Paulo Morgado : Community

Hurrah! MVP for the seventh consecutive year!

Paulo Morgado — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:31:46 GMT

After all these years, it's still an honor, a privilege ... and a few stressful days.

Blogging, Twittering, Publishing And Flaring

Paulo Morgado — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:00:36 GMT

Every now and then I get questions about what tools I use to blog, twitter, publish and publicize.

Let’s start on what I use to write blog posts: Windows Live Writer.

To subscribe to feeds, I use FeedDemon and NewsGator.

To share my readings, I use FeedDemon’s and NewsGator’s features for sharing readings and publishing them as an RSS feed.

I started to share my podcast listening through Mevio, but I don’t like the fact that the RSS feed points only to the Mevio site and has no information of the original source.

For publication, I run the feeds through a few services of mine and the publish them through Google FeedBurner.

Google FeedBurner has a few services to power up your feed, track subscriptions and publicize your feeds. You can even publish the feeds with your own domain name. For historical reasons and because FeedBurner doesn’t have an alias feature, I have a few feeds published through FeedBurner.

	Paulo Morgado [EN]	http://feeds.paulomorgado.net/PauloMorgado/Blogs/EN
	Paulo Morgado [EN]	http://feeds.paulomorgado.net/PauloMorgadoEN
	Paulo Morgado [PT]	http://feeds.paulomorgado.net/PauloMorgado/Blogs/PT
	Paulo Morgado [PT]	http://feeds.paulomorgado.net/PauloMorgadoPT
	Paulo Morgado [Articles]	http://feeds.paulomorgado.net/PauloMorgado/Articles/EN
	Paulo Morgado [Articles]	http://feeds.paulomorgado.net/PauloMorgadoENArticles
	Paulo Morgado [Shared Readings]	http://feeds.paulomorgado.net/PauloMorgado/Shared/Readings
	Paulo Morgado [Shared Readings]	http://feeds.paulomorgado.net/PauloMorgadoShared
	Paulo Morgado [Shared Readings]	http://feeds.paulomorgado.net/PauloMorgado/Shared/Podcasts
	Paulo Morgado [Shared Podcasts]	http://feeds.paulomorgado.net/PauloMorgadoSharedWebcasts

FeedBurner also has some nice animated images that circle through the last 5 posts and are nice to use um blogs and e-mail signatures.

With the help of Robert Sparnaaij (an Outlook MVP) I was able to use them as e-mail signatures in Outlook 2007. Because Outlook 2007 doesn’t allow you to insert references to images, you need to edit the signature files directly on the disk. To open the Signatures folder, you need to select the Mail Format tab in the Options window (Tools menu) and click on the Signatures button while holding the CTRL key.

Having all this content published, I also publish my blog posts and readings to Twitter using TwitterFeed.

And to show off how many followers I have on Twitter, I use TwitterCounter.

Which brings me to my Twitter client of choice: Witty.

Finally, all my URL shortening is done using Cligs.

MSDN Ramp Up Program

Paulo Morgado — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:53:35 GMT

I just came across this: www.MyRampUp

Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based program that can help users save time in learning Microsoft technology.

The easy-to-access content (provided by subject-matter gurus) is specifically tailored to the Ramp Up program, and offered in a variety of forms (whitepaper, v-lab, codecast and slidecast).

The currently available routes are:

Currently, there are no assessments in the program, so it's quicker than ever to graduate and receive the reward (25% off on certification and 50% off on e-Learning - only for graduates of Ramp Up).

E-Reference Library Subscription Discount Offer for The Community

Paulo Morgado — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:36:52 GMT

Microsoft Press has created an exclusive discount URL for the E-Reference Library that MVPs can pass along to the broader community without any limitations or restrictions.

To create a trial subscription, community referrals should use the Trial URL (http://microsofteref2.books24x7.com/promo.asp?ref=mvptry).

Any community referrals who subscribe to E-Reference Libraries through the Subscription URL (http://microsofteref2.books24x7.com/promo.asp?ref=mvpbuy) will receive a 40% discount on a one-year subscription.

This discount offer ends on September 30, 2008.

