Shannon Braun's Weblog

Just released a couple of days ago... its pretty cool.  I hate typing on my phone and the navigation model is all done using the directional disc.  I was impressed... the ease of use and information available was impressive.

I was asked to speak at a InformationWeek and InRule sponsered webcast in regards to what I am seeing as current trends in the industry around business logic automation. 

My part of the presentation is called "Designing Highly Customizable Applications". It dicusses the trend we are seeing with Web 2.0, mashups and composite applications that is moving away from developer driven applications and more towards empowering the user to construct and configure their own applications.  It also discusses drivers behind this shift, how to adapt to the shift and talks about some of the Technical Pitfalls in applications that are completely customizable.

You can register for the webcast on the InformationWeek website.

The ADO.NET Data Synchronization services is now available in CTP.  This SDK will make it easier to support the disconnected operation scenarios you run into with Smart Clients.  If you are looking for more information or a good demo of the functionality you can take a look at Steve Lasker's blog and specifically his Live from Redmond Webcast.

One thing to note is that there is only a SQL Compact Edition provider and there is no SQL Express provider at this point, which means that if you are using SQL Express on the client you will need to write your own provider or wait for Microsoft to develop one.  I would suggest contacting Steve Lasker if want to see a SQL Express provider developed.  Although you could write your own, the schema creation may get a bit tricky... I know that a number of the folks that were on this team were from the SQL Server team and they were able to add some system tables to support the schema process.

They also have a synchronization blog available that discusses and demonstrates the SDK.

I have to remember to go check these out when I have more time...

http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/ReSharper/ReSharper+Plugin+Development