Patterns & Practices Pocket Guides Ok, now you “can” print it ( meaning you can always save a tree and NOT print it :) ) Ok Ok Ok …. so you got the concept, now for the download links :) Rich Client Architecture Pocket Guide Ch 01 - Rich Client Application Architecture Ch 02 - Architecture and Design Guidelines Ch 03 - Presentation Layer Guidelines Ch 04 - Business Layer Guidelines Ch 05 - Data Access Layer Guidelines Ch 06 - Service Layer Guidelines Ch 07 - Communication Guidelines Ch 08 - Deployment...

Patterns & Practices Application Architecture Guide - v2.0 (Beta 2 Release) After the patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide - v2.0 (Beta 1 Release) , as expected the beta 2 version is now released from the Key Changes in Beta 2 Beta 2 is a significant overhaul of the entire guide. We carried the good forward. We made some key additions: Added a foreword by S. Somasegar. Added technology considerations throughout the guide. Added technology matrixes for choosing technologies...

Hi All, One of the main rule in order to improve your aspx page load time, is to reduce its page size. One of the recommendation is to use *js files and compress them and save them to one js file on production. Well Douglas Crockford wrote JSMin in C# for the .NET users. JSMin - is a filter which removes comments and unnecessary whitespace from JavaScript files. It typically reduces filesize by half, resulting in faster downloads. It also encourages a more expressive programming style because it...

Windows 7 Developer Guide Ok, so we all know about The Windows 7 Blog for Developers = yochay , and we wish him all the best in his new job ( and blog ) … so in a related matter here’s Windows 7 Developer Guide available as a DOCX

Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.1 – October 2008 Great news ! Enterprise Library 4.1 is now available. This is a twin release of Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.1 and Unity 1.2 . What’s New in Enterprise Library v4.1? This release of Enterprise Library is a service release that includes the following: Unity interception mechanism and integration of the Policy Injection Application Block with the Unity Application Block. Performance improvements. Usability improvements to the configuration tool. Visual...

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP on VPC Download from Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) For other VPCs VPC Images ( + Related Testing ) And also related Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP Feedback & C# Future

Microsoft Modeling Platform (code named "Oslo") "M" Sounds almost like “Bond, James Bond” ( the M part ), But not exactly. Microsoft Oslo , which is Microsoft’s “Microsoft Modeling Platform (code named "Oslo")” has already updated in the MSDN and has two sub-sections: Models and Metadata SDK Microsoft Oslo Technical Articles As well as it’s own “webSite” : Oslo Developer Center , a downloadable Oslo SDK … and much more. for more information look at: The "Oslo"...

REAL WORLD SOA happens {HERE} The PDC is just around the corner, and from the PDC 08 Timeline we should have noticed just but a few Foundation s: WF 4.0: A First Look , Kenny Wolf WCF 4.0: Building WCF Services with WF in Microsoft .NET 4.0 , Ed Pinto WF 4.0: Extending with Custom Activities , Matt Winkler WCF: Developing RESTful Services , Steve Maine Microsoft .NET Framework: Declarative Programming Using XAML , Rob Relyea/Daniel Roth WCF: Zen of Performance and Scale , Nicholas Allen In the end...

Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Beta Microsoft ASP.NET MVC has just hit the Beta Release ( finaly ). In the ASP.NET MVC Roadmap it is mentioned that the v1.0 RTM will be in Q4 2008 or Q1 2009. Though in the CodePlex   ASP.NET MVC WebSite it is still in Preview 5 , that version ( preview 5 ) was considered quite stable – hence the recent release of the Beta version which can be downloaded from Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Beta   Brief Description The ASP.NET MVC Beta release provides a new Model-View-Controller...

.NET Framework 4.0 – What’s ahead ? (1st thought) Just incase you had your doubt , this is my personal perspective of what’s ahead. Ok, we all know my perspective about the architectural aspects that .NET 4.0 would bring from: Dublin + .NET Framework 4.0 = "BizTalk/SOA Express Framework" ! (part 4) .NET Framework 4.0 = "BizTalk/SOA Express Framework" ? PART3 .NET Framework 4.0 = "BizTalk/SOA Express Framework" ? PART2 .NET Framework 4.0 = "BizTalk/SOA Express Framework"...