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Service Pack 1 of Visual Studio 2008, Team Foundation Server 2008 and .NET 3.5 have been released
If you have, like me, been regularly checking the MSDN blogs, you must have noticed the dozens of posts on yesterday's release of Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1, and Team Foundation Server Service Pack 1. So, I'm not going to repeat the list of what's new ove...
Guidebook: Microsoft Patterns & Practices
In the beginning of this year, Nucleus Research has been interviewing several architects from the .NET community with the intention of writing a whitepaper on the added value of Microsoft's patterns & practices. As an expert advisor to the Web Service Software Factory : Modeling Edition, I wa...
First impressions with NHibernate 2.0
Almost two months ago, Ayenda Rahien announced the release of the first alpha of a new generation of NHibernate. NHibernate's feature set has always been a subset of the corresponding Java equivalent, Hibernate 3.x. With the new Nhibernate 2.0 release, the team has aligned its feature set with th...
Wilkommen in die welt von Schiller
Or...in English...Welcome to the world of Schiller. Say what? Well, as a starter, take an excellent German composer/producer whose origins lay in the trance scene, add some elements from well known artists like Jean-Michel Jarre and Genesis, and finally, complement with awesome male and female v...
Software Factories..is it worth it?
Last week, I read an article published by Microsoft in cooperation with Siemens that discussed the business case of investing in software factories. In the conclusion, the writers claim that a well-designed software factory can improve your productivity by a factor of 10. However, they also state...
Presentation slides for C# 3.0 and Rhino Mocks
Last Friday, I took the honors of filling up one of the presentation slots at the first Software Development Network Event of 2008. As a enthusiastic user of Rhino Mocks, I used it to demonstrate the power of Rhino Mocks and C# 3.0 combined. Even though my session started right after lunch concu...