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Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Rick G. Garibay — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:42:16 GMT

I am honored to have been invited by Richard Seroter to participate in his 27th interview in his series on Connected Systems technology for February 2011.

Richard is an absolute thought leader in the CSD space and epitomizes much of what we discussed in his day-to-day role as a Solution Architect for his very lucky employer. His blog posts, articles, speaking engagements and books cover the full breadth of the Microsoft middleware stack and his command of the technology and breadth is truly an achievement to aspire to.

As we discuss, there really has never been a better time for the Microsoft platform, and I believe that AppFabric really is a unification of on-premise workloads while providing first-class tooling for cloud and hybrid.

You can read the full interview here: http://seroter.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/interview-series-four-questions-with-rick-garibay/

I’d love your thoughts and comments and would also encourage you to read the other interviews in the series: http://seroter.wordpress.com/category/four-questions/

New Article: Practical Messaging Scenarios with WCF 4

Rick G. Garibay — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Friends don’t let friends do point to point. Anyone who has designed services to solve a business problem or built a distributed composite application using service-oriented techniques has, consciously or not, discovered the hazards of client applications knowing too much about all of the services with which they interact.

In my latest article for CODE Magazine, I provide a scenario-driven approach to introducing the Routing Service in WCF 4.0 including discussions on the following messaging patterns that help enable more flexible composite application designs:

Virtual Endpoint/Message Broker

High Availability

Content-Based Routing

Context-Based Routing

Publish-Subscribe

The article is now available online at CODE Magazine http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=1009051 as well as at news stands including Barnes and Noble.

I hope you like it and as always, I welcome your feedback!

New Pluralsight WCF 4 On-Demand Screencast

Rick G. Garibay — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:27:32 GMT

I have just published the first in a series of new screencasts on WCF 4 for Pluralsight.

The screencast is titled “Introducing Default Endpoints in WCF 4”. In this screencast, I introduce a new configuration improvement in WCF 4 that helps you be more productive by simplifying the configuration experience in WCF.

You can find the new screencast here: http://www.pluralsight-training.net/microsoft/olt/howtovideo.aspx?a=rick-garibay&n=wcf4-default-endpoints. The goal of the screencast is to teach you how seamless getting up and running with WCF 4 is, providing a true File, New Project, F5 experience. I’d love your feedback!

For those of you who may not be aware, Pluralsight is a Microsoft .NET training provider who has established a stellar reputation for being a premier provider of high-quality, razor-focused on-line and classroom training on Microsoft technologies. The talent behind this company is tremendous and I am thrilled to be a part of this team of instructors who share both a passion for Microsoft technologies and a joy for sharing their experience with others to realize the benefits and possibilities of the platform.

One of the cool things about Pluralsight is that their instructors live, eat and breathe the content they cover. The majority of instructors have full time jobs in consulting and/or leading teams in product development around the technologies they cover. I think that this “dog-fooding” approach to training development and delivery makes for a learning experience that is truly unique and worth a nominal membership fee.

So, if you are new to Pluralisight and are considering subscribing to this premier source for authoritative .NET training, please drop me a line and I’d be happy to get the good folks at Pluralisight to work out a trial. I think you’ll be as impressed as I am with the instructors and a very impressive library providing content that is relevant to the work you are doing today as well as cutting edge content to help you prepare for your next project.

I hope you’ll agree, and please, keep the feedback coming!

10 Years of CODE + New Features in WCF 4 that Will Instantly Make You More Productive

Rick G. Garibay — Fri, 07 May 2010 22:47:05 GMT

My new article on WCF 4 has just been published and should be available to subscribers and at newsstands today.

This issue marks the 6th article I’ve contributed to EPS Publishing/CODE Magazine and I am especially proud to be a part of the 10 year anniversary issue of CODE Magazine, writing on a technology that I love.

This is an amazing organization that has survived the ups and downs of technology publishing, and while many of their competitors over the last decade are no longer in business, CODE Magazine has continued to both innovate while keeping the quality bar highly raised as a technology-focused publication by the developer community and for the developer community.

Believe it or not, maintaining a bi-monthly publishing schedule to an in-print subscriber base of over 10,000 worldwide while providing digital editions both on the web at www.code-magazine.com and via Xiine (a WPF content distribution reader that supports multiple formats of the magazine) as well as Amazon’s Kindle editions takes a lot of work.

The success of this publication is only equaled by the fantastic group of people behind it that make my job so easy. It has been an absolute privilege to share and collaborate with Rod Paddock, Erik Ruthruff, Markus Egger and Cleo Gaither, to name just a few and I look forward to the next 10 years of CODE Magazine!

You can find my new article here: http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=1006061

I look forward to your thoughts and feedback.

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Event Content Download

Rick G. Garibay — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:45:01 GMT

Thanks to all who came out to the event in Phoenix, Salt Lake City & Las Vegas. We had a great turnout at all events with great questions and discussions.

Remember that the conversation continues on twitter.

If you attended the event and have a question or comment for any of the presenters, use the following hashtags:

Phoenix: #vs2010phx
Salt Lake City: #vs2010slc
Las Vegas: #vs2010vegas

Below are the presentations from all four sessions in each city:

Phoenix	A Lap Around Visual Studio 2010	Rick G. Garibay
Phoenix	Agile Management with TFS	Brendon Birdoes	*
Phoenix	No More "No Repro"	Brendon Birdoes	*
Phoenix	Architecture for Everyone	Rick G. Garibay
Salt Lake City	A Lap Around Visual Studio 2010	Rick G. Garibay
Salt Lake City	Agile Management with TFS	Jeff Leite	*
Salt Lake City	No More "No Repro"	Jeff Leite	*
Salt Lake City	Architecture for Everyone	Rick G. Garibay
Las Vegas	A Lap Around Visual Studio 2010	Rick G. Garibay
Las Vegas	Agile Management with TFS	Mickey Williams	*
Las Vegas	No More "No Repro"	Mickey Williams	*
Las Vegas	Architecture for Everyone	Rick G. Garibay

* Note that content for all venues is very similar but may vary from presenter to presenter. ~~All content for both venues will be available soon so please check back shortly.~~

Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 Now Available

Rick G. Garibay — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

OK, I finally get to talk about *something* from the MVP summit!

