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First Post Using Windows Live Writer

2006-10-08T02:06:00Z

My first post using this tool, nice one !!!

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Another way to pronounce WinFX Tech

2006-06-05T23:39:00Z

Rather than calling it Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, and Windows Workflow Foundation... ( it's too longgg !!! )
OR
Rather than calling it with their abbreviation, WPF - WCF - WWF/WF ( DAMN !!! We must spell 3 letters, how annoying !!! )

Let's pronounce it with :

WCF = WinCom
WPF = WinPrez
WWF/WF = WinFlow

This is the real posting
http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2006/06/01/Make-MS-codenames-cool-again_3A00_-WinCom_2C00_-WinPrez_2C00_-WinFlow.aspx

It's not that good but it's better...

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50 Ajax Toolkits And Frameworks

2006-05-05T20:11:00Z

This is the link AJAX , ENJOY !!!

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InfoCard Explained

2006-04-29T03:07:00Z

Try this site Infocard Explained , it's a nice video about infocard (a new identity management in vista, based on winfx). I think one of them in the video (the program manager of infocard) is indonesian, hmm, am i right ??? CMIIW..... And the nicest thing about infocard is that we can use this identity/credential for our WCF services, we just have to set some xml config for our WCF services and then when our program invoke that services , the infocard dialog will popup and ask us to choose the card that we want to use, cool right.... No more hassle in remembering all those kind of password and user for different services and websites.... We can integrate it all into a single sign-on using infocard and the UX (User Experience) is very good. Enjoy !!!

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Blogcast Series for Service Factory

2006-04-24T22:21:00Z

Here is a blogcast series for service factory, Service Factory Blogcast Series , ENJOY !!!!

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Service Software Factory/Service Factory

2006-04-24T22:15:00Z

Continuing my prev post.... Now i want to share one software factory that are ready to download and use. This bits are made by the guys at p&p team, this factory helps us to create services based on WCF. Download the bits here Service Factory , this thing's really cool, it has already implemented the best practices for creating Services.

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Guidance Automation Toolkit

2006-04-24T22:08:00Z

This toolkit helps us to create guidance for developer to follow in creating software, rather than creating written guidance we can create the guidance DIRECTLY AVAILABLE IN visual studio 2005. This guidance can include pattern, snippet, best practices, solution template, project template, rule, add-in, etc... We can package it into an installation (.msi) and then install it into the developers machine, and after that there will be a new project/solution template in visual studio 2005 to create the project. As we can see that Guidance Automation Toolkit or GAT will be useful for architect to create rule for their developers. Some people call the package that are created using GAT by the name Software Factory. You can download the bit from here http://www.guidanceautomation.net/ , in this website there are also some action, recipes, reference, template and other things that we can download and use it in our package. All of this are free and open source. So maybe later on, rather than making only whitepaper for pattern & practices, there will be a Software Factory that has implemented those best practices that we can extend or use.

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Top Things to Learn in .NET Development

2006-03-15T04:17:00Z

OOP - No comment for this one, everybody must have known about this one, it's a must in development world.

.NET Framework - Of course, without this there won't be .NET, things to learn about this thing is how everything work. From assembly, module, CLR to MSIL.
I recommend reading Essential.NET (The CLR) by Don Box n Chris Sells.

C#/VB/J# - Of course, this is the language !!! How can people speak if they don't learn the language.

ASP.NET - This is the era of web app.

Design Pattern - Pattern.. Pattern.. and then Pattern & Practices. But don't be a PATTERNITIS.
I recommend the book Design Patterns by GOF (The extraordinare popular book), Head First Design Pattern, and P of EAA (Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture) by Martin Fowler (You know the man...).

NUnit - TDD (Test Driven Development).

log4net - Nice logging API.

NAnt - Automate your build process.

NHibernate - The most popular ORM.

Agile Software Development - Keep Agile !!!

EntLib (Enterprise Library) - One heck of a framework.

CAB (Composite UI Application Block) - Cool MVC framework.

SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) - Web Services (WSE, WSRF, etc), Remoting, Enterprise Services, and all those stuff.

The most interesting thing to tell is that other than the .NET itself, it's all FREE, clean with no charge at all !!!

CMIIW and add up other stuff that i didn't write, hope it helps. CIAOO !!!

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Attributes in NHibernate

2006-03-13T06:10:00Z

It's been a long time since i post to this blog. I'm still busy with my CISCO stuff, and also have to train some end-user to use my software, and i work alone. I work as a .NET freelancer (my team is just me and one of my friend), but because my friend is also working in a company so i'm alone, since i'm still not working (waiting for my CISCO stuff). Now when i have time, i will try to share some of my knowledge, ok let's just start....

We know there are some contribution to NHibernate because this ORM is so popular, one of the contribution that i like is to let NHibernate use attribute (like DLinq and XPO) instead of xml file to map our class/domain object to the DBMS, but actually it is just some helper class that let us set some attributes to our class and then we can generate the map data.
First we just create some class that will be map with some table

class Customer
{
}

and then we add some attributes to map this class to a table

[NHibernate.Mapping.Attributes.Class(Table="Customers")]
class Customer
{
}

and the we add one or more property that represent the id/primary key of the table and the attributes that map this property as id

private String _ID;

[NHibernate.Mapping.Attributes.Id(Name="CustomerID")]
[NHibernate.Mapping.Attributes.Generator(1, Class="native")]
public String ID
{
   get
   {
      return _ID;
   }
}

and of course we should add some column/property and the attribute that map this property as column

private String _name;

[NHibernate.Mapping.Attributes.Property(NotNull=true)]
public String Name
{
   get
   {
      return _name;
   }
   set
   {
      _name=value;
   }
}

Like that...

