No SQL overview

Microsoft is publishing a Blue Badge Insights white paper on NoSQL:  NoSQL and the Windows Azure platform.

The paper is quite interesting as it enumerates different archetypes of NoSQL databases (e.g. Key-Value Stores, Document Stores, Wide Column Stores, Graph Databases), their architecture traits and the Windows Azure offering in the area.

Applied SOA: Part 1 – Introduction

I’ve been involved in multiple projects sporting some form of Service Oriented Architecture using Microsoft .NET technologies.  Some were SOA in name only (Remote Procedure Calls were involved) while others were closer in spirit to the tenets of SOA.

The term SOA tends to be abused in the community.  When I do interviews with candidates, I often see SOA on...

Expression Trees: Part 3 – Setting Properties

This is part of a series of blog post about expression trees in .NET 4.0.  The past blog entries are:

• Basics (1)
• Fetching Properties (2) 

In this article, I’ll cover using Expression Trees (ET) for setting properties.

I’ll use the same object model I’ve used in the last article for examples:

public...

Expression Trees: Part 2 – Fetching Properties

This is part of a series of blog post about expression trees in .NET 4.0.  The past blog entries are:

• Basics (1)

In this article, I’ll cover using Expression Trees (ET) for fetching properties.

In this article, I’ll use the following classes:

public class Employee
{
    public string FirstName { get; set;...

Windows 8 Partner Demo