Next Thursday, November 27 2008, the Microsoft Windows Embedded European Tour is coming to ISEL.
Archive for November, 2008
Windows Embedded European Tour
Posted in Uncategorized on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sapphire: unmanaged SOAP stack
Posted in Uncategorized on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While viewing the PDC’s session on Windows CardSpace “Geneva“, I found the following:
The new version of CardSpace will be completely rewritten in unmanaged code.
It will use the “Sapphire” unmanaged SOAP stack available with Windows 7.
The details of this unmanaged SOAP stack were also presented at PDC.
JavaOne 2009: Call for Papers
Posted in Uncategorized on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The JavaOne2009 call for papers is now open. The deadline is December 19th 2008.
Geneva’s Pipeline
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged claims, Geneva, identity on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, I saw the recording of PDC’s session Identity: “Geneva” Deep Dive, which I greatly recommend. Specially interesting was the description of the Geneva pipeline (from 19:55 to 25:20 recording time).
Design by Contract meets .NET
Posted in Uncategorized on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At PDC 2008, Microsoft Research presented Code Contracts:
Code Contracts provide a language-agnostic way to express coding assumptions in .NET programs. The contracts take the form of pre-conditions, post-conditions, and object invariants. Contracts act as checked documentation of your external and internal APIs. The contracts are used to improve testing via runtime checking, enable static contract [...]