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NOSQL Databases for the .NET Developer. What’s the fuss all about?

A few days ago, Microsoft Research (MSR) announced Trinity , a graph database that is powering some important initiatives within Microsoft such as Probase . This is the second serious initiative of MSR in the NOSQL space. Last year, MSR released a map...(read more)

Load Testing your WCF Service in Two Clicks

A few months back I was talking to a VP of Architecture from one of our customers about service testing practices and he expressed a very blunt viewpoint about load testing: “Developers don’t load test their web services because it's to F…. difficult...(read more)

SO-Aware at the Atlanta Connected Systems User Group

Today my colleague Don Demsak will be presenting a session about WCF management, testing and governance using SO-Aware and the SO-Aware Test Workbench at the Connected Systems User Group in Atlanta . Don is a very engaging speaker and has prepared some...(read more)

How fast are my services? Comparing basicHttpBinding and ws2007HttpBinding using the SO-Aware Test Workbench

When working on real world WCF solutions, we become pretty aware of the performance implications of the binding and behavior configuration of WCF services. However, whether it’s a known fact the different binding and behavior configurations have direct...(read more)

Announcing SO-Aware Test Workbench

Yesterday was a big day for Tellago Studios . After a few months hands down working, we announced the release of the SO-Aware Test Workbench tool which brings sophisticated performance testing and test visualization capabilities to theWCF world. This...(read more)

Agile SOA Governance: SO-Aware and Visual Studio Integration

One of the major limitations of traditional SOA governance platforms is the lack of integration as part of the development process. Tools like HP-Systinet or SOA Software are designed to operate by models on which the architects dictate the governance...(read more)

Tellago & Tellago Studios at Microsoft TechReady

This week Microsoft is hosting the first edition of their annual TechReady conference. Even though TechReady is an internal conference, Microsoft invited us to present a not one but two sessions about some our recent work. We are particularly proud of...(read more)

Tellago Devlabs: A RESTful API for BizTalk Server Business Rules

Tellago DevLabs keeps growing as the primary example of our commitment to open source! Today, we are very happy to announce the availability of the BizTalk Business Rules Data Service API which extends our existing BizTalk Data Services solution with...(read more)

Using a service registry that doesn’t suck Part III: Service testing is part of SOA governance

This is the third post of this series intended to highlight some of the principles of modern SOA governance solution. You can read the first two parts here: Using a service registry that doesn’t suck part I: UDDI is dead Using a service registry that...(read more)

Workarounds for supporting MVVM in the Silverlight TreeView Control

MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) is the pattern that you will typically choose for building testable user interfaces either in WPF or Silverlight. This pattern basically relies on the data binding support in those two technologies for mapping an existing model class (the view model) to the different parts of the UI or view.

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