Geneva Framework: A Better Approach For Building Claims-Based WCF Services

.NET RIA Services relies heavily on metadata annotations for expressing intent beyond what can be inferrd via convention. For example, validation rules on entities and members can be declared as annotations, which then enable a variety of consumption scenarios. We also have metadata for describing model aspects in DAL-agnostic fashion, and hints for automatic UI-generation. What we have today is just a first step.

Microsoft ADO.Net team released (this month June 2009) a set of features that build on top of Entity Framework 4.0 Beta 1
The features included in this CTP are :

1.Templates for Self-Tracking Entities (N-Tier support)
2.Templates for POCO (Plain Old CLR Objects) Entities
3.Code-Only Programming Model that allows you to write Entity Data Model based applications without requiring external artifacts

While working with Entity Framework v1 during KiGG implementation of Entity Framework repositories, I decided to test KiGG for partial trust environment. Particularly Medium Trust support. Will not go through whether KiGG currently support medium trust or not in it current or upcoming version, but I will go through one of the reasons why KiGG currently might not support medium trust. It is because MY implementation of Entity Framework. Note that I am saying MY, because Entity Framework application can run on medium trust.

Glenn Block explains how the Managed Extensibility Framework, a new library coming in .NET Framework 4.0, tackles the longstanding issue of building applications and components that can be reused and extended by others. Learn how to build apps that can use new functionality introduced by developers, framework authors and third-party extenders.Glenn BlockMSDN Magazine February 2010

VPL, part of Robotics Developer Studio is intended for novice programmers, but is also useful for testing and prototyping. We write a simple serial port service that allows you to send and receive data.Trevor TaylorMSDN Magazine February 2010

Learn about enhanced TimeSpan formatting and parsing features coming in the .NET Framework 4, and some helpful tips for working with TimeSpan values.Ron PetrushaMSDN Magazine February 2010

To better understand how SOA patterns can be applied to Windows Azure deployments, we walk you through a scenario in which a bank moves its services to the cloud.Thomas Erl, Arman Kurtagic, Herbjörn WilhelmsenMSDN Magazine January 2010

Many early adopters cloud platforms have questions about security. We review some of the cryptography services and providers in Windows Azure along with some security implications for applications in the cloud.Jonathan WiggsMSDN Magazine January 2010

Building an NHibernate-based desktop application isn't any harder than building a web application, and in many cases NHibernate simplifies elements of session handling and concurrency.Oren EiniMSDN Magazine December 2009

There's no magic behind how the TFS Power Tools were integrated with Team Explorer, and we'll show you how to expose your own custom features inside the Team Explorer window.Brian A. Randell, Marcel de VriesMSDN Magazine December 2009