New .NET Framework 3.5 Whitepapers Published
We just published some new whitepapers discussing high level concepts of .NET Framework 3.5 which I hope you will find useful.
Introducing the .NET Framework 3.5 by David Chappell
This paper drills into each of the new features added in the .NET Framework in versions 3.0 and 3.5. It discusses ASP.NET AJAX, LINQ, WCF, WF, WPF and CardSpace.
Introducing Windows Communication Foundation by David Chappell
This paper provides a high level overview of the Windows Communication Foundation technology. It describes the problem in communications that WCF addresses. It goes on to describe the implementation of a WCF service and a WCF client and also introduces other aspects of WCF such as security, transactions, rest, syndication and extensibility.
Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation by David Chappell
This paper provides a high level overview of the Windows Workflow Foundation technology. It describes the problems in building applications that WF solves. If gives an overview of the components of Windows Workflow Foundation including sequential workflows, state machine workflows, creating and modifying workflows, creating activities, using rules, hosting the workflow runtime, tracking and modifying running workflows. It also provides a good comparison between this new technology and other existing process related Microsoft technologies.
Dealing with Diversity: Understanding WCF Communication Options in the .NET Framework 3.5
This paper discusses the merits of considering SOAP and REST and alternative communication protocols between client and server. It describes how WCF supports these and many other communication styles with a single API through the simple ABC's (Address, Binding and Contract) of communications.
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Anonymous
November 13, 2007
There is a problem with the first link (Introducing...).Anonymous
November 13, 2007
The first link is broken: Introducing the .NET 3.5Anonymous
November 13, 2007
Link Introducing the .NET Framework 3.5 by David Chappell is not workingAnonymous
November 13, 2007
Introducing the .NET Framework 3.5 by David Chappell link is broken!Anonymous
November 13, 2007
2nd x trying to comment... Introducing the .NET Framework 3.5 by David Chappell link doesn't work!Anonymous
November 13, 2007
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November 13, 2007
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November 13, 2007
The first seems brokenAnonymous
November 13, 2007
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November 13, 2007
Thanks for the early birds Dan, Dag, K, and Wil who noticed the bad link. I hand edited the HTML in the link for the first whitepaper to fix it. Not sure why the doc has two spaces in the middle of it's filename, but publishing blogs from Word doesn't like that. Wil, this blog server has some kind of comment spam filter which unfortunately you hit. Cheers, PaulAnonymous
November 14, 2007
Vor kurzem wurden neue Whitepapers von David Chappell publiziert, welche die "high-level" Konzepte desAnonymous
November 15, 2007
Nuova versione dil whitepaper su Visual Studio 2008Anonymous
November 15, 2007
Paul Andrew has this post: New .NET Framework 3.5 Whitepapers Published . Introducing the .NET FrameworkAnonymous
November 17, 2007
Nuovi Whitepapers su .Net Framework 3.5Anonymous
March 26, 2008
Yesterday I presented to one of my financial services customers in the city on an overview of what's