I’m A Microsoft MVP For The 6th Time And I FEEL GREAT

Paulo Morgado — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:26:04 GMT

Video: I Feel Great! - MVP

Pedro Félix Is Blogging

Paulo Morgado — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:47:27 GMT

Pedro Félix is blogging about WCF.

Typemock Developers Community Site Updated

Paulo Morgado — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:54:19 GMT

Typemock has updated its Developers Community Site with new sections.

Besides the forums, there's a new add-ons page where anyone can share her/his tools or snippets (I guess I'll have to brush up my Typemock Snippets For Visual Studio to add there) and an experts page (guess who's there).

Upgrading the WCSF EventBroker Extension to WCSF 2.0

Paulo Morgado — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:15:10 GMT

While preparing the demos for my session at TechDays Portugal 2008, I've noticed some changes in the Web Client Software Factory 2.0 that prevented the EventBroker Extension from compiling and running.

The problem ended out just being a little change in the WebClientApplication class. The virtual methods related to creating the builders changed.

To fix this, all it's needed is editing the WebClientApplication class (CompositeWeb\WebClientApplication.cs, line 35).

Just replace the CreateBuilder override:

protected override Microsoft.Practices.CompositeWeb.ObjectBuilder.WCSFBuilder CreateBuilder(bool isSingleton)
{
    // Our builder adds an EventBrokerStrategy to the build.
    WCSFBuilder builder = new WCSFBuilder();
    builder.Policies.SetDefault<ISingletonPolicy>(new SingletonPolicy(isSingleton));
    return builder;
}

with an override of the AddBuilderStrategies method:

protected override void AddBuilderStrategies(IBuilder<Microsoft.Practices.CompositeWeb.ObjectBuilder.WCSFBuilderStage> builder)
{
    base.AddBuilderStrategies(builder);
    builder.Strategies.AddNew<EventBrokerStrategy>(Microsoft.Practices.CompositeWeb.ObjectBuilder.WCSFBuilderStage.PostInitialization);
}

Don't forget that if you want to run it in IIS7 Integrated Pipeline mode, you have a few more changes to make.

Web Client Software Factory 2.0 shipped

Paulo Morgado — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:54:51 GMT

Web Client Software Factory 2.0

February 2008 Release

Resources

MSDN site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/webclientfactory
Community site: http://www.codeplex.com/websf

About the Deliverable

The Web Client Software Factory (WCSF) provides a set of guidance for architects and developers building enterprise Web applications. The factory includes samples, reusable code and a guidance package which automates key development tasks from within Visual Studio.

Using the Web Client Software Factory assets, developers can create Composite Web applications composed of independently developed and deployed modules. These modules are dynamically brought together at runtime into a common shell. Additionally the factory includes support for ASP.NET AJAX thus providing users with a richer and more responsive user experience.

New In This Release

The February 2008 release of the Web Client Software Factory has the following improvements to the June 2007 release.

Full support for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5
Added ASP.NET AJAX extenders for Context Sensitive Autocomplete, AJAX Validation, and Real Time Search that can be used in existing ASP.NET sites and ASP.NET sites built using the Composite Web Application Block.
Added UI Composition capability through extending our dependency injection mechanism to support Pages, User Controls and Master Pages.
Added Dependency Injection on ASMX Web Services and JSON services.
Added a new set of Quickstarts and How-To topics on MVP, Modularity and the new AJAX extenders
Added a new Order Entry Reference application that demonstrates all of the new functionality.

In addition, this release of WCSF has the following community issues and fixes:

42 Workitems closed including the top-voted items on CodePlex
Add ASP.NET AJAX Support (97 votes)
Web Client Software Factory Support for Enterprise Library 3.1 (62 votes)
Services through configuration (32 votes)
Support for using the Validation Application Block (16 votes)
Recipe support for Visual Basic .NET (20 votes)
Added Presenter support for Master Pages (11 votes)

Techdays Portugal 2008 - For A World 2.0

Paulo Morgado — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:45:52 GMT

Microsoft Portugal will be hosting Techdays 2008 from Mars 12^nd to 14^th, right after the Portuguese launch of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on Mars 11^th.