After we have created all the mapped property we can start the code that changes all this attribute mapping to a mapping data.
This is the code...

NHibernate.Cfg.Configuration cfg = new NHibernate.Cfg.Configuration();
System.IO.MemoryStream stream = new System.IO.MemoryStream();
NHibernate.Mapping.Attributes.HbmSerializer.Default.HbmDefaultAccess = "field.camelcase-underscore";
NHibernate.Mapping.Attributes.HbmSerializer.Default.Serialize( stream,System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly() );
stream.Position = 0;
cfg.AddInputStream(stream);
stream.Close();

- First we create the NHibernate configuration and then we create a memorystream to store the map file in-memory.
- Then we set some property, with this setting NHibernate will convert the name of the property in the camel case and will add an underscore before to get the name of the field that hold this data.
- Then we serialize the class into xml (in-memory) from this assembly (executing assembly).
- And last we rewind the stream and add the stream into the configuration then finally close the stream.

So other than cfg.AddAssembly / cfg.AddClass / anything ... we can also use cfg.AddInputStream to add the stream where the map exist.

That's it... Hope it's useful...

Ciaooo !!!

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Hello from w.bloggar

2006-03-13T05:16:00Z

Test from w.bloggar

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Comparing LINQ and Its Contemporaries

2006-01-14T02:51:00Z

There is a nice article in MSDN that compares LINQ and its contemporaries, just check this link http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/linqcomparisons.asp

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WinFX SDK December CTP

2005-12-23T02:12:00Z

WinFX SDK December CTP sudah release, untuk download bisa langsung ke http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getthebeta/default.aspx , kalau mau lengkapnya kira2 harus download 4 file, yaitu WinFX Runtime, VS2005 WinFX Extension, WinFX SDK, dan VS2005 Extension for WWF. Dan yang menarik dari CTP ini adalah terdapatnya Cider (Codename Cider) dalam VS2005 WinFX Extension yang merupakan Designer untuk WPF yang support Drag n Drop, Cool Right!!! Dan juga adanya beberapa API 3D baru, mungkin lengkapnya langsung cek aja kesini http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspxCider.DecemberCTPReleaseNotes.

Untuk total filenya kira 1.2 GB , saya sendiri lagi download dan tinggal SDK nya saja 40% lagi. Udah ngga sabar untuk start Coding with this Toys…

Al3x4nd3r@hotmail.com

Ricardo Alexander (TrackerX)

http://blogs.netindonesia.net/ricardoalexander

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience

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Community In Touch WSS 2003 R2

2005-12-23T02:03:00Z

Habis attend Community In Touch pertama bagi para IT Pro (mengenai WSS 2003 R2), hmm… asik juga acaranya , sebagai Developer saya jadi bisa dapat beberapa pandangan baru dalam mengusahakan agar aplikasi dapat memanfaatkan infrastruktur yang sudah ada, dan apalagi dengan adanya ADFS dan UNIX interop, semuanya jadi membuka banyak challenge baru dalam men-develop aplikasi yang terintegrasi…. Dan jelas bagi saya yang seorang Developer memang paling tertarik dengan 2 komponen ini (ADFS dan UNIX interop). Dan dalam acara ini juga sangat terlihat cara pandang yang berbeda antara para IT PRO dan Developer (dan bagaimana IT PRO memprotes kalau Developer melulu yang dimanjain dan dipublikasikan, hehehehe…….). Yang pasti jika kita bisa saling komunikasi antara IT PRO dan Developer maka kita bisa mendevelop aplikasi yang lebih ter-integrasi dengan sistem kita dan memungkinkan kita untuk membuat infrastruktur sistem yang SSO (Single Sign On), sehingga dapat mempermudah end-user dalam mengingat user dan passwordnya karena hanya ada satu.

Al3x4nd3r@hotmail.com

Ricardo Alexander (TrackerX)

http://blogs.netindonesia.net/ricardoalexander

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience

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Son Of Smartpart

2005-12-20T00:06:00Z

Kita bisa host atau menjalankan User Control yang sudah kita buat di ASP.NET 2.0 kedalam WebParts dari Portal Sharepoint kita dengan menggunakan ini, download dulu dari sini WebPartsnya http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=6cfaabc8-db4d-41c3-8a88-3f974a7d0abe , cari yang Son Of Smartpart (for 2.0) jangan yang Smartpart (for 1.1), dan ini beberapa link quickstart

http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2005/12/01/432020.aspx

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/codeandstuff/articles/4337.aspx

Have Fun…

Al3x4nd3r@hotmail.com

Ricardo Alexander (TrackerX)

http://blogs.netindonesia.net/ricardoalexander

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience

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Persistence Datasets

2005-12-01T01:09:00Z

The Last Component has released Persistent Datasets 1.0.5 – the persistence framework that use native C#/VB queries for querying database. The newest release supports querying both DataSets and Domain Objects using improved Typed Queries syntax and includes SqlServer 2005 support.

For those who are waiting for LINQ………. Nahhh, this is not the answer, but you can try how nice is a Typed Query, and how interesting to do some QUERY to your Domain Objects/Business Object

This is the link http://www.lastcomponent.com/

Al3x4nd3r@hotmail.com

Ricardo Alexander (TrackerX)

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience

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