

תגים:.NET, General, Visual Studio, ASP.NET, DEV

Predictions for 2010 #1 – ASP.NET MVC Goes Mainstream
26 January 10 09:19 AM | JackieG | 1 comment(s)

While originally an “interesting” technology for the fringe of ASP.NET developers, the Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework is clearly destined to become mainstream. Version 2.0 will be included as part of VS 2010 / .NET 4 and has smoothed some of the rough edges of the initial release. One of the questions we have been struggling with at Renaissance is what browser development technologies to focus on for our in-house and client projects. Apparently we are not alone – I attended an audience-participation...

תגים:.NET, Architecture, ASP.NET, DEV

Just Released – Visual Basic QuickStarts and How-to Topics for PrismV2 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight)
31 March 09 04:55 AM | JackieG | with no comments

The Microsoft Patterns and Practices group just Released a set of Quick Starts and How-To documents for using Prism in Visual Basic - Visual Basic QuickStarts and How-to Topics for PrismV2 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight) This release is provided to help Visual Basic developers use the Composite Application Library. The release includes QuickStarts, the Composite Application Library (only provided in C#), and documentation. The documentation includes: Visual Basic Content...

תגים:.NET, Visual Basic, Architecture, Community News, Distributed Applications, ASP.NET, DEV

The Official Release Version of ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is Now Available
18 March 09 11:31 AM | JackieG | with no comments

The official version of ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is now available for download here . I’ve already suggested that you check out the free 184-page book chapter on building an app with MVC by Scott Guthrie. Cross Posted from http://weblogs.asp.net/jackieg/

תגים:.NET, Community News, Distributed Applications, ASP.NET, DEV

Free Scott Guthrie ASP.NET MVC chapter download
12 March 09 03:42 AM | JackieG | 1 comment(s)

If you want an amazing hands-on look at the new ASP.NET MVC framework, you must download this free 184-page book chapter Scott's NerdDinner.com chapter . This chapter is written is Scott’s usual clear and graphic style – lots of screen shots and clear, organized explanations. Cross Posted from http://weblogs.asp.net/jackieg/

תגים:.NET, Architecture, Visual Studio, ASP.NET, DEV

MSDN Screencast Library
23 February 09 05:03 PM | JackieG | 1 comment(s)

The MSDN team over in the UK has put together a huge collection (279 at the time of this post) of short screencasts for .NET developers.  Each video is only about 10-15 minutes long, but packs a lot of useful information.  Here is the full List of Screencasts . From the home page: Don't have the time to read a 10-page how-to article or watch a full length webcast? Try an MSDN screencast, a webcast that takes you step-by-step to discovering new functionality or exploring a hot developer...

תגים:.NET, Data Access, Distributed Applications, General, Visual Studio, ASP.NET, DEV

Renaissance Case Studies Now Available
23 February 09 04:03 PM | JackieG | 1 comment(s)

A few weeks ago, The Renaissance Computer Systems web site was updated with a set of case studies describing our roles in several recent projects.  Check out Renaissance Case Studies and let me know if you have any comments. Cross Posted from http://weblogs.asp.net/jackieg/

תגים:.NET, SQL Server, Community News, Distributed Applications, General, Visual Studio, ASP.NET, DEV

User Interface Patterns Explorer
06 February 09 07:22 AM | JackieG | with no comments

Infragistics has just launched an interesting site for UI designers at http://quince.infragistics.com Now that that the concept and need of design patterns for software architects and programmers is pretty much mainstream, it is time to develop a similar body of knowledge for the UI designer and developer. Infragistics’ Quince site is a very informative and visual collection of different UI/UX design patterns that can be browsed and filtered in various ways. It is a good tool to help you focus your...

תגים:Architecture, Community News, General, Visual Studio, ASP.NET, DEV

February 2009 Meeting of Israel Visual Basic User Group
02 February 09 02:36 PM | JackieG | 1 comment(s)

This month we return to take a look at some of the web development technologies from Microsoft - Dynamic Data Controls (DDC) and Model View Controller (MVC). The new technology of ASP.NET DDC (Dynamic Data Controls) help us to build a presentation layer based on a data scheme in just a few minutes, and helps the developer and the architect to build a model based application that is scalable and easy to maintain. In the second session, we will build an ASP.NET applications based on the new MVC Framework...

תגים:.NET, Visual Basic, Community News, Visual Studio, ASP.NET, DEV

Microsoft Developer Academy II
26 November 07 03:56 PM | JackieG | with no comments

Following in the footsteps of last year's event, Microsoft Israel is repeating the Microsoft Developer Academt event (tomorrow, November 27, 2007). This full-day event offers 6 parallel tracks of presentations and panel disucssions, across 5 time slots. Lots of of real-world and new technology sessions for the MS developer to choose from. More information and links can be found here . Personally, when I am not sitting in on sessions, I'll be doing a repeat performance of the session I recently...

תגים:.NET, Architecture, Community News, General, Visual Studio, ASP.NET

Also in the "Check it Out" Category...
24 August 07 03:58 PM | JackieG | with no comments

Check out our new web site at www.renaissance.co.il This is one of the projects that really hampered by blogging output over the past 2 months...but it was well worth it. We have a brand-new logo and look, updated and clearer messaging, and migration to take advantage of ASP.NET features.

תגים:Community News, General, ASP.NET

Check out The Region
24 August 07 03:53 PM | JackieG | 1 comment(s)

Although it has been around since this past TechEd US, The Region has now moved to ists permanent home at http://www.theregion.com/ The Region is basically the public global center for the 140 Microsoft Regional Directors around the world. It is a single view into the blogs of all of these technical and community leaders, along with a calendar of upcoming events. Check it out and post your thoughts and comments here.

תגים:.NET, SQL Server, Visual Basic, Architecture, Data Access, Community News, Distributed Applications, General, Visual Studio, ASP.NET

Mashups For The Masses !
30 May 07 03:06 PM | JackieG | with no comments

As I have mentioned previously , I have recently been researching and playing with mashups and various sources of online data sources, such as Windows Live . Well, this is obviously something that has caught wider interest in Microsoft as well, as they recently released an alpha version of a tool/technology called "Popfly" ( http://www.popfly.com/ ). This is a very cool, visual and interactive tool, for combining various building blocks and data sources, to build your own mashups, without all of...

תגים:Architecture, Community News, Distributed Applications, Visual Studio, ASP.NET

Progress Notification for Web Service Calls
30 May 07 02:33 PM | JackieG | with no comments

In one of our current projects, we had a need to provide progress indication for web service calls that could take a long time to execute (by design - alot of data being transferred). It turns out that this is a perfect scenario for using SOAP extensions, in order to get into the processing pipeline and provide the necessary information. Kim Major , our senior developer, wrote a great article that clearly explains and shows how to do this. Check it out and let me know what you think.

תגים:.NET, Architecture, Distributed Applications, ASP.NET

Impressions From Mix 07
04 May 07 09:30 PM | JackieG | with no comments

As I am working my way back home from the MIX 07 conference, I have had time to reflect on the conference and whether it was a good use of my time and money: I did not attend MIX last year, but very much enjoyed and benefited from it this year. I actually walked away with it having exceeded my expectations – but given how many conferences I attend and speak at over the course of a year, I am somewhat jaded and my level of expectations is not that high J Here are some specific comments, in no particular...

תגים:.NET, Architecture, Community News, Visual Studio, ASP.NET

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