This is the biggest and greatest tech event in Portugal and there will be lots of national and international speakers and contests.

I'll be there. Come visit us.

New Weblog at ASP.NET

Paulo Morgado — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:24:55 GMT

Responding to Joe Stagner's invitation to blog at the ASP.NET blogging community, I've set up a new blog.

My new blog is at http://weblogs.asp.net/PauloMorgado/ and will be a mirror of my pre existing blog in "English" at MSMVPS. The syndication feed will be the same for both blogs (http://feeds.feedburner.com/PauloMorgadoEN) like I already have for my two blogs in Portuguese [^][^][^].

WCSF geekSpeak: Registration Open

Paulo Morgado — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:27:00 GMT

There was a problem with the registration for this webcast, but it's now solved.

Jan 23 - Paulo Morgado - The Web client software factory in action

Unit Test Patterns for .NET (from TypeMock™)

Paulo Morgado — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:21:39 GMT

There is a good set of articles about Unit Test Patterns in the TypeMock™ site:

Unit-Test Patterns for .NET - Part I
This article looks at patterns in unit testing and describes the main patterns found in tested .NET code. It also describes the problems with each pattern.
Unit Test Patterns for .NET - Part II - TypeMocks
Programmers who have incorporated unit testing into their development process already know its advantages: cleaner code, courage to refactor, and higher speed. But even the most die-hard unit testers can falter when faced with testing a class that relies on system state for its behavior. This article looks at the TypeMock pattern that can help you solve these problems.
Unit-Test Patterns for .NET - Part III - Natural TypeMocks™
In this series, unit-test patterns and the advantages that it brings have been discussed. Although there is great power in using TypeMocks, there are times when the reflective API can falter when refactoring code. This article will look at how to test the interaction between classes using Natural Type Mocks to solve these problems.

WCSF geekSpeak: What do you want to see?

Paulo Morgado — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:17:00 GMT

Just let me know to see if I can accommodate it on my geekSpeak.

I'm on geekSpeak

Paulo Morgado — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:34:47 GMT

Or I'll be, on January 23rd.

Here is the complete list of web casts for December 2007 and January 2008:

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 to RTM before the end of November 2007

Paulo Morgado — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:46:38 GMT

Today, S.Somasegar announced at TechEd Developers EMEA, amongst other things, that they the product team at Microsoft is putting the finishing touches on Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5. They are on track to shipping these products before the end of November 2007. They will have the marketing launch for these along with Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 at the end of February.

SPOME - SharePoint Object Model Extension no CodePlex

Paulo Morgado — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:43:42 GMT

Safira (a Portuguese company) has been involved in a big SharePoint project and developed a tool (SPOME) that they are sharing as a CodePlex project, Check it out.

Bug Found On The Page Flow Without Database Improvement

Paulo Morgado — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:16:33 GMT

Joern found a nasty bug in my code. I've uploaded the updated source code in all articles.

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Virtual PC (VPC) images to expire on November 1st

Paulo Morgado — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:14:31 GMT

Most of us have been testing the Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 VPC images.

Microsoft has announced that the current Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 VPC images will expire on November 1, 2007, rather than March 15, 2008 as originally announced.

It is strongly encouraged that you take all necessary steps before November 1, 2007 to back up all your projects and move your Team Foundation Server data to an alternate location. For instructions on moving your TFS data please refer to the article Moving Team Foundation Server,

For the latest information and up to date information on this please refer to the Visual Studio Developer Center.

A short Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) is listed below:

Q. Will my data be available after November 1, 2007?

A. This is still being researched, however, currently the understanding is that customers will NOT be able to access their date after November 1^st unless the data is moved to an alternate installation location.

Q. Can I reset my system date to re-enable the OS image?

A. Again there is still research being done, however, from the current understanding of the problem resetting the system date back DOES NOT re-enable the OS image.

If I have any further information to share will be sure to let you know.

Improving The Page Flow Application Block: Decoupling Page Flow Usage From Its Implementation

Paulo Morgado — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:23:00 GMT

In this second article of the series I'll show how you can change the Page Flow Application Block of the Web Client Software Factory to get page flows by its definition name instead of its definition type.