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Seems like Edward and myself are ready to talk a bit more in-depth about what we are working on. We are currently playing around with some thoughts of a service and data contract DSL and try to implement it with with Microsoft's early versions of the DSL Toolkit. A bit of a pain, but the whole story is just evolving...

If you are interested on the Why and also the How of DSLs – not just from a Microsoft-branded perspective - go and read Martin Fowler’s most inspiring article on Language Workbenches.
Also go to an older blog post from me musing about the whole Code vs. Contract first vs. Explicitness vs. Anything-else-in-the-world story and how it relates to DSLs.

This is very exciting stuff (ooops, I was meant to avoid this term :)).

UPDATE: Daniel just confirmed and closed the bug.

We have a theoretically working version and build of WSCF for Visual Studio 2005. It looks nice, believe me :)

But there is one major and annoying bug in the .NET Framework 2.0 which simply blocks our code generation features:

   Bug Details: Null reference error when using wsdl.exe /server to generate code from metadata

So we all still need to be patient. I have a confirmation from ASMX’s PM, Daniel Roth, that the bug has been fixed in the meantime but this fix did not yet make it into any public build.
Stay tuned. Thanks.

Yeah, Avalon is no longer Avalon, but rather WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation).

But I always asked myself what does Avalon mean. Well, it turns out that "Avalon" derives from the old Irish word "Avaloch" – which means "a place of apples".
Just to let you know ;)

Nein, nein, ich möchte mich nicht mit diesem berühmten Bürger der Stadt Paderborn anlegen oder gar vergleichen – aber ich würde mich sehr freuen, viele Teilnehmer beim .NET Usergroup-Treffen am 5.9.2005 begrüßen zu dürfen.

Thema: "Entwicklung verteilter Anwendungen mit WCF (aka Indigo): mehr als nur Web Services++"

Und wie immer der Dank an INETA – Christian und Damir.

Wir haben einen neuen, selbstverständlich kostenlosen, Service für unsere deutschsprachigen Leser. Einmal etwas anders über technische Themen „reden“…

Die thinktecture-Gespräche
Wir planen, in loser Folge immer wieder von uns verfasste "Gespräche" - entstanden aus Email-Dialogen - zu gewissen Technologiethemen zu veröffentlichen. Gerne erwarten wir Ihr Feedback und Ihre Meinung!

Das erste tt-Gespräch ist nun verfügbar:

·        Indigo/Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) - Christian Weyer und Ralf Westphal

This year I will be speaking at the famous JAOO conference in Aarhus, Denmark. A number of friends of mine like Beat and Ted will also be there.
I think this traditionally not-too-.NET-centric event will have a big impact on how at least I see .NET in comparison to the ‚rest of the world’. Really looking forward.

It is always good to think outside the box…

Finally here: thinktecture’s Ingo Rammer and Richard Turner from Mcirosoft have published articles on performance comparisons of distributed application technologies

Performance of ASP.NET Web Services, Enterprise Services, and .NET Remoting

System.Messaging Performance

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