Bill Gibson's Blog
Thoughts on building SQL Server Data Tools
SQL Server Data Tools - From Oslo to Juneau.
Time to blog again! The road to Oslo turned out to have many twists, turns and eventually...
Date: 12/12/2011
Oslo CTP update; Data Modeling Design Patterns in M
As modelers, one of the things we're doing all the time is looking for patterns - trying to...
Date: 01/28/2009
Domain Modeling
My focus within the Olso team is on domain modeling – creating models for specific problem...
Date: 01/27/2009
Getting Back in the Saddle (although no longer on a Whitehorse)
Long time no blog! In the meantime I've changed jobs within Microsoft; I've been working for the...
Date: 01/27/2009
Whitehorse Architecture TechNotes Published on MSDN
Phew! A set of Visual Studio Team System Tech Notes have now been published on MSDN, including some...
Date: 12/06/2005
On shadow applications and agile development
Randy Miller has published a paper on agile development that discusses the use of 'shadow'...
Date: 12/01/2005
Logical vs. Physical Architectural Modeling Concerns
We've been having hallway discussions about some of the dimensions of modeling application...
Date: 11/11/2005
ARCast on model-driven development
An interesting initial round on this model-driven development podcast, including comments from Jack...
Date: 11/03/2005
Kick the VSTS tires...
Now you can try out Team System in a hosted environment without the hassle of downloading and...
Date: 11/03/2005
Going dark...
I've not lost enthusiasm for this blogging thing, its just that I've been asked to convert some of...
Date: 10/30/2005
Top-down System Design Article posted
I have posted an article on top-down system design using the System Designer. This describes and...
Date: 10/21/2005
Developer? Architect? All hail the Devarchitect!
No doubt you know that Microsoft is very persona driven. A persona is a fictitous person that...
Date: 10/20/2005
Understanding SDM: Systems and the Four Layer Model
The Whitehorse Distributed System Designers are based on SDM - the System Definition Model. SDM...
Date: 10/16/2005
Does Application Designer support operations defined on interfaces?
Another question that keeps cropping up is whether we support viewing and editing Web service...
Date: 10/14/2005
Application Designer: copying endpoints vs. creating them from WSDL
There are two ways you can copy the specification of a Web service endpoint using Application...
Date: 10/14/2005
Top-down Design Using the System Designer
AbstractThis article describes a technique for top-down system design supported by the Visual Studio...
Date: 10/12/2005
Yes, you can use copy and paste on the Application Designer
This came up in a discussion with some MVPs the other day - they didn't realize you can use copy and...
Date: 10/12/2005
Where are all the class libraries?
I’m often asked why class libraries aren’t supported on an application diagram. At first...
Date: 10/12/2005
Out of the gate...
Hi - I'm Bill Gibson, a senior program manager on the Whitehorse team. I want to use this blog to...
Date: 10/11/2005