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Videos: SQL Server Modeling aka Oslo

Doug Finke — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:55:52 +0000

Rockford Lhotka has a three part series here discussing the benefits and usage of the SQL Server Modeling technologies in the context of his CSLA .NET framework. It is a framework for building the business logic layer in your applications.

He demonstrates modeling, a DSL (domain specific language), code savings, reduced testing burden, and consistency of the user experience.

10 PowerShell Posts I Did in 2009

Doug Finke — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:05:15 +0000

I had fun doing these PowerShell posts.

Try PowerShell – An Interactive Tutorial	Michael Foord inspired this with his Try Python Silverlight application
How to Host PowerShell in a WPF Application	A How To video
PowerShell Out-ExcelPivotTable – Quickly Create Pivot Tables in Microsoft Excel	Automating Excel Pivot tables with PowerShell
PowerShell, An Exercise in Species Barcoding	Inspired by Peter Norvig’s (Director of research at Google) python version
PowerShell – Find the K most common words in a file	Based on Jon Bentley’s approach in “Little Languages”
PowerShell ISE-Cream – Alias Expansion	Uses PowerShell’s tokenizer to expand aliases like %, ? etc. into ForEach and Where
Update: Dynamic GUIs and the PowerShell Pipeline	How to inject GUIs into a PowerShell Pipeline
PowerShell yUML Workbench	yUML is a web service. A How To using PowerShell to generate UML diagrams
PowerShell, PowerBoots and an Oslo DSL Grammar	Blending MGrammar and PowerShell
Creating and Displaying Trigrams with PowerShell	Based on Wolfram\|Alphas Trigram visuals. Combines PowerShell and yUML

Use SQL Server Modeling to build a DSL for .NET 4 WCF content-based routing service

Doug Finke — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:06:38 +0000

Doug Purdy posts Model-Driven Content Based Routing. The sample includes a DSL, a Runtime and more

This a great example that leverages many of the different aspects of SQL Server Modeling (”M”-based DSLs, “M”, Modeling Services, etc.) to enable a better experience around application development/management

Here is the MSDN Code Gallery sample RouterManager for WCF in .NET 4 using SQL Server Modeling CTP.

RouterManager is a domain-specific language and runtime that allows you to program the rules for the .NET 4 WCF content-based routing service using an easy to understand language.

You also need Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and the SQL Server Modeling CTP.

PDC 2009: Data and Modeling Talks

Doug Finke — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:28:40 +0000

I went Don Box and Kim Cameron talks on Microsoft Project CodeName “M” and ‘M’-Based System.Identity Model.

It has been a year since these tools have been released. There have been great updates even since the May CTP drop this year.

You can compile “M” files in VS 2010 without mucking with the csrpoj file
Error reporting is integrated in the IDE
Enhancements to Intellipad and the M Language for building textual DSLs
Using M Schema, there is a VS IDE option to target the database.
And more

via Doug Purdy

PDC talks are available both videos and slides from the links.

If you have been skeptical of our recent renaming of “Oslo”, I encourage you to actually watch the videos, download the bits and then make up your mind.

More importantly, if you are a .NET developer, please take a look at what we are doing around EF and DS – especially the OData protocol.

Data/Modeling “Anchor Session”

Data Programming and Modeling for the Microsoft .NET Developer

Coming in VS 2010

Evolving ADO.NET Entity Framework in .NET 4 and Beyond

ADO.NET Data Services: What’s new with the RESTful data services framework

Developing REST Applications with the .NET Framework

SQL Server Modeling (nee “Oslo”)

Microsoft Project Code Name “M”: The Data and Modeling Language

Building Data-Driven Applications Using Microsoft Project Code Name "Quadrant" and Microsoft Project Code Name "M"

SQL Server Modeling Services: Using Metadata to Drive Application Design, Development and Management

Using SQL Server Modeling

The ‘M’-Based System.Identity Model for Accessing Directory Services

Data Development Futures: Modeling

Doug Finke — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:39:27 +0000

Great write up by Kraig Brockschmidt, Microsoft Data Development Technologies: Past, Present, and Future, also author of Inside Ole, for those who remember that technology.

He is currently a Program Manager at Microsoft for SQL Modeling Servcies (aka Oslo). His post walks through the early 1990’s from DB-Library, ODBC, OLE DB, RDO, ADO, ADO.NET, LINQ. Up through Entity Framework, WCF Data Services (code name Astoria) and now the “M” language and Quadrant.

Data Services transform any number of diverse data sources into something accessible through a simple REST-based exchange protocol.

In fact, Microsoft expects that using such protocols will become increasingly popular, as it allows data providers and consumers to evolve independently from their programming model.

Taken as a whole, this trend can be described as a trend toward modeling.

via Doug Purdy

Oslo (SQL Server Modeling) becoming the backbone of all your development

Doug Finke — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:59:42 +0000

"the industry understanding of the cloud has really evolved… the cloud is about more than just infrastructure, it’s also about an application model’

Bob Muglia President, Server and Tools Business at Microsoft.

PDC09 Keynote

Oslo transforms into the underlying application model of the cloud

Microsoft Renaming Oslo Flows Through the Social Networks

Doug Finke — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:54:58 +0000

Interesting thing happened after Douglas Purdy blogged about renaming From “Oslo” to SQL Server Modeling. Comments and insight began streaming through twitter. Later that evening David Ing suggested kicking off a Google Wave.

If you have a wave account try searching with:public Oslo is dead.

A bunch of people jumped on and shared some engaging insights. I re-read the wave this morning. Terrific.

It was the first time seeing a flow of people from one social network to another. Very cool.

Development in a Blink » SQL Server Modeling

Videos: SQL Server Modeling aka Oslo

10 PowerShell Posts I Did in 2009

Use SQL Server Modeling to build a DSL for .NET 4 WCF content-based routing service

PDC 2009: Data and Modeling Talks

via Doug Purdy

Data Development Futures: Modeling

Oslo (SQL Server Modeling) becoming the backbone of all your development

Microsoft Renaming Oslo Flows Through the Social Networks

Blog->Twitter->Google Wave