I already registered for the big next event from Microsoft at our South Region “ConoSur”. It is the Microsoft Technet and MSDN Briefing online, which is going to be held this month on 29th.
Best of all: this is an online event, so you can attend from your home or office using the new MS Office Live Meeting 2007 !
I like most of the topics for developers, specially are the ones related to Web development. Topics will cover Web Development with Silverlight, Expression and VS 2008, SQL Server 2008, .NET 3.5 and SaaS, among others.
You can view the entire agenda and register (Spanish readers) here.
Tags: Resources
A good reading that came in the latest MSDN newsletter, about security aspects that you would need to have in mind when using SOA in large enterprise architectures.
It covers alternatives for authentication (centralized repository for storing the keys), placing the security logic, risks of having a coupled solution, using Sharepoint as a tool for isolating islands of data, magnified security issues that might arrive with a large-scale SOA approach, and other new concepts and trends that worth a read.
You can find the SOA article here.
In some large scale scenarios I would consider having REST in place instead. There is a new model from MS that will help us to build REST applications faster. If you’d like to read about it, its code name is ASTORIA.
I hope you like it.
Tags: SOA · Resources
I’ve been very busy last month working for our new customer Nick, from UK. We are developing a new module for his ASP.NET Recruitment System. We worked almost 15 hours a day for the past week to finish with the tricky module on time !
That is why I haven’t updated my blog in a long time. I just had some time to read the hot topics in the blogs, and some other articles that helped me a lot with my current assignment. So these are some of the bookmarked links for October:
Without any doubts, the hottest announcement during October. Microsoft plans to ship a Model View Controler version for ASP.NET so you will be able to use this well known architecture in a simple way with ASP.NET.
Expose the database in a REST format with this new tool from MS. Big companies such as Ebay and Amazon uses this model for exposing the data, and even when it can reduce the data load and perform faster, for certain scenarios I believe that WebServices are still needed. It needs entity framework in order to work.
Samples, tutorials and simple tasks you can do with Silverlight 1.1.
Understand how the update panel works, and avoid some common mistakes when working with it.
Use these scripts to add AJAX functionality to ANY kind of website. These will definitely help to have your visitors happier.
NHibernate Data Source Control
A datasource control for NHibernate. If you use this ORM you must give it a try !
I hope these few links help you to be updated in this evolving world. Stay tuned, this week I’ll be writting about our outsourcing experience from Uruguay !
Tags: Resources · ASP.NET · AJAX.NET
Even when I work for a huge IT Company, coding standards are always a problem.
Available .NET standards used to be long, complex, and sometimes hard to comply with. We finally end up customizing some Microsoft official coding standard and set up FxCop to check the code for compliance with MS Guidelines.
Well, after reading latest Scott’s post, I end up finding this excellent C# Coding Standard Guidelines from IDesign team.
This standard looks neat. Simple but complete at the same time. It not only includes C# Coding Guidelines, but also Best Practices for having a better code, configuring security at different levels, Projects settings, and many other useful best practices, applied to several areas such as ASP.NET, Web Services, Remoting, Threading or Data Access. And everything using only 25 pages.
Great start point for those who are looking for a complete C# Coding Standard or Guidelines Checklist!
I’ll start to customize it right away for my particular needs.
I hope it helps you too.
Tags: Resources
