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Slides and demo code dotNed event February 27th

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As promised, you can review the slides from yesterday’s DotNed event on Software Development Practices from here, and you can download the source code from here. Notice that you need Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, the Silverlight 4 Beta tools and the Silverlight 4 Beta Toolkit November 2009 to run i...

February 28, 2010

DotNED event on software development practices was awesome

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It’s Sunday morning and I’m looking back at an awesome DotNED event in Doorn. The location was very nice, the audience was a blast, and my two fellow speakers Jonne Kats and Peter Hesseling did a great job.  Thanks to everybody for being there! Some of the statements made on Twitter for...

February 28, 2010

My first thoughts on WCF RIA Services

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While working on my demo code for my full-day talk on Software Development Practices in Practice I was a bit ambitious and introduced both Silverlight 4 and WCF RIA Services. Apart from the fact that the preparation caused a bit too much of my social live, I ran in some things I don’t really like...

February 26, 2010

How to split a solution into projects

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Yesterday, a colleague of mine asked for some guidance on how to partition a Visual Studio solution into individual projects. Instead of simply answering his email I thought that blogging about it may be useful for others as well, so here are my rules: In general, have as few projects as possi...

February 11, 2010

Silverlight Reference Architecture revisited

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Update October 2010: I’ve started a new in-depth series on my current Silverlight 4 Reference Architecture. In July I posted about my considerations for a Silverlight Reference Architecture, and in December I talked about it in my chalk’n’talk session on architecture, WCF RIA Services and Silver...

February 11, 2010

DevDays 2010 wildcard proposal: Is Entity Framework 4.0 ready for the real thing?

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Introduced in the 2009 edition, this year’s Microsoft Developer Days is again offering wildcard sessions to anyone who posted a proposal on their Facebook site. Obviously I posted a proposal as well, and partly thanks to the community and partly because there were only eight proposals, my proposa...

February 1, 2010