In the last months I’ve been working with a really great team in the Service Factory project at Microsoft. This is a very ambitious project and in the first release you will find a collection of tools to develop web services using the architecture and best practices recommended by the patterns & practices group.
You can download it from the Web Service Software Factory home page and provide your feedback in the community workspace.
Next releases will include integration with .NET 3.0 technologies, like WCF and LINQ, so stay tuned and remember: this is just the beginning!

Posted: July 29th, 2006 under .NET.
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After loooong time, I decided to bring my weblog back to life. I will try to mantain it more often. Just to begin, I changed the engine with a Wordpress and some plugins that allows me to write posts using wiki syntax. Now I will can share my adventures with new technologies I’m investigating.

I started with C# 3.0 and its wonderful feature LINQ and its friends. I’ve downloaded the may 2006 preview from Microsoft [[http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/ref/linq/|LINQ site]].

After reading some docs and test the examples I wanted to start coding. That’s when I found the suposed (minimal) integration with Visual Studio was not there. Nothing… no templates, no compiler, no syntax highlighting. Finally I found the solution in the [[http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=398051|LINQ forums]]. The problem seems to be that I don’t have VB installed! :S

Installing the MSI with this ‘little’ trick instead of running it directly, fixes the problem without forcing you to install VB:

msiexec.exe /i "LINQ Preview (May 2006).msi"
VCSPROJECTTEMPLATESDIR.C7A0C9D96EB648548BD084A2A4C688EB="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates\CSharp\LINQ Preview\"
VCSPKGDIR.C7A0C9D96EB648548BD084A2A4C688EB="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC#\VCSPackages\"
VCSIDEDIR.C7A0C9D96EB648548BD084A2A4C688EB="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\"
DEBUGVISUALIZERDIR.C7A0C9D96EB648548BD084A2A4C688EB="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Packages\Debugger\Visualizers\"
CSWEBPROJECTTEMPLATESDIR.4AE13B6F621C49B9995EB64016EC2E60="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates\Web\CSharp\1033"
CSITEMTEMPLATEDIR.92D1EB66EA714CFE9C88A25F2388CD0F="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\CSharp\1033"
DEVENV="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\Devenv.exe" DEVENVPATH="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\"

Hopefuly, this will not be needed in the next versions

Posted: July 14th, 2006 under .NET.
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