By Simon|Architecture|Be the first to comment!
Have some spare time during the holidays to catch up on new technologies? Mohammad Akif, an Architect Evangelist in Canada, has recorded two new webcasts that are worth checking out… Using Visual Studio for Deployment Modeling The new modeling features in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 can help you to validate application deployment scenarios by defining [...]
Continue Reading →By Simon|Architecture, Aspiring Architect|Be the first to comment!
I’ve sat through many architect events over the past few years and one thing that always strikes me is how different one self claimed “architect” attendee can be from another. For example, I saw two architects sitting together at a recent event – one was clearly very interested in the impact of architecture on the long [...]
Continue Reading →By Simon|Architecture, Technology|Be the first to comment!
A few guys at Conchango (for whom I used to work have created a Scrum plug-in for VSTS. Good reading if you are interested in agile development. http://blogs.conchango.com/howardvanrooijen/default.aspx
Continue Reading →By Simon|Architecture|Be the first to comment!
Working on interoperability at Microsoft over the past few years has been a phenomenal experience. I have had the opportunity to publish many articles, create videos, write a book, publish sample code, interact with many fine people, speak at events across the world, and even meet Bill in person . Over the past few months [...]
Continue Reading →By Simon|Architecture, Interoperability|2 Comments
I caught up with Benjamin Mitchell at TechEd Europe this year and we chatted briefly about WSE Trace – a small tool that I put together to help with viewing of traces generated by WSE. Given that there is still some interest in this I thought it was overdue for a little update. As [...]
Continue Reading →By Simon|Architecture, Interoperability|Be the first to comment!
One question I frequently get asked is "how do I handle exceptions over Web Services?" If you've ever tried passing exceptions using Web Services you'll likely be able to relate to the issues. The main problem is that the majority of toolkits don't have a great way to deserialize generated SOAP Faults to local exceptions [...]
Continue Reading →