As for 9 AM Pacific Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 is available on the Developer Center on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/appfabric

First publically announced at PDC 2009, Windows Server AppFabric is a set of application services focused on improving the speed, scale, and management of Web, Composite, and Enterprise applications.

Developers and IT pros can expect the following benefits from Windows Server AppFabric:

Faster Web Apps Made Easy - Windows Server AppFabric helps developers improve the speed and availability of web applications through distributed in-memory caching and replication technology that works with current ASP.NET applications.

Simplified Composite Apps - Developers can simplify the development of composite applications with the pre-built application services in Windows Server AppFabric, used in conjunction with Visual Studio tools and .NET Framework capabilities (ASP.NET, WCF and WF).

IT Pros can also simplify the deployment, monitoring, and management of composite applications with configuration and monitoring capabilities that are integrated with familiar tools (PowerShell, IIS Manager, and System Center).

Enterprise Performance and Availability - An enterprise's most important and demanding applications can achieve elastic scale, performance, availability, and reliability (benefits often associated with the cloud) with the help of Windows Server AppFabric. These and countless other benefits from an unparalleled partner ecosystem utilize familiar skills from the .NET Framework and Windows Server.

Here are some additional links which may also be of interest:

Beta 2 Blog Post on Windows Server Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver
Windows Server AppFabric on Microsoft.com: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/app-main.aspx
Windows Azure AppFabric on Microsoft.com: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/appfabric/
Gartner Research Report: Microsoft AppFabric: http://www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/reprints/microsoft/vol13/article6/article6.html

Note: If you installed App Fabric Beta 1 and are having problems uninstalling, please see Damir Dobric’s post here and follow instructions from clean removal of Beta 1: http://developers.de/blogs/damir_dobric/archive/2010/02/19/uninstalling-of-appfabric-beta-1.aspx

AZ.NET UG WCF 4.0 Materials

Rick G. Garibay — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:46:17 GMT

Below please find my presentation and demos from my talk on new productivity features in WCF 4.0 at the AZ .NET User Group.

Thanks to Scott Cate and the AZ.NET UG for hosting me- I had lots of fun!

VS 2010/.NET 4 Release Candidate

Rick G. Garibay — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:00:52 GMT

The Release Candidate is now available to MSDN subcribers with a public drop on Wednesday, February 10th: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx

Enjoy.

The “Ultimate” Event: Visual Studio 2010 & Team Foundation Server 2010

Rick G. Garibay — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:17:12 GMT

New date added in Las Vegas in celebration of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Launch! I will be joined by Mickey Williams, VP Technology Platform Group, Neudesic. Register now by clicking on event link below.

Join us for a sneak peek of Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010, which will be a landmark release of the premier development toolset for Windows®, Web and Cloud development.

I will be speaking at the Phoenix and Salt Lake City events. Below is more info and a complete list of dates.

The Ultimate Event is your exclusive opportunity to hear about Visual Studio 2010 from experts before the product is launched this year. Microsoft has made significant investments to and improvements of Modeling and Testing/QA tools in Visual Studio 2010. At this event you’ll get a comprehensive overview of Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010, which is the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) core of Visual Studio. We’ll present enhancements in version control, reporting, project management and build management.

Spend the day with us to learn how to take software development to the next level with Visual Studio 2010!

4/14 Las Vegas Schedule:

Time	Topic	Speaker
8:30 AM-9:00 AM	Registration, Welcome
9:00 AM-10:30 AM	Lap Around VS 2010	Rick G. Garibay
10:45 AM-12:00 PM	Agile Management with TFS	Mickey Williams
12:00 PM-12:30 PM	Lunch
12:30 PM-1:45 PM	No More "No Repro"	Mickey Williams
2:00 PM-3:15 PM	Architecture for Everyone	Rick G. Garibay

Dates: Register now using the link below, space is limited.

Date	Location	Event ID
3/2/10	Bellevue, WA	1032439179
3/2/10	San Diego, CA	1032439178
3/4/10	Los Angeles, CA	1032439180
3/9/10	Mountain View, CA	1032439176
3/9/10	Irvine, CA	1032439181
3/10/10	Phoenix, AZ	1032439183
3/11/10	Salt Lake City, UT	1032439996
3/11/10	Portland, OR	1032439182
3/16/10	Denver, CO	1032439184
3/16/10	San Francisco, CA	1032439177
4/14/10	Las Vegas, NV	1032447728

Hope to see you there!

Byte-Size WCF Episode 1: Default Endpoints in WCF 4.0

Rick G. Garibay — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:35:27 GMT

WCF 4.0 simplifies the configuration experience significantly by providing a new default endpoint feature. This saves time and simplifies the configuration requirements for hosting a WCF service by providing a File –> New Project –> Code –> F5 hosting experience.

In this episode you’ll learn how to get up and running quickly with default endpoints and how to gain more control over the default bindings for each scheme (HTTP, TCP, MSMQ, etc) you may want to configure using the new protocol mapping capabilities in WCF 4.0.