AutoMapper
AutoMapper is a «convention-based object-to-object mapper». According to the description, «AutoMapper uses a fluent configuration API to define an object-object mapping strategy. AutoMapper uses a convention-based matching algorithm to...
Flushing the BLOB cache in SharePoint 2010
If you’re developing a SharePoint-based public Internet portal, you’re probably using the BLOB (Binary Large Object) cache. This caching mechanism stores a copy of the binary files (images, documents...
Microsoft Live Labs Pivot
I’ve been trying out Pivot in the last few days, downloaded from here. Pretty amazing thing, crossing the power of DeepZoom with structured information. I can’t help but imagine...
Automatic Testing with People Picker in SharePoint 2007
I have been working on automatic testing for SharePoint 2007 web applications. In our tests, user interaction with the web interface is simulated by clicking links, selecting entries in...
Cloud Computing: recommended Reading
Good information via Pat Helland’s weblog, on UC Berkeley’s Paper “Above the Clouds: a Berkeley View of Cloud Computing”.
DevDays09: Wrap Up
This year the usual TechDays event focused exclusivelly on Dev contents, and reduced to two days. I was help at IST’s campus on Tagus, a smaller but also cosier...
BizTalk 2009 Beta Docs & BAM Guidance
Microsoft just published a very interesting an in-depth 86-page document about BAM, one of the most under-used features of BizTalk Server, “Business Activity Monitoring in Depth for Developers”. You...
.NET XML Serialization of CDATA ATTRIBUTE
Recently I needed to create a .NET class (C#) that when serialized should contain a CDATA attribute similar to this: ...
ESB Guidance 2.0 (CTP)
There’s an announcement around for the ESB Guidance 2.0 CTP (October 2008). It’s good to know that this is already getting worked on to have new features and work...