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"A good workman is known by his tools" - Blogs on the WCF Tooling

Check out Bill Gibson's Blog!

Bill's a senior PM on our team and I'm happy that he's finally joined the bandwagon and started...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/12/2005

Macrovision InstallShield and VSTA...

Finally! We just went public with Installsheild as a key strategic partner during the PDC. I've been...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/16/2005

What is an application?

'Application' seems to be one of the most overused terms in the industry today. During our usabilty...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/31/2005

What about "front-end" artifact tie-ins that might precede the Application Designer?

I have not yet seen the “front-end” artifact tie-ins that would precede the Application Design...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/25/2005

WSDL Namespaces

In creating demos, I always need to make sure that we have a realistic scenario. With regards to...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/23/2005

New Web services category...

Our group's speciality/expertize is to build Enterprise tools. However, we do this with...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/23/2005

Why is VB the default language for my Application?

Customer Question: "Do I really have to change the Language setting of a new Application component...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/19/2005

Making the diagram visible for others to see...

From: https://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=16172 One of the questions we still get...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/16/2005

How do you handle dev/test/prod connection strings when doing an App. Diagram?

This was a question from one of a Microsoft Regional Director. The answer, ala Bill Gibson: Database...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/24/2005

Enteprise Library, Visualizing Project References to Class Libraries, and the Distributed System Designers...

Bernard O'Flynn (Hewlett-Packard) asked a great question. I have a fairly standard app consisting of...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/19/2005

Where/How is the ConnectionString information for a External Database stored?

We keep the ConnectionString information in memory while the Application Designer is open. When the...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/18/2005

Why am I asked to enter the connection string information for the database every time a connect a new application to an external database?

A database type is designed to be hosted on a Database Server in the host layer. Therefore, it...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/18/2005

Why do ASP.NET WebService and ASP.NET WebApplication look alike on the Application Designer?

Bill Gibson had this great response to a inquiry raised by a customer. I thought I'd post it for the...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/16/2005

DSI, SDM and the Distributed System Designers (Show me the SDM!)

While there has been a lot of talk about DSI and SDM, I feel that there is a need to clarify how...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/10/2005

Another cool demo ...

It's amazing how Febuary and March flew by as we tried to get Beta 2 out the door!!!! Well, the good...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/14/2005

Jobs working on the Distributed System Designers at Microsoft

If you've read my blog and want to work on this great product or alternatively think that you could...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/28/2005

Distributed System Designers - Channel 9 Demo Video

Check out the new videos that Dmitriy and I made for Channel 9. 1....

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/28/2005

VSTS Dec 04 CTP - Distributed System Designers - Known Issues

I've added a new article that documents the VSTS Dec 04 CTP - Distributed System Designer's Known...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/08/2005

DSD Walkthroughs - Okay I've got the December CTP, now how do I start using the designers again?

If you're trying to use the Distributed System Designers in the December CTP, I must highly...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/27/2005

.NET Developers Journal Article - Distributed System Design Suite

Here’s a good Distributed System Designer overview article in the latest copy of the .NET Developers...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/26/2005

[CHAT] Visual Studio Team Architect - Designing Service Oriented Systems and Logical Datacenters

Chat with Team Architect members of Visual Studio Team System.We'll be answering questions and...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/25/2005

CBDI Forum - Supporting SOA Service Lifecycle - Article Feedback

There's a great review that Lawrence Wilkes has published on our designers on the CBDI Forum that's...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/21/2005

New Beta 2 Feature: File-system based web applications are now supported on the Distributed System Designer

A built-in file-sytem based application server is one of the great features in VS 2005. It gives you...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/17/2005

New VS Office Project integration with the Distributed System Designers in Beta 2

Wow! I’m coming back from a meeting where I saw a demo of the Visual Studio Office (code-named...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/12/2005

Talk about a big endpoint!!

Cheers ps. thanks for the pic Robin...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/11/2005

Beta 2 Sneak Preview of the New Visuals for the Distributed System Designers

Okay, I think it’s time we show you guys a preview what our designers will look like in Beta 2....

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/11/2005

What pain do you feel in the Application Designer (Distributed System Designer)?

It has been a several months since we shipped Visual Studio 2005 Beta1 with the Distributed System...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/06/2005

We built it and no-one came -> New entry points for the Distributed System Designers

A lot of the customers I talked to about our designers have been surprised that our designers have...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/06/2005

Distributed System Designers - Application Designer

Introduction My name is Ali Pasha, and I’m a Program Manager in the Visual Studio Enterprise Tools...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/06/2